Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-24

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Walter Hines Page, ambassador to
/, Court OF 81. james.
perhaps did more to make HE on the
VI. II. DIS endurance than any otaer
action from the outside.
AS a publisher of a magazine ne
has Interested himself in politics
When he wants facts he goes to the
source. Therefore he is a friend OF
such men as Jim Hill and Yoakum
/ and other, lords Of the railroad ana
market place.
He Can Roll a Cigarette
DIR. Page and a cigarette are never
thought Of at the same time by any
loyal friend But ii was discovered
by pure accident the other day that
Or. Page can roll cigarette as deftly
as any ochre fingered COW mechanic
| from the Mexican frontier. 1t gave
the discoverer . clew. He found that
once DIR. Page had been considered
n talented outfielder although his
weakness with the bat kept him eff
the varsity team.
1t has been said that he is close
: friend Of President Wilson. That isn't
! correct Both attended Johns Hopkins,
but in different years. Sometimes
three or four years have passed with
out direct communication between
/ them, although they derived intellect
uai enjoyment from their occasional
meetings. Nor was the position Of
fered to Dr. Page as reward, though
] there is no question that the series
OF articles published in Worlds Work
almost two years before the Baltimore
convention aided in building Wilson
sentiment. The position was offered
him because he is the sort of man
President Wilson wants in diplomatic
posts. 1t was offered in such way
that a refusal was almost out of the
question.
Pithy as Public Speaker.
AS public speaker he is brief,
pithy and sufficiently witty. He will
uphold the traditions of his post, al.
though he makes no pretension to
being an orator. Perhaps the speech
LILY which he is best known to the
public was that made as president
of the Society of North Carolina in
! New York more than four years ago
when he gave to President Taft ad.
vice on how to make The Republi.
can party decent in the south" IT
was in this speech that he used the
| phrase that later was in every
! mouth, in which he referred to the
/ leaders of the Republican delegations
from southern States to the national
conventions as shepherds herdine
their notified flocks"
1t is something more than coin.
cidence that he has always paid a
great deal of attention to English
! affairs in his magazine, and that he
continually urges a nearer friendship
with England
There are few more democratic
! men. During the convention at Bal
timore q friend found himself by DR.
Pages side at midnight. watching
tie uptown bulletins from that demo
cratic gathering. For almost three
hours they stood there heel-weary
until at last the light went out be-
hind the bulletins. He likes the soci-
ETY. of intelligent men, whether they
are educated or not If they have q
J new thought to offer him they are
4 priced. But he has no liking for the
/ tufts of society. He is interes ed, in
every movement which concerns q
(! wide section of humanity. That
which concerns only clique does
not obtain a second glance. In read
ing he is extraordinarily catholic.
In his Office" said friend, che
7, ~
Grub another-from poetry to po
4 tatces.'
Edited a Country Paper.
! And as % his forbears. His grand
z father and his father were both op
posed TO secession, although born in
North Carolina Dr. Page graduated
at Johns Hopkins university, made a
tour OF Europe and then returned tic
run the local on the st. Joe GaZette,-
as Eugene Field once sang. lie re-
turned 20 his home in Raleigh, n. c.
| and created out of the void a paper
he called the Chronicle. 1t was de-
cidedly, emphatically, sometimes
pointedly, progressive. He held on
until as he said the other day:
.ublisher Page couldn't pay Edi
tor Page his wages"
That Chronicle is one of the fore
! runners OF the News and Observer
now owned by Josephus Daniels. who
as a member of President Wilson's
cabinet devised and blue-printed the
| seagoing Ravy--a new device to the
/ Urited States. Daniels and Page
| haven't always agreed. Neither made
4 a secret Of the fact at the time. al
though they are on terms of warn
persona, friendship When Editor
81 Page came 10 Now York he promptly
made very good indeed as a news