December 21, 1935 The Literary Digest 31 each note. It's not your fingers which are "An experienced nurse in a maternity stiff; it's the motor centers of the brain hospital said to a proud male parent who which are slow. walked straight up to his infant's crib on ../ "Anything you can hear in your mind entering the room, 'I wouldn't do that un­ t'K . h you can play. You usually listen to the less you have a lot of time.' i THIS CHRISTMAS | melody and the melody is usually in the "When the father asked why, she told right hand. That's why you say you have a him of babies she had seen decidedly J I WANT TO MAKE ; ,\ good ear. If you listen to the left hand spoiled by daily attention from the father you'll discover that your ear is just as good in their first two weeks. A PIPE SMOKER ^ "However much of the post-birthmark- on the low notes. HAPPY "When you hear in your mind the note ing is done during the first year or so an you read on the page of music, and when enormous amount of it is inflicted during you know where the note is, you can put the next decade. your finger on it. "Prejudice, jabbed under the skin as "And so far as that note goes, a virtuoso with a needle at an early age, makes never- could do little more." ending difficulties in our civilization. Americans look with horror at the train­ ing meted out in Fascist countries to chil­ dren scarcely able to toddle. They go Post-Birthmarks through the motions and emit the cries demanded of them. "When a new citizen appears in the world "But American public affairs would be the survey of the tiny body for birthmarks far better administered were it not that brings an awful moment," writes Uncle so many of the voters carry post-birth­ Dudley in the Boston Sunday Globe. marks to the polling places. They were "If there are none it is very much in order born and raised as Republicans or Dem­ for the proud and relieved papa to buy ocrats. cigars. "During early years these post-birth­ "But if it is the other way and the in­ marks are not visible, but about the period fant face is disfigured by a splotch of red, of middle age they work to the surface news of the tragedy passes round the neigh­ so that a practised eye can detect them borhood in awe-struck whispers. at a glance. It is a horrid limitation to a/i^' "Many a visible birthmark constitutes be almost controlled by acquired marks a burden of a weight known only to the that should never have been imprinted. bearer. Occasionally the force of char­ "Only recently have the leaders of edu­ acter required to carry it develops excess Efr:."'---*.:'-' cation sought to do anything about it, but M-^r^'• -••-' ,• - strength and the birthmarked man or they are making a good start. The young woman climbs up to amazing achievement. mother, who discovers that the modern tr.-•".-•.-rV-ft- - Serious Consequences doctors know far more than the old wives about the care of infants, is far more "Post-birthmarks bring no such con­ likely than was her own mother to seek 10^ \{^0^'' ): -^^ \ .••••• : ^- -.".- •'... • •:• cern, although the consequences are often light on rearing children. School-teachers quite as serious as those of marks placed . can do much in the way of removing upon the features by a cruel slip of scars from children and gdiding them to­ Mature. wards freedom." "One psychological school, the be- haviorists, asserts that before .the human World-famous quality tobacco— animal is able to walk or talk his character "And/Or" Gets No Mercy is bent by early experience to a degree that makes it impossible for it to be re­ As far as the Wisconsin Supreme Court EDGEWORTH stored during all the years that follow. is concerned, "and/or," the term found so in vacuum-fresh tins often in legal and other documents, is defi­ nitely "out." Long a puzzlement to the for Christmas man in the street, and a thorn in the side to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, ATTRACTIVE Christmas packages of "and/or" came in for this denunciation last £\. Edgeworth are the way to any pipe week from Justice Chester A. Fowler: smoker's heart. "It is manifest that we are confronted This year, Edgeworth gift packages are with the task of first construing 'and/or,' furnished for the pound humidor, the that befuddling nameless thing, that Janus- pound and half-pound vacuum tins of faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed; and the pound phrase, the child of a brain of some one too container of Edgeworth Plug Slice. You lazy or too dull to know what he did mean, will find them at your tobacco dealer's, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting ready for your ribbon and greeting cards. legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to con­ "When giving a pipe, give a good pipe. ceal rather than express a meaning with When giving tobacco, give the best" is old a view to furthering the interests of their advice and good advice. Give Edgeworth clients. We have observed the 'thing' in and be sure. Larus & Brother Co., Rich­ statutes, in the opinions of the courts, mond, Va. Tobacconists since 1877. and in briefs of counsel, some learned and some not." Valiantly Senator Glass has fought SEND US YOUR GREETING CARDS against its inclusion in documents and If your tobacco dealer is out of Edgeworth gift packages, records. Last February he won his first send us your greeting cards and we will take care of the major victory in that respect when all shipping without extra charge. A Merry Christmas to © Underwood "and/ors" were deleted at his insistence you and yours 1 Larus & Brother Co. Carter Glass, opponent of *'and/or" from the Work Relief Bill. PRODUCED BY UNZ.ORG ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED Law and Order and Federal Liquor regulations; yet Assassins End Editor's Crusade they are getting a strangle-hold on the local retail trade." Liggett, Midwestern Firebrand, Had Fought Minneapolis Underworld; "Outrage!" cried Governor Olson, in­ Predicted Own Fate; Worked on Thirty Papers formed of the killing of his bitterest enemy. Under a barrage of editorial de­ mands that he cleanse the honor of his and had dared the Governor to sue him for State, he wired THE LITERARY DIGEST that libel. he has set special investigators on the mur­ "I've got enough evidence to insure that derer's trail, adding: Floyd B. Olson will be finished forever as "The State law does not provide for a factor in public life," the stern-faced offering a reward, but I have caused a bill editor had written of the man who was once to be introduced in the present session of his political crony. the Legislature providing $2,500 reward Governor Olson retorted that the charges for each person arrested and convicted." "weren't worth the dignity of an answer." Tho Walter Liggett is dead, his fiery Liggett's end was as strange and violent spirit continued to speak all last week as his career. Bred in a scholar's home— through his big-eyed, dark-haired little his father was a Regent at the University wife. of Minnesota—he wandered out early, a She denied in a stinging retort the restless young giant with a big shock of charge that her husband had demanded a sandy hair and fearless blue eyes, to be­ $1,500 "shakedown" from Blumenfeld, and come an adventurer in journalism and announced that henceforth she would direct politics. the Midwest American's weekly warfare on After a fling at prize-fighting in North "corruption in government." Dakota, he became the Editor successively of newspapers in Alaska, Washington, Benign Sleuth ' Minnesota, and New York, where he ran the Socialist Call, though he was never a Millions of newspaper readers in the Walter W. Liggett: Bullets finished bona fide Socialist. Allied with the Non­ United States pricked up their ears last his editorial career in Minneapolis partisan League, he served a short term as week and listened to the words of a stout, Deputy Commissioner of Immigration in bald-headed little man of sixty-three. It will be a killer's gun that will get me North Dakota. He is Ellis Parker, "homespun Sherlock some day," Walter W. Liggett, firebrand Holmes of the Jersey cranberry bogs"; Midwestern editor and newspaper pub­ Magazine Editor and his words were these: lisher, used to tell his friends. The peak of his career came when in "Bruno Hauptmann isn't the man who The bullet he predicted struck home last 1930 he took over the Editorship of Plain killed the Lindbergh baby. He will never week. Talk, a national monthly. Plain Talk die in the electric chair. Anybody can see Returning from a shopping tour with his bristled with muckraking articles and ex­ that the State's case is full of holes." wife and ten-year-old daughter, Liggett posures. It made more enemies every issue This dictum was reported by no less a stepped into a hail of lead poured from a than there were pages between its bright- figure than Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of car parked behind his Minneapolis home. red covers. New Jersey. Following conferences with An armful of groceries rolled across the Back in his native state, Liggett began Mr.