Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-24
new AMBASSADOR TO GREAT
BRITAIN IS MAN OF GREAT
NUMBER OF ACCONPL ISHNENIS

Commenting upon the many sided
ness OF the character Of Walter Hines
Page. the editor of the Worlds Work
recently appointed by President VIZ
son TO represent the American people
at the cogr. OF Saint James, Herbert
Corey. in a special article written loi
the Chicago Daily News, finds that
there are very few walks in life in
which the new ambassador does not
excel. Whether il be driving nail
with q shot from revolver, playing
oatfield on the varsity team, edtins
country newspaper or delivering a
public grafton, DR.. Page, according to
the observations OF Corey, has ever
chown himself expert. In describing
DIR. Page, Corey has this to say:
Hes this sort OF man: lie isn't an
athlete, hut he walked twenty-five
miles uphill in mountain country on
the first day Of walking tour not
long ago He has no fads nor outdoor
sports. He is a polished and effective
speaker lie isn't rich man, but he
has enough money TO permit the TAX
ing of a modest house in London, in
which he can do all the entertaining
he thinks necessary. He will never
worry about dukes, eoronets, place
cards or dress swords. He has an
abundant fund of humor.
On the walking tour referred to- the
walkers one day had a rifle-shooting
match The target was a nailhead in
the center OF foot square bit of white
paper Various good shots missed the
nail by inches. Dr. Page isn't a Dr.
Carver with the rifle, but he threw
the gun to his shoulder, whanged
away and drove the head out OF sight.
We'll have another round" said the
Others.
what are you trying to do?" asked
DIR. Page.
Drive the nail. of course" was the
reply.
Hum" said he, i've driven it once.
Why do il over?"
And during the remainder of that
walking trip he wouldn't get near
enough rifle to smell the powder.
Not long ago an indignant reader
anpounced his intention, in such furi-
GUS terms, of stopping his subscrip-
ton TO the magazine DR.. Page owns
and edits that the editor was interest
ed. He replied after a fashion which
stirred the letter-writer to more fran
tic exertions The correspondence
went on for months.
IL kept him SO busy" said DIR. Page
with chuckle, that he forgot to stop
the paper"
Took One Vacation
Because he is wildly interested in
everything which tends toward prog
ress he has had but one vacation in
4 he fa rfa 6
for Europe armed with. letter of
credit and a program of entertain
ment. He needed the rest. BY and
by he returned, with one trunk of
clothes and two trunks filled with pa
pers, books, photographs and figures
touching on and appertaining to the
system of rural credits in Europe.
Finding himself in the very lair of
farm finance, he had just stopped
there until he dug out the wood
chuck.
2 His friends call him professional
tramp. He named his magazine The
Worlds Work because that title most
aptly expressed what he is interested
i'm Wherever doing or thinking is go
ing on, DR.. Page is apt, sooner or lat
er, to be inquiring around. 1t has
been said of him that he knows some
one i'm every county in the United
States. The breadth of his acquaint-
ance was manifested not long ago in
Washington. Two conventions were
in progress One was of the CONNER
cial secretaries Of the cities of the
United States and the other of ma
tional association of surgeons. DIR.
Page wandered into the lobby of the
New Wiliard--a surgeon. slapped him
ON the back-a commercial secretary
rapidly lifted and depressed his right
hand-other surgeons and other secre-
taries gathered around-and by and
by DR.. Page had to plead important
business and go away TO get breath.
Knows Men from Everywhere.
The man who-stood with him said:
at seemed TO me that he knew
every man who came into the hotel
lobby. And they were from every
corner of the United States"
He was one OF the first to be inter-
ested i'm the theory of conservation
and reclamation. When Newell and
Pinchot and Holmes and the others
first began to gather facts, ten or
twelve years ago. DIR. Page printed
them. The first number of his new
magazine carried az article en- con,
servation by Pinchot.
He is a member of the general cd
ucation bcard-financed by John d.:
Rockefeller and in that capacity has
ret the president of almost every
college or university in the United
States. As a member of the south
orn educational confeTence-which
has no money at all. but is full Of
ideas and enthusiastically met most
other southern educators He helped
direct the fight against the hook
worm. The government had the facts
about the beassie, but had been quite
content TO keep those facts in the
pages of a report DR.. Page and his
associates on the general education
hoard fought the plague.
Has Studied Farm Life
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