Evening star., 1927-05-13

president John Quincy Adams" he
| said, was averse to newspaper inter-
| views. In his time there was a lady
| in Washington who edited a breezy
sheet called The Paul Pry. She
knew that President Adams was in
| the habit Of bathing in the Potomac
| before breakfast, so one day she went
| to his favorite swimming spot, sat
| down on his clothes along the river
bank, and calmly announced that she
| would stay there until Adams gave
her some desired information for
publication! She got the interview"
X X \
J. Murray Allison, an Australian
newspaper man who once was busi-
ness manager of the London Times
when Lord Northcliffe owned it, is
out with the worlds most ambitious
publicity proposition. He suggests
that a fund of $40 900 900 be raised to
advertise the League of Nations
throughout the universe-including,
of course, these abstaining United
States. In Great Britain, where the
proposal originated, Allison has en-
countered a divided opinion. Ramsay
Macdonald, former premier, now i'll
in this country, favorS the scheme.
Prof. Gilbert Murray. distinguished
oxford don and League protagonist,
opposes it. Murray thinks there's
plenty of League propaganda issued
already for educative. purposes in be-
nighted lands like our own, which
refuse to be anything but a sister to
Geneva.
Probably politics was remote from
his mind when he eacted, but Presi-
dent Coolidge is given credit for doing
an exceedingly shrewd thing in order
ing another months Saturday half
holidays for the SAG, ,341 employees of
the Government throughout the coun-
try. With few exceptions, this is an
army of voters. Counting their kith
and kin, they represent strength of
not less than 100000 enfranchised
citizens. A cynic-a Democrat, of
course-declares there's no longer any
doubt, in light of the White Houses
half-holiday decree, that CAP is a
candidate to succeed himself in 1928.
The American Federation of Labor
backed the propctal, and politicians
say there's more than meets the eye
in that circumstance, too.
Senator Arthur Capper, Republican,
of Kansas. told journalism students
at the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege the other day that he'd gladly
give up his seat in the Senate and
even his vast newspaper interests If
he could be young again and, like
you, be starting in on the magic road
of journalism" Wonderful as have
been the achievements of the news
paper craft in the past, Capper said,
the most wonderful opportunities
of all await you in the next 25 years."
The Kansas farm leader began his
own journalistic career as type
setter. Later he was a reporter in
New York City and recalls the horror
with which, as the greenest of cubs
from Kansas, he received his maiden
assignment-to report an interna-
tional yacht race off Sandy Hook.
MY ignorance of yachting" Capper
says, was profound. and has not de-
creased with the years"
X X X X
"a rainy day" has lost the meta
phorical meaning of hard times for
South Dakota, according to Senator
w. II. McMaster. Republican Pro-
gressive, of that corn-belt State.
With a rainfall of ~ inches in April.
South Dakota was more effectively
drenched last month than in any
month for SIS years. After successive
years of drought, surplus production,
low prices and other forms of agri-
cultural bad luck, McMaster says the
farmers of his country welcomed the
April showers gleefuIly. They have
had amazingly good results. he de-
,lares, from political, an economic
md psychological standpoint.
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