Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-07-07
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS .
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

BY LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK. - When Charles
Maurras came out of the Sante
prison last year, he was met by
committee of distinguished French
Leaves Jail n ra NV wv fo lot 4he
To Get Bid Nobel peace prize
To Academy and said they
would make him
member of the Academy. They
have just fulfilled the latter prom
Use, and M. Maurras becomes an
immortal by majority of one vote.
He had spent $50 days in Jail on
charge of having urged the as
sassination of 40 members of the
chamber of deputies who had voted
for sanctions against Italy; also on
charge of melting the French peo-
pie to sharpen up their kitchen
knives" for use against certain pro-
scribed politicians.
In the $50 days he had written
five books, swelling his vast collec-
ton of books on biography, politics,
economics, literary criticism, histo-
ry and what not to probably well
over 100. I talked to him once in
the Cafe DIES Lilas, a fragile, deaf,
bearded old man with contentious,
blazing mind which makes one think
of sizzling battery running an au-
tomobile without any engine.
In 1923, he was in Jail for four
months in somewhat anti-climatic
q adventure for one
onoe0ea Luce who was to be gar
Technique landed as an i'm
OF Terror mortal. Three
members of the
chamber of deputies were kidnapped
and fed castor oil-Mussolini is said
to have got his broad prospectus of
Fascism from Maurras-and the
bald head of one of them was paint
ed with violet ink and glue.
In 1925, M. Maurras was SEN
fenced to two years in prison, the
charge being that he had threat
ened to kill the minister of the in
terror. Among the causes of his
incarceration in October, 1886, was
conspiracy evidence in the assault
on Premier Leon Blum, in which he
was severely beaten, while attend
ing the funeral of a friend.
His books and virulent editorials
against democracy in the Royalist,
paper, translated into many Ian
guages, are the fount of Fascist
doctrine all over the world His
hatred of democracy is savage and
vitriolic. He is witty, learned, bril-
liant and he has the most excoriat-
ing and corrosive vocabulary in
France.
a FOOTNOTE to the main text of
1 = the world discussion on Japan
bombing babies is the interchange
between Avery Brundage, chairman
Jap Bombs 0 Of the ne American aae,1 a.
Cause Rift tee, and William
In OIympics J. Bingham Chill
the Plugger), Har-
ward athletic director. Mr.. Brund-
age says it has nothing to do with
sports, and Mr.. Bingham says it
has-with craftsmanship, at any
rate-and he withdraws from the
committee and the 1910 games.
The sports writer's are becoming
almost metaphysical in weighing
and appraising the moral values of
the argument. Bill the Plugger says,
in effect, that he won't play with
baby-killers.
He became Bill the Plugger by
losing 10 races at Harvard and win
ming the twentieth. Thereafter, he
was Harvard's crack miller.
He started out plugging at the age
of fourteen, leaving school to work
in a mill and help support his five
younger brothers and sisters. He
saved $50, went to Exeter and
worked his way through Exeter and
Harvard.
He came out of the war a captain
with appropriate decorations, did
turn in the banking business in
Texas and became Harvard gradu-
ate supervisor and track coach in
1921. On the side, he is president of
concern which imports rubber
goods.
IF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds
a house, they're likely to find a
center-board and skys'l yard on
it. It's hard to see how he can get
H. his mind off his
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