.. would forgot all his
troubles for a few days....
The editorial made us roar with laughter ... Blair didn't know the
trouble that was preparing for him.
* * * * *
I wrote a poem for the Scoop Club Edition of the Laurel _Globe_ ...
"The Bottoms now I sing, where whiskey flows
And two-cent makes life coleur de rose,
Where negro shanties line the sordid way
And rounders wake by night who sleep by day--"
* * * * *
By noon of the day, hints of what was coming were riding the winds of
general report....
Carefully we read the proofs.
At last there it was--all the data, statistics, and details of the
town's debauchery and corruption ... damning, in cold type, the
administration, and the aquiescent powers in the university.
We ourselves had not as yet begun to perceive what it would lead to--a
state-wide scandal that would echo in the Chicago, San Francisco and New
York newspapers, and result in severe criticism of the university
faculty for remaining blind to such a condition of affairs ... and how
there would be interrogations in the Kansas Legislature and a complete
shake-up of the political power in Laurel.
* * * * *
News of the forthcoming expose spread mysteriously in "The Bottoms"
before the paper was off the press.
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