STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics Tiller Quits Heil Murders Metaphor Bowl of Cherries .(By ALUllIC REVELLL-. GOV. HEIL has lately been roar-r ing around his office like a bull that sat on a hot heap of coals. He...
...And even then Hell's mind is more subtle...
...In an effort to lift the wear and tear on the minds of the taxpayers and mete out justice to the boys and girls, as well as to lure the good citizenship of the country to Wisconsin's 58,000 square miles of territory, it was announced by Gov...
...nor would he have antagonized his own Republican legislators with cracks about "wine, women, and song...
...If Tiller doesn't return 'to the executive office, Heil will find himself handicapped during the campaign...
...While many of them could bear some streamling physically, mentally and mechanically they do all right...
...Naturally the newspaper boys all resented this...
...No other mind closely approximates it...
...Tiller, who has spent 20 years working on newspapers all over the state, was unable to satisfy the governor of h is ability to write a publicity story...
...Heil has also stated he wanted tc "streamline" the press...
...With Heil doing the dictating from the driver's seat, the press may expect releases couched in the following terms: "MADISON, Wis...
...former governor, Heil dictated a story from Milwaukee in which he asked state employes to suspend work at 3 p. m. in honor of the governor and during the Kohler funeral services...
...the governor has had sleepless nights...
...I thank you ." Even the North Overshoe Clarion Call wouldn't print the above verbatim...
...Everyone realizes, of course, that the cause of all this uproar is a Jefferson banker named Robert K. Henry...
...By losing Tiller, he has lost the on<* person who could shelter him from hx own shortcomings...
...Well this is certainly some criterion for a press secretary...
...sr.d n.t boys are thinking ' .olring a Chinese Interpreter...
...Heil's mind is a nonpareil...
...In our experience...
...The pr* news releases writt< liel...
...The press shook its collective head sadly, and turned with tender solicitation towards the governor, determined to treat him as gently as possible...
...the governor would never have urged repeal of the oleo tax...
...No one could make head or tail of what Julius was trying to say...
...From now on, own publicity st Simon Stylltes h...
...But Julius is boss and will remain bev, even if he has to cut his own throat politically to do it...
...He has been shouting at his secretaries in such a loud voice he can be heard to Stoughton on • clear day...
...On the occasion of the death of Walter J. Kohler...
...The governor pointed to the various economies he had made in var^us state departments, and asked the citizenship of the state to co-operate Ha said he would not be coerced...
...efforts...
...Heil today...
...Heil is modest in believing that men with minds like his are running around loose about the state...
...Tiller is familiar with all that has taken place during the past 10 administrations, he knows what type of stories go over with the public and he knows what is the political thing to say and do at any given time...
...Ever since Henry threw his hat into the ring as a candidate in opposition to Heil...
...BOWL OF CHERRIES Up to now Heil has considered the life of a governor a bowl oi cherries...
...When confronted with this statement and asked to elucidate, the governor hemmed and hawed and finally said: "Well they even have cigaret-hotd-ers streamlined these days and bsfby buggies...
...There are many fine things 1 ->e done,' Heil said...
...Heil will soon learn that while he can operate a pneumatic drill he can't punch out a news story...
...The press looked into each others eyes following this remark, but no spark of intelligence was lighted...
...What he does to a metaphor would make old Webster stab himself with an iambic pentameter...
...While Heil was parading up and down the country performing his foot-swallowing acts, Tiller was in his office at Madison with his fingers crossed, waiting Jor the imitation pearls of wisdom to fall from Hell's mouth...
...But that is just the type of publicity release that can be expected from the chief executive in the future...
...CAN'T FIND MAX In a press conference the governor stated he wanted a good man as press secretary, a man whose mind ran the same way Heil's did...
...Tlielr has many enemies in the newspaper fraternity, but everyone will admit that for political acumen and ability to run a campaign he is tops...
...Had Heil followed Tiller's advice, indeed, had Heil even sought it...
...Tlie closest we have come to discovering anything that even slightly resembles it is in the paintings of Salvador Dali...
...And I promised *he people to do these things withir ¦:•¦« confines of the state...
...We fear that even if Heil advertises in all the newspapers for a man with a mind like his, he would fail to reach such an individual...
...MURDERS METAPHOR Heil doesn't think in sentences and he certainly doesn't writ* in sentences...
...Now he realizes that all cherries have pits and they are stuck in his throat...
...These ful m i n-ations resulted in the resignation of Arth u r Tiller, press secre t a r y , last week...
...Th'y didn't know whether he meant th« capitol should be closed at 3 p, m. or employes should pause in their work for an hour and a half...
...He simply isn't fitted to write stories that make sense, just as he isn't fitted to speak sentences that make sense...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
