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il Time and Chance/' Tale of a Credo Artist-W riter Builds Self Philosophy zfor to Admire' Good Soil Increases Farm Crop Yields Tests Reveal Value Of Proper Nutrients B yB A U KH A G E N eu s Analyst and Commentator. WASHINGTON.—Every once in a while, I devote this col umn to a book. Not a review, but just my feelings about the book and its author. I couldn't help w riting about "Tim e ai.d Chance" by artist Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Not merely because the book interested me, or because it is a most attractive piece of autobiography, or because the drawings are a book in themselves, or because other reviewers liked it—but be GIFT FOR CHEESE LOVERS . . , Curious shoppers watch Tony Scu- cause 1 happened to share some of the experiences it describes and be tillo cut In half the huge 1,500-pound Wisconsin-made provolone cheese cause I lived, as he (and you) did, through the times and chances which which went on sale as a special holiday Item In a Greenwich Village Baldridge interprets in terms of his own. market in New York. Helen Rippa is the impatient shopper seated on «--------:-------------------------------------------- the cheese. Also 1 want to write a review be broken heart and a sketchbook, cause of what these experiences, the as spurs. Unbelievably, without fruits of the varied environments credentials, he wormed his way which the artist-author describes, through beleaguered Belgium to did to form a career, a character, a the German front, where he philosophy, which is "fo r to see and learned to hate war. He came to admire.” back to tight out a career in In Roy’s own words, it is the story, New York. partly done in pictures, of “ how a well-meaning, I'm not going to write any more but provincial Henry Wallace was deluding no farm boy got an of Roy’s story for it is his story told i n t e r n a t i o n a l far better than I could hope to re one, not even himself, about his London ¡traces count it. I can only say that when chances of being elected President point of view.” England i i lull of suspense but He summarizes World War I came to America he of the United States in 1948 on a il isn't the kind that keeps a man's his own thoughts had his part ill it, a fraction of which third party ticket when, with zeal trousers up. ous idealism, he announced that he on this attractive I again was lucky enough to share liritisb braces (suspenders), made would be an independent candidate. with him. He was a cartoonist on 400-page volume under a governm ent order lim it the Stars and Stripes, after experi His entry into the contest, as he ing the elastic Io three inches at in a note to me, ences on every front with the announced on a nation-wide broad the back, bat e been the cause of a this way: number of London breeches falling " G ra n d fa th e r French. I joined him in Paris after cast from Chicago, was based upon d o u n and finally d ro se Historian (was a) share the armistice. Walking down Rue his revulsion against “ the bi-parti- Arthur Hryanl to reporting bis cropper and vet. de la Paix one day with Roy I was san reactionary war policy which is plight in a letter Io the London “ At s e v e n mumbling reminiscences of riding dividing the world into two armed Tim et. (Roy) was d riv beside my battery of 155s. Suddenly camps." In the past year, he said, he Both Republicans and Democrats, ing a horse on he grabbed me by the arm. "B u ck." bought four pairs of braces. "After Baukhage each occasion," lam ented Hryanl, mother's wagon he said, "that's poetry. Let's write he indicated, can be filed in the same political pigeon-hole because "the braces hat e broken irretriev through Arkansas, selling cooking a book. I'U illustrate it.” ably u ith in three months." Of course, it wasn’t poetry but it both stand for the bi-partisan poli pots. The Times, in a helpful mood, cies which are leading the nation "Worked way through college was verse the G.I.s of our day un deplored the situation in an edito to war and depression. derstood and the illustrations were rial: with Baukhage.” art, if art is life — and death — "That menace can be met and '"The Four Freedoms are a hoi- (Roy did the working. 1. subsi as Roy had seen it. overcome only by a new political lose mockery if our braces are g o dized, loafed considerably.) ing to be bursting all the lime. N o We came back and went our sepa alignment in America which re "Peace conference (Paris, 1919) rate ways. He now had a partner, quires a new political p a r ty ," ' nation can be expected to h old up with Baukhage. and sold on Wil its head if il also it required to Caroline Singer, a perfect comple averred the form er vice president. hold up its trousers.” son's idealism. Still sold on ideal Whether or not it could be met ment. She was a California news ism, the term now altered with the paper woman. They built a home, by a third party — a "peace p a rty" times. — founded on the leaving it periodically to travel the "Worked enough to save money Seven Seas — China, Japan, Europe assumption t h a t archy in the Soviet sphere of influ nough to see Far East, Near East, again, India, Africa, criss-crossing the U. S. must ence in eastern Europe and the last Jrica, India." (And how he out their books in perfect collabora a d o p t a softer, throne held by the House of Hohen- more co-operative zollern. zorked!) tion. a ttitu d e to w a rd Michael, as some romanticists But Roy’ s book is his own story, Then he concludes: Russia and at the would have had it, might have re a perfect American saga. As Am eri same tim e reject nounced his throne purely for the "A ll men the same, discount can as th e w in d universal m ilita ry love of Princess Anne of Bourbon- ing the apparent differences that blows the M id training and pre Parma and Denmark, but the Com caused by varying backgrounds west corn fields; as paredness in gen munist establishment of a "repub caused by ‘time and chance.’ " fo r e ig n as the eral was a question lic " and immediate reorganization To reach that conclusion, Roy sounds and smells Wallace that probably even of the government came too sw ift made an Odyssey beginning with of P e k in g , Yoko ly, too efficiently to lend much cre history would not answer. the "cooking pots" into domains of hama, the click of dence to that theory Domestic political significance of which Homer never dreamed. He sa b o ts in a tin y As the king himself pointed out Wallace's emergence as a third French village, va had an artist’ s eye trained from the party candidate may be summed up in his abdication proclamation, he ried as its ribbon- age of 12 when he was tolerated in briefly: Republicans like it. Demo was resigning the throne because a a Chicago art school with young breasted diplomats, monarchy no longer coincided with crats don't. artists who were later to achieve kings, S enegam - I f Wallace can get on the bal the "great political, economic and banian belles and Teheran beauties. national reputations. Such men as social changes” in Romania. John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist; But i t ’s more than that. It's the lots in one or more of the pivotal Nor was it logical lor the Com states — New York, Ohio, C alifor story of the making of a human phil Webster, creator of the “ Timid munists, grim advocates of their Soul,” and many others. Goudy, osophy old as the Mongolian moun nia, Pennsylvania or Illinois — he "international dictatorship of the the great type designer, who died tains which are a part of its back may be able to split off enough of the Democratic vote to swing the proletariat,” to be countenancing last year, was Roy's teacher, along ground, new as today. election to the Republican nominee, and cooperating with a hereditary with the school’s director, Frank "L e ft and rig h t,” writes Bald and if he makes his inherent de monarchy. And Michael had acted Holme, who became a second father ridge, "are not two evils, they votion to Rooseveltian ideals stick, as a sort of brake on some Com to the wide-eyed child. At that are the same evil; and safety he may be able to corral a consid munist actions In Romania. school, Roy learned his most impor without the solidarity of class- erable section of those on the left tant lesson—self criticism . NEW HIGH: conscious groups, screaming side. His mother re-married, and Roy slogans, or party orders to lean Always the eminent liberal, Wal Farm Prices became bellhop and baggage-smash upon, liberals must be staunch lace is angling for all or a portion er in his stepfather's small-town U. S. farmers continued to set enough to walk a lonely road." of the left-wing Democratic vote. commercial hotel; finally he went to new records in price levels, both One thing was certain. Wallace for the produce they sell and the college on a scholarship which, I know that Roy would like to when he arrived, he found wasn't have me conclude this review — if would have the hearty, although goods they in turn buy. there. U tterly alone, without the so you want to call it that — with the somewhat onerous, support of the It was reported by the department cial prestige of a college fraternity, following quotation which gave him Communists, no m atter how much of agriculture that the general level he m ight avow his own anti-Com- he achieved campus success; be his title, the biblical quotation: munist principles. He would have to of farm prices rose 5 per cent be came what was considered a "prom “ The race is not to the swift, nor go through the campaign with the tween mid-November and mid- inent student.” the battle to the strong, neither yet Reds and fellow-travelers hanging December to a record high of 301 per cent of the 1909-14 average. bread to the wise, nor yet riches to his coat-tails. He grew to realize the empti Previous all-tim e high was 289 per to men of understanding, nor yet ness of "college honors” but, cent, set last October. favor to men of skill; but time and REPUBLIC: unlike Vincent Sheean who was At the same time, prices paid by chance happeneth to them all.” to follow him, Roy learned to Michael Quits farmers for items for living and admire the university which he I would not dare to doubt the Communist-controlled eastern Eu farm production also reached a new had “ collegiately" exploited. At words of the Preacher (Ecclesi rope cast off its last tie with a hap record. On December 15 the index our 20th reunion, he interpreted astes IX : 11) — but I know that pier past when King Michael I of of prices paid was 245 per cent the word "university” in its ob here was a man who grasped Romania made public his abdica above the 1909-14 average. solete but new meaning: “ the time by the forelock, was able tion from the throne. whole . . . all things . . . the The farm price level in mid-De to hog-tie and saddle it, and one universe . . . a body of persons His announcement had not yet cember, the department said, was who took his chances if >ot with . . . the body of the people." fully registered on Romania’s bewil 14 per cent higher than January, out fear, at least without falter dered populace when the Com 1947, and the index of prices paid ing. I shared those campus years with munist government promptly pro 16 per cent higher. • • • Roy, but I missed most of their sig claimed the nation a "popular Between mid-November and mid- nificance and experience, for I was December, average prices for v ir When Tovarich gets the idea his democratic republic.” carefully sheltered (after a few Thus, with the 26-year-old mon tually every group of farm com rubles are going to be worthless, he freshman heartbreaks) behind the acts just like a wage-slave in a be arch's abdication, ended a dynasty modities except fru it showed meas protective coloring of Greek letters. established in 1866, the last mon- urable increases. But I managed to know Roy and nighted capitalistic country. learn a little from his experiences. He is a man who inspires high loyal ties. There was a post-college period when we lost each other. He was commercial-arting and living In the University of Chicago settlement, where he taught art to little toughs S till In the developmental stage The pushbutton may never re- , be operated in Los Angeles on an from the stockyard district, devel are other pushbutton marvels which experimental basis. I l customers in oped a social conscience, became place the meatball, but with the dicate that they are pleased with w ill accommodate deep-frozen foods rapid ascendancy of electric vend a national guard cavalryman (be this brave new twist In merchandis cause he dreamed of "going west” ing machines it is promising to ing, sim ilar electric vending ma or, to go to the other extreme, com exert a profound influence on the plete, cooked meals that w ill erupt and being another Frederick Rem chine stores can be expected to ington), got his first peep into the destiny of that spherical aggrega spring up in other parts of the coun from the vending machine piping hot and ready to serve instantly or world of culture and fell in love tion of ground beef, as well as on try. in an hour or half-hour as you wish. with a chaming and "m odern” men many another item in the Am eri Presupposing that such a trend is tor out of a world until then strange can diet. The deep-freeze and cooked foods Even now plans have been drawn established, persons living in small machines, however, are still too ex to him. or rural communities can look for and preparations are being made pensive and complex for widespread One day shortly after World War by C-Eight laboratories in Newark, ward to seeing these robot sales use; so housewives can’t look for I broke out, I received a long dis N. J., to open a retail store in Los clerks in their local stores around ward to being emancipated from tance telephone call. It was Roy, Angeles where customers w ill be 1950. he was going overseas. Wouldn't I The experimental store in Los An standing over a hot stove all day for able to make a variety of purchases Join him? I had just completed a —from food and beverages to dry geles w ill feature machines quiver at least some time. tour of European wandering much What happens to the sales clerk goods—simply by stepping up to an ing with electrical impulses and more conventional than Roy’s was electrical vending machine, insert ready to dispense at a touch such if electrical vending machines to be. I also had a job. So I, the ing the prescribed amount of money varied merchandise as bottled cof sweep the country on a mass scale? congenital bourgeoise, rejected the In the slot and pushing a few fee, mouthwash, peanuts, fru it That is a question for which no one idea. juices, bread, canned goods, eggs, has come up with an answer so far. buttons. blouses, stockings, neckties and As a m atter of fact, no one has This unique establishment, sched Later I learned that he then started worrying about it yet. uled to open its doors in April, w ill other ready-to-wear goods. had two Incentives I lacked: A NEWS REVIEW Wallace Enters Race; Romanian King Leaves PUSHBUTTON BILL-OF-FARE M e a t b a ll D u e T o Be E le c trifie d Get this quick 3-WAY relief ! Cough due to cold», smoking? Get this prescription-type form ula of coughrelief ingredients long used liy doctors. 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