Show prominent Pro minet IM evien e n lay success on hickory switch ICE PRESIDENT MARSHALL at a V VICE discussion on oa corporal punishment claimed the leadership ot of the hick or oo 00 switch league with a percentage well over admiral george dew ey hero ot of manila bay bai occupies i the cellar position falth ith a percentage ot of the vice president attributes much of his success in the norad to early spankings span kings I 1 cannot recall he said any epe cine case just now but I 1 got in round numbers about lickings bickings lic kings I 1 never got spanked in the graded school though mine atine were all of 0 the home talent variety personally conducted by my mother a good old fashioned presbyterian who mho believed in a liberal use 0 of the rod red secretary daniels got ills his w arst licking tor for celebrating too highly the birth ot of his country countr back in 1876 on the fourth ot of july he aai nai assign ed to hoe in the garden 0 of the old od homestead down in north carolina that imbat was too much for ills his patriotic ow 4 spirit and he rigged up his bis cannon with which he intended to glorit the day da and shot ahot the parden garden into trae frag ments the whipping hIppIng was a result it if there is any good in me I 1 lay it first to baptism and second to the tha strap the rt rev W T russel said I 1 don t care to make a confession to the public but I 1 was vas virtually hammer ed into shape admiral george dewey declares he was never licked b bi the enemy alth er cr at home or abroad I 1 have been chastised like all other boys bos the admiral said bu but I 1 cannot recill recall any specific time that I 1 as spanked I 1 |