Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-07-11

printed a picture Of the colonel i'm its
Illustrated supplement and added be-
low the name line 20 this effect.
Al least il may be said that he went
70 Europe and came back
This fails short of establishing an
identity The picture might be- con-
sidered CONVINCING but a second look
az II shows that ID bears curious fam
ily resemblance To the conventional
individual who adVertses Panama
hats in the magazines
Pictures Nj Look Nike.
In order % test this a number Of
cuts of placid well behaved gentle
men I'm the act of urging an their fell
low citizens "a invest i'm straw hats at
nom $3.50 10 S14 Were compared with
the cut of the colonel i'm the New
York newspaper. They looked much
alike. The experiment was then tried
OF cutting off all reading matter from
each, shuffling them together and
asking an innocent bystander TO pick
Colonel House. He picked out the
$685. Panama. The search for the
colonel under this test becomes a te-
dious hunt i'm a Panama straw stack
The douhters when confronted with
the fact that Col f. NJ. House was
visited az Rosslyn, L. l.. by the presi-
dent and shown picture of the two
taken together, writhe uncomfortably
In face of apparently incontrovertble
evidence of Identity. but they quickly
recover and 90 back TO their old in
cradicable objections 10 admitting the
validity of any proof. This picture,
they say, proves no more than the
Panama hat picture the existence Of
f'Dlonpl InnGn Mandy hn n
of the wonders of modern photog
raphy would accept this proof as con-
yincing.
What Who's Who" says.
Reference is made also to Who's
Who in Americas testimony in be-
half of Colonel House. On page 1884
Of the 1912-13 edition occurs this bio
graphical sketch.
House. Edward Mandell; b. Hous-
ton, Ten, July %, 1858; $. Thomas
William and Mary Elizabeth (Shearnl
H., Hopkins Grammar Sch, New Ha-
ven Conn, 1917, Cornell u, 1881. m.
Louie Hunter, of Austin, Tex, Aug.
4, 1881 Active in Dem. politics, in
Tex, has directed the campaigns of
many successful Dem. nominees for
gov. since 1892: never candidate for
office Was chmn. exec com Trinity
a Brazos Valley Ry. and dir. Equit-
able Trust Co of New York, etc.
Clubs Brook. Cornell; Alpha Delta
Phi, New York Automobile of Amer
lea, Nat Democratic CNew York.
Address Austin, Tex.
This may refer to a different person
from the presidents reputed friend.
The friend is always referred to as
Col Il. NJ House. Is Edward Man
dell House, without a military prefix,
the same person?
No live Mans Job.
Consider secondly the achievements
of House who is in Texas politics
Has directed the campaigns of many
successful Dem nominees for gov
ernor since 1892 Think Of the boun
teous majority sure to be east for the
democratic nominee for governor in
Texas and ask yourself whether III
would be necessary TO have a real live
man to manage the campaign Is II
not true that the democratic nominee
for governor of Texas merely reiter-
ates his faith in the Chicago platform
and goes fishing? The notice in who's
Who" so far from bringing the nor
NAL mind to believe in Col z. NJ /
House absolutely precludes belief in
him. He is Pigment of the editorial
Imagination.
Lastly one is compelled to return
to the brief statement under the Pan
anna hat that At least he went to Gu
rope and came back If he did he
must have left some trace in Europe
Acting on this hint a junta of Amer
leans anxious to Vindicate their faith
in the existence Of Colonel House paid
the cable tolls on a number of in