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TIME takes no dig at Senator-to-be-elected Long. He is unique, unclassifiable.
—ED. Sanity v. La Follette
Sirs:
In your last issue you quote an alleged slogan: "A La Follette was never beaten in Wisconsin." This is a "Progressive" myth. Robert La Follette I, founder of the dynasty, was beaten in 1890 in his candidacy for a fourth term in the national House of Representatives from the 3rd Wisconsin district by A. R. Bushnell, Dem. In 1896 and again in 1898 he was a candidate for the nomination for Governor of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket—he was a Republican then and not a "Progressive"—and was beaten each time by Edward Scofield. When the State of Wisconsin recovers its sanity a La Follette will again be beaten. Louis A. PRADT
Wausau, Wis.
Of Human Bondage
Sirs:
What! Somerset Maugham has never written a great book! You list, I observe, his Of Human Bondage, but I fear you cannot have read it else you would not be guilty of such a statement. If Of Human Bondage is not a great book, then no great books have been written.
FRANCIS DOVER
New York City
"Never" was, as always, a difficult word.—ED. Ohio's McCulloch
Sirs:
The undersigned residents and voters of the City of Cleveland would like to have the legislative record of Roscoe C. McCulloch printed in your very valuable publication. . . . GEORGE A. HURLEY JACOB F. WININGER MILTON M. LANG DAN W. DUFFY ANTOINETTE M. KRAMER Cleveland, Ohio
The record of Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch of Ohio is as follows:
Born: on a farm in Holmes County, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1880. Start in life: prosecutor. Career: Son of a well-to-do farmer who moved into Canton to take a local Treasury job when William McKinley became President, he received a public school education, attended Ohio State University, studied law at Western Reserve University. With a natural flair for politics he got a job as assistant prosecutor of Stark County but gave it up after three years to practice privately. Ambitious, he ran for the House of Representatives when 32, was beaten; got himself elected two years later, re-elected in 1916 (though Woodrow Wilson carried his district) and 1918. In 1920 he lost his House seat by making an unsuccessful attempt to win the Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio. Because as a Congressman he had served on the committee investigating War contracts and expenditures, Harry Micajah Daugherty, Attorney General and Ohio gang leader, made him a special assistant to prosecute War frauds. He helped the U. S. win back a trifling $14,000,000 of the hundreds of millions alleged to have been misspent, before resigning in 1926. In 1929 he was named chairman of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission, a post he quit last November when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown persuaded Governor Myers Cooper to appoint him to the Senate, vice Elder Statesman Theodore Elijah Burton, deceased. He comes up for election next month.