The New York herald., 1922-01-08
E. p. MITCHELL HONORED
AT AMEN CORNER DINNER

| Lsttle-Hc said ne didn't know: he
| hadn't attended prize fight for twenty
| years.
| Anderson-The recent election in New
| York city was a strange thing.
LiStle-Yes; it now seems like one
great game OF put and take.
Anderson-How put and take?
Little-Why Hearst puts" ana Tam
many takes" all.
Anderson-Gov. Miller is said by the
substantial men of the state to have
made very high grade Governor.
Little--Yes; his administration Is in
tellgent, dignified, honest and econom-
| ical.
Anderson-stin he is very unpopular
in New York city. How do you account
for it2
Listle-Why, told you: his admins
tration is intelligent. dignified, honest
and economical. You can't fool the
voters in New York city. They know
what they don't want.
The guests OF the gentlemen OF the
Amen Corner, $50 in number. notably
represented the arts. the professions
and the power and Influence Of business
and commerce. Traditional eagerness to
attend the unique annual celebration Of
the inhertors of the Red Plush Sofa
and the Steel Engraving of Boss Platt
was combined with q very widespread
desire. extending far outside the circles
OF journalism, to pay honor TO a great
American editor.
On the dais with Mr. Mitchell beside
the speakers were Sen. James w. Wads-
worth, Senator William NJ. Calder,
Charles S. Whitman. George 4 Giynn.
Paul Dana, who succeeded his father,
Charles Anderson Dana, in tho control
OF THE Sun of more than two decades
ago; Edwin +. Gay, editor Of the New
York EUehing Post; Melville y. Stone,
chairman OF the board of the Associated
Press Ralph Pulitzer, proprietor OF the
New York World; Frank ]. Cobb, editor
OF the New York World Frederick Roy
Martin OF the Associated Press Arch
bishop Patrick ]. Hayes, Charles u.
Miller, editor os the New York Times:
Judge Willard Bartlett. Kenneth c. M.
S'lIs, James r.. Sheffield, Bishop Will
lam T.. Manning Ogden Reid. proprietor
of the New York Tribune; Arthur Bris-
bane. editor OF the New York EUeHinO
Jouraal; Alfred l.. Smith, Rabbi Joseph
Silverman, William a. Thayer. Herbert
c. Pell and Jolir II. McCooey. Demo-
cratic leader in Kings county
Conspicuous upon the floor were
George Gordon Battle. John d. Rocke-
feller, Jr., Tex Rickard, Thomas tBig
Tom) Foley, William NJ. Chadbourne,
Francis i. Garvan. James G. Cropsey.
John II. Delaney, William r Dewart,
William II. Dixon. c j. FitzGerald,
K. A. c. Smith. Murray Hubert Otto
H. Kahn, Chester $. Lord, Judge Julius
H. Mayer, Delaney Nicoll, Edward NJ.
Morgan, L. j. Ridgway. Col. jacob Rup-
pert Clarence ]. Shearn. Keats Speed,
Henry l.. Stoddard. Samuel Untermyer.
Erwin Wardulan. Louis Wiley and Will
lam Il. Wilcox
Many Newspaper Executives.
Among others present among large
groups OF newspaper makers from this
city and State and from New England
we're:
Robert Adamson. Harold MacD.
Anderson, writer and executive. THB
NEW YORK HERALD; Louis NJ. Antisdale.
editor Rochester Herald: w. z. Baker. |
editor. Syracuse PoSt-Stdnddrd; William
Barnes. editor Albany Journal; c. w.
Barron. publisher Boston Nelcs Bureau
and Wal street Jonrndt: William p. |
Beazell. writer, New YORK. World; Ira
e. Bennett, editor Washington Post: |
Ernest L. Birmingham, The Fourth |
Estate; Samuel G. Blythe. Saturday |
Evening Post.
Also William a. Brady, James Wright |