Milford chronicle., 1928-12-21

o for Saint Nick
/ With a person named Hoover to q
r us the trick.
I But hear him eXclaim ere he urov
5 out of sight,
f Happy hokum to all-and to all
) good night"
= SOlilOquy ON Brown Derby
Again an impersonator of MI
Raskob appeared attired as Hamle
but with silk hat, walking stick ant
cigar, and proceeded to apostrophizt
Brown derby with an 1 o U for {
million stuck in it. Part of the apos
trOphe ran:
To wear, or not to wear-that was
the question,
Whether 'twere better on the head
to suffer
A bronzer, or topper, or a Kelly
Or bravely bear the whips and
scorns of Main street
And wear the derby. He wore it to
That uncivilized Western country,
from whose bourne
No Democrat returns with any votes.
lie wore It South
Oh, that this too, too solid South
should melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a few!
Perhaps had he but worn a soft
fedora
He might have lost fewer than forty
states.
A Hoover board of engineers"
appointed by the President-elect to
examine the candidates for the cab
met, considered applications from
Senator Borah" for secretary cf
state and ANDREW w. Mellon" Cor
secretary of the treasury.
Examination of "Borah" by the
scientists established this rating of
his psychological reactions:
"Repressed ego, 10; political &C.
centricity, II; economic fallacies.
8; imagination, los; power of self
dIusion, SO; power to delude others,
minus 4; political regularity, trace"
Examination of Mellon" resulted
in these Chronological symptoms:
Power of statistical legerdemain. !
lO2; rate of interest in holding office. |
81; political discount, z per cent pro-
hibitory; instinct, negligible.
Dawes "Ten Commandments"
Vice President Dawes and Vice
President-elect Curtis had a club
member read an alleged communica-
ion from Dawes to Curtis entitled
The Dawes decalOgue, or the letter
II a self-made hasbeen to his sue
Just between us Charles" it be-
AN, you are getting away to a fly
ng start. Helen Maria was my line.
ut too damn dunn will get you lust .
S far" Out of the depths of his ex- J
erience Dawes commended TO Cur :
IS series of ten commandment.
mong them:
Don't steal the first page on in :
uguratiOn day and you may be in .
lted to sit in the cabinet. n
Don't pretend you understand the =
1ualization fee. AL Smith found :
lere wasn't vote in it-so did |.
Don't commit yourself to another -
'llow's candidacy for President; he n
ay hold to it. - -
Don't try to change the senate "
lies.
Don't buck the President if you +, f.
ant to stay more than four years. n
Don't, above all, do your sleeping q
the day time" y
In addition to President Coolidge a.
at the dinner were Senator -
mes A. Reed of Missouri and Sena- ~
+ William E. Borah of Idaho. with e.
e latter introduced by being called Al
to answer questions concerning h.
ltlcal things he had said of Mr.
ooVer, with a club member answer
g FOR him. When Mr.. Borah was n
ked his real opinion of the Presi-
intellect, the response in his be-
III was a paraphase of what Mr.
)over said concerning prohibition
Senator Borah says" came from
club member seated in the sena- -,
RS chair, that he regards Mr..
'OVer as a noble experiment that p,
lst be worked on constructively." y, ~
A Scene on the Maryland nj
One scene depicted the deck of the
ttleshtp Maryland with counterfeit tn
publican senators attired as sail br
5. They had gotten aboard in that di
'gulse to keep watch on Mr.. Hoo Sa
IN his journeyings to Latin Am in
ca, but were exposed and inform ia
that in making cabinet appoint-
'nts and determining upon iegisla- NJ
Il the next President would take er
lnsel with three persons only.
ose names were Herbert. Clark sp
d Hoover. so
AGAIN Mr.. Hoover was shown in Mi
lulne moving pictures DELIVERING da
auoress on the Maryland, while a
ce strongly reminiscent of Gov MI
lor Smiths spoke the words of on
address which came to the din
company through a loud sneak Ma
Sa
art OF what the address contain an
expressed gratitude for the helm
en- Mr. Hoover by President Coo sp,
&c IN the recent Presidential cam CT,
gn. 0'''''
he effect of the women's vote in SD,
electlon was portrayed when two ter
n' battered and on crutches, were spl
sented as husbands who support
Smith while their wives were for
over. The men were out to organ
a league of husband voters to 2
k for the Twentieth amendment by
the Constitution giving husbands Tn
al political rights with wives" the
he sole survivors of "the Pro- shi
ssive Army Of State Socialism, gla
e presented as Senators Norris tail
Nebraska, La Toilette of Wiscon- me
and Blaine of Wisconsin" as they sal
cared in tattered uniforms and abe
sht to reorganize what is left of A
Progressive group. They ballot the
for leader, but discovered each the
voted for himself. as
We are true Proorasei,,o, ,, m