Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-02-22

| is composed Of newspaper men now ~
| Washington who have served their
newspapers in foreign parts, whether
in Europe, Asia or in the islands of
| the seas. The local club has about
! fifty members. If its nonresident
membership list should comprise all
| the Americans now doing writing serv-
| ice in other parts of the world, the
roster of the organization would GER
tainly contain five hundred names.
The club asks men familiar with in
! ternational affairs to address the mem
bers twice a month. Not one word of
what the speakers say at these lunch
cons is printed, but the members get
information which is invaluable to
them because it keeps them from go
ing wrong on matters concerning
which, in the absence of information,
| there might be guess work Secretary
of State Hughes already has addressed
the members on one occasion and
| shortly is to address them again. For
mer secretaries of state, American am
! bassadors to various countries and
representatives of foreign nations ac-
credited to America have talked free
| ly to the members on various occa-
sions. Frenchmen, Englishmen, Japa-
nese and high officials of other coun-
tries have been speakers and club
guests.
Our Correspondents Everywhere.
Within the last ten years the num-
Der of American correspondents in for
eign fields has increased more than
| tenfold OF course during the war the
number Of Americans serving abroad
as writer's was unusually great, but
events since the war have been so in
teresting day by day that the stats
| of American newspapers and press as
sociations have been kept almost at
| the wartime numerical standard.
There is no place Of Importance in
the world today which is out of news
touch with the reading public of the
| United States. The American today
picks up his paper at the breakfast
table and shows no more surprise on
learning what happened yesterday at
Tokyo than he does ON learning what
happened on the streets of his own
! town. The world seems to be in the
American dooryard today.
How things have changed It was
only few years ago that the writer
Of this article had the privilege of
talking with woman who probably
was the first American newspaper cor
respondent assigned to work in Eu-
ropean fields; that is, she was the
first one sent from America to Europe
for the sole purpose Of keeping the
clientele of one newspaper informed,
not only concerning European news
events but European affairs generally.
The woman was Sarah c. Lippincott,
known all over the United States in
her day by her pen-name of Grace
/ Greenwood. There are probably many
gray-haired men and gray-haired wom-
en- today who will remember in the
days of their childhood Grace Green
woods stories for children, "Recollec-
tons of My Childhood" History of Ny
Pets, Bonnie Scotland and "Merrie
England
Grace Greenwood's Pioneer Work.
Grace Greenwood saw marvellous
changes in European correspondence
methods in her day. When she went
to Europe for the New York Times all
| her material came back to this coun-
/ try by mail. There was no Atlantic
cable, there was no wireless, there was
No telephone, and even the land tele-
graph was in the infancy of it's oper-
! a. ions.
In the day of Grace Greenwood in
/ Europe she was the only American. cor.
respondent abroad accredited to the
special service of writing for news
paper of her own land. There were
other correspondents of American
newspapers in Europe, but all of them
were Europeans who wrote letters
from the European viewpoint. Grace
Greenwood saw things with an Ameri-
can eye and wrote them with an Amer
lean hand.
In those early days the foreign cor
respondents gave only a few para
graphs to news, contenting themselves
largely with Writing about scenes in
the country in which they lived. In
a way they did the travelling for Amer
leans, because in those days "going
abroad" was not a common happening
in American life.
Grace Greenwood knew intimately
Thackeray, Dickens, Wilkie Collins,
Charles Reade and other great Eng
lish writer's. At one time in her early
youth she was an associate editor with
Nathaniel P. Willis in literary jour
nal in Philadelphia.
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