The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-05-05
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Observation-Disclosures
Beverly Hills, Calif.-Wen all I
know is just what read in the
papers, and you see quite few
things as you nose around here and
there. Floyd Gibbons the demon
war correspondent was out to my
little ranch to visit me a week or
so ago. I sure was glad to see him.
We sure did ramble over old times.
You know I was the luckiest fellow
in the world to. fall in with him at
| vancouver on my way over to Chi
ma, for he is a great travelling COM
panion. He has been everywhere in
the world, and he really knows how
to get around.
I have prowled around a bit in
my time (but I never seem to get
| any wiser, or onto things, but
! Floyd he gets you where you want
| to 60 and where something is do
ing. He has q wonderful lecture on
China and the Far East. went
down to the theatre to hear it. 1
was the local annoyer who was to
introduce him. My wife was o
afraid that I in my long winded
way would monopolise the whole
evening. She said, 'Now rememb-
er tonight, you are just pawl bear
err, YOU are not the Corpse, and its
the Corpse they are interested In"
Floyds main talk was that we
haven't got any more business in
these Far East wars than we had
in the last European one. He thinks
seven thousand miles is long way
| to go to shoot somebody, especially
if YOU are not right sure they need
shooting, and you are not sure
whether you are shooting the right
side or not.
He said it was a great war for
the convenience of war correspond
ents for they could go out and see
one army fight, then come back
through the International City and
60 out and then be with the OPP
posite army Or you could get on
a high building and watch the whole
thing, in fact it was the only war
ever fought where they had a grand
stand. He bore out another thing
that had predicted in my articles,
and that was that you wouldent
hear of many prisoners being taken
OF, either side in that war. Well he
said their wasen't, for the Chin
csc have the reputation, even among
their friends, of being the most
cruel nation in the world, even to
their own people. If one Is only
going to get his head chopped on
he is tickled to death, that Is q
beautiful death with them. That
he is not numerically tortured be-
fore death is his fear, and the jap
anese are not far behind EN-, so
nobody on either side is going to
be captured while they had a way
of disposing Of themselves.
Another fellow was out to spend
the day with me, a friend OF
Floyds, that come over on the boat
with him, and is about the biggest
financial man in China, also in In
dia, Sir Victor Sasoon, of the
House of Sasoon, which is about the
Rotchilds Of England. He has ire
mendous holdings in Shanghai.
| bet this war threw scare into him
for awhile. He owns the wonder,
full Cathay Hotel in Shanghai
where we all live. He still has
great faith in the Far East and
thinks that it will come out o. K
He also knows more about India
than anyone, as he was there fol
wears. He thinks that it was a clev
er scheme in England getting
Ghandi to go to the Conference in
London, for that really showed hin
I'D as just being human, and not
some God, or super man. He says
that Ghandi has no solution for any
thing, and that when he got there
he had nothing to offer why 1t sim
ply showed that he was no grea
ruler, or miracle man. And h'
thinks that Ghandi lost 'face" b!
going. He says that the boycott II
India is working, and that thu
same is true in China against ia
pan.
I can sure understand how thos
fellows get fascinated with that Fa
East. I guess it gets you like tn
desert. They sure are both inter
esting men to talk too, they hav
both been everywhere and seel
about all there is to see, but the.
were both mighty anxious to Sc
Hollywood, and me being the oil
might Hawk" here. was the on
could show EN-. I took EN- int
some of the widest cafetarias vol
ever saw. just kept EN- jump
ing from one drug store fountain
to another till bet it was quartz
of ten. We sure heard lot Of dill
ferent radios. They been in Shang
hal, Bagdad, Constantinople, Pari
and Hardin, but they will never for
get HOLLYWOOD. You folks want to ge
out here this summer at thes
Olympics. You will see things a
night that are fast enough to be Il
the Olympic programme in the da,
time.