New-York tribune., 1920-06-14
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Frank Siblcy of Boston Sun
dayed in Gotham.
The subway service is no better
than it should be.
We'll, the convention happened
just like we thought it would
Harold Harvey and Art Samuels
reuned at Princeton Saturday.
Ralph Hayes of Crestline, O.,
was pleasant caller Thursday
Jimmy Montague and Art Bris-
banc are still strong for Hi Johnson.
MIR. George H. Ruth the base
bali player is in Cleveland on busi-
ness.
Mrs. Geo Doran is spending a
few days with her daughter at Larch-
mont.
Grant Rice has gone to Plan
dome, l.. T., to spend the heated
term"
Wallace Morgan and Walter
Jack Duncan entertained Mont Glass
last Wednesday.
The writer and the first readers Of
this book" says the advertisement of
Gerald Stanley Lees "That Ghost in the
White House" "have sent copy of this
book 20 every delegate to the Chicago
convention" Our guess is that not ten
delegates will so much as open the
book-any book, no matter what-dur-
ing the convention; and that not per
cent ever will read it. Also we are
willing to give three to one that half
the delegates haven't read a book in
three months.
What we should like to know, exact
!y, is what each of the recent candf-
dates has read during the last year.
One Of the eighty or cighty-on one things
that made T. r. more interesting than
any other man in politics vas that he
always told folks what he was .eadinc.
A careful reading of Senior Blasco's
stuff from Chicago has caused US to
abandon our resolution to study Span
ish. The Spaniard, apparently, never
uses a paragraph if a page will do as
we'll. The proverbial metal of which
silence IS fashioned Is not Spanish
gold.
Whoever The candidate was under
discussion, somebody would say, "A
good man, but do you think he's big
enough" The answer is No, no matter
who he is. 1t is too big job for any
one this side of paradise, and the man
who gets it may we'll pose for a cartoc n
of when a Feller Needs a Friend"
1t is too early to say whom we Shall
vote for. 1t may be Harding; it may
be the Democratic nominee; it may be
Debs. All we feel certain Of is that
anybody who wants to play singles with
us on November would better speak
at once.
The effects Of jazz and vers lihre are
manifested in the court reports, Paul
points out. at was not long after"
says separation action complaint (No.
l ,062-1920, N. Y. County,, that the
defendant resumed his brutal treat
ment; he would strike and beat me
without rhyme or reason"
Room and board for young man with
nice family; about $40 week A. A.,
513 Times.
Even if the nice family is small,
it's cheap.
In justice to the 10th Division and
General Wood, we should, of course,
have said that his was the S9th Div-
sion, the salutingest in the A. +, F.
We wonder what bellboy in a Chi
cago hotel thinks about. That is, what
he thinks about politicians.
The difference between statesman
and politician is something difficult
to define, especially as you never get
chance to read a statesman's speech
The Socialist pnrty, as we under
stand it, has the courage of Debs s
conviction
You could get drink in Chicago, but
the colorcd delegate WAS not any too
free and -equnl.
Showing what constitutional amend
ments amount to. F. P. A.