The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-07-28
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Beverly Hills-Well all I know is
just wnat read in the papers, or
what I run into. I have prowled
around the world quite bit to try
and see a lot of different kinds of
people, but right here yesterday al
most on my own doorstep saw
the biggest conglomeration of
breeds and nationalities I ever saw.
The League of Nations has moved
right to Hollywood. How it all
happened went out to the Olym-
pic village, that's the place all these
foreign and domestic athletes are
stabbed. There is just about 100
acres Of solid cross breeds. Its
built on a high hill overlooking Los
Angeles, and it's all laid out in
streets, and the flag of each Nation
is out in front of their Igloos. The
little houses corral four persons, a
kind of two room affair that has
two in each room. They are not
permanent, but they figure they
will last till the medals are all dis
tributed, and everybody that dident
get one will be on his way home
sore.
But tell you the committee that
has handled this thing has done a
fine job. They have made it just
about as pleasant and convenient
as it would be possible to do with
couple of thousand folks. They
spoke about 10 hundred languages.
There was a lot of EN- there al
ready when I visited the place. Fin
land come in that day. Nurmi is
kinder the Gret Carlo Of the whole
affair. They don't know now #
they are going to let him compete
or moot. It seems overin Finland
one time when he went to an Ath-
letic meet, he accepted too much
expense money. They only allow
EN- what they can live on, and they
live on dried fish over there, so
Nurmi took two more fish than he
could have actually subsidized on,
and they call him now a profess
sional. I would call him "Glut-
ton" on fish, but the athletic asso-
citation still call it professional.
Well if they don't let him run it
will be like having a Democratic
Convention and not have AL Smith.
India has a gang here all dressed
like Gandi. The man running the
Round up" of medal hunters saws
YOU learn lot about what the
League of Nations is up against
when you try to please all these.
That is in laying out the cottages
or who will be next to who. For in
stance they found they couldent
put France and Italy on the same
hill. They then asked France who
thehy wanted to be near, and
France said Germany. Well that
was fine. Then when Germany got
here they asked them, and Ger
many said they dident want to be
near France. Finland dident what
to be near Sweden. They tryed to
arrange EN- in groups where for
instance the English speaking ma
tions are together, England, U. s.,
Canada, Australia, South Africa.
Then all the Spanish America
bunch in one group.
Each country has its own dining
room and its own cooks. They
lust give their order to the head Of
| the village what it is they want in
the way of groceries and meats and
fruits, and it's handed out their
cooks, then they prepare it for
they gang as they see fit was in
the Swedish kitchen and dining
room, he said all they eat was
fruit, that they dident eat two
ounces of meat a day. He had
twenty-seven there and said there
was forty more coming. asked
him what he would do when they
come and he said, IT will just slice
up more fruit"
One old big Argentine boy that
looked like Firpo was out near the
village practicing the shot put, and
heaved it toward one of these little
houses and carried it away on his
cannon ball. Now they have sent
him out on the desert to practice
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Mckinley.
They have one big assembly
room or hotel lobby affair where
they all gather and meet friends.
They don't allow any women visit
ors in the inside of the village, you
can go to this reception room and
that is as far as they can go.
The events are held in about a
dozen different places so no one
knows where to go or where they
/ really want to see. But its all done
on schedule, so it is possible to see
Lit. There is 48 Nations here, some
with only one or two athletes, some
with a hundred or more. 1t looks
like it will be a great show, you
don't want to miss it. It's an awful
lot of running and a lot of jumping
for nothing, but as long as they en-
Joy it why I guess its all right.
They give these boys all this for
$500 a day, so that's cheaper than
staying at home. So they just as
well be here argueing with the
judges as not.