The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-07
Squaring
the Circle
With
THE HOOsIER EDITOR

CTRAW in the wind:
~ When the League of Women's
Voters assembled yesterday after
noon in the smoke dingy chamber
Of the House of Representatives
the ladies refrained from smoking
in the presence of the gentlemen.
CENATOR JACOB WEISS, Indi-
~ annapolis. and Senator William
Jenner, youthful Republican and
Indiana University orator of note,
have chosen up sides again.
During the last session they were
jibing each other all the time.
Yesterday the exchange of pleas
antries" ran something like this:
Senator Jenner: 81 no city
slicker. I'm justa country bow
from the Orange County hills. Why
fella, I've never even been to Coney
Island" (The later remark appar-
emily was in reference to Senator
Weiss New York origin.)
Senator Weiss: what dive mean
country boy? You've got spats
on, haven't you?"
He did have, too!
n said: sD' JUST dropped IN and
What do you think? I just saw
yellow sedan parked at the curb
ana on the front bumper was a
socket and in the socket was a buggy
whip. Ii the owner had been around
I'd have asked him what was the
idea"
Rollo, that buggy whip is a radio
antenna.
. INNING down an. alarming.
Az but false, rumor that the cat
has former Gov. Leslie's tongue. I
came On this item about him:
The manager of the Claypool
Grill, where he eats, says Mr.. Les
lie knows the place like a book. He
knows all the cooks and everything
His favorite dish is oysters.
And he eats them with salt and
pepper and vinegar" he said. "Just
like farmers. He was born on a
farm. you know"
IN touching address purported to
a have been delivered in the House
of Representatives, Feb. 81, this
year, by Louis Ludlow, he said in
part:
When you scratch an Indiana
farmer under the skin, the chances
are about 9 to l that you will find
a poet
Mr.. Ludlow proceeded then to
scratch an Indiana farmer under
the skin" and find a poet, complete
with three-verse poem. The farmer
was unidentified. It's all in the Con-
gressional Record.
TINE Columbia University book
l. publicity circular says this re-
lection slip was received from a
firm of Chinese publishers by.a De-
troit (Mich.) author:
eve read your manuscript with
boundless delight. BY the sacred
ashes of our ancestors we swear
that we have never dipped into a
book of such overwhelming mastery.
If we were to publish this book. it
would be impossible in the future to
issue any book of a lower standard.
AS it is unthinkable that within the
next 10000 years we shall find its
equal, we are, to our great regret,
compelled to return this too divine
work and beg you to thousand times
to forgive our action"
CPEAKING of poetry: Lines to
~ My Lover in He'll" is, especially
interesting when one considers its
origin and the circumstances un-
der which it was first recited. G
B. Stern in 1.-THE Rueful Mating
satirizes the child prodigy and
more particularly the promoters
of these prodigies.
Eleven-year-old Hal was pictured
as New York's grown-up child prod
ICY. Her American mother died
and she returned to England with
her father, who was a sea captain
At the first dinner in the ultra
conventional old English home, Hal
felt neglected since her maiden
aunts, her staid grandparents. and
even the butler seemed indifferent
to her greatness.
AS Parsons came in with the des-
sert, little Hall said she was go
ing to recite a poem which she had
written after a dream the night be-
fore. Would you like to hear it?
1t is called Lines to My Lover in
He'll:
Nov you have shaken off this
earthly leaven
That we shall meet again all
preachers tell;
But, love, you are not good enough
for Heaven,
And I, oh love, not bad enough
for hell
Between the two perchance we
can discover
Gates that disclose passion
haunted land,
Barring out Satan, who was meier
lover,
Barring out God, who would not
understand"