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...drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot and a scream in the hall but wuz jest listenin' in on Amos & Andy and thought no more of it,' testified...
...Booker T. Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...
...Herrings alive! Herrings alive! Fine Yarmouth bloaters!" cried lusty Yarmouth fisherfolk one morning last week as usual, then changed their tune to "Hurrah for th' Prince o' Wales...
...increased knowledge, its dictums settle little beyond friendly controversies, but its activity fills as definite a need as its parent overseas. The generation which fought in 1917 will not live to fight again, but their children may and it is important that they school themselves so they may not. Th League which meets in Wellesley this year should do as much in its limited way for war prevention as the League which will meet in Switzerland to play the larger part in future years...
...Names make news." Last week the {allowing names made the following news: Eugene Robert Black, governor oft the Federal Reserve Bank at Atlanta, president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, who looks like Andy Gump, prepared to read an address to the Investment Bankers Association of America in th convention at New Orleans on "Investment Possibilities in the South." Instead he made a stirring extemporaneous speech. Excerpts: "We have been living in an automobile, a Frigidaire, a radio era and have been sitting in an atmosphere of a Corona-Corona. We cannot pay our debts and continue in that...