Arizona republican., 1921-04-29
NOTED AUTHOR TELLS
 H|S AUDIENCE STORIES HE COULDN'T PRINT

Peter Clark Mactariane, lecturer, author interviewer of great men, writer of fiction and scenarios, war correspondent and traveller, and with it all. red blooded American, deliv- cred a human interest talk at the Chautauqua last night which was un- doubtedly the finest that has been heard there since the opening of the coure Sunday evening.
 Macfarlane's lecture was simply the telling of the stories that he has kept in his heart, the stories that he could not print but which he can tell to an audience in his own dyna- mic way. His interview with Theo- dore Roosevelt concerning the 'Riv- CT of Doubt" and his observations of Woodrow Wilson, especially dur ing the peace conference at Yer sailles. his intimate knowledge of William H. Taft and William B. Mckinley, his vivid recollections of the battlefields of France and of the American sailors concern written; these were the subjects upon which he dwelt last eve ming and which kept his audience in smiles and then on the verge of tears for nearly two hours.
 He told of Roosevelt's illness while travelling in South America and how in his delirium he repeated contin- | ually, '1 must do the right thing by Scribner's," with whom he was then | under contract He gave his i'm pressions of Woodrow Wilson, whom he knows intimately and whom he has observed under many varied cir | cumstances. He characterized Will son yesterday as that lonely, heroic T IL .% &1.~ | dict of posterity and who is great ir the fact that he has never shifted an iota of responsibility for his ac- tions to another."
 | He told also of the things he had seen in France, of the first charge | of the marines, of their exultant shouts, of the green grass flecked | with blood, of the trenches filled witf | yellow water, and of his thought
 "this is No Mans land-this lant reddened by the blood of yount Americans? No, this is America and America forever."
 He dwelt at some length upon tn | present world conditions and tn, l place which the United States ha | assumed among the nations of tn l earth. and he reviewed rapidly tn
 causes which have brought about ;
 
 | they are no longer an isolated peopl
 entirely independent of the other na
 tions of the world.
 When seen for a few minutes a
 the Adams hotel yesterday afternoon just before he was taken to dinner a the Arizona club by Wallace Button
 manager of the Berryhill company | Macfarlane proved that he has no
 forgotten Arizona despite an absenc
 of several years. When asked wha
 had prompted him to apply the tern
 sir Galahad" to George w. P. Hun
 former governor, he declared that h
 had forgotten entirely the circum
 stances that had brought forth tn l characterization But" he said, : | will always take full credit for givin
 to Hunt for the first time the de
 scription of 'Arizona's globular gov
 ernor from Globe"
 When he was told that the inter viewer felt in duty bound to pass th ancient compliment of saying ths
 he was not unfamiliar with the au thor's writings, Macfarlane's eye twinkled and he told the followin , story which concerned his trip fror . Nogales to Phoenix for last evening
 lecture:
 That may be an old complimen but Is always welcome one . instance. last evening our automobil . was stopped out on the desert b some customs officials, one of whol
 said gruffly to me:
 "'What are your
 "1 replied that l was writer "what writer? he inquired.' : "Peter Clark Macfarlane, I ar t swered.'
 :. "'Of the Saturday Evening Post?
 "'Yes.'
 g "'Pass. Pete,'"
 Strangely varied has been Macfal !. lanes life. Digger of ditches, cler t student. court reporter, private secrt tary, railroad clerk, teacher of eloct
 ton. actor. lecturer. preacher, joul
 nalist, war correspondent and fife | tionist, such are few of the hie
 lights from which he was garnere
 that most precious gift, ''the huma t touch"