Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1940-03-14
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS .
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

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shined, dishes good grammar and
never tore his hair. Defeating Gov.
Earl K. Long, brother of the King
fish, in the run-off primary, he gets
the Democratic gubernatorial noni-
nation, which means election in Lou
iSiana.
However, he fought like
wildcat, made a half dozen
speeches and two radio adj
dresses day, swarmed all over
the state and developed care
fully organized state, parish and
precinct organization. He is az
years old, good looking. we'll
educated and convincing. He is
a political newcomer, little
known when the Kingfish called
him "High-Hat Sambo." He re-
piled that he had no high hat,
but would not hesitate to get one
if he needed it, and would dress
as he pleased. So he did and
he made them like it.
Born in a log cabin in the Deep.
piney woods of southwestern Louisi-
ana, he worked in a sawmill until
he was II, with sketchy educa-
ton. He entered the University of
Louisiana, waited on table to help
pay his way, went into the World
war as private, but never reached
France, and returned to continue his
education in a country law office.
He has been on both sides of cor
poration law practice, winning the
fight for the rice farmers against
the millers, and has engaged in
some stiff fights with public utilities.
On several occasions he defended
cases for labor organizations.
TROUBLED observers of world
i disaster, seeing no light or hope,
might do we'll to compare Dorothy
Garfield Fishers children's crusade
Popular Author WIN ~ 1l Is wv
Stages Crusade crusades of
To Aid Children the Thirteenth
century. In
the latter about $4,000 children went
from France and Germany to fight
the Saracens. Many thousands
died and many others were cap
tured and sold into slavery at Alex
andria.
Something seems to have hap
pened in the centuries between.
Miss Fisher, the novelist, finds
eager cooperation throughout the
country as she launches a campaign
to gather penny year from each
of the 30,O00,OO0 American school
children for child refugees in all
countries of the world, of all races
and beliefs. The pledge will cover
the entire life of the child. The
fund, totaling 100000 a year, will
all 60 to the children, with private
pledges covering the cost of admin
iStration
Miss Fisher, author of about
rs books, including novels, edu-
catfonal and social studies, has
been engaged in such humane
enterprises all her adult life.
During and after the World war,
she spent three years in France
in relief work. In 1884, she be-
came chairman of the Advisory
Conference of Jews and Chris
tians to Oppose Race Prejudice
and Religious Intolerance. Her
unceasing battle has been
against standardized and ma
terialized society.
A native of Lawrence, Kan, she
could call herself DR.. Fisher, but
never does. Her doctorate in philos-
ophy came from Columbia univer-
sity in 1904, after her graduation
from Ohio State university. She
probably wears more academic gar
lands than any other American
woman, with honorary degrees from
Middlebury college, Dartmouth, the
University of Vermont, Ohio State,
Northwestern and Williams.
Her home is in Arlington, VT.
Noting that her crusade is much
more humane and sensible than
that of Etienne, the shepherd boy
of Cloyes, who led the ragged, hun
cry children to crush the Saracens,
one might also note the upsurge of
"Snow White and "Pinocchio'' as
revealing new adult entente with
the child world. Miss Fisher might
do well to make Walt Disney one
of the generals of her new crusade.
nv HEN this writer was in Paris
w a few years ago, style boot
leggers were moving through plots
and stratagems as melodramatic as
any spy business. 1t was an old
story then. Currently, Lucien Lee
long, the Judge Lands of the Paris
dressmakers, pegs a new outbreak
of the old established custom of
sneaking camera shot of a gown
perhaps bribing delivery boy-and
making the model a dime dozen
all over Europe before the buyer
can wear it. That's just one de-
vice. There are dozens.