Evening star., 1939-12-18
Haywood Broun Dies
Of Pneumonia
AT Age Of 81
CoIumnist and Head
Of Newspaper Guild
Expires in New York
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. Lakewood
Broun, ST., columnist and president
of the American Newspaper Guild,
died today
Mr. Broun died in the Hardness
Pavilion of the Columbia -Presby-
terian Medical Center. where he
was taken last Thursday night when
pneumonia developed from a heavy
cold.
The illness induced heart attack,
but for time he seemed to rally.
Early today his condition became
worse and as the hours passed he
showed no signs of improving. At
8 am. his temperature was 1852
degrees. He had been unconscious
much Of the time.
From the start, Mr. Broun an in
corrigible optimist, had treated his
illness with his customary good ma
ture. devoting one of his last COL
umns to a whimsical discussion of
the advice of a physician who had
told him to seek rest in Florida.
He died at $50 am.
Native of Brooklyn.
Mr.. Broun. native of Brooklyn.
studied for time at Harvard and
entered newspaper work in 1908 as
reporter on the New York Morning
Telegraph. In 1912 he went to the
New York Tribune as sports editor.
Later he became the papers dra-
matte critic. He was the Tribune S
war correspondent with the A. E. F..
in France in 1917.
He went to the New York World
in 1921 and began his daily column
1T Seems to Me- In 1927 he quit
the paper after disagreement with
Ralph Pulitzer growing out of the
Sacco-Vanzetti case.
Mr.. Broun went to the Telegram,
which later bought the World. Last
week he transferred to the New
York Post as columnist. His first
and last column in that newspaper
appeared on Friday.
Mr.. BrOun is survived bv his
mother. Mrs Haywood Cox Broun:
his widow. the former Mrs. Connie
Dooley, whom he married in 1885
and son, Haywood Hale Broun
born of Broun's first marriage to
the late Ruth Hale, newspaper
woman and feminist.
Mr.. Broun joined the Roman
Catholic Church last summer.
His wife was at his bedside when
he died.
Listed in Social Register.
Mr.. Broun's family moved to Man.
haitian when he was a child and he
spent his boyhood in the brown
stone-front section west of Central
Park. His father, Haywood Cox
Broun, founder of a printing busi-
ness, was well-to-do and Mr.. Broun
himself in later years was listed in
the New York Social Register.
He attended Horace Mann School
as a boy and played football, and
through all the years his interest in
sports never faltered. In all his
activities humor was ever manifest.
When he ran for Congress on the
Socialist ticket in 1890, opposing
Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Republican,
in the strong 18th district, Mr..
Broun said:
This is a silk stocking district,
I am told, but there is plenty of
rayon still in it."
Mrs. Pratt won, and Mr.. Broun
took it in his usual quietly amused
way. That was typical, for he was
perhaps his own severest critic. He
painted landscapes as hobby and
that was another source of merri-
ment for himself and his readers.
Ran Job Campaign.
He wrote books-"The Boy Grew
Older" Candle Follows His Nose"
"The Sun Field and with Margaret
Leech biography of Anthony Com
stock. His newspaper pieces also
were published in book form.
But his aims, for all whimsy and
self-kidding, were deadly serious. In
the first years of the depression he
ran a give Job till June" CAM
paign and found jobs for 1,50O per-
sons. In 1881 he produced a CO.
operative review, Shoot the Works, .
to help unemployed actors. He was
master of ceremonies. Once when
reporter went to interview him
during the shows run Mr.. Broun
pressed the man into service as q
tap dancer.
In the years since 1888 when he
helped organize the Newspaper
Guild he had joined the picket
lines in a score or more of cities
Since September he had been q
severe critic Of the Soviet govern
ment, whose experiment" he for
(see BROUN. Page Aid