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Show - A A AA A ! - WHO'S WHOS WHO ' S NEWS NEWSTHIS NEWSTHIS NEWSTHIS THIS WEEK . . , , . By Lemuel F P . PartonfYYYvvVYYymyy Parton PartonMEW . ? fYYYvvVYYymyy ? YYYYYYYYYYYYYTTTTY ? fYYYvvVYYymyyNEW NEW -MEW MEW - L thoelevator YORK YORK-Alonzo YORK Alonzo YORKAlonzo -Alonzo Alonzo - B See , fho tho elevator man , has long been beenthis ' ' this epistolarianHis reader's readers favorite epistolarian His letters to the newspapers caused causedSee , ' ? more S SMake people to hIt See B s . Letter Letters . the ceIling than thanMake Make People did his elevators elevatorsHit , . Hit CeilingJust Ceiling Just Justnow now hla his A . , B . , ; See Elevator company com COm- COmpany company - pany , which he founded fifty four fouryears fouryears fouryears years ago , is being bemg dissolved and its itspropertIes itsproperties lt ltproperties properties sold to Westmghouse It is ItIs hoped he now v/ill v ill wIll / have time tune tocatch tocatch to , catch up with his letter-writing letter writing - I Is Ills Ison Illsson Hisson s son , Alva B ' See 3ee , who has managed ! hIs managedhis business busmess affairs recently , did not follow notfollow tracksMr in m his father's fathers ' pen tracks Mr See's Sees ' first big turn in 111 the theheadlines headlInes came in 1922 with Wlth his in- in insistence In in.sistence insistence . - sistence that . , tor for the good of all con con- concerned concerned concerned - cerned , . , we ought to burn down aU all allthe aUthe the v/omen's v omen's omens women's womens / ' colleges He was a ve- ve . - hement ve.hemcnt vehemcnt vehement education opponent of feminine feminme educa educa- - C'sforward Csforward ABC'sfonvard tion , , ' beyond knowing knowmg their ABC's ABCs A B C's Cs ' fonvard forward and " backward In supportof SUpport SUpportof supportof of this tlus view , he offered the findmgs findings findingsof findmgsof of his own research research , , , which were that werethat women's womens womcn's womcns ' brains were , on the theaverage theaverage theaverage average , five ounces lighter hghter than thanmen's thanmen's thanmen's thanmens men's mens ' brains brams " "No No college woman womancan womancan v/omancan v omancan / can be a fit parent , " he contendedHe contended contendedHe He assailed pedagogues , and all allcontemporary allcontemporary allcontemporary contemporary educational tech- tech techs techmques tech techniques - ' niques mques , writing and publishing pubUshmg a book abook called "Schools Schools " " , m in 1929 , m in mWhICh inwhich mwhich WhICh shouldbe he insisted mSlsted education should be whohave "under under " the guidance of men who have the intelligence mtcllIgence to own otvn and run runa runa runa a shop " He was WdS a porcupine porcupme mdlvlduahst individualist individualistdenouncing , denouncmg denouncing governmental parasItesand parasitesand parasites parasitesr , . , and tax ta > . eaters and andBetes r , Betes Noir by hinting hmtmg that Her Her- HerThousands HerThousands . - Thousands bert Hoover oughtEnrage oughtEnrage ought oughtEnrage Enrage Himto Him to be exammed examined exammedI exammedfor examinedfor " " "ed ed "edtor " I tor for his sanity samty 111 in ingoverning ingoverning I Igovermng govermng governing by commission Cigar CIgar- CIgari CIgarettes Cigarettes - i ettes , , high heels , , extremes Instyle In style styleslang , , : slang and a thousand other betes betesnOIr betesnoir betesnoir . nOIr enraged himHe him himHe He Is a benevolent appearing appearmg elderly el- el elderly el elderly - derly gentleman , with steel rImmed rImmedspectacles rimmedspectacles rimmedspectacles spectacles and white hair , livingm lIvmgill hyingin lIvmg hying lIvmgI I ill in a nice house in m Brooklyn , where wherehe wherehe wherehe buildinghis ghIS he has lived all his life hfe , bUlldl building g hIS elevators and regl registering termg dIS- dIS dISsent dissent dis dissent - sent sentThis This writer never caught hImself hImselfagreemg himselfagreeing himselfagreeing agreemg agreeing with Mr See on anythmg anything anythingbut , but hopes he will w1l1 keep on klckl kicking kickinglliost kickingMost g g11ost 1\1ost 1 1ost lliost \ businessmen busmessmen , when they get getangry getangry getangry angry about something somethmg , sluice it off offin offin offin in some dessicated desslcated chamber of com com- commerce commerce commerce - merce committee which takes all the thesap thesap thesap sap out of it Dissent Is too refined refinedthese refinedthese refinedthese these days I once got all the ' Letters Let Let- Letters Letters - ters to the Editor " contributors to together together together gether at a picnic and published publ1shed the thefirst thefirst thefirst first photograph of "Vox Vox " POpulI Populi"ever Populiever " ever taken They were a quarrel quarrel- quarrelsome quarrelsome quarrelsome - some lot and we almost had to call callout callout callout out the militia mllIha , but you couldn't couldnt ' help helplIkmg helpliking helpliking lIkmg liking them . . . CENATOR ELLISON D ( COTTONED COTTONED COTTON SENATOR ED ) SMITH of South Carolma Carolina CarolmastIll Carolinastill Carolinastill stIll follows the cotton boll as hIs hIspolIhcallode hispolitical hispolitical polIhcallode political lode star Like other south south- southern southern southern - ern senators , he ' he"Cotton he'ICotton " " "Cotton Cotton 'ICotton ICotton Ed has been shaken shakenFar shakenFar shakenFar Far Off-Base Off Base Of-Base Of - oa off base by the reo reS reParty re- re reinPartySpUt - - inPartySpUt In DemocratIcIn o . Party S Split Splitcent P Io It ItsplIt cent Democraticsplit DemocratIc splIt , , but now he heis heis is out for the New Deal subsIdy subsidymedicine , . medlcme medicine , , "to to " keep excesses off the themarket themarket themarket market " Seventy three year old Senator SenatorSmIth SenatorSmith SenatorSmith SmIth , , in m congress 29 years ) vears ears , , has a asIzable asizable asizable sIzable cotton patch which was wasgranted wasgranted wasgranted granted to his family-by family by famlly-by famlly - - George GeorgeIII GeorgeIII GeorgeIII III m In 1747 In the senate , he has hasbeen hasbeen hasbeen been the leading leadmg champion and de- de defender defender de defender - - fender of cotton With his southern southerncolonel's southerncolonel's southerncolonel's southerncolonels colonel's colonels ' ' blotorch blow blo\\ blo \ \ torch mustache , and andhIS andhis andhis , hIS chivalrous defense of southern southernwomanhood southernwomanhood southernwomanhood womanhood , he is the most authen authen- authenhc authentic authentic - - tic hc survival of the days of "Pitch Pitch "PItch- "PItchfork "Pitchfork "Pitchfork " - fork Ben " T1l1manHe TillmanHe Tillman T1l1man TillmanHe He walked wa1J.ed wa1Jed . out on the DemocratIc DemocratIcconventIon Democraticconvention Democraticconvention conventIon last year , because they theyh3d theyhad theyhad h3d had a negro speaker He remarked , 'I I ' I don't dont ' believe bel1eve in the Fourteenth Fourteenthor or Fifteenth amendments " As chairman of the .agrlcultural agrlcultural 'agricultural agricultural 'agriculturalcommittee 'agriculturalcommittee agriculturalcommittee ' . .agrlculturalcommIttee commIttee of the senate , he is an anImportant animportant animportant Important figure in the reshaping reshapmg of offarm offarm offarm farm legislation lcglslatIon , to be taken takcn mto into mtoaccount intoaccount intoaccount account in the new agrarian drIve drIvefor drivefor drivetor for subsidies SUbSldlcs . . . NORMAN AT NORMAN ORMAN EBBUTT , Berlin Berlm cor1V cor- cor correspondent - . 1V 1Vrespondent ' respondentsof respondent sof , of the London LondonTImes LondonTimes LondonTimes TImes , loses his tour four year battle battleagamst battleagainst battleagainst agamst against Nazi opposition The Ger Ger- German German - man foreign office officeBoot officeBoot officeBoot Boot of Nazis asked the TImes TImesIs TimesIs TimesIs Is Applied to to withdraw hIm hImHerr himHerr himwr . and makes it clearu clearthat clearthat clear clearHerr < Ebbuttand r ttand x Ebb Ebbutt Herr tt Ebbuttthat u that , it i if ! this is notdone notdone not notdone done , he would be expelled ThIS ThISis ThisIs Thisis is the culmination culmmatIon of continuous contmuous dis- dis disagreement dis disagreement - ' agreement between beteen bet\\ bet beta \ \ een Mr Ebbutt and andthe andthe andthe the ReIchThe ReichThe Reich ReichThe The foreign office asked that he hebe hebe hebe be replaced by a correspondent who whoWin whowill whowill Win will "more more " nearly reflect the officIal officIalversIOn officialversion officialversion versIOn of the achievements of ofthe ofthe ofthe the regime " Mr Ebbutt has writ wrIt- wrItten written written - ten his own and not the official officlal ver ver- versum ver- ver versiwn version - - sion sum siwn of events in 111 Germany . . In 1933 , , \ Mr 1\Ir 1 Ir Ebbutt Ehbutt was presJdent president presidentof presJdentof of the Association of Foreign Corre Corre- Correspondents Correspondents Correspondents - spondents in m Berlin BcrUn The day before beforethe beforethe beforethe the election \ which \ hich put Hitler in m pow pow- power power power - er , he wrote a dispatch in 111 111hicb in'hlch inhlch \ ' which \\hicb hicb he hesud hesand hesaid sud sand ; many citizens were afraid to tovote tovote tovote vote for fear of watermarked watcrmarked paper paperor or invisible mVlslble ink mk whick WhlCk which would reveal revealthem revealthem revealthem them as oppositionists opposationists This an- an angered angered an angered - gered the Nazis N.1zls N1zls . and they demanded demandedlehachon demandedietiaction demandedieti lehachon ietiaction action He sent scnt another dis disp dispitch dispitch p pitch ' ch , , substantiating substantlatmg his Ius story story11any storyMany storyMany 1\1any 1 1any Many \ tunes threateneduth threatened \ with \uth uth nnth e expul expulstun expulbion , < pul stun lOn , , he has S staged stayed l , } ed on the jOb-until jOb until jObuntilnow job - - until now 1'14\ 1'14 114 ' " \ 1'14Consolidated ( Consolidated Neus Ne\\s Ne s Ness \ \ Fentures Features FenturesNU FeaturesttNU FeaturesWNU \\NU NU ttNU \ \ Service Senicc Sernlce |