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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN I DON’T think I am going tn like On' Landon of I Kan'a' This is frankly a preliminary npininn based 'ipon aver. small amount of pvid<-nrr The Republican a'-ptrant for national ofTi'p may turn out i o op a soon dral be*ter than th p prospectuses. So far the Thief point advanced about him is the assertion tha' here is a Kansas Coolidge. That ■sounds pretty dreadful. As. far as 1 m concerned, it v.ouldn t sound very good even if that adjective

Kansas", were dropped out But 1 gravely fear that in this resport the Landon boosters are doing him no injustice. The testimony which leads me to expert, the worst may seem quite trivial to snmp, but the measure of a man ran often be judged quite accurately by some trivial thing which serves to illuminate his major characteristics. All right, then, the thing I have against Gov. Landon is that he calls himself "Alf.” I don't mean that this name is used merely in contact with friends and political associates. It actually i printed that way on his official

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stationery—Alf M. Landon. The Alf is bad enough, but you simply can not. employ a synthetic nickname of tf' kind with a middle initial i you ask, “Who says you can’t?" I ran only t' i.y that it violates something fundamental in hunan feeling. The fact that William Jennings Bryan put butter on his radishes always seemed to me sufficient reason why he should be denied the presidency. n n a // Isn't Hone, Sir! BUT let mp try out your ear on the name system utilized bv the Kansas white hope. How do you like Harpo X. Marx, or Battling V. Nelson, or One Round 7. Hogan? It mst ran t oe none Any man who has the misfortune to be christened Alfred has a right to try and avoid 'he full penalty of that. name. Teddy was a natural label for the first nf the Roosevelts. Ca! Coolidgp was reasonable enough, end sfi was Big Rill Taft, and. obviously. Gene was the right name for Eugene V. Debs tint to go down the scale and mention Jimmy Walker and Red M'ke. Bui it would have been silly to refer lo Woodie Wilson or Herbie Lehman. Alf M Landon is a curious and alienating compromise between the disposition to preserve dignity and appeal to ihe boys in the hack room at the same tjm<~. Von ran not part your namp and keep it, too Moicover, it seems to me that the psychology which led to the Kansan's unfortunate experiment in numerology is duplicated in his public utterances. * Thrr * > c precisely the same disposition to plav both ends against the middle. Thus, in his Cleveland address, Alf M Landon came out. hot and heavv fn ' a balanced budget, but at the same time he was equally enthusiastic about the obligation to spend a sufficient amount of money on relief to make if adeouatr if a. M. Landon can think up some scheme v hereby a government can be generous lo the unemployed and the taxpayers at the same time I'll gladlv eat his middle initial. nan W hr l About Thai 'M'? TNDEED, I'm already consumed with curiosity to i know what the “M” stands lor. Nothing simple like Moore. Murphy or Mordecai, I hope. Warren Harding did not seem to me in any sense a great or even a pretty good President, but there was magnificence in that Gamaliel. Could it bv anv chance be Alf Montmorency Landon? I'm afraid not Ihe build-up for the Kansas strong man quite obviously is going to lake the line lhat here is the average American, "Just folks" like you and me In one respect the sunflower Savanorola has been frankness itself. He has comp out 100 per cent for common sense. Hp declares that it, must prevail, but obviously this prediction is not based on the past record of that commodity. A great many derisions have gene against it. The campaign of 19.T8 does not promise to he of a high order. Preliminary speeches by both Republican and Democratic stalwarts have indicated that the sih.v season is almost upon us In fact. I dont think that as yet we know the Alf of it. tCoovnsht. 19351

Your Health BV DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

CAVAGES eat ants and dogs with relish. Eskimos ° llck their rh °P s over blubber. Mexicans like hot ■spires and rhili con carne. Some people eat their tomatoes with vinegar and others use sugar. There is really no accounting for tastes. Our appetites are exceedingly delicate. They can ■>e spoiled by the sight of unpleasant foods. Illness frequently interferes with appetite; therefore, when we are sick the appetite must be stimulated with foods that are attractively prepared. As soon as you get hungry your stomach begins io contract. As soon as feed is placed before you your stomach gets ready for it. Your mouth waters and the saliva that helps to digest starches begins to flow. A PPETITE includes the sense of sight, a food 1 v mus* look appetizing if it is to be enjoyed. Appetite includes the sense of taste. The various ,as,p sensations which are perceived by the nerve endings in the tongue inelude sweet, sour, salt and bitter. Appetite also includes the sense of smell. To be appetizing a food must, have the special odor assofiated with appetite. The odor of crisp frying bacon, the odor of vinegar, the bouquet of good wine, the saiorv odor of roast beef are typical examples of food odors with special appetite appeal. Next romes the feel of the food upon the tongue. F\ery one knows the difference in the feel of crisp baron or properly rooked oatmeal, contrasted with srfy soggy bacon or oatmeal full of hard or partially cooked chunks. • • • FNDEFD there are certain foods which appeal pven 1 to the sense of hearing. Pome cereals are the <nsp. crackling type which demand chewing, and crackers have the name because they crackle when they are eaten. Proper rooking ran do much to make the simplest and cheapest foods palatable and full of gastronomic appeal. Think what pood cooking can do for a fairly cheap cut of meat! It. softens up the tissues, develops thp odor and flavor, coagulates the protein, and gets it ready for digestion. Pv>or rooks for years have been throwing the most valuable nutritional elements of vegetables into the sink with the water in which the vegetables were boiled Today proper cooking retains the juices and the mineral salts with the other materials that vegetables provide.

Today's Science BY DAVID DIETZ

ELECTRIC currents of more than 100.000,000 amperes. currents strong enough to light all the electric lights of a big city, flow in the atmosphere, some 60 or 70 miles above the earth's surface. Scientists have conferred the name of the ionosphere upon this electrified layer of the atmosphere high above the stratosphere. It is from this ele. - trifled or ionized layer that radio signals are .e----fleeted. The existence of these powerful currents in the ionosphere has been demonstrated by the scientists of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who find m them an explanation of the behavior of the compass. a a a SEVERAL decades ago the Carneeie Institution organized its department of terrestial magnetism to study the behavior of the compass. A non-mag-netic yacht, a yacht built without iron or steel, was equipped to study magnetic phenomena upon the high seas. For manv years scientists have been aware of the daily variations of the compass needle. At sunrise, anywhere above the equator, the needle swings a little to the east. A few hours later it begins to swing back to the west, continuing this until 1 p. m.. when once more it swings toward the east. Below the equator the motions are just the opposite.

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,v "' -t > -nifritri tv m j^b • h>. .... ■' ' ll Unv ‘ 1,, the ‘ lehi.,ll- '% ' aboaid the North Haven ahlishing permanent air base ill i'ton on miri-Paeifie atolls was ■, :n '- : :r ' ' ' wei. q■ iii■ k;•. on- - iisioneri bv Miriwav The frpivht bar! iv ■< ~ n fi Mi e i-la nri f 0 A vip " of hrarh of Midway Island, thicklv populated with hah' ' f, n Die SC, our) fia , j ' Snoiie.vs. II was necessary In remove each of these birds as a Irartm oui.r; tn anchor off ih, approached and replace each one in his original position. Mother bird* St pa ;,vr before'the work'of refuse to feed their young if they are not in the place where they left nn ■ . n “Ik j~ i” IT” ” _ • r 'e the 'trip of beach—un- North Haven weighed anchor. Cir- side off the. spot marked upon irkeri on the hydrographic sur- "-• cled the atoll in order to calibrate the map a' the “boat landing." t maps—selected for a landing !, the direction finder station ashore. but. which proved to be merely a s anorovimatriv f™,.. i. ‘7 headed westward across the Pa- break in the eneirrline- choal of

run i th sinth of * of dramatir, he hind-th*-rne* norjo of the sroparation* for th- tra n- Pacific airline "hich ha been inaueurated thi* wek. BV SUTHERLAND DENLINGER Times Special Writer A BOLT half the time the people in the launch could not see the lighter it was towing, but they knew the lighter was there. They knew it was there because, as the 15-foot swells rolled on, the slack would go out ot the towing line and the dead weight of the scow-—loaded, perhaps, with fiveton generators or heavy Diesel tractors—jerk back with a force which would send them tumbling, the jar never snapped the stout 'owing lines, it might have been better, in one instance, if it had. Ihe 'owing bits of this launch tore out under the strain, leaving onlytwo launches to carry on a race against time and the elements. ’■ aboard the North Haven who thought that this business of establishing permanent air base •stations on mid-Paeific atolls was going to be easy were quicklv disillusioned by Midway. The freighter had been off the island for two days—on the second day she moved around to anchor off the north-w-est passage—before the work of unloading began. B tt 0 HP'HE route followed by launches end lighters from the anchorace to the strip of beach—unmarked on the hydrographic survey maps—selected for a landing was approximately four miles long and the greater part of it, that inside the Lagoon, had to be sounded and marked out before cargo could move. Four days of blazing sunshine four days during which sweating men, bruised by caroming cargo strove to keep their feet upon careening lighters, tugged manfully at cables, dragged heavy boxes up the fiery beach to above high'vater mark, swung machetes to clear a campsite. Baeks burned and reddened; an official who exhorted his crew to put their shirts on was himself laid up for days because the awful heat—he was wearing shorts -blistered his legs. Tempers shortened, frayed, snapped. Food sent ashore from the North Haven arrived erratically, kerosene stoves set upon the beach improved matters very little. non days of blazing sunshine end then it rained. The squall came out of the northeast and in an instant a 35-mile an hour gale was driving an almost solid w-all of w-ater over a bedraggled ramp, p line the sea toward the spot on the beach which held thousands of dollars' worth of irreplaceable equipment. What would happen when the tide came in? Individual misery w : as forgotten as all hands rushed to the great stark of goods, worked feverishly to move it some 300 yards inland succeeded just as the storm-abet-ted tide pushed over the sands. Tents dripping, bedding wet, clothing soaked— and seas which made getting back to the ship impossible. But the cable company provided the makings for a hot punch. Spirits revived, the work went, on, although it was two davs before communication with the ship was re-established.

Fiction offers Little More Daring or Romantic Than 'True Stories' of Two Men Who Are Laying Foundation of New Japanese Empire BV U’lllliM pith rn come * 1

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripns-Howard Foreign Editor AIfASHINGTON. Nov. 27. * ' Fiction offers little more darine or more romantic than the “true stories" of two men who are laying the foundation of anew Japanese empire on the continent of Asia. One of these is Mai. Gen. Ken.il

D o i h a r a, s o m e t imes Known as the "Lawrence of Manchuria.” The other is Yosuka Matsuoka, who is t o Nippon what Clive of India and Cecil Rhodes of Africa were to Britain. For many years, long before anybody outside t h e Orient ever

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heard their names These two able men were secretly preparing the way for the inevitable coups which are steadily enlarging the orbit of empire. Matsuoka completed his education in the United States. Now about 50. He looks American and speaks American, slang and all. A trifle less than average height. He wears a close-cropped moustache and smokes a pipe incessantly. Like many modern Japanese. he does not scorn a highball. When he says something you know exactly what he means. e tt a AFTER leaving school m this • countrv he entered the diplomatic service. Then politics. But since much of his career had been spent in China, he was sent back there as a director and nee president of the South Manchuria Railway, one of the most important jobs within the gift of his country. In Manchuria he became intimately acquainted with its war lord. ' Old Marshal" Chang TsoLm. Through that wily old gentleman he virtually ran the government. The "Old Marshal” had begun life as a bandit. He ia< the Jesse James of that part' of

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THE Diesel tractor dragged car-go-laden sleds from the store-pile t.o the building site, and its w ork was‘complicated by Midway's population. The island is a government bird refuge, and the expeditionary force was under strict orders to protect the midocean wild fowl. Predominate among the thousands of birds on the island was the dizziest thing that ever wore feathers, the gooney. The gooney looks like a cross between a gull and a goose, and its size is almost that of the latter. It lays its eggs in the sand, and its young remain for several months in the same spot, since if they were to move so much as ten feet their mothers would not feed them. nan BECAUSE of this fact the tractor always inched along with an advance guard before ""it to move the gconeys out of the way and replace them after it had passed. As the report of a PanAmerican executive put it, rather Plaintively: , when this operation is, multiplied a thousand times around camp it is easv to see that much time is lost this way.” The moaning birds gave them almost as much trouble. The moaning bird digs a hole two or three feet deep, sits in it all dav and comes out at night to fly and moan. Midway's pioneers went around stumbling into these holes up to their knees. They would stumble in and swear and stumble, out again and go on with the work. ana THE work went on from dawn to dusk, and after the Diesel generators began to function and

the world. Dining the RussoJapanese war he was very useful to Japan, so when peace was declared Japan had him pardoned by the Chinese government and made a general. Mysteriously blown to bits while he slept in his private car as it rolled into Mukden, he was succeeded by his son. the "Young Marshal.' But the son proved head-strong and did not last. an n MEANTIME, in the Japanese army in Manchuria there was a young fellow about the age of Matsuoka, Col. Doihara. What Matsuoka was doing in the diplomatic field. Col. Doihara. was duplicating militarily.

DEFENSIVE SIGNAL COMES IN HANDY

Today’s Contract Problem This is the first of a series of articles by present national champions who will defend their titles in Chicago the week of Dee. 2. Mrs. A. C. Hoffmeier, captain of the. women's national team, will show how she made six odd, at spades, on this hand. 4k Q 10 7 3 V J 4 ♦JS 5 3 + A 10 7 * ? 5 N 4k 6 2 VQ?S2 N y in g : KQIOJ w E 47fi2 4 S 4k K J 5 4 ♦ Q 9 Dealer 3 4k A K J M ¥AK 6 3 ♦ A 4k S 6 2 None vul. Opener—+ K. Solution in next Issue. 20 - J I

Snh/tiov to Previous Contract Problem BY \Y. E. MKENNEY SerrftarT Amfriran Bridie Leaiue npHIS is the fourth and last of a series of articles by one of the country’s outstanding bridge players. B J. Becker. Philadelphia. Mr. Becker will participate in j

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1935

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the electric lights were strung it. often continued into the. night, Radio poles and house panels and foundations and seapiane dock and service float and machinery went up, were put together, dug, hammered into shape. By the end of April the North Haven was almost ready to move on toward Wake. In the short space of two weeks her complement had moved 2000 tons of heavy machinery, building materials, instruments, food and living supplies from the freighter in the open sea; transformed a broad section of a hitherto barren island into a busy colony of 37 men, with houses, offices and shops. One man, ill of fever, was in the ship's sickbay, several others had suffered minor injuries, still others were made uncomfortable by prolonged exposure to tropic sun and salt water. non IN general, however, the expedition was quite fit, and just before it left Midway to the small construction group which was to remain and to its permanent staff there was a celebration—steak, potatoes and coffee cooked on pukha stoves in the new mess hall. It marked, this party, the inaugural session of an organization known as. “The Goofy Gooneys Club ’ '“Throw away the hammer and carry a horn; don’t knock a. fellow member on his job, but help him"). Two large gooneys, inquisitive as penguins, waddled solemnly about the hall during the dinner; looked on afterward as the 10 charter members (they thought it up) put the rest of the camp through various initiatory

One of the keenest men in the service, Doihara speaks Chinese fluently as a. native. He knows many dialects. Often dressed lika a native, it is said he knows both the country and people better than do the Chinese themselves. He never tires and never seems to sleep. He seems to be in a dozen places at once. In 1931. a Captain Makamura was killed in Manchuria. Japan said he was murdered by Chinese soldiers. As this came on the heels of other grievances, Japan demanded satisfaction. On the evening of Sept. 13. 1931. the Chinese were on the point of ceding. Just before midnight came a loud

both the national open pair event and team of four championship, at the coming national tournament to be held in the Stevens Hotel. Chicago, the week of Dec. 2. Mr. Becker shows, in today's hand, how the defensive signal may be used by both partners to defeat the contract. It is easy to see by locking at all four hands, tnat North and South can cash two aces and two ruffs. In actual play, however, it would be very easy for the defense to slip. Mr. Becker held the South cards. His partner opened the deuce of hearts. Becker realized that this opening had certain significance. North had bid hearts over West's double, showing weakness and apprehension that the club double might be left in. Holding the ace and king of hearts. Mr. Becker knew that his partner did not bid hearts on a four-card suit; t herefore, the opening of the deuce of hearts must be a defensive signal play, asking for return of the lower of the two other suits not trump. Mr Becker won the trick with the king of hearts and now returned a club, but if North should ruff. Becker would not want another heart played, because he knew that North must have at least six hearts and that West wai void. So at this point, Mr.

A view of (he beach of Midway Island, thickly populated with baby gooneys. It was necessary to remove each of these birds as a tractor approached and replace each oup in his original position. Mother birds refuse to feed their young if they are not in the place where they left them.

tortures, among them “walking thp plank." On the morning of May 3 the North Haven weighed anchor, circled the atoll in order to calibrate the directionfinder station ashore, headed westward across the Pacific lor Wake Island. 1242 miles sway. A wardroom council discussed the mistakes of Midway, planned how to aioid them on Wake. n n THE Navy had warned the expedition against the dangerous surf off the boat landing, in which several service boats had been lost, and all were convinced that the next pillar of the bridge, completely uninhabited, would present even greater difficulties than that which they had just left. The crew was busy making up heavy fenders, repairing damage to lighters, readying ground tackle. The North Haven, two days at sea, was making steadily toward her goal when the ship's doctor reported that William Young, the man with the fever, was growing steadily worse. Grooch radioed Alameda asking for permission to send the sirk man to the naval hospital at Guam, and a few hours later he received a radio from the naval transport Henderson stating tha' she was turning back off her course from Guam so that the North Haven could intercept and deliver the patient. an u AT 9:30 p. m., May 7. the two vessels met. The Henderson sent over a motorboat containing a naval doctor and a stretcher party, and Young, swathed in blankets, was transferred. He lived to reach Guam and the naval hospital, but died soon afterward the expedition’s only fatality. The North Haven sighted Wake Island at, 11 o’clock on the morning of May 9, an atoll far off the beaten steamer track with such deep water off her jagged reef the charts showed no available

explosion. Somebody had dynamited a rail on the South Manchuria. A signal flashed. Japanese troops seemed to spring out of the ground. By dawn the "Young Marshal” w as out and Doihara and his men were in. Nor did they stop until Manchukuo was a Japanese protectorate. nan T'vOIHARA is credited with setting the stage for that coup. Today these now famous figures are back together again in North China. Matsuoka, after defending Japan before the League of Nations, returned home and created anew party to rekindle

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Becker returned his lowest club, the three spot. This, of course. North ruffed with a deuce of spades. Now. instead of returning a heart. North, reading his partners' plav of the three of clubs as a signal not to continue hearts, played a small diamond, which south won with the ace. A club was returned and was ruffed by North. This was the last trick that North and South could take, but the contract was defeated one trick, by skillful play and not by luck. (Copyright, 135. NEA Service. Ine.)

anchorage. The freighter stood in as far as possible on the lee, which was on the island's south side, off the spot marked upon the map as the “boat landing," but, which proved to be merely a break in the encircling shoal of coral. Launch over the side, and landing party ashore, armed with machetes and carrying both water and emergency rations. non THE beach, a mass of rocks and boulders extending down to where strange, brilliant-hued fish darted about in the crystal sea; the interior boulders studding a close growth of scrub trees. It did not take long to verify the contention of the chart that the island was in reality three islands—Wake, Wilkes and Peale —separated by shallow’ channels; but it. W’as quite awhile before those in charge of the expedition realized what the chart did not show’—that Wilkes, upon which w’as the “boat landing,” would be completely inundated during the winter gales. It was this, coupled with the fart that only on Peale could a supply of fresh water be found, which caused an abrupt change of plans, led to the prolonged fight to deepen (he Wilkes channel into the lagoon described in an earlier article of this series, forced PanAmerican’s pioneers to take nature’s outer bastions by storm before they could even begin their struggle to civilize and subdue a site for the. third Pacific air base or clear the lagoon for the landing of the sw’ift clipper seaplanes which were to follow them. When they w’ere through. Wake Island gave promise of becoming one nf the most fascinating places on the. long air route to Asia, infinitely more attractive than Midway. But those w’ho had created this promise knew that they had been to the wars. TOMORROW —The Winning of Wake.

the Samurai spirit of his people. At present, he is president of the South Manchuria Railway—in many ways the biggest post Nippon can offer. It. is to Japan pretty much what the old East India Cos. was to Britain, and more. The whole economic life of Manchuria, and much else, is in his hands. He bosses not only 4400 miles of railroad, but steamship lines, vast industries, public utilities, and what not. Doihara. with his Charlie Chaplin moustache and twinkling eyes, is a ma jor general. His name runs like a refrain through the news dispatches from the scene of the North China “autonomy” movement. Os this, as in Manchuria, he seems to be a key man.

ART GROUP RECOGNIZES LADYWOOD INSTRUCTOR Biography of Sister Camille Is Included in “Who’s Who.’’ Sister Camille. Ladywood Sc’ iol for Girls art instructor, has 1 en honored by the American Federa m of Arts by publication of her bi.glaphy in the “American Artists' Who's Who” for 1935. Sister Camille, member of the Indiana Artists’ Club. ha = paintings on exhibit in John Herron Art Institute. Hoosier Salon in Marshall Fields, Chicago, and the Lyman Art Galleries, Indianapolis. Ladywood art students are preparing for their December exhibit The Music Club is to hold a costume recital after Christmas. ARRANGE UNIQUE RITES Primitive Service to Be Held at Turkey Run Park Thursday. Time* Spfr'n l MARSHALL Ind.. Nov. 27—Worship services in primitive surroundings similar to those which marked the first Thanksgiving are to be conducted in the old log chapel at Turkey Run State Park tomorrow A congregation will be seated in hand-hewed pews to hear the message of Dr. Edward R. Bartlett, De Pauw University religious instructor. His subject wilf be “The Pilgrims Speak.’’

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Fair Enough WESTBROOK PEGLER TiyI'ADRID, Nov. 27.—0n1y this afternoon your rorrespondent dropped in for a spot of something with His Excellency, the American Ambassador to the Spanish Republic Mr. Claude Bowers, who contented himself with a dish of tea. but said with a hitch of his thumb toward the decanter and syphon, “Don't mind me." It was a strange experience for me to sit amid splendor in the mansion of the king's henchman who had found it discreet to go away from Spam

while the heat was on. In a few minutes the magnificence seemed to fade out as in the moving pictures and we were in the city room of the old New’ York World under the golden dome after the paper had gone to bed or in th-’ littered local room in Indianapolis talking shop. Was this a butler in the formal regimentals ot his craft making elegant passes with his hands over a tray and offering muffins, or was it the office boy bark from the “quick-anri-dirty" on Nassaust with a can of coffee and ham-

burger on roll? And was this His Excellency, the American Ambassador, or a newspaper hand, Bowers of the old World? Now and again as shop talk drifted from one old story to another, remembering names of great reporters who had worked on them, something would ratch your correspondent's eye and remind him that through this door on the left was a great art gallery and through that one over there a grand salon where official dinners are held. Your correspondent raught, himself humming I Dreamt 1 Dwelt in Marble Halls." It wasn't like this bark on the old World or in Indianapolis, and it wouldn't be like this in Madrid, either, but for the shrewd foresight of an old grandee who owns the premiese and decided that in times of recurrent trouble in the land it would be a wise to have the American flag flying o'er his property. The rent, therefore, was modest and the difference had been charged off to insurance, ana A Howling Success POSSIBLY the owner of the place had been unduly apprehensive, for the mob that howled around the palace the night of Alfonso's abdication, while the queen and her children sat in their quarters awaiting anything, had been turned off bv a simple notice fixed on the doors. It told them the palace was their own property and any damage they might inflict on same in a moment of republican emotion would be their own loss. So they contented themselves with howling until morning and then went home leaving intact the most luxurious palace in all Europe Mr. Bowers is the second newspaper man to represent the United Slates in Madrid in recent, years. The other was Mr. Alex Moore, Pittsburgh publisher, who left a deep impression if not permanent scars on the Spanish sense of propriety Occasional reports which sifted back to the United States depicted him as a humorous, self-made American success who had endearpd himself to the Spanish court by his unconventional ways, but he was more a clown than a scholar or diplomat, and the task of his successor still consists in part of living down Alex Moore When he dipd he left a legacy to the queen. Although she had plenty of money and his own employes back in Pittsburgh never had been notoriously overpaid. By this bequest he created after his death an impression among Americans that he had been a tremendous personal success with the lady and put the Spaniards in the position of having to decide whether it would cause more scandal tn accept the gift, than to reject it. The duties of the American ambassador f or minis'er have always been as much of a puzzle *o the themselves as to wayfaring Americans who happen bv. Old Walter Hines Page, who was known as Sir Walter in London, was the leader of the school of thought which holds that any traveling American is to be insulted at the front door and never allowed inside unless his family had been idle for at least three generations and he owned a home at Newport. It was Mr. Pages ambition in life to be as rude as a well-bred Englishman except to those whom he regarded as his social superiors. Whether he succeeded or not. is still a matter of debate, but nobody can deny that he crowded his ideal and was in there trying to the day he died. nun Their Home Auag From Home ON the other hand, there are always a great number of Americans on tour in the world, including some of the most poisonous; bores on earth! who believe that an Ambassador's quarters are a sort of home away from home and feel snubbed if their diplomatic agent doesn't take them pub-crawi-mg through ail the dives in towm, get them drunk, get them out of jail, cash their personal checks and date them up with the queen. ’ Possibly it's the preponderance of this latter kind of visitor which has put all American representatives abroad on the defensive and has given rise to the standardized exclamation when the door bell rinzs. “Hide, mama; it’s another retired promoter, and he has got his niece with him. Perhaps it should be explained that nieces may be engaged in almost, all European capitals, although some retired promoters get theirs at home. As an active newspaper man giannng off the capitals of Europe, your conespondenr rather envies Mr. Bowers in his post at Madrid. Spanish people hkp him. but they make little ceremony nowadays; so there are few occasions when the Ambassador must strap on his tackle and sit up ro three hours of rare viands and gpneral conversation among people who share his anguished desire to be at home with his feet up and a bottle of beer at his elbow reading the paper. Or perhaps Mr Bowers, of the old New York World, prefers a can of coffep and a. hamburger sandwich with plenty of onion there in his marble halls.

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WHEN Frank A Munsey died in 1925, Wilham Allen White. Kansas editor, wrote: "Frank Munsey, the great publisher, is dead “Frank Munsey contributed to the journalism of his day the talent of a meat-packer, the morals of a money-changer and the manners of an undertaker. He and his kind have about succeeded in transforming a once-noble profession into an 8 per cent security. "May he rest in trust.” George Britt, a working newspaper man. tells Munsey s story in “Forty Years—Forty Millions” • Farrar A: Rinehart 1. Every newspaper man could lead this volume with Drofit and every layman would be interested m the story of the Maine bov who arrived in New York with S4O and an ambition to be a publisher, and at 71 died with about $19,000,000 of a fortune once estimated at $40,000,000 The reader of this well-written bioeraph’- takes away from its pages a picture of a man. successful, cruel, vain, hard, shrewd, absolutely without humor and without friends A pitiful man. (By Lola Horton )

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The current issue of the New Masses contains "John Reed and the World War." by Granville Hicks, which is the first of five chapters from the forthcoming Hicks biographv of Reed which the New Masses will print. Rita Weiman c installment of "The President's Mystery Story ' will appear in this week s Liberty. Miss Weiman is the only woman contributor to th. novelw

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