Show THE OLD BOAT ROCKER 1 mr robert campbell Camp allowed me to read a book his son had recen ly sent him entitled the 0 d boat rocker written to up thi th Q I 1 liness of us all as a people and of the new deal in particular the author of 0 the book Is an edi edl aitor in georgia owning three news papers and with a fund of informs tion from which he draws with a marked ease selecting jibes sallies of wit sarcasm and the subtle stabs of irony pointed with facts he has a good command of his subject has a far reaching depth of historical reading and is in close touch with the present time though out of patience with the present tin kering reforming collidge dope of youngsters who never earned a dot dol lar in their lives by an investment know nothing of business and at supported by an endowed tion decry the very system which made that possible screeching blue eagles elbar rows to lug oft off dole no work six hours a day and tor for all ot of it he told its supporters just where he hung the mistletoe the book is not a slap stick soap box sort but written by a man of acumen discrimination and power of expression not a fish monger mongers s billingsgate but a book that shows up a long line ot of silliness now cul mina ting and brains not of a young lot of kids not yet dry behind the ears but of learned state statesmen to get got us out of the kinks the other kind only muss things up the ravens may have fed elijah but government ravens will cease to fly after a while and then it s the same old story work or want the book Is well worth reading it Is not partisan but rather factual and slaps us all just what delta did in its heyday of millard county gold dust his community did the mortgaging of the future and then when the bills came in read it and wince or read it and giggle both kinds are there |