Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-11
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new YORK, Oct. 11.-NOtn1nS IN the
current textbook of the town seems
to me as moving and significant as
the death of Ed Howe, which occurred
days ago. Not even the hullabaloo
over the seating of the Great Kliber-
al surpasseS, except in headlines, the
depressing fact: Ed Howe is gone.
There may not be any. more Ed
Howes. Perhaps the mold is broken.
He was produced "a years ago when
the mills were still grinding out that
kind of American in some quantity.
The great thing about him was that
he was a simple man. He supported
himself from the age of II and had
the subversive notion that men were
supposed to support themselves in
this world.
He was not the most brilliant man
in America. There were, at all times,
legions of freshwater Tugwells and
Frankfurters who could have made
Ed look pretty silly in a competitive
examination on the abstruSe sciences
He was>devoid of deviousness; he saw
and wrote simply about simple things
and simple people. Until read 1.-THE
Story of Country Town" and 'Plain
People" I had wondered whether the
average industrious, honest, humorous
American had ever found articulation
[ knew he had-and thereupon Mr..
Lewis gaudily imagined Rabbits lost
considerable conviction.
If ever l am yanked into the tren-
ches, I shall try to kid myself into
believing that it is the America of
the Ed Howes that I am fighting for,
even though that America be long
since gone with the wind-venders
The high price of meat in Man
haitian is probably more on the lips Of
the town than any other matter at
the moment. hear more gable about
it than about the grave affairs which
preoccupy front pages-although the
skyrocketing of beer has made the
front pages too.
There are some odd results. Many
families have had to omit steak from
the menu. And the vegetarian and
dairy restaurants along Second Ave
nue. are doing boom business: house
wives drop into them for tips on the
preparation of those "meatless meats"
-cOncoctiOns made of vegetables and
a bottled brew called protose Ga syn
thetic meat flavor) which look and
even taste like the parts of the now
gold-plated steer. Always there's the
Second Avenue Club Sandwich-stur-
geon swiss cheese and cole slaw
The restaurants whose speciality is
steaks are not deserted, as you'd
think. Indeed, although many bill-of-
fare are notable for inked-in boosts
in listed prices, batteries like Gallag-
hers, Dinty Moores and Mandy's, are
pack-jammed with the same crowd
which would normally buy champagne
but which now order steaks as the
ultra in dining-out munificence. The
window displays of sides of beef in
Jack Dempsey's are attracting crowds
of awe-struck gapers, who view the
exhibits with the same feeling they'd
have peering into Tiffany's window
I think that if you wanted to take
a cow up Fifth Avenue you'd have
to tuck her into an armored car for
safety these days.
Garage owners of Manhattan are
fighting a fierce battle to see that
the ordinance against parking cars
(free) in the streets overnight shall
be enforced. It's too bad the ga, age
owners don't depend on overday park
ing for revenue; in that event per-
hapS some of the cars which are clog
cling traffic in the crosstown streets
during rush hours would &c removed.
And the citVS traffic problem would