Judge — November 9, 1929 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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: | jrom “Up to N the enor- mously interesting autobiog- raphy of Al Smith, we gather that Al is, before all, Mr. Average Citizen, Schooled in the col of hard knocks, he drew his wi dom from experience, rather than | from the professors, but it is wis- dom just the same. He is plati- tudinous, uncultured and York. But with all these short- comings, if they are such, he's the lad for us. He is no genius, but we like his way of thinking. He has his feet in the kind of morality we like. And the others have tendencies to cross-burning. The best part of Al's story recounts his growing years. They sound the common denominator of similar millions who struggled, back in the beery nineties and onward, for a foothold in life. The rest of the book fluctuates between dullness and high inter- est. Al goes thrilling when he tells of the use of the pardon, espe- cially around Snyder Case d For the book's worth, Al le: much untold, all for very obvious reasons. He hangs a_ glaring cloak of silence over Tammany. He tells little of the inside work- ings of politics and the crooked | ones. One looks for inside dope and gets sleeping potions. He plasters too many encomiums on his friends, the visiting firemen. There is a bit too much h z and too little v There is hardly any in political ideas, \ But glows with Al's warmth and hu- manity. It is shot with the color of his personality, his homeliness, his true-blue unpretentiousness and lack of quackery. His jokes are of the sort they used to run in the anecdote columns of the Saturday Evening Post. But de- spite all this gentle raspberrying. | you will put the book down (fin- ished), having felt the strong ap- peal of the man, as tho he had spoken it in your presence, “Then I saw the Congo” by Grace Flandrau. The log of an n journey, proving explor- not all wrestling tigers handed, eating roots and suffering incredible hardships. It neatly deflates. much publicity bushwah surrounding exploration, and La Flandrau has some shrewd constrastings of ourselves with our sunburned cousins of the jungles. —Tepv Su ‘you cant drive screws in the radio with a Waterman's millions of the best writers affirm that as a writing instrument the effi- ciency of Waterman’s has never been approached. Waterman’s wasn’t made to take the place of a screwdriver. Waterman’s is a per- fect writing instrument, nota driller, a crowbar or an airplane propeller. An outstanding feature of Waterman's is the hard rubber holder. It is light, per- fectly balanced and feels fine when in use. The big ink capacity makes frequent fill- ings unnecessary. The simple filling de- vice works quickly and surely. A large choice of pen points is offered so that any style of writing may be suited. Waterman's No. 7 is the newest and most appealing idea in fountain pens. There are seven different pen points to choose from —cach identified by a different color band on the cap. Ask any dealer to show you Waterman’s No. 7 and select the point that best suits your style of writing. Guaranteed forever against all defects Waterman’s WRITES RIGHT TO YOUR FAVORITE STATION