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Time and Chance/' Tale of a Credo
Artist-W riter Builds Self
Philosophy zfor to Admire'
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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
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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
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