Show NEWS THIS WEEK so by lemuel F pa parlor rion aw EW YORK alonzo B see the Ne elevator levator man has long been this reader s favorite his letters to the newspapers caused more people to hit sees see s letters the ceiling than make people did his elevators his A B just now hit ceiling see elevator company 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 aff affairs airs recently did not follow in his father s pen tracks a mr sees first big turn in the headlines came in 1922 with his insistence si that for the good of all con berned we ought to burn down all the women s colleges he was a ve bement opponent of feminine aduca 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 writing and publishing a book called schools in 1929 in which he insisted education should be under the guidance of men who havethe 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 th that at her thousands bert hoover ought to be examined enrage him for his sanity in governing by commission cigar ettes high heels extremes in style slang and a thousand other betes noir enraged him H he e is a benevolent appearing elderly 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 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 oft in some chamber of commerce committee which takes all the sap out of it dissent is too refined these days I 1 once got all the letters to the editor contributors together at a picnic and published the first photograph of vox lopuh I 1 ever taken they were a quarrel some lot and we almost had to call out the militia but you help liking them 0 0 SENATOR ELLISON D COTTON ED SMITH of south carolina still follows the cotton boll as his political lode star like other south ern senators he u cotton ed has been shaken far off base off base by the re in in n party split cent democratic 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 of cotton with his southern colonel colonels s blowtorch blow torch mustache and his chivalrous defense of southern womanhood he is the most authentic survival of the days of pitchfork ben tillman he walked out on the democratic convention last year because they had a negro speaker he remarked I 1 don t believe in the fourteenth or fifteenth amendments As chairman or 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 a 0 N ORMAN EBBUTT berlin cor respondent of the london times tunes loses his four year battle against N nazi zi opposition the gerr man foreign office boot of nazis r asked the times Is applied to to withdraw him ebbutt and makes II 11 clear herr that y if this y is not done he would be expelled this is the culmination of continuous disagreement between mr ebbutt and the reich the foreign office asked that he be replaced by a correspondent who will I 1 more nearly reflect the official version of the achievements of the regime mr ebbutt has written his own and not the official version of events in germany in 1933 mr ebbutt was president of the association of foreign correspondents spon dents in berlin the day before the election which put hitler in pow er he wrote a dispatch in which he said many citizens were afraid to vote for fear of watermarked paper or invisible ink which would reveal them as oppositionists this an the nazis and they demanded retraction he sent another dis patch substantiating his story many times threatened with expel sion he has stayed on the lob job until now a consolidated news feature features service |