The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-07-08


He had spent $50 days in jail on
q charge of having urged the as
sassination of 140 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. talked to him once in
the Cafe des 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
~, adventure for one
ohotOed Luce who was to be gar
Technique landed as an inn
OF Terror mortal. L n ee
members OIL Tic
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 lam
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
the world discussion on Japan
bombing babies is the interchange
between Avery Brundage, chairman
of the American
Jap Bombs Olympic commit
Cause Rift tee, and William
In Olympics J. Bingham (Bill
" 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
a 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
a concern which imports rubber
goods.
IF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds
house, they're likely to find a
center-board and skys'l yard on
it. It's hard to see how he can get
Mr.. Lambert yachting. but. at
Keeps Mind any rate, he be-
On Yachts comes special adj
wiser to Stuart Nc
Donald, federal housing administra-
tor.
The gargles and shaves of the
multitudes built his chemical for
tune at st. Louis. He was one of
the original hackers of Lindbergh
and the originators of great adver-
Using slogans.
Author of a spirited Defense of
Rabbits" in the American Mer-
curry, commander of the Eastern
Yacht club of Marblehead, Mass,
he maintains q valhalla for gallant
old yachts.
q Consolidated News Features.