Show I 1 1 WH NEWS THIS WEEK by lemuel F part parlon N NEW EW YORK many a good news yarn has been spoiled by the necessity of getting the story in the lead as they say in the news paper shops this ri story that reporter asks in has kick dul diligence fulgence gence for or atthe the end ing the kick ln in this one tor for the e end nd noting merely that it Is a lappy happy ending in recent years here have been bech so many unhappy fade ade outs from sam langford Lang tord to the league of nations that anything in the line of an unexpected garrison finish rates a bit of suspense before the news payoff pay off oft in maxwell street chicago long jong before the fragrance of bubbly creek ebbed and sank and saddened there was a bookstall book stall which was the jewish algonquin of those parts the place was overrun with philosophers some white be bearded crded and highly venerated so some me young and contentious all stirred by a feverish intellectual zeal they wolfed wilfed new books and started clamorous arguments about them the way the crowds at the big pool hall down don th the e s street grabbed the box geores scores in the late sporting extras sweatshop workers used to throng in after a hard days work and get in ih op the seminar wrinkled merry mischievous little abraham bisno from russia was the erasmus of the sweatshop philosophers he used to circulate a lot around this and other maxwell street book shops and many erasmus of times time the state of sweatshops illinois was saved ha makes kes peace the expense ot of calling out the militia because bissio happened along to referee an argument he was a sweatshop worker a man of amazing erudition but ot of salty colloquial speech never enmeshed i in the tangle of print la language n around him he used to tease his friend jane Jan addams bAddams of nearby hull house by calling her settlement workers the paid neighbors of the poor he liked to deflate the utopians boiling things downto groshams Gre shams law of money the law of diminishing returns weighted averages or something like that lie he was the first of a multitude of sweatshop economists who spread light and learning through ch Chi ica cagos gos ghetto bisno had ek a bright eyed clever tittle daughter named hamed beatrice Beatricei one of several cone ahll hil the bisno dren old sages pass beyond up and downman down Max max awken our r ken v well street used to say the world would hear from beatrice some day but the world went to war regardless of sir norman angell andall the other philosophers and them the bosnos passed beyond the kent ken of this writer about twelve years ago ahad I 1 had a visit from francis oppenheimer a new york journalist beatrice bisno was his wife she was going to write a book and did ihnow I 1 know ofa of a quiet hideout hide out where she could write it I 1 sent them to the old hotel helvetia NO 23 rue de tournon in paris she satin sat in the nearby luxembourg ein embourg bourg garden and wrote her book they came home and the book made endless round trips to publishers offices the smash of 1929 took the last of their savings today I 1 had a letter from francis oppenheimer we finally throw threw the book in an old clothes basket he said then acting on impulse wo we used us edour our dinner money to give it 0 one ne more ride weeks passed beatrice fell ill there came a letter from liver wright the publisher I 1 knew it was another rejection and w want to L C show it to beatrice but I 1 tore open the envelope and handed it to her her eyes were glazed she could not read the letter it slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor and in the same mall mail today there came to this desk a copy of the new book 00 to r i af girl gift wins morrows bread big prize by beatrice bisno with novel winning the th 2500 prize award the judges being dorothy canfield fisher and fannie hurst that was the news that mr oppenheimer picked up from the floor when his wife was too ill to read it dorothy canfield fisher says of the book A searchingly realistic portrait of an idealist what an idealist does to the world and what the world does to an idealist Is here set down with power and sin sincerity 0 winsome little bisno is gone one wishes he could be carrying the news down to the old maxwell street book stall if its still there a consolidated news features service |