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Chapter 1
The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded1 plaster shields and the mural depicting2 the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies’ Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary3 Club.
Here in Vermont the affair was not so picturesque4 as it might have been on the Western prairies. Oh, it had its points: there was a skit5 in which Medary Cole (grist mill & feed store) and Louis Rotenstern (custom tailoring — pressing & cleaning) announced that they were those historic Vermonters, Brigham Young and Joseph Smith, and with their jokes about imaginary plural6 wives they got in ever so many funny digs at the ladies present. But the occasion was essentially7 serious. All of America was serious now, after the seven years of depression since 1929. It was just long enough after the Great War of 1914–18 for the young people who had been born in 1917 to be ready to go to college . . . or to another war, almost any old war that might be handy.
The features of this night among the Rotarians were nothing funny, at least not obviously funny, for they were the patriotic9 addresses of Brigadier General Herbert Y. Edgeways, U.S.A. (ret.), who dealt angrily with the topic “Peace through Defense10 — Millions for Arms but Not One Cent for Tribute,” and of Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch — she who was no more renowned11 for her gallant13 anti-suffrage campaigning way back in 1919 than she was for having, during the Great War, kept the American soldiers entirely14 out of French cafés by the clever trick of sending them ten thousand sets of dominoes.
Nor could any social-minded patriot8 sneeze at her recent somewhat unappreciated effort to maintain the purity of the American Home by barring from the motion-picture industry all persons, actors or directors or cameramen, who had: (a) ever been divorced; (b) been born in any foreign country — except Great Britain, since Mrs. Gimmitch thought very highly of Queen Mary, or (c) declined to take an oath to revere15 the Flag, the Constitution, the Bible, and all other peculiarly American institutions.
The Annual Ladies’ Dinner was a most respectable gathering16 — the flower of Fort Beulah. Most of the ladies and more than half of the gentlemen wore evening clothes, and it was rumored17 that before the feast the inner circle had had cocktails18, privily19 served in Room 289 of the hotel. The tables, arranged on three sides of a hollow square, were bright with candles, cut-glass dishes of candy and slightly tough almonds, figurines of Mickey Mouse, brass20 Rotary wheels, and small silk American flags stuck in gilded hard-boiled eggs. On the wall was a banner lettered “Service Before Self,” and the menu — the celery, cream of tomato soup, broiled21 haddock, chicken croquettes, peas, and tutti-frutti ice-cream — was up to the highest standards of the Hotel Wessex.
They were all listening, agape. General Edgeways was completing his manly22 yet mystical rhapsody on nationalism:
“ . . . for these U-nited States, a-lone among the great powers, have no desire for foreign conquest. Our highest ambition is to be darned well let alone! Our only gen-uine relationship to Europe is in our arduous24 task of having to try and educate the crass25 and ignorant masses that Europe has wished onto us up to something like a semblance26 of American culture and good manners. But, as I explained to you, we must be prepared to defend our shores against all the alien gangs of international racketeers that call themselves ‘governments,’ and that with such feverish27 envy are always eyeing our inexhaustible mines, our towering forests, our titanic28 and luxurious29 cities, our fair and far-flung fields.
“For the first time in all history, a great nation must go on arming itself more and more, not for conquest — not for jealousy30 — not for war — but for PEACE! Pray God it may never be necessary, but if foreign nations don’t sharply heed31 our warning, there will, as when the proverbial dragon’s teeth were sowed, spring up an armed and fearless warrior32 upon every square foot of these United States, so arduously33 cultivated and defended by our pioneer fathers, whose sword-girded images we must be . . . or we shall perish!”
The applause was cyclonic34. “Professor” Emil Staubmeyer, the superintendent35 of schools, popped up to scream, “Three cheers for the General — hip23, hip, hooray!”
All the audience made their faces to shine upon the General and Mr. Staubmeyer — all save a couple of crank pacifist women, and one Doremus Jessup, editor of the Fort Beulah Daily Informer, locally considered “a pretty smart fella but kind of a cynic,” who whispered to his friend the Reverend Mr. Falck, “Our pioneer fathers did rather of a skimpy job in arduously cultivating some of the square feet in Arizona!”
The culminating glory of the dinner was the address of Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch, known throughout the country as “the Unkies’ Girl,” because during the Great War she had advocated calling our boys in the A.E.F. “the Unkies.” She hadn’t merely given them dominoes; indeed her first notion had been far more imaginative. She wanted to send to every soldier at the Front a canary in a cage. Think what it would have meant to them in the way of companionship and inducing memories of home and mother! A dear little canary! And who knows — maybe you could train ’em to hunt cooties!
Seething37 with the notion, she got herself clear into the office of the Quartermaster General, but that stuffy38 machine-minded official refused her (or, really, refused the poor lads, so lonely there in the mud), muttering in a cowardly way some foolishness about lack of transport for canaries. It is said that her eyes flashed real fire, and that she faced the Jack-inoffice like Joan of Arc with eyeglasses while she “gave him a piece of her mind that HE never forgot!”
In those good days women really had a chance. They were encouraged to send their menfolks, or anybody else’s menfolks, off to war. Mrs. Gimmitch addressed every soldier she met — and she saw to it that she met any of them who ventured within two blocks of her — as “My own dear boy.” It is fabled40 that she thus saluted41 a colonel of marines who had come up from the ranks and who answered, “We own dear boys are certainly getting a lot of mothers these days. Personally, I’d rather have a few more mistresses.” And the fable39 continues that she did not stop her remarks on the occasion, except to cough, for one hour and seventeen minutes, by the Colonel’s wrist watch.
But her social services were not all confined to prehistoric42 eras. It was as recently as 1935 that she had taken up purifying the films, and before that she had first advocated and then fought Prohibition43. She had also (since the vote had been forced on her) been a Republican Committee-woman in 1932, and sent to President Hoover daily a lengthy44 telegram of advice.
And, though herself unfortunately childless, she was esteemed45 as a lecturer and writer about Child Culture, and she was the author of a volume of nursery lyrics46, including the immortal47 couplet:
All of the Roundies are resting in rows,
With roundy-roundies around their toes.
But always, 1917 or 1936, she was a raging member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The D.A.R. (reflected the cynic, Doremus Jessup, that evening) is a somewhat confusing organization — as confusing as Theosophy, Relativity, or the Hindu Vanishing Boy Trick, all three of which it resembles. It is composed of females who spend one half their waking hours boasting of being descended48 from the seditious American colonists49 of 1776, and the other and more ardent50 half in attacking all contemporaries who believe in precisely51 the principles for which those ancestors struggled.
The D.A.R. (reflected Doremus) has become as sacrosanct52, as beyond criticism, as even the Catholic Church or the Salvation53 Army. And there is this to be said: it has provided hearty54 and innocent laughter for the judicious55, since it has contrived56 to be just as ridiculous as the unhappily defunct57 Kuklux Klan, without any need of wearing, like the K.K.K., high dunces’ caps and public nightshirts.
So, whether Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch was called in to inspire military morale58, or to persuade Lithuanian choral societies to begin their program with “Columbia, the Gem59 of the Ocean,” always she was a D.A.R., and you could tell it as you listened to her with the Fort Beulah Rotarians on this happy May evening.
She was short, plump, and pert of nose. Her luxuriant gray hair (she was sixty now, just the age of the sarcastic60 editor, Doremus Jessup) could be seen below her youthful, floppy61 Leghorn hat; she wore a silk print dress with an enormous string of crystal beads62, and pinned above her ripe bosom63 was an orchid64 among lilies of the valley. She was full of friendliness65 toward all the men present: she wriggled66 at them, she cuddled at them, as in a voice full of flute67 sounds and chocolate sauce she poured out her oration68 on “How You Boys Can Help Us Girls.”
Women, she pointed69 out, had done nothing with the vote. If the United States had only listened to her back in 1919 she could have saved them all this trouble. No. Certainly not. No votes. In fact, Woman must resume her place in the Home and: “As that great author and scientist, Mr. Arthur Brisbane, has pointed out, what every woman ought to do is to have six children.”
One Lorinda Pike, widow of a notorious Unitarian preacher, was the manager of a country super-boarding-house that called itself “The Beulah Valley Tavern71.” She was a deceptively Madonna-like, youngish woman, with calm eyes, smooth chestnut72 hair parted in the middle, and a soft voice often colored with laughter. But on a public platform her voice became brassy, her eyes filled with embarrassing fury. She was the village scold, the village crank. She was constantly poking73 into things that were none of her business, and at town meetings she criticized every substantial interest in the whole county: the electric company’s rates, the salaries of the schoolteachers, the Ministerial Association’s high-minded censorship of books for the public library. Now, at this moment when everything should have been all Service and Sunshine, Mrs. Lorinda Pike cracked the spell by jeering74:
“Three cheers for Brisbane! But what if a poor gal12 can’t hook a man? Have her six kids out of wedlock75?”
Then the good old war horse, Gimmitch, veteran of a hundred campaigns against subversive76 Reds, trained to ridicule77 out of existence the cant78 of Socialist79 hecklers and turn the laugh against them, swung into gallant action:
“My dear good woman, if a gal, as you call it, has any real charm and womanliness, she won’t have to ‘hook’ a man — she’ll find ’em lined up ten deep on her doorstep!” (Laughter and applause.)
The lady hoodlum had merely stirred Mrs. Gimmitch into noble passion. She did not cuddle at them now. She tore into it:
“I tell you, my friends, the trouble with this whole country is that so many are SELFISH! Here’s a hundred and twenty million people, with ninety-five per cent of ’em only thinking of SELF, instead of turning to and helping80 the responsible business men to bring back prosperity! All these corrupt81 and self-seeking labor82 unions! Money grubbers! Thinking only of how much wages they can extort83 out of their unfortunate employer, with all the responsibilities he has to bear!
“What this country needs is Discipline! Peace is a great dream, but maybe sometimes it’s only a pipe dream! I’m not so sure — now this will shock you, but I want you to listen to one woman who will tell you the unadulterated hard truth instead of a lot of sentimental84 taffy, and I’m not sure but that we need to be in a real war again, in order to learn Discipline! We don’t want all this highbrow intellectuality, all this book-learning. That’s good enough in its way, but isn’t it, after all, just a nice toy for grownups? No, what we all of us must have, if this great land is going to go on maintaining its high position among the Congress of Nations, is Discipline — Will Power — Character!”
“You’ve been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General — just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns —‘fess up! With your great experience, don’t you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps — just maybe — when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist86 income taxes, so that the thrifty87 and industrious88 have to pay for the shiftless ne’er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!”
Dramatically she sat down, and the sound of clapping filled the room like a cloud of downy feathers. The crowd bellowed89, “Come on, General! Stand up!” and “She’s called your bluff90 — what you got?” or just a tolerant, “Attaboy, Gen!”
The General was short and globular, and his red face was smooth as a baby’s bottom and adorned91 with white-gold-framed spectacles. But he had the military snort and a virile93 chuckle94.
“Well, sir!” he guffawed95, on his feet, shaking a chummy forefinger96 at Mrs. Gimmitch, “since you folks are bound and determined97 to drag the secrets out of a poor soldier, I better confess that while I do abhor98 war, yet there are worse things. Ah, my friends, far worse! A state of so-called peace, in which labor organizations are riddled99, as by plague germs, with insane notions out of anarchistic100 Red Russia! A state in which college professors, newspapermen, and notorious authors are secretly promulgating101 these same seditious attacks on the grand old Constitution! A state in which, as a result of being fed with these mental drugs, the People are flabby, cowardly, grasping, and lacking in the fierce pride of the warrior! No, such a state is far worse than war at its most monstrous102!
“I guess maybe some of the things I said in my former speech were kind of a little bit obvious and what we used to call ‘old hat’ when my brigade was quartered in England. About the United States only wanting peace, and freedom from all foreign entanglements103. No! What I’d really like us to do would be to come out and tell the whole world: ‘Now you boys never mind about the moral side of this. We have power, and power is its own excuse!’
“I don’t altogether admire everything Germany and Italy have done, but you’ve got to hand it to ’em, they’ve been honest enough and realistic enough to say to the other nations, ‘Just tend to your own business, will you? We’ve got strength and will, and for whomever has those divine qualities it’s not only a right, it’s a DUTY, to use ’em!’ Nobody in God’s world ever loved a weakling — including that weakling himself!
“And I’ve got good news for you! This gospel of clean and aggressive strength is spreading everywhere in this country among the finest type of youth. Why today, in 1936, there’s less than 7 per cent of collegiate institutions that do not have military-training units under discipline as rigorous as the Nazis104, and where once it was forced upon them by the authorities, now it is the strong young men and women who themselves demand the RIGHT to be trained in warlike virtues105 and skill — for, mark you, the girls, with their instruction in nursing and the manufacture of gas masks and the like, are becoming every whit92 as zealous106 as their brothers. And all the really THINKING type of professors are right with ’em!
“Why, here, as recently as three years ago, a sickeningly big percentage of students were blatant107 pacifists, wanting to knife their own native land in the dark. But now, when the shameless fools and the advocates of Communism try to hold pacifist meetings — why, my friends, in the past five months, since January first, no less than seventy-six such exhibitionistic orgies have been raided by their fellow students, and no less than fifty-nine disloyal Red students have received their just deserts by being beaten up so severely108 that never again will they raise in this free country the bloodstained banner of anarchism! That, my friends, is NEWS!”
As the General sat down, amid ecstasies109 of applause, the village trouble maker110, Mrs. Lorinda Pike, leaped up and again interrupted the love feast:
She got no farther. Francis Tasbrough, the quarry112 owner, the most substantial industrialist113 in Fort Beulah, stood grandly up, quieted Lorinda with an outstretched arm, and rumbled114 in his Jerusalem-the-Golden basso, “A moment please, my dear lady! All of us here locally have got used to your political principles. But as chairman, it is my unfortunate duty to remind you that General Edgeways and Mrs. Gimmitch have been invited by the club to address us, whereas you, if you will excuse my saying so, are not even related to any Rotarian but merely here as the guest of the Reverend Falck, than whom there is no one whom we more honor. So, if you will be so good — Ah, I thank you, madame!”
Lorinda Pike had slumped116 into her chair with her fuse still burning. Mr. Francis Tasbrough (it rhymed with “low”) did not slump115; he sat like the Archbishop of Canterbury on the archiepiscopal throne.
And Doremus Jessup popped up to soothe117 them all, being an intimate of Lorinda, and having, since milkiest118 boyhood, chummed with and detested119 Francis Tasbrough.
This Doremus Jessup, publisher of the Daily Informer, for all that he was a competent business man and a writer of editorials not without wit and good New England earthiness, was yet considered the prime eccentric of Fort Beulah. He was on the school board, the library board, and he introduced people like Oswald Garrison120 Villard, Norman Thomas, and Admiral Byrd when they came to town lecturing.
Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard — in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one’s self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus’s detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be “highbrow” and “different,” to try to appear “artistic.” Possibly they were right. Anyway, he skipped up now and murmured:
“Well, all the birdies in their nest agree. My friend, Mrs. Pike, ought to know that freedom of speech becomes mere36 license121 when it goes so far as to criticize the Army, differ with the D.A.R., and advocate the rights of the Mob. So, Lorinda, I think you ought to apologize to the General, to whom we should be grateful for explaining to us what the ruling classes of the country really want. Come on now, my friend — jump up and make your excuses.”
He was looking down on Lorinda with sternness, yet Medary Cole, president of Rotary, wondered if Doremus wasn’t “kidding” them. He had been known to. Yes — no — he must be wrong, for Mrs. Lorinda Pike was (without rising) caroling, “Oh yes! I do apologize, General! Thank you for your revelatory speech!”
The General raised his plump hand (with a Masonic ring as well as a West Point ring on the sausage-shaped fingers); he bowed like Galahad or a head-waiter; he shouted with parade-ground maleness: “Not at all, not at all, madame! We old campaigners never mind a healthy scrap122. Glad when anybody’s enough interested in our fool ideas to go and get sore at us, huh, huh, huh!”
And everybody laughed and sweetness reigned123. The program wound up with Louis Rotenstern’s singing of a group of patriotic ditties: “Marching through Georgia” and “Tenting on the Old Campground” and “Dixie” and “Old Black Joe” and “I’m Only a Poor Cowboy and I Know I Done Wrong.”
Louis Rotenstern was by all of Fort Beulah classed as a “good fellow,” a caste just below that of “real, old-fashioned gentleman.” Doremus Jessup liked to go fishing with him, and partridge-hunting; and he considered that no Fifth Avenue tailor could do anything tastier in the way of a seersucker outfit124. But Louis was a jingo. He explained, and rather often, that it was not he nor his father who had been born in the ghetto125 in Prussian Poland, but his grandfather (whose name, Doremus suspected, had been something less stylish126 and Nordic than Rotenstern). Louis’s pocket heroes were Calvin Coolidge, Leonard Wood, Dwight L. Moody127, and Admiral Dewey (and Dewey was a born Vermonter, rejoiced Louis, who himself had been born in Flatbush, Long Island).
He was not only 100 per cent American; he exacted 40 per cent of chauvinistic128 interest on top of the principal. He was on every occasion heard to say, “We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.” Louis was altogether convinced that if the ignorant politicians would keep their dirty hands off banking129 and the stock exchange and hours of labor for salesmen in department stores, then everyone in the country would profit, as beneficiaries of increased business, and all of them (including the retail130 clerks) be rich as Aga Khan.
So Louis put into his melodies not only his burning voice of a Bydgoszcz cantor but all his nationalistic fervor131, so that every one joined in the choruses, particularly Mrs. Adelaide Tarr Gimmitch, with her celebrated132 train-caller’s contralto.
The dinner broke up in cataract-like sounds of happy adieux, and Doremus Jessup muttered to his goodwife Emma, a solid, kindly133, worried soul, who liked knitting, solitaire, and the novels of Kathleen Norris: “Was I terrible, butting134 in that way?”
“Oh, no, Dormouse, you did just right. I AM fond of Lorinda Pike, but why DOES she have to show off and parade all her silly Socialist ideas?”
“You old Tory!” said Doremus. “Don’t you want to invite the Siamese elephant, the Gimmitch, to drop in and have a drink?”
“I do not!” said Emma Jessup.
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