A Basket of Chips: An Autobiography

Basket of Chips, page 147

PART 6 EXTRACTS FROM AN AMERZCAN IDYLL The life of Carlton [Carleton} Parker written by his wife' 1 Carleton Hubbell Parker ( 1877~1718), a brilliant, radical, and innovative economist and labor mediator, died on March 17, 1918. It is not only the timing of Parker's passing, but certain facts about his life as well as certain sentiments expressed in his wife's biographical account of his life and their life together, that leads me to believe it was An Ame~icmz I&Z/ (even more than the inclusion of these few lines in the Harwood recollections would indicate) that provided the primary stimulus and model for Harwood's writing A Basket of Chips. Cornelia Parker wrote "It was a year ago to-day that Carl Parker died . . . . His friends, his students, were free to pay their tribute to him, both in the press and in letters which I treasure. I alone of all, - I who knew him best and loved him most - had no way to give some outlet to my soul; could see no chance to pay my tribute . . . . So I write of him for these reasons: because I must, to ease my pent-up feelings; because his life was so well worth writing about; because so