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Show Lights of New York nmllll ever came out of Idaho, except that William Edgar liorah was borr. In Illinois. Illi-nois. Dr. Henry W. A. Hanson, president pres-ident of Gettysburg college, says there are no new problems and that there has been no fundamental change In youth, It being the mature generation which has gone balmy. Victor Moore Is one comedian who makes me laugh. New York Is represented In the United States senate by Royal S. Copeland. born In Dexter. Mich., and Robert I!. Wagner, born In Nastatten. Germany. At a wild guess, not more than half the senators were born in the states they represent. Ours Is In many ways a peculiar form of government. A senator from New York, with Its 12.000,000 population, popula-tion, has no more voting power than a senator from Nevada, with Its HI.-000 HI.-000 population. The vote ol a senator sena-tor from T was, v-'ith Its 202.3DS square miles, has the same weight as the vote of a sena'or from Rhode Island, with Its 1,007 square miles. 1532. Bel! Syndicate. WNU Service. On the way to dine nt the Stork lub, which used to be Heywood Broun's rendezvous with food and now Is Bill Corum's favorite restaurant, my wife called my attention to the tremendous tre-mendous change lu New York In the past two years. In former days, before be-fore renting an apartment, you always looked to see whether there was a meant lot or an old building next door. Should there be either of these things, the chances were thot building son would be going on, which meant that riveting machines would be Included In-cluded In your lease. They would start their clatter early In the morning morn-ing nnd continue until the evening shadows felL Anti-noise societies used t have spasms of Indignation and Franklio P. Adams used to write scathing paragraphs, but old man riveter riv-eter Just kept roaring along. Those were the golden days of '20. e e - Old Twenty-niners can remember when streets were blocked with boards, beams, and piles of bricks; when pedestrians walked through block after block of protective nnd temporary wooden tunnels; when bathtubs bath-tubs and other fixtures stood crated en the sidewalks and plumbers, carpenters, car-penters, plasterers, steelworkors. and masons each contributed their brass filings, sawdust, lime puddles, steel shavings, nnd brick and plaster particles par-ticles to the city ozone. Hut this is 1932. The air Is clean and so are the streets. The sight of building litter would be as welcome as the discovery of land to Columbus. The sound of a riveting machine would be a witch tng strain. About the only place you can see nnd hear construction going on is around Rockefeller Center. And a fellow can't hang around there all day. We are thinking of asking Deac Ayleswortl) to use his Influence to get a riveting machine fifteen minutes a day on the air. The great radio nudl-, nudl-, ence would tune In from Maine to California. Edward G. Robinson, the Aim favorite, favo-rite, looks quite a bit like Emll Fuohs. the baseball magnate. They say that Judge Fnchs. as a criminal lawyer, never lost a decision. Ed Anthony and Frank Buck have been literary collaborators. Ed might have caught the animals, but Frank never could have written the books. The Ed Anthony An-thony and Charles Dana Gibson domes compare very favorable with those of the Capitol at Washington. The Martin Mar-tin Egan and John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum domes might be Ir the running. run-ning. The Marcus Cook Connelly roof Is more like a minaret. . It misrht be said Sculptor Borglum and Senator Borah were two of the busiest Bs who |