POLITICAL NOTES: Wagon Wheels

> Even Thanksgiving Day was political matter in the U. S. last week. Twenty-two States' Governors proclaimed Thanksgiving on Nov. 23—23 proclaimed Nov. 30—three proclaimed both days. Ribald Republicans called Thanksgiving I "Franks-giving."

> In Boston, Maine's Republican Governor, big Lewis O. Barrows, waved aside a turkey he was to have carved at a formal banquet, gobbled: "You wouldn't eat oysters in July. . . .* You wouldn't eat a turkey on November 23." Forthwith he whipped from his pocket a can of sardines, self-consciously ate them.

> In Uvalde, Texas, a...

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