Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-06

Thrusts at the homely foibles of
human nature by friendly pen will
be missed by the American public, say
the many sincere mourners of Frank
Mckinney Hubbard, creator Of Abe
Martin. His kindly shafts, appreciated
even by those at whom they were
aimed, are treasured with the contri-
buttons of Americas greatest humorists.
When man can make thousands
smile every day for rs years he has in
him the spark of genius" says the Mil
waukee Sentinel, pointing out that 300
newspapers printed the honely cpl
grams which have issued daily from
the mouth of Abe Martin since he was
created in 1904 for the Indianapolis
News" The Asbury Park Evening
Press feels that perhaps his immor-
talization of the bucolic Abe Martin Is
unrivaled among contemporary carica-
lures" while the Rockford Register
Republic recalls that cit has been said
that his huinor was like that of Abra-
ham Lincoln" that cit was never dull
and had something Of Mark Twain and
Billings in it, yet it was original and
distinctive"
Declaring that "'genius' is the only
word that adequately describes Hub
bards gift of humor." the Little Rock
Arkansas Democrat holds that "at all
times it kept abreast of the times" while
he discussed current events, mot only
wisely, but in a vein which added to
the Joy of reading" The New Castle
News calls his daily contribution lone
of the greatest newspaper features"
and the GAINESVILLE Gazette remarks
sorrowfully, ut is a sunset in Bloom
Center, brilliant and glorious sunset,
with purple and orange and silver
glowing for Abe Martin, who comes no
more"
ayes, Abe Martin is getting restless
on his barbed-wire fence, Estates the
Richmond News-Leader. He will for
sake it forever, to bunch up his ap-
pointed cracker barrel around the stove
at Fiddlers Green, where Bill Nye and
Josh Billings will make room Tor him.
And, while Artemus Ward passes the
tell them how Joe Kite said, That
makes it unanimous when he saw an
umbrella mender driving an automo-
bile"
brand of humor recognized as typically
American is mourned by the st.
Louis Post Dispatch, with the tribute:
His gallery of characters, from their
birth in 1904, had grown into an ex-
tensive rural community, divided be-
tween sages and dimwitS, including
such originals as Bootlegger Ike Lark,
Constable Newt Plum, Art Small of the
Elite Drug and Sandwich Shop, Hon.
ex-Editor Gale Fluhart, Doc Mopps,
ex-Farmer Jake Bentley and many
another. In Abe Martins wise refiec-
lions are found the rich colloqQialtsms
of ArtemuS Ward and Josh Billings, the
eXaggerations and advertisements OF
Mark Twain, the insane nonsense OF
Bill Nys and the merry ridicule OF Mr..
Dooley. Kin Hubbard's mellow humor
and his blasts against bunk will be
sadly missed"
Frank Mckinney Hubbard by that
name" says the Dayton Daily News,
''but one would go long way before
encountering a person who had never
heard of Abe Martin. Will Rogers once
spotted Kin Hubbard in Follies audi
ence at New York, and pointed him out
to those present There was hardly
ripple of recognition, but when Rogers
explained that Hubbard was the creator
of Abe Martin, there was concerted
volley of applause. Abe Martin was as
much a by-word in the metropolis as at
the crossroads. Human nature, 1t has
been said times without number, Is the
same the world over; Kin Hubbard un-
derstood it thoroughly, hence he spoke
a universal tongue"
His passing win leave void among
his personal friends, especially those as
ISOLATED with him in his daily work" &C
cording to the indianapolis Star, which
declares that ''in his relationship every
where, he was as frank and l0yable as
the characters he created" The Fort
Worth Record-Telegram ayers that "he
benefited millions of people and injured