Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 8, Number 32, DeMotte, Jasper County, 7 July 1938 — WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK

By LEMUEL F. PARTON

>JEW YORK. When Charles Maurras came out of the Sante prison last year, he was met by a committee of distinguished French-

men, who nominated him for the Nobel peace prize and said they .would make him a

member of the Academy. They have just fulfilled the latter promise, and M. Maurras becomes an immortal by a majority of one vote. He had spent 250 days in jail on a charge of having urged the assassination of 140 members of the chamber of deputies who had voted for sanctions against Italy; also on a charge of inciting the French people to "sharpen up their kitchen knives" for use against certain proscribed politicians. In the 250 days he had written five books, swelling his .vast collection of books on biography, politics, economics, literary criticism, history and what not to probably well over 100..- I talked to him once in the Case des Lilas, a fragile, deaf, bearded old man with a contentious, blazing mind which makes one think of a sizzling battery running an automobile without any engine. In 1923, he was in jail for four months in a somew'hat anti-climatic

adventure for one who was to be garlanded as an immortal. Three members of the

chamber of deputies were kidnaped and fed castor oil—Mussolini is said to have got his broad prospectus of Fascism from Maurras—and the bald head of one of them was painted with violet ink and glue. In 1925, M. Maurras was sentenced to two years in prison, the charge being that he had threatened to kill the minister of the interior* Among the causes of his incarceration in October, 1936, was conspiracy evidence in the assault on Premier Leon Blum, in which he was severely beaten, while attending the funeral of a friend. His books and virulent editorials against democracy in the Royalist, paper, translated into many languages, are the fount of Fascist doctrine all over the w r orld. His hatred of democracy is savage and vitriolic. He is witty, learned, brilliant and he has the most excoriating and corrosive vocabulary in France. • • • A FOOTNOTE to the main text of ** the world discussion on Japan bombing babies is the interchange between Avery Brundage, chairman

of the American Olympic committee, and William J. Bingham (Bill the Plugger), Har-

vard athletic director. Mr. Brundage says it has nothing to do with sports, and Mr. Bingham says it has—with sportsmanship, at any rate—and he withdraws from the committee and the 1940 games. The sports writers are becoming almost metaphysical in weighing and appraising the moral values of the argument. Bill the Plugger says, in effect, that he w’on’t play with baby-killers. He became Bill the Plugger by losing 19 races at Harvard and winning the twentieth. Thereafter, he was Harvard's crack miler. He started out plugging at the age of fourteen, leaving school to work in a mill and help support his five younger brothers and sisters. He saved S3O, went to Exeter and worked his way through Exeter and Harvard. A He came out of the war a captain with appropriate decorations, did a turn in the banking business in Texas and became Harvard graduate supervisor and track coach ir. 1921. On the side, he is president of a concern which imports rubber goods. • • • IF GERARD B. LAMBERT builds * a house, they’re likely to find a center-board and a skys’l yard on it; It’s hard to see how he can get-

his mind off his yachting, but, at any rate, he becomes special adviser to Stuart Mc-

Donald, federal housing administrator. The gargles and shaves }f the multitudes built his chemical fortune at St. Louis. He was one of the original backers of Lindbergh and the originators of great advertising slogans. Author of a spirited “Defense of Babbitts" in the American Mercury, commander of the Eastern Yacht club of Marblehead, Mass., he maintains a valhalla for gallant old yachts. • Consolidated News Features. WNU Service.

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