New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 7

EARNS WIDE FAME FOR TACTLESSNESS Geoe Howe, “Kermal Tack Bocomes National Celebrity Amarillo, Texas, May 9 (UP)— Dissertations on flappers. night clubs music, big city snobbery, and other choice bits of what-not as written by Kernel Erasmus Tack, the Tact- less Texan, may soon head eastern reading Msts. Within a. year, the pen-name erack” and the real name, Gene Howe, have been carried from the RBleak Texas plains to all parts of the country. Right now, Howe 13 considerng offers of castern editors to bring “the world as seen from Amarillo” to castern magazine and newspaper readers. Some of the offers have made him dizzy, he told his Panhandle clien- tele. The son of Ed Howe, famed “Sage of Potato Hill,” Gene stepped from his father's home in Atchison, Kan., ameng the oldest of Missouri River towns, into metropolitan newspaper areas. After gaining the ‘“experi- ence,” he headed for the Texas Pan- handle. Finder of Lost Dogs There he acquired the Amarillo News-Globe. The Kernel's first reputation came as the finder of lost dogs. He is credited’ with having returned more vagrant puppies 10 their boy-owners than any person in Texas. Whether it was a cook-stove want- ed for a hungry family, a job for the stricken cattlemen, or customers for a church bazaar—if the thing was worthy, Tack was out to get it. He hecame the friend of the common mant Lindbergh came and went, and with the Colonel went the name of the “Kernel” through the United States. In the midst of idolization hy a nation, the Tactless Texan had dared to criticize the aviator. Tt started when the city fathers telegraphed Lindbergh to stop over on a flight to the west coast. Speeches of welcome and a parade 10 be headed by the high school band were prepared. The wire was not answered. In Clovis, N. M., neighboring town across the prairic, twenty thousand people left their business and ranches to see the prince of aviators on announcement he would stop there The holiday became a joke. Lindbergh explanied later he didn’t know Clovis was on his route. 1dol Smashing Soon after, Lindbergh landed at the Amarillo airport without an- nouncing his arrival. A few little hoys flocked out to greet him. They £aid he *was not a bit nice.” One or two of them cried. Tack heard about it. Unwilling to see a child's vision dissipate unnoticed, he told . the public what he thought of the idol. When Tack said Lindbergh acted “uppity and had ti® swell head,” townsman—a few of them—told the editor to go back finding dogs. Then came the visit of Mary Garden and the Chicago opera to Amarillo. Tack told the city it was skinned, that Miss Garden's voice was failing, and that she was so old she was “tottery.” He claimed he knew more about music than any six persons in the Panhandle. Wo- nen club members took him up and were looking for an expert.to test the “Kernel” when he suddenly was called from town on business. He went out of the frying pan into the fire with the ladies. This time with the women from Mule- shoe, nearby town, whose history started with a ranch. Asked by the women to assist in putting over a name more cuphonus and ‘‘effete,” Tact consdered the color and west- rn romance in the first name. He learned a Vassar girl from Muleshoe had written her mother the nam: was not proper. Tack issued his ul- timatum: let it he Muleshoe.. Loscs Some, Gains More Not 0 many persons read ahout the Muleshoe incident in the “Tact- less Texan” column. Tact had lost 700 subscribers after the Mary Garden incident. More threatened to cancel their subscriptions. Instead, more ordered thec paper. Tact now claims the largest circula- tion of any paper in any city of Amarille’s size. He has 30,000 sub- scribers and Amarillo has 40,000 citizens, — | \"7/////“';' N\ Tact recently day. He hinted for *old-fashioned caramel cake the kind he liked the best, and got the least.” His office was stacked with it. So was the children’s home. 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The dinner and restaurant dresses for midsummer are accom- panied by various adaptations of capes or jackets, ranging from ruf- fled three-quarter wrap to hip- length cardigan coat. Brown and yellow combinations and green and white, particularly in leaf-pattern prints, are new for the printed en- sembles of evening. It Is new and smart to carry en- velope and sunshade made of the printed material of one's suit thi summer. Women are selecting hats of medium width to wear with print costumes. Most of them are semi-large, with back and sides longer than the front. TIME DEPLETES RANKS Washington, May 10 (—Rcal Daughters of 1812 arc passing rap- idly. Only 160 of the daughters of men who fought in the war of 1812 stlli are living. Fourteen died last year. Six of the surviving members live in the District of Columbia. The Arnold Arboretum in Boston contains the largest collection of trees in the United States. 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