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There are two groups of these businessmen. In one group are three onetime advertising men. Last spring they started the "Book of the Month Club." They engaged Editors Henry Seidel Canby and Christopher Morley (Saturday Review of Literature) and William Allen White (Emporia, Kans., Gazette), Columnist Heywood Broun (N. Y. World) and Novelist Dorothy Canfield, to be a committee to vote on new books each month. They notified the publishers that here was a fine chance for them. The book voted "book of the month" would gain distinction (publicity). Also it would be bought by the Club by the thousand...
...William Allen White, who writes in Emporia, Kan., and talks anywhere, said last week in Brooklyn, N. Y.: "President Coolidge is as much of a mystic as any other New Englander ever has been, even Emerson; and his mysticism is that he believes that, given prosperity, justice will come as a byproduct. ... I think Calvin Coolidge represents the very best that can be said of this new commercial era in its political phase...
Thomas L. Butcher, President of the Kansas State Teachers' College,' offers an interesting if slightly illogical explanation of the present football phenomenon. Commenting on William Allen White's editorial in the Emporia Gazette denouncing the extreme popularity of the sport, President Butcher says that the game is valuable even in its modern overemphasis because it has replaced a greater evil--the practice of hazing. "Football is a blow-off valve for collegiates", says Mr. Butcher. Instead of leading the President's cow to the chapel platform the students now indulge in athletic worship, sometimes to the exclusion of all else...
Last week it was the man, not the day, that William Allen White, editor, author, sage of Emporia Kan., celebrated before undergraduates of the College of Emporia. Said...
Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine recently left Southampton's white-flanneled sands for Emporia, Kan. At Long Island's social capital Mr. Jardine had learned to chitchat, and last week he attended a garden party of some 60 prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...