New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-12-02

of them being In a way special hosts
because not so long ago they were In
a pretty close sense the guests OF
many of these foreigners who now
have come to America ito help put
the wal correspondents job on the
list of discarded occupations"
1t Is pleasant to note that the ma
jority of the writer's who have come
here to cover the conference is com
posed of real newspaper men, nen
trained to their business. There are
here In addition quite a number OF
men and women who have made their
regulations by writing six best sell
ers, and other kindred things, but who
perhaps are not as competent to find
news nor to write it as The men who
know the game and have staid with II
through the years.
Philippe Millet of France is here,
He is the correspondent of LIE Petit
Parisien, a journal which rejoices, OF
at any rate, whose owner rejOices
In a circulation of something over d
million every day In the year barring
only Sundays. which is something OF
a circulation for IA daily paper.
Then we have with us Nj. Gerard
otherwise known as "Pertinax.'
France and the world pretty generally
know this p%ertinaciOus gentleman. He
is a writer of rare merit, and, what
counts some, a good fellow.
From British Empire and Orient.
From England has come Mr.. Steed
of the London Times Sir Arthur vii
lert, who will be Il sort of helper
in publicity in behalf of the foreign
office of his government, and Wilmet
Lewis, who for years served "A great
London newspaper in the Far East
There are other British newspaper mel
here representing the papers of the
home island and of Canada, A~ustralia
and the other lands beyond the seas
which look to England as the mother
country.
Japan has sent n round dozen OF
writer's to cover the conference. Will
them are several Chinese newspaper
| men and perhaps ii is almost needless
to say that their viewpoint of things
is somewhat different from that OF
their Japanese brethren, but they gel
along together with an Oriental ami
ability which makes for the general
grace of things in comradeship.
The arrival is expected shortly OF
Henri Ponsot of Paris who In the early
days of the great war was the director
of what the French called the bureau
de la presse. Monsieur Ponsot will bt
hailed joyfully by some twenty oil
thirty Washington correspondents, ant
some others who are here only TEN
porarily. II Is probable that this early
val director Of press activities II
France had as thankless a job as evel
fell upon the shoulders Of man to tote
along. His headquarters were In the
foreign office of the French government
and there day by day all through 1917
and a part of 1916, appeared CORE
spondents from all over the world beg
ging permission to go to the front.
Ponsot, Friend Of Correspondents.
In April, 1915, only eight months af
ter the war had started, | went t.
France as a correspondent. Arriving II
Paris, l went to PonsOt's Office, mad,
myself known, presented my creden
tials, and asked for permission to gt
to the front as soon as possible. Mon
Slam DnnSnf StnIln1 af mo nnndn tns
feel ut home and then told me tina
the government was allowing fiv,
newspaper men each month to go t.
the front and that there were seventy
newspaper men all clamOring for tn,
privilege.
This meant that If things went alonl
In the regular order Of precedence 1
correspondent might have to stay II
Paris pretty near a year before hs
would get Il chance TO see u shell fall
He would have to fight "the battl,
of Paris" with his pen and try to salts
fy the home readers with accounts of 1
war which he was not allowed To wit
ness.
SOilltIDW vi blltI IoDSbl, JOulllhl
istic genius of the bureau de la presse
worked things out satisfactorily. Tn,
foreign newspaper men saw the from
fairly quickly and were able to write
about il from II yisualizing standpoint
How he did il | don't know, but hC
did il. | know that | had two extend
ed trips along the front within 81,
weeks of the time that | arrived a
Monsieur Ponsot's Office and vas mel
with the intimation that | might hav,
to wait u year. | think the othel
newspaper men had like experiences
Ii may be that the conference II
many of its sessions will not be oper
to the public, but with much more thar
half n thousand newspaper men on th'
spot, some of whom know pretty neal
ly every great one who is in theil
midst, and who are willing to interpret
the great ones intentions for his
brethren, there is little chance tina
the public will not be kept well In
formed as TO what's what In the greal
conference on the Limitation of arma
ments and Far East problems.
Tender Hearts.
., - A. la tipaar ~ thn par