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Show I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton VfTTTTTT TYYYYTTYYTWYYY NEW YORK. Alonzo B. See, the elevator man, has long been this reader's favorite epistolarian. His letters to the newspapers caused more people to hit See'-s Letters the ceiling than Make People did his elevators. . ... Just now his A. B. nit Ceiling See Elevator company, com-pany, which he founded fifty-four years ago, is being dissolved and Its properties sold to Westinghouse. It is hoped he now will have time to catch up with his letter-writing. His son, Alva B. See, who has managed his business affairs recently, did not follow in his father's pen-tracks. Mr. See's first big turn In the headlines came in 1922 with his Insistence In-sistence that, for the good of all concerned, con-cerned, we ought to burn down all the women's colleges. He was a vehement ve-hement opponent of feminine education, educa-tion, "beyond knowing their A B C's forward and backward." In support of this view, he offered the findings of his own research, which were that women's brains were, on the average, five ounces lighter than men's brains. "No college woman can be a fit parent," he contended. He assailed pedagogues, and all contemporary educational techniques, tech-niques, writing and publishing a book called "Schools," in 1929, in which he insisted education should be "under the guidance of men who have the intelligence to own and run a shop." He was a porcupine individualist, denouncing governmental parasites and tax-eaters and Betes Noir by hinting that Her-Thousands Her-Thousands bert Hoover ought r rr- to be examined Enrage Him for sanity ta governing by commission. Cigarettes, Cigar-ettes, high heels, extremes in style, slang and a thousand other betes noir enraged him. He is a benevolent-appearing elderly el-derly gentleman, with steel-rimmed spectacles and white hair, living in a nice house in Brooklyn, where he has lived all his life, building his elevators and registering dissent. dis-sent. This writer never caught himself agreeing with Mr. See on anything, but hopes he will keep on kicking. Most businessmen, when they get angry about something, sluice it off in some dessicated chamber of commerce com-merce committee which takes all the sap out of it. Dissent is too refined these days. I once got all the "Letters "Let-ters to the Editor" contributors together to-gether at a picnic and published the first photograph of "Vox Populi" ever taken. They were a quarrelsome quarrel-some lot and we almost had to call out the militia, but you couldn't help liking them. SENATOR ELLISON D. (COTTON ED) SMITH of South Carolina still follows the cotton boll as his political lode star. Like other south-ern south-ern senators, he Cotton Ed has been shaken Far Off-Base off-base by the re- in Party Split ce"' DemocraUe r split, but now he is out for the New Deal subsidy medicine, "to keep excesses off the market." Seventy-three-year old Senator Smith, in congress 29 years, has a sizable cotton patch which was granted to his family by George III in 1747. In the senate, he has been the leading champion and defender de-fender of cotton. With his southern colonel's blow-torch mustache, and his chivalrous defense of southern womanhood, he is the most authentic authen-tic survival of the days of "Pitchfork "Pitch-fork Ben" Tillman. He walked out on the Democratic convention last year, because they had a negro speaker. He remarked, "I don't believe in the Fourteenth or Fifteenth amendments." As chairman of the agricultural committee of the senate, he is an important figure in the reshaping of farm legislation, to be taken into account in the new agrarian drive for subsidies. XTORMAN EBBUTT, Berlin cor--L ' respondent of tjje London Times, loses his four-year battle against Nazi opposition. The Ger- , man foreign office boot of Nazis asked the Times Is Applied to to withdraw him Herr Ebbutt f"d makes " clear that, if this is not done, he would be expelled. This is the culmination of continuous disagreement dis-agreement between Mr. Ebbutt and the Reich. The foreign office asked that he be replaced by a correspondent who will "more nearly reflect the official version of the achievements of the regime." Mr. Ebbutt has written writ-ten his own and not the official ver-sisn ver-sisn of events in Germany. In 1933, Mr. Ebbutt was president of the Association of Foreign Correspondents Corre-spondents in Berlin. The day before the election which put Hitler in power, pow-er, he wrote a dispatch in which he said many citizens were afraid to vote for fear of watermarked paper or invisible ink whick would reveal them as oppositionists. This angered an-gered the Nazis and they demanded retraction. He sent another dispatch, dis-patch, substantiating his story. Many times threatened with expulsion, expul-sion, he nas stayed on the job until now. C Consoliilntcd News Fc.lturet WNU Service. |