One in Congress
One in Congress
To THE EDITOR:
I note in the January issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE that my distinguished friend, Jim Richardson, is fearful that Dartmouth is not represented in the National Congress.
I respectfully refer him to my classmate and lifelong friend, Fred James Douglas, M.D., '95, of Utica, N. Y., Congressman from the 33d District of New York.
After interning in Utica, following graduation, he commenced practice there and is now probably the best known surgeon in .central New York. He was a member of the Board of Education, Utica, for ten years; mayor of the city for two, commissioner of public safety for two more. He was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in 1934, and was elected to the 75th Congress by a majority of 17,310 votes in 1936. Last fall he was reelected by a majority of 29, 874. Dr. Douglas is a rare combination of physician- surgeon and public official, and has rendered yeoman service whenever he has been called upon.
155 Van Wagener Ave.
Jersey City, N. J.
Must be Republicans
To THE EDITOR:
Two Dartmouth men get together in Vermont House of Representatives. Seated, Rep. Alfred E. Watson '83, of Hartford, Vt., class secretary and class agent, who at 81 years of age is dean of the House and occupies seat No. I. Conferring with him, probably in regard to a bill to annex Dartmouth College to Vermont, is Willsie E. Brisbin '29 of Burlington, assistant secretary of the Senate, and secretary of the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Burlington.
I may submit from time to time pictures of Dartmouth men in Vermont. I do not expect you will necessarily use them and, if you don't, no explanations will be necessary—I'm a newspaper man and expect no miracles.
Barre Daily TimesBarre, Vt.
[The editors are glad to use pictures of Dartmouth menshowing them engaged in any activities that will interestreaders of the DARTMOUTH MAGAZINE.]
Winter Carnival Beginnings
WITH Edwin C. Hill, the scribes of Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, and Walter Wanger toying with our Winter Carnival in and for the Land of Make-Believe, let us hear from the boys, who had to take a major in history whether they wished to or not. As one of the "Greats" of the Harvard Law School before the Frank- furter Era used to say, "Tell me not the rule, tell me the reason."
There's a reason behind Dartmouth Winter Carnival that did not occur to the hardy souls who went there for 140 years. In the exam period of the winter of 1907 the Phi Delta Theta delegation of Dartmouth hopped aboard a Farmers' Excursion for Montreal and the Ice Palace to visit the McGill Phi Doodles. Among them were Jack Field '10, now dead, Henry Cheever Comey '10, maybe Del Bradley '09 et als. What a story they brought home! Ye scribe was only a paenae down at Nashua high school. Well, there the germ was born.
The spoke of the wheel establishing Hanover as the center of the earth had been thrown north 190 miles to Montreal; Ice Palace in winter and cattle-boat jobs with ease and without paying for them, each June, thus connecting us with Europe.
In January 1911, Fred Harris' 11, Carl Shumway '13, MacCarthy '12, Ty Cobb '13 and Howard Ball '13 started sliding down the golf links on their respective ears. Walking back up the hills, naturally the thoughts turned to girls. There were two Melrose High boys among them and out of somewhere, came the name of Miss Clara Franklin, Smith II, a Melrose girl, as the first Queen of Snows. Her picture had been seen on the dresser of Tim Vaitses 'II. I believe I read where she married a Yale man later; but her classmate Bertha Bodwell, with two sons graduated already, should apprise her and the earlier Smith girls of this honor.
With the outbreak of the World War in 1914 Canada gave up the Ice Palace and Dartmouth fell heir to the Winter Carnival.
All honor to Fred Harris, Shumway, McCarthy, Cobb and Howard Ball. Once again I ask them to give my regards to Clara Franklin and invite her to Winter Carnival, wherever she may be. (Try Cape Cod.)
Plainfield,, N. J.
Mountaineer
To THE EDITOR:
Mr. Goodrich (Baker Librarian) told me the other day that during the past summer Jack Durrance '39 made the second legitimate ascent of Devils Tower in North Dakota. This is considered a very difficult feat and he thought that it might be interesting to the alumni body.
Incidentally, at a recent meeting of the Mountaineering Club, of which Mr. Goodrich is faculty adviser, Durrance presented Mr. Goodrich with a cactus in a pot—a cactus which he brought down from the top of the above mentioned Devils Tower.
Baker Library
Hanover
Mural Prints
To THE EDITOR:
The front cover of your October issue, carrying a reproduction of Walter Humphrey's painting, is most attractive, and I am wondering if you have a similar reproduction in full color suitable for framing.
If so, will you please let me know what the sizes are and what they would cost. I thought I might like one for my office.
Sincerely yours,
21 West Street
New York City
[Upon inquiry we learn that the Publications Committee of the College, headed by Albert I. Dickerson'30,could only consider reproduction of the Humphrey Murals illustrating Hovey's song, "Eleazar Wheelockifinterest is sufficient to justify a printing in color of theseveral sections of the paintings.—ED.]
Terrible Shock
To THE EDITOR:
Oh dear, oh dear,—it is bad enough to read it in the "Pathfinder," the "Chagrin Falls Exponent," and to hear Lowell Thomas broadcast it, but I did not think to ever see in the Alumni Magazine what is on Page 20, February issue; to wit, "Reverend Fisk"! I hope it does not get as far as "Honorable Hughes," etc.
However, in spite of this terrible shock, I managed to recover and enjoy the rest of the number, as usual.
92 Church Street
Chagrin Falls, Ohio
[There is something to be said for the title Reverend Fiske (of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College), asacceptable in colloquial style but Fowler and purists sayno, anything except Rev. Chester B. Fiske or the Rev.Mr. Fiske is an illiteracy. Fowler: "reverend is an adjective (& not, like parson in the disused 'Parsons Jones& Smith, a noun)." What do other readers think? —ED.I
Latest Seussiana
To THE EDITOR
The following article, which appeared in a recent issue of Sales Management will interest the many- friends of Ted Geisel '25:
"Dr. Seuss to see you," said the girl. In walked Ted Seuss Geisel, tall, trim, young New Yorker (via Springfield, Mass.), creator of "Quick, Henry the Flit" and a mess of the funniest bugs the advertising world ever saw. This Dartmouth '25 and Oxford man who set out to be a master of philosophy—but whose pencil and funny bone ran away with him—has shown in millions of ads that he has no respect whatever for the physical facts of bugology. Now he's gone ornithologic. He walked in with the "Hankey Bird."
"There's no sense to it," said he. Of course not. The world has learned to expect no sense from Dr. Seuss. There wasn't any to "Henry" and his bug attack. (But did people notice? And did they buy Flit!) So there's no sense to this "Hankey Bird"—a cock-eyed concoction of Scotchman and flapdoodle that snaps colorfully onto the neck of a bottle of Hankey Bannister scotch whisky with the aid of a small coil spring. But it makes people laugh when a bartender sets out a bottle—gives away the bird, or sells it, as the case may be. And "Hankey" adds something to the sales appeal of gift packages in liquor stores. Distribution has covered only the Atlantic seaboard up to now; but it soon will go national. This bird is all set to give
'Henry" a run for his money as an advertising character.
Solemnly intoned Dr. Seuss:
"The bird on the bottle is a replica of an actual bird, developed after years, of painstaking cross- breeding in the Seuss Laboratories for a lofty purpose, namely, to produce a carrier pigeon for the Scottish army .... a bird so distinctive that it would not be mistaken for a grouse and shot down by nearsighted American millionaires. After fifteen generations of wearing kilts, the Hankey Bird has developed sideburns. But most unfortunately his mating call is characterized by a distinct burr. Our only purpose in leasing him to Hankey Bannister is to finance further scientific effort to de-burr that mating call .... not, I assure you, to aid the crass business of selling whiskey."
"Liar!" shouted some coarse person in the next office.
Dr. Seuss, crestfallen philosophical scientist, walked out leaving a Hankey Bird, a full quart .... and eight new, satisfied customers.
Janesville, Wis.
Remarkable Record
To THE EDITOR:
Richard Foster of Salisbury, N. H., had ten sons and one daughter. Seven of the sons graduated from Dartmouth College. These were: Rev. Eden Burroughs Foster, class of 1837, D.D.
Williams College. Rev. William Cowper Foster, class of 1841. Rev. Daniel Foster, class of 1841, who was commissioned chaplain of the 33rd Massachusetts Regiment August 13, 1862. The following year he was transferred to the 37th Volunteers with the rank of captain. He was killed in battle.
Charles Foster, class of 1840, enlisted with the nth lowa Volunteers, was subsequently promoted to the rank of captain, and was killed in battle.
Rev. Davis Foster, class of 1849. Rev. Roswell Foster, class of 1849. Rev. Richard Baxter Foster, class of 1851, who enlisted with Company K, First Regiment Nebraska Volunteers. Later commissioned first lieutenant in the 62nd U. S. Colored Infantry.
Six of the sons were ministers, and the remaining one was a lawyer. The Dartmouth background of this unusual family may be of general interest to alumni of the College.
Portland, Ore.
[Professor Herbert Darling Foster, class of 1885,A.M. Harvard 1892, Litt.D. Geneva Univ. Switzerland1909, for 34. years a member of the Dartmouth faculty,was the son of the above Rev. Davis Foster of the class of1849.—ED.]
Dangerous Post
To THE EDITOR:
Since I wrote in June the guerilla forces have extended their control over more area here in the north and the Chinese Central Government has improved its civil government in this area. In this province of Shantung, and Hopei to the west, the Central Government has a civil governor in each province. Under these governors are county magistrates in nearly all of the counties so that the whole administration is in the hands of the Chinese. About the middle of August the guerrillas destroyed sections of the railways in these provinces and for about ten days there was no passenger service between here and Tsinan.
Stronger Central Government
The spirit of loyalty to the Central Government, and the belief that the invaders will not be able to conquer China, increases constantly in this part of the country. Even if Hankow falls, as it is likely to do in the near future, China will not be a conquered country. I don't know how long the struggle will continue but I do not look for an early cessation, much as I wish it were possible. Tremendous forces have been set loose and it is a much more difficult task to stop them than it was to start them.
I am enclosing a snapshot of myself and my seventeen- year-old son, "Jimmy," who is now in Dartmouth. This picture was taken just after we received the good news that he had been admitted to Dartmouth. The smiles on our faces indicate how the news affected us.
American Board MissionTehchow, ShantungChina
[Mr. Robinson has two sons in Hanovei Harold S. '39 and a first-year Medic; and James W.;42 shownabove with his father who is an authority on jar easternaffairs.—ED.]
HAROLD W. ROBINSON '10 And son "Jimmy" learn (last summer) ofhis acceptance for admission to the College.
