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What disgruntled Red agitators call "the slave mentality of British workingmen" was exhibited at Swansea, Wales, last week, when the 75th ("Diamond Jubilee") British Trade Union Congress (representing all the major unions), was called to order by a onetime weaver, Ben Turner, a snowy bearded patriarch of 65, always "Ben," never "Bennie...
Every day for over half a century, Louis XIV, every inch a king, played slave to. etiquette. Epitome of the day's procedure was his royal arising, witnessed daily by some 300 fawning souls. Only the Family could observe his semi-divinity lying in bed, but the next order of noblemen was admitted to see him dip his hand in holy water, climb out of bed, and don his dressing gown. The third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe...
...renting regularly a specified number of bedrooms and handing out sandwiches or "free lunch" with drinks in lieu of serving meals. The Smith record included votes to enable such establishments to continue in business. At no time, of course, did he vote for organized bawdy houses of the white slave trade. . . . Still awaiting the Smith reply, voters were reminded that Editor White in a magazine piece which he sold two years ago said: "Smith has exactly the same faults and virtues as marked Jackson and Lincoln. . . . Because Cleveland, Mc-Kinley, Roosevelt and Coolidge knew the game-the dirty game...
...even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed it was a conflicting temperament, a difference in culture, North and South: A voice, a fragrance, a taste of wine, A face half-seen with candleshine, A yellow river, a blowing dust. . . . In the North, Jack Ellyat pitied the fugitive slave, "a black man with the eyes of a tortured horse," but he thought of new states crowding to be admitted to the Union: The buckskin-States, the buffalo-horned, the wild Mustangs with coats the color of crude gold. . . . And must they wait like spayed mares in the rain, While Carolina...
...grieve only that your youth does not permit you to go with me. If I die, I admonish you always to be a slave to duty, to your country, to your sister, your two aunts and the stepmother who has served you as a mother. This must be to you a sacred duty, and to it you must consecrate your life...