Evening star., 1923-07-20
MIDWEST OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

! try That is the term applied TO the
vast traffic of all kinds incident to
| the incursion of hordes of automo
| billing visitors from May TO October.
! The Rocky mountain region around
| Denver swarrns with motoring pill
grims. who travel in tent equipped
flivvers or fashionable limousines.
whose occupants make only the big
cities and pass their nights in de
luxe hotels. The fiivverites are uni
formly clad in khaki canvas. girls
and women wearing knickers like the
rnenfolk. After days and nights.
and sometimes weeks. of roughing it
! awheel. these touring American beau
! ties cut anything but Gibsonian fig
ures.
Judge Ben Lindsey of the Denver
| Juvenile court still holds forth in his
! nationally celebrated tribunal. His
/ chief coadjutor in the adjudication of
youthful delinquency is his young
and beautiful wife. The Lindseys are
| devoting their lives to Juvenile court
work Their tribunal continues 10
| be the mecca of Americans and for
| eigners who are interested in scien-
I tific handling of first offenders. In
| formality, tinctured with allopathic
| doses of the milk of human Kindness.
| is the outstanding feature OF Judge
| Tindsey's court. The women OF Den
ver-the mothers who pay and pay
and pay-have blind faith in Lindsey
and his methods Of preserving for SO.
adolescent leaps from the straight
| and narrow path.
Magnus johnson availed himself Of
nimble wit in his Minnesota sena
! torial campaign. Like so many Sean
| dinavians, Johnson has an apparent
| ly inconquerable. inability to pro-
| nounce properly words beginning
with the letter Il" He pronounces
his own name "Yonson." He addresses
political audiences as Ladies and
Yentlemen." He called his opponent
"Yake" Preus. This observer heard
Johnson divest himself of this at his
| st. Paul prediction meeting:
| Il see by today'S Minneapolis Your
nal that Magnus Yonson can't talk
| English. Well, Magnus Nonson came
| to this country twenty years ago. lie
married Swede girl. she died. Two
years later Magnus Yonson married
a Yankee girl. BY golly, he knew
| that Yankee girl understand when he
proposed
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| 1puHS TIIll Lid TOlltlltt wiz NH'''
paigned in Minnesota On his fathers
stead, is a chip of the old block. as
| fighting politician and campaign spell
| binder. He has inherited, among Other
| talents. Robert NJ La Follette's long
| hair. although he hasn't trained Il on
pompadour lines like his distinguished
| father. 1t flops about in gay abandon
when Phil is Grating to "a farn-labo
audience, and he's kept busy hurting
| NJ
the midst Of his eloquential flights.
| The lad has all the charm Of youth,
has Il fine voice. Il rich platform No
cabulary, and wears Phi Beta happs
pin, won at the University of Wis
| consin. In action. he is not unlike
| cheer leader at varsity football game.
Whenever Phil is introduced the son
of his father is tumultuously received
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Herbert s. Hadley, former Governor
of Missouri is taking leave of Colo
rado, where he has lived for the past
! six years. to become president OF
| Washington University at st. LOUIS.
| Colorado, where Hadley went for
| health, regrets losing him. Since he
| has been head of the law school OF
| the fine state university at Boulder
| the young republican politician who
| was nearly nominated for president
| in 1917 has endeared hllhSsll 70 tm1
| mountain folk. They rejoice he VIII
at least continue to make his summer
! home in Boulder Canon.
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| DR.. s. D. Brooks. recently presi-
dent of the University of Oklahoma
and now at the head of the University
. of Missouri, is graduate of the Uni
versity of Michigan and former super
| intendent of schools at Boston. No
one is in closer touch with general
; conditions in the west country. The
| writer asked DIR. Brooks whether
there is any serious division of senti-
| ment on prohibition in that region
mot much" he replied. "The vets do
the talking and the drys do the
voting.