"Those Punks"

Bald, cantankerous Rudolph E. Leppert is not only art editor of The Literary Digest but a draughtsman in his own right. Weeks ago he sent a pen & ink drawing of President Roosevelt to the exhibition of Manhattan's Salmagundi Club, an organization of elderly esthetes. Last week the Salmagundi hanging committee accepted the Leppert drawing, stuck it up behind a door. Rudolph E. Leppert also happens to be a rampant admirer of the New Deal. As he saw it, the Salmagundi Club was guilty of a "slur at the President."

"Why, those punks! I put a lot of them on the map! I bought their pictures! I made most of those punks and now they have the effrontery to do this to the President and to me. I'm through!"

A messenger promptly arrived at the clubhouse with Member Leppert's resignation in one hand and a demand for the return of the President's picture in the other. Explained Salmagundi Secretary Frank Bates:

"That fellow Leppert submitted a bad picture and it was not hung prominently simply because it was bad. The fact that it was hung behind the door had absolutely nothing to do with the subject."

Explained a fellow member, Evelyn Montague Bicknell:

"The committee that put up the pictures didn't know that it belonged to Mr. Leppert. I think it's a good picture but a majority of the members are Republicans."

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