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...arbitration of a friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective most of the time, paced exactly right by Director William Beaudine. Young Leon Janney gives a fine performance as the boy. Typical shot: Janney riding past his father's office in the junk-wagon of his crony, a Negro named Vestibule...
...urged strict anti-Red legislation but discounted the affects of the Reds among U. S. work- ingmen: "They never won a strike in the U. S. . . . So far as taking this country over?that's all poppycock. When you look at the wild-eyed crowd of half-baked human junk constituting Communism . . . you will know that there's not a chance in the world...
...streets. At twelve he could neither read nor write. A corner brawl caught the attention of a passing schoolteacher who was impressed by the lad's ferocity and ignorance, advised education. He entered school, moving from town to town with his toiling mother, gathered and sold junk to make ends meet. He put himself through the University of Minnesota (1902), St. Paul College of Law (1904), became a practising attorney...
Ordinarily a crack British freight line sells the old ships it is ready to discard to Lithuanians or Albanians et al.; but The Commercial pertinently recalls that several such old tubs have recently been broken up and sold for a song as junk, the owners preferring not to get a good price for them as ships for fear they would crop up in competition later, much as sellers of new automobiles look on "used cars" as a menace to their business...
...past. That there is something wrong with a world, supposedly civilized, which spends its energies in such a primitive manner is becoming obvious to everyone, even peace delegates with their chess-like conception of statesmanship. But at the first suggestion to destroy these relics of a barbarian age, to junk battleships and to stop building them, to abolish the submarine, like wary hermit-crabs the delegations retire within their shells. And when they venture to creep out again, it is with the cautious suggestion that weapons of war should be merely limited. Carried to its logical conclusion the absurdity...