The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-06
Gideon PlaniSl1
Copyright, 10As, Sinclair Lewss-- Dsstx1Sutea Sy NEA 9erviee. Ine.

THE STORY: As Dean of Kim nlkinick College in 1926, Gideon Pianish is well-esteemed, In de- mand as . public speaker, and referred to as . Header of hu- manitarianism." His wife, PeOny, is attractive, extravagant and ambitious. Through her maneu- vering, the Dean becomes chair man of the County Censorship Board. He successfully attacks "The TattoOed Countess" which he has never read, and inadvert- ently increases the business of the bookseller, Mir. Rood.
 CHAPTER XII
 THE Garfield County Censorship ! Board had gone on attacking and advertising good books, and Mir. Rood had, with amazement at himself, taken to reading. and had established the first adequate book shop in the county. The name Of Chairman Planish had been ad- vertised almost as loudly as the books. Though the whole State there began to slide a feeling that he was a very sound man. though nobody except Peony was sure what he was sound at, and he was appointed a member of the Legislative Advisory Electrifica- ton and Creative Planning Com mittee.
 Suddenly he was dashing to Ottumwa. to Mason City, to Sioux City, to Muscatine, over a period of two months; his name was in the newspapers daily - on page !; he took Peony to public dinners of more than 300 persons, with l6 speeches; and at the end Of the meritorious crusade, the Planishei were $400 in debt, and Whipple Jackson sent q check to cover hall tie amount, and with 1t Peony bought a rock-crystal lamp and 800 shares in a diamond mine. DEAN PLANIsH had been hon. D ored by his first invitation to become a national director of great organization with it's office in New York: The Sympathizeri with the Pacifists Purposes of the New Democratic Turkey. He was assured that they desired only the use of his distinguished name, and he need no time nor money unless he was eager to.
 He wasn't.
 Afterward he was often to have the experience, as warming to thu stomach as hot toddy, of seeing his name on organizational sta tionery But this was his first drink Tn the upper Fight-hand corner of the letter were the Nationa Oficers, who included three prominent clergymen, a Chicago corporation lawyer, and a treas urer who was the l4th vice pres dent of the Sixteenth Nationa Bank of Manhattan,
 Beneath the list of officers wal the Item, Constantine Kelly, Ex' ecutive Director" in letters s' modest that the Planishes ana, teuFs in the oFganlzatlonal world did not notice lt, They were In terested in the left-hand side o the stationery where, among th' 4a directors, appeaEedi
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 Gideon Pianish, Ph, D,
 Dean, Kinnlekinlek oge,
 Tine news of this honor ap peaEed in the Iowa newspapers and the Dean received invitation to become a director Of two oths national organizations, and to con tribute to Ha Of them, fte Ae eented the first two,
 His many honeFs had nov started the Dean on A meaty ca FseF Of eFAteFy and public en ilghtenMeht,
 The invitations to speak werl coming in, two q day, three q day and Peeny teak charge,
 "dideon, honey, you've been do ina ail this aplellne free, and " a chance Co cash in, Well pay VI fhak nia aho0 debt in ilg time, an | can nsl Hae d zeal evening dfss liAMk tiMAiNN. #ou iAl me MiAAWN