The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-20

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 shot himself :. .. Sssssss Too much social consciousness. Of course, the butcher drove himself into this state of mind to get away from an unhappy home situation :. and world chaos gives many un- happy folk chance to make their private sorrows seem internation- ally important.
 Herbert Bayard Swope, once one of the leading editors in New York, now devotes most of his time to regulating racetracks for the state. He writes about the best short letters of anyone know '. But a recent letter from Joseph Patrick Kennedy, whose person. ality won even the English to American diplomacy, convinces me that the writing of good letters is 8 characteristic of persons of un- usual personality i. My friend, Leo Bozell, of Omaha, takes the longest airplane flights and writes the shortest letters of anyone in my acquaintance. And here's a contradiction: Bozen has a charm ing personality and never takes time to write an interesting letter. He flies, instead.
 Harry Van Liew was in New York the other day, and we spent some hours renewing old acquaint- ance. Harry is one of this coun- try's best and most experienced airplane pilots. For the last four or five years he's been flying @ liner between Chicago and Chey- enne for United Airlines. Prior to that time he held many piloting jobs, but he managed somehow to keep himself in the air. He is a reserve officer in the marines, and eagerly takes advantage of every opportunity to renew his flying experience with them.
 Harry has beautiful wife and three children.
 When Joe Israels and Harry and I get together for a talk-fest, we always renew memories of one of the widest flights of our eXperi- ence. We wanted to go out to sea, 100 miles off Cape Charles, Va, to make contact with a treasure hunting expedition that was trying to salvage silver from the long, lost passenger ship Merida.
 Harry found an old amphibian plane, abandoned in a junk yard. None of us felt like spending much money on the trip, so this find was a bit of rare luck. The ship was the worse for several crashes, and couldn't stand on its own wheels for any length of time with out buckling over. Harry could make it fly.
 Early one morning we boarded her at a field in Brooklyn, and were off down the coast. We had a course that seemed very simple. Just fly till we hit 8 certain dod- shaped island, and then turn left and fly at right angles out to sea until we stopped our little salvage ship. We hadn't taken into consid- eration that our compass might be wrong, which it was.
 Well, it was a lot of fun. We didn't find the ship that night, and we got to flying in large cir cles, far from land, with gas run- ming low. Alighting in the ocean beside tramp steamer (the first time our pilot had ever put a ship down in water), we got rough dir ections to the nearest land. Made 1t just as we ran out of gas. Next day we tried again, and, with the help of the navy, found our goal.
 An evening with Peter Boggs, dog authority, is a liberal educa- tion in doggery. He's a young man full of enthusiasm and ideas, and has the reputation of being a most persuasive salesman. Now, sales manship at its best is exercising the natural talent for making people like you. That same talent goes over with dogs in a big way Buyers and dogs all like Boggs.
 Though he halls from Bingham, Mass, Boggs is a great-grandson of George Trenholm, the Confed- eracy's Secretary of the Treasury. He owns IS dogs of varied breeds, but goes in chiefly for settlers, pointers and retrievers.
 Boggs agrees with Albert Payson Terhune in not recommending that long -haired dogs be clipped in summer. There goes your last chance at clipping, Captain Kidd!
 The only woman manager of a first-rate New York hotel, so far as I know, is Esther Tall, manager of the Bedford, 200-room house on East 40th street. Miss Tall, a trim, well-groomed lady who looks very young for her position, came into hotel management through the accounting offices. She is from Boston, but doesn't speak with the Boston a.
 Under Miss Tails management, the Bedford stays 90 percent full, month after month, and that's something of record for small hotel on the East Side. Literary and professional refugees from Germany constitute an important element in the clientele of this un- usual house. Yet, a recent patron was a representative of the Ger man consulate in New York. Copyright. 1889. McNaugh Syndicati