The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-14
CHAPTER XIX

down the lefthand side Of the sta tionery. the persons who are sup posed to love the organization and 1t - these old friends are some times labeled the Directors. some times the Trustees, the Sponsors, the Advisory Board. the State Chairmen, the Honorary Vice Chairmen. the National Committee, the General Committee or the Gen. tral Committee.
 In the T. A. r. A. R. P. these apostles were called the Trustees, and in January, 1880, pr. Planish was elected a trustee of that asso- citation the True American Fed eration to Attack Racial Prejudice With the suspiciousness of one who has now lost his philanthropic Innocence, he skinned over the names of his fellow trustees and sven that of the treasurer the president of an insurance com pany - knowing that they would all be the familiar bunch of Sign FITS, and he looked sharply at the name of the executive secretary tor, technically, the Works). He approved. The Works was Prof ioetz Buchwald, of the psychology department of Erasmus College. on leave of absence - leave that now lasted for seven years.
 Buchwald really was an honest Hnd earnest man. He had read all the books, and he hated the op- pressors of the Chinese, the Ne groes, the Sloyenes, as much as he hated the oppresSors Of the Jews. He spoke vigorously, but he was equally vigorous with scissors and typewriter He nudged the press about hundreds of small incidents of tyranny or prejudice. A good man and a good organization, felt Or. Planish.
 He respects the officers of the True Americans: Natalia Hoch- berg, the general secretary; Bishop Albertus Pindyck, of the Catholic or more aerobatic wing of the Episcopal Church; pr. Christian Stern: Monsignor Nicodemus Low ell Fish, Ph. D., known as the apostle to the Yankees; and Rab- bi Emile Litchtenselig. When he was invited to attend the annual conference of the T. A. F A. R. P. in New York in April, he was de- lighted He felt that here he would be stimulated. and meet the bet ter minds
 Besides, Peony wanted to see the Empire State Building.
 She did, and she Smelled the ocean and the roast chestnutS, She moaned. "Oh, lover. it looks 1t Hooks like New York
 THERE is a peculiar flavor to \ Celebrities, to people who have their names in the papers and who expect to be recognized on the street. Most of them will, within a year or two, slide back into the pit of anonymity whence they scrambled. and that will either make them human again or. in their resentment, destroy them utterly. for a Celebrity who has lost celebrity is the emptiest Of Gods curios. But a few of them will remain notorious til the hour when respectful ears reach for their unintelligible dying words, and the majority of these regulars vii cease entirely to be human beings.
 Of all Celebrity fans none was livelier than Peony Planish, and when the delegates to the convo- cation of the True American Fed eration to Attack Racial Prejudice met in the elegant lobby of Terp- sichore Hall, in New York City, she could enjoy her mania at it's highest. On view were Bishop Pindyck. Monsignor Fish, Dr. Christian Stern, Professor Buch- wald, United States Senator Felix Bultitude. General Gong, who was not only a general but an army general, not a real estate or news paper general, Capt, Heth Gish- orn, the distinguished explorer; pr. Procopus, who was so famous a psychiatrist that the Freudians took time out to hate him; Judge Vandewart; Henry Saslon Kevern, rated at 20 million, and a genuine but social-minded actress ~ Ra- mona Tundra, the movie star Not only that, but there was a title Of nobility, the first that Peony or Dr. Planish had ever tasted, the Principessa Ca D'Oro, a real prin- cess though she just happened to have been born a Miss Togg of Arkansas.
 She wrote social columns.
 But, nobler than nobility, bluer of jaw than the prineipessa was blue of blood, was Col, Charles B, Mardue, diety among advertising agents. owner of dozen maga- zines. major on the Western Front in World War I and now colonel in the National Guard, a man of 30, sleek as a greyhound but burly as a mastiff, with a planned graying mustaehe against cherry face
 Dr, Planish qulYered That's MaFdue, the fellow Ham Frisby ad- mlres so much and Peony answer ed, And could go for himl I'm go- Ing to wriggle over and talk to him
 But Colonel Mardue, after shak- ing only the whitest and plumpest of the assembled hands, slipped away. and the Planishes forgot him, for coming toward them, hands out, was their friend Prof, George Riot,
 "One drink and one drink and one drink makes 10 drinks, hur- ray" said Prof, Riot, a little later
 
 nR. PIlANISH wanted to know b how these authentic Top Men talked, that he might do likewise,
 He was sorry Co find che re-