The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-25

Wild Hoss Cholly who writes the Newz Common
Now the similarity to the title that heads this
piece is of course at once obvious Sometime ago I
mentioned the strange circumstances that lead to
my adopting the title. It's true that I never saw
the oozings before 1887; nor have heard of Oolo-
gah until Bill Hoges BOOKINGS hit our desk. Dag
it, this fellow down there is already to get his
feudiug accoutrements and come up here to do some
scrapping about the thing. think I'll just set him
out here on Sank Lake and have him do some fish
ing. With all that water, he'll probably be figuring
way to get 1t piped to Oklahoma and the cattle
and bosses hard, he'll forget about hanging one
my jaw And the crisis will have passed-while
I'm sneaking out the back way. Say, Cholly why
don't you come up here fishing Here's Chollys
side of the argyment-I quote.
Deere seems ter be quite a kumoshun ovah de fax
dat colyumist de Sank Centre Herald, an yore
umbe servunt done chose de same writin' ttu-de
New Common tater-fer deyselfs AS fer as kin
see de gemman fun Minnysoty is got de pryorrity
in de matter wdout emmy kwestshun, but it do seem
ter dat dere orter be room fer two NV de breed
in all de broad reaches NV de Nunted States NV
Ameriky. An so, onless I hears sum loud objek-
shuns FUN my Teller skribe away up Norf I'll jist
rock along down here in Oklyhomey under de same
old sudonm, an call de whole thing whut it RELY is
-jist a conscience widout collushunient. Fer it's
de Gawds trufe dat nevah is copy Nv de
Sank Centre paper until yt an takes my oaf dat
1 nevah even knowed dere wuz SIGH place, emmy
mo- dan de othah colyumnist evan dreemed dat our
thrivin' city wuz on de map, lessen he wuz mo
dan common keen Will Rogers admirer er wuz fig
germ entertin' de hundred-mile Bust-Bottom
Derby"
A young man, whose only entanglements with
this modern Main Street is through more famed
father has trod heavily into the literary world only
recently. His is Wells Lewis, 22year-old SON of
Sinclair, and author of They Still Say No."
Wells, without much ado and few prelimnares, at
tacks a modern problem and young manhood which
at his age he should know something about.
There odd similarites and differences be-
tween his first work and those early of his
Dad. Both cracked heavily on the literary with
dramatzation of situaton-a social existent. Sim
clair has made his way with such procedure, delv-
ing into this and that with his carricature OF the
small town sweeping him into fame. Sinclair
dawdled in his early writing years though writing
fiction for fictons sake. He wrote boyish attempts
such as Hike and the Aeroplane" written under a
pen name. Finally he was caught in the maelstrom
of his own surrounding and pounded out his Main
Street" Wells didn't wait so long. He jumped
right into the social order of things with his first
attempt It's racy exposition and not for Aunt
Susie, with a Victorian outlook. The younger
Lewis like his father, has some of the world behind
him. At % he has travel record that equals Frank
Bucks: Hartford Fontanbleau, Nantucket, Switzer-
land Wyoming American school, two Swiss ones,
two English ones, Deerfield Andover, Harvard.
I have wondered how much this may mean.
How much relation is there between the hemline
and the economic trend? Remember the days OF 70!
The days when the long skirts that have always
been constant, started a gradual creeping upward
to the virtual emancipation of the knees in 49, Then
in 80 came the economic crackup. In those days
it followed that big economic balloon that inflated
to such unprecedented proportions Up went the
hemline; up went prices. During the depression
years in the early 30s came that downsweep again
and the demure lengths for milady's skirts
They swept down dangerously near the ground, oSly
a hairs breadth above the ankles in some cases.
And the wonder would they be swishing through
the grass again. But then the cycle rocked into
motion. Since SO gradual upsweep has been going
until the knees blush at US quite unconcernedly
again. Does that mean a new economic upturn!
1 don't profess to know. But oddly it paced the
swing of things in the 20s.
Parting Shots-It's not important that Mike
Frank, who told BOSNIAN Fred Schwartz he was
taking his mother to the class play, didn't take his
mother. But it is not idle prattle that someone
tied tin cans the back of his that selfsame
evening. Joe Kane, the old philosopher, expound-
ing patience cardinal virtue. Louis Lovik
looking dazed after waitress sold him piece of
pie so fast he thought he on Washington avenue
buying a 4-karat gold watch. And then her an
nouncement that it wasn't out of the oven yet
literally stopped the clock
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