Abstract

It Seems to Heywood Broun

This article must begin with the premise that somebody noted the fact that there was no contribution from the author in last week's edition of the journal "The Nation." That, of course, is a dangerous assumption. All too clearly there lingers in the author's mind composer Bide Dudley's story of his return to Emporia. He had been absent for more than a year and as he strolled up Main Street with a suit case, after alighting from the fast express, it was his notion that some one of the natives would extend him a greeting of hearty welcome. He walked a block and no one noticed him, but at the drugstore corner there loitered one who had known him before he went to Kansas City. Two weeks ago the author ventured a somewhat mild attack upon "The Nation" in which he expressed the wish that the weekly had been more fiery in its support of Governor Alfred E. Smith.