The New York herald., 1922-01-08

ons have been and are to the moral
ought of the country; what our
r!lliant captains of industry We're and
re in the commercial life of the nation
IL these Mr. Mitchell has been and is
the editorial world of this nation and
the world at large. His responsibility
D the people has been and is mighty.
lie has been and is a great unshak-
bic tower OF constructive thought.
Wherever the English language is
poken Edward Page Mitchell is known
0d ho~0red"
Job Hedges started the speech MAX
ing with pleasant persitlage, as spark
ling as any the Hedges hun-or mill ever
turned out. Yet through It ran vein
Gt warm seriousness in expressing for
me WAO.e company their appreciation
4 Edward p. Mitchell.
"I represent the common people so
ar as this audience IL concerned" said
lob. scowlng characteristically at the
rowd. "rhe people are with you. Mr..
Mitchell. There is no acquaintance of
yours but who wants to be friend. IT
8 unusual in these days to find mod
st man such as you, sir Your pen is
me of the few that can attack high
crow and be understood by low brow.
We look upon you as intellectually hon.
81, but sympathetic at the same time
Many men speak without thinking. You
write after much thinking. You are
one of the few men who understood
carly in the war what it was all about
"My business is to make you well
come to tell you in no conventional
phrase. we love you. For all you've
done, for all you've written. we owe
you much, Mr. Mitchell You can never
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close your career. You are one of those
few men who are at the same time
respected and loved
Another Man From Maine.
Mr. Riggs then introduced Frank A.
Munsey as another Maine boy. IN
allusion to the fact that Mr.. Mitchell
was born in Maine and came to the
side of Dana of THE SUN from Maine.
my association with Mr.. Mitchell
goes back to 1916" Mr.. Munsey began.
prior to that time I had never met
Mr.. Mitchell. / had been reading THE
SUN ever since came to New York and
l had followed his writings with great
admiration. I tried, indeed, many times
to get him to write for my magazine,
but the answer always came back that
he owed all his time and loyalty to his
newspaper So when l finally bought
THE SUN l said to Mr.. Mitchell that the
only way 1 could get his services was
to buy his newspaper.
MY admiration for Mr.. Mitchell since
that time has constantly increased, and
my love for him is like love for ones
family. He is gentle, diffident and re-
fined never asserting-altogether
so charming and so sweet in his atti-
tude toward all of his associates that he
is loved throughout the whole institu-
ton.
when the admirable suggestion of
giving a dinner in honor of Mr. Mitchell
was broached to me by Eddie RIGGS. he
asked me to speak at the dinner | said
no. l said that I would be more than
pleased to sit at the table with other
gentlemen and discuss over the cigars
Mr.. Mitchell's notable merits. / had In
mind the thought that public speaking
on ones feet, is like airplaning--youve
got TO keen going or you'll fall. For a
man not accustomed to public speaking
the difficulty is to keep going.
"I wonder If the younger members o.
the Amen Corner-and some of the Older
ones, too-realize how few are left o.
the old time editors like Mr.. Mitchell
Mr.. Charles r. Miller of the New Yorl
TtNeS ana MT OEVeiI, tioo Va tiie t"teo
These are all old lime figures, prett,
nearly all that arc left, indeed The ole
school editor was a man apart from tn
modern editorial writer. He was thor
ough, scholarly, a student OF the Con
stitution and of history. He had r!p'
knowledge that gave to his work quail
ity that the editorial writer who dis
cusses chiefly the news of the da.
doesn't bring to his newspaper.
"The newspaper business is the mos
difficult L know of. 1t is highly tech
nicaI. IL calls for high degree O
business ability to guide newspaper