The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-21
Meet Charles Edward Russell,
Who's Writing of Greater Russia

Charles Edward Russell, who Is
writing the articles on Great Rus
STA Today" now appearing in The
Times, is a world-reporter, world
known.
He ha sjust returned from Rus
He has just returned from Rus
is member of the regular staff
of the Newspaper Enterprise As
ISOLATION, consisting of The Ia
coma Times and its sister papers.
He has been termed the man
with the X-ray eye" He sees the
current beneath the surface, the
cause behind the effect, the motive
within the act-and writes what
he sees with the clarity and force
gained in 35 years of active news
paper and magazine life.
He has been a contributor to
the members of the Newspaper
Enterprise Association for several
years, and a staff member for the
past year. He writes now exclu-
sively for this newspaper and its
associates.
Russell's first newspaper job
was in his early 20's, on his
fathers paper, the Davenport
Uowa) Gazette. He has developed
thru life the impulse as a crusader
he first received thru the Ca
zette's grade crossing~fight.
He has stored away the impress
sions gained from early work on
newspapers in a handful of other
cities scattered over the country.
He has card-indexed in his won
derful brain the lessons of 20
years of absorbing activity in
executive and managerial posi-
lions on some of the nations fore
most newspapers, in New York,
Chicago and San Francisco.
He has investigated the beef
trust, the coal trust and other
trusts for leading magazines, in
ten years of searching study, and
written books about them.
He has studied social and
economic conditions on a number
of journeys thru Europe and on
one trip around the civilized
world.
He has lived in the slums of
London's East End, of other Eng
fish cities and of Dublin-for
laboratory research into the prob
lens of human life and happiness.
He has shaken hands and
rubbed brains with kings and
paupers, with Industrial magnates
and labor generals, in all the big
centers of this country and
Europe.
He has made several special
European trips exclusively for
this newspaper and its associates,
to analyze the facts of war and
the forerunners of peace.
With all this, he has spent all
his spare time in association with
the great poets and musicians of
the past, writing books also about
them-which probably explains
why, in all his probing, he has
never piled scorn on the indi-
vidual, but has pointed the path
to many reforms, now the law of
the land.
And now:
He has just returned from
the supreme experience of his
life, three months as a men,
ber~Of the official Root COM
mission to Russia.
He was on the inside.
lie saw all the human eye
could see.
He understood all the
human brain could compass.
In an epoch-making series of
articles appearing in this city ex-
clusively In this newspaper he will
interpret what he saw. bring the
newest democracy home to the
oldest democracy, as well as the
human pen can do.
Russell is ripe-ripe with the
sound Judgment of fifty-odd years
of healthy life, ripe with the &C
cumulated knowledge of thirty
odd years of study of the men and
map of our world thru the magni-
flying glass.
And his present work Is the
fruit of his maturity.