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people behave a Jot more sen- sibly." To Knopf the crux of Mencken's influence was this: "He was a very courageous man : | and the most consistent man I ever met. He believed exactly as he | By D. J. Travois New Greek Political Force To Challenge Radical Union ously supportin, Cyprus to unite in its th Greece. ugtealin Jets May THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, February 17, 1956 7 Prices in 1966 Board Decides Canning Price for tomatoes were $37 a ton for No. quality and $24 for No. 2s. Sweet corn negotiations also broke off with growers holding out for last year's price of $25 a ton and pro- - ATHENS (AP)--A new Greek|figh political force representing alll The Communist arly has been shades of opinion from extreme|outlawed since 1947, In addition ito the Red-front EDA, ihe, Dew. ocratic Union includes Constantine Tsaldaris' Populjsts, George Pap.| MELBOURNE (Reuters) -- A andreou"s Liberals, Sophocles small Australian-designed pilotless | Venizelos' Liberal Democratic jet aircraft soon may be zooming [Ebion, the late Gen Nicholas across the skies of other Western § " Union of the centre (Epek), the couniries at speeds approaching jan, 31. The bargaining talks broke Agrarian party and George Kar- | 600 miles an hour, | off with canners offering $2 a ton | It is called the Jindivik -- an less than the 1955 tomato price and 4 wrote, ; "The differctce between um at % others was tha said whal } bw | believed, How: he said it was what, left to right will challenge Pre- .|mier Constantine Karamanlis' Na- got under the skin of others, Basi-| ae Toor 2a per % Rid i ,asn't | tional Hy, cally he was Polite. But he wasn't | mentary elections Sunday. | FRAUDS AND SCOUNDRELS | Greece's coldest winter of the Both Knopf and Owens point out century is having little effect on a paradox that has become part| the political fever. Braving bliz- of the Mencken legend in these Zards and sub-zero weather, party | later years, As a reformer he was| leaders have been flying over or TORONTO (CP)~--A board of ar- bitration will decide the minimum prices Ontario canning crop grow- ers receive for the 1956 crop of sweet corn and tomatoes. Negotiations. between overs and canners broke off in Toronto Thursday after a series of three different sessions which started C efusing ree all} orn { ] on * terms of purchase and sale while some 12 key terms in tomatoes will be submitted to a three-man arbi- tration board to be decided along + with To ope negotiator n er {] have been pressing for a uniform growers' contract on which terms of the negotiated agreement would fused to agree to a uniform con- Operate Soon driving through snow - covered falls' Democratic party, - apa aar Ame as Sav > sspH ~nugd pe 1047 On an island where the Chur chill river enters Hudson Bay fs this starshaped ruin of Fort CRUMBLING FORT not an iconoclast, and in seeking chage he had what Owens calls COUDtrY an "'almosst puritanical" devotion to the 'basic human virtues." "He didn't go against the estab- lished mores,' agrees Knopf. "He? | ocratic Sragl, Union. The the C fh was always in favor of the decent |v Adds Owens: scoundrels." nited Democratic { EDA The premier's opadicaly | The non-Communist Greek voter! 'His war was against frauds and' Greece's membership in |and generally moderate in policy. pro - Western defenders It was, as a maiter of fact, REDS OUTLAWED Mencken's rage against quackery --as he conceived it--anywhere in | the world about him that more and {more diverted his attention from p The Radical Union accused its would vote for Tsaldaris Sunday. opposition + of playing Moscow's Informed he had joined a political | game, risking landing Greece be-| bloc that includes the EDA, she to peddle their platforms. | The new alliance--an astound- |ing development on the local pol- | itical - scene--calls itself the Dem- '"'democrats" | ist-controlled | left wing NATO| Prior to formation of the Dem-| ocratic Union, most political ob- | servers believed the Radical Union {would win a majority of the 300 parliamentary seats at stake. Now the outcome is in doubt, Karaman- lis' followers are hoping for a last- 7! minute split in the opposition, is an individualist, putting stress {on the leader instead of the party. |One woman whose son was slain aboriginal word for a sheath in| which the aboriginal carries his weapons, The Jindivik is regarded growers holding out for a ease, $2 in- tract and this point also will be decided by tion. by many air experts as the most useful target aircraft, under com- mand guidance, available to the Western democracies, Originally, the Jindivik was in- tended for use only as a harmless! guided target to be shot at by {by Red rebels in 1944 said she ind the Iron Curtain: The Dem-| said after some thought: rockets and other missiles. It was manufactured here for this pur- pose at the request of the British | ministry of supply but it was soon found to be an ideal aircraft in Admiral i... TOP FRONT NEW 56 move: with Tuning : © Giant 217 Aluminized Picture Tube with deep tinted Optic Filter ensformer-operated Advance Coscode Chassis with full tube complement and Turset Tuner ® TV controls where they belong . .. wp top... out front Prince of Wales shown in this aerial photo. It was built in 1732 by the Hudon's Bay Company | emphasis on literature, as a bastion against raiding ri | As the years passed, he took on vals. jan endless array--politics, (CP from National Defence). gion, national prohibition, Mencken's Mark On Literature William Glover, in Press dispatch from New York city. The "roaring twenties" we call those years--and the words set off a flood tide of memories. . Remember. . .bootleg gin flam-| ing youth, tin lizzies and the mon- key trial, . . .It ail seems quamtly giddy, pleasantly scandalous--and long wrapped away in the senti- mental ace of nostalgia. But, oddly, one of the strangest, liveliest--an¢ most important--up- he.vals. of that zesty age is apt to be overlooked. It was one man's revolution. A recent headline recalled the; era--the headline over a man's obituary, a man named Henry Louis Mencken, 75. For Mencken, more than any other single force, brought about one of the most amazing changes that ever hit a nation's literature. | Listen to those who knew him well and judged him long: "He began that almost single-| handed crusade for a new Ameri-| can literature (created according to his specifications) which came to such a triumphant blooming in the 120's,"" says Hamilton Owens, Sditor in chief of the Baltimore Sun, worked for a half century. MENCKEN'S INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE "His was undoubtedly the most/ important influence on the fiction| writing of his time," adds George Jean Nathan, the man who worked by his side as a magazine editor for 20, years. was t Associated zolumn in the Baltimore Sun from later work was colored by Menck- 1912 to 1917. "There is a general impression| |and colorfully. to write 'Babbitt,' " Nathan says, "He became obsessed: with ai But 2 wamt simply new weit | ers that he paid attention to, but|¢.ansient matters." established ones whem he fel lack-| : . led proper audience. Through Xnopf feels differently: | friendship his infiuence on Dreiser was great, and much of Dreiser's in the 20s because the type of liter- |en's literary ideas." | duced at last, that this column endured for many impact on belles lettres, Knopf newspaperman. Everything els years, but (its influence) was all points out, was his effect on the wag DADRA to Hy id . exercised in that relatively brief nonwriting segment of the popula- period," Owens points out. Through his magazines, scowling, cigar puffing the method of expression, Mencken ion as opposed to the new, uew realistic form of writing. By| declares, "but he certainly made to reform fiction writing." acerbic writing, Mencken was the idol, tien, The bright, young men who had during who died in his| World War I now became the pas peloved Baltimore at the age of sionate cynic of thse twenties," the newspaper editor says. 'Not many of them managed to break into the highly selective pages of the Mer- Leen Wilsonian idealists cury, but thousanas tried. "All of them read Mencken." "All of them read Mencken quot- ed Mencken and did their best not only to write like him but to talk like him." The new wind sweeping across the dusty pages of letters was not all boon, Owens adds. "Much of froth, of course,' he says. new literary creed produced Among these, personal friend- ship and diligent attention to con- stantly growing mounds of manu- scripts, his influence surged forth, Owens { adds, of the whole younger genera- the movement was "The its pers, where H. L. Mencken share of poseurs and frauds. But it produced, also, a magnificent list of writers. PERSUADED SINCLAIR Nathan recalls, he emergent Sinclair Lewis. t was the point of view, not | the style of writing simply, that | Mencken hailed bh when Lewis wrote 4 ' fifiaine hat ent ay in. Yovit fader 'ROOM AND BOARD 7 SORRY, BUT MY CHICOWLS AREN'T EMOTIONALLY SETTLED YET AFTER THEIR LONG JOURNEY FROM AUSTRALIA! BUT 1 EXPECT THEM TO START LAYING IN EARNEST IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS... HOWEVER, I CAN TAKE YOUR ORDER NOW FOR EGGS! y BUT 1 GATHERED FROM THE STORY IN THE PAPER YOUR CHICOWLS WERE LAYING EGGS DAY AND NIGHT. THATS WHY I CALLED, TO BLY A POZEN FOR HATCHING! reli-| medi- |cine--and discoursed long, loudly | 1i- | tics," Nathan points out, '"'an he| wasted a lot of fine writing on oture he wenied was being pro- "Remember one thing: First, Another phase of the Mencken jast and always, PR was a "He was in some kind of a bat- freer tle practically all the time. Yet o tole: batt py susoicien is that in the wide| "He never won his whole battle| field, Mencken never won a sin- 1 | concentrated his campaign for a against censorship," the publisherigle victory except that first one FaDe have been lala afaitist two) ocratic Union counters by charg- ing the government with not vigor- | "PI still vote for Tsaldaris. He | " | providing invaluable experience in knows Dest. { high speed remote control mechan. | | isms, It can be launched, manoeu-| NEWS BRIEFS WINDSOR (CP) -- Chrysler of Canada is suspending its truck re {duction from Feb, 17 to March §, fo permit plant and product re- | tooling, it was announced yester- day. About 350 men wil be affect- ed by the shutdown. HAMILTON (CP)--Two charg s "Mencken changed his emphasis men arrested by police Wednesday night. James Millar, 20, and Arthur Morris, 31, both of Hamilton, ap- peared before magistrate Beamer W. Hopkins yesterday, Their case was adjourned until Feb. 24. The complainant in one of the {cases is the same as in a charge against another two Hamilton men, | vred in flight to copy evasive tac-| James Mathers and Cyril Andrews, tics of enemy aircraft, and landed who also appeared today on four again without harm. charges of rape. At Woomera, Australia's rocket-| . testing centre, it is a daily sight! 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But the list of those whom his pungent, raucous etforts affected reads like a "Who's Who' of letters for an entire gen- eration. | "He beat the drum constantly for the writers he admired--Mark Tyain at the top of the classic American list perhaps, with Jo-| seph Conrad and Theodore Dreis-| er, respectively, leading the Brit. | jsh and American contingents of | the contemporaries," says Owens. SENTIMENTAL CLAPTRAP AND WEAK CRITICISM "What he wanted," explains Kropf, "was a hearing for the worthy author who was not widely] read--such as Conrad--or the man| vho was widely attacked, like Dreiser. "It is impossible today to un- derstand the atmosphere that sur- rounded writing in the early years) of this century." Nathan calls it an era in which United States novelists were "pogged in sentimental cla trap' 2rd "dosed with the pap" of weak criticism From Owens come these words: "His battle was against those American writers who borrowed | their styles, their characters and even their settings from British models and paid little or no at| tention to the roaring gusto of the | country whieh nourished them. Al-| most the whole list of polite writ- ers of the magazine serials of the, period came under attack. | Mencken's greatest influence on| fiction was wielded during his edi- torship of the magazine Smart Set, in 1908 and on through the American Mercury in} later years. Nathan was his co-edi tor for much ge the Seried. 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