Show W Wallace dace Irwin Will Write Again of Hashimura Togo Hashimura Togo nicely and honorable Japanese schoolboy y are arc returning retuning to this world of or many problems to write write In Utah ex exclusively exclusively ex- ex for The Telegram Deep bows to everywhere It Is true Wallace IrwIn fa famOUS famouS famous fa- fa creator of one one ot of the wittiest wittiest wittiest wit wit- and and v wisest characters In American humor Is about to take typewriter In lap and write of 1 cabbages and kings sailing galling ships sealing scaling wax and many other things Including many thany of ot the most gigantic problems that from day dayto dayto dayto to day furrow the brows of the worlds world's most eminent statesmen politicians and reformers It is fifteen years since The Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy I j by Hashimura Togo made mado their first appearance in Colliers Collier's I Weekly They have ranked as one of the most famous and successful of American humorous creations I Continued on page 7 WAllACE IRWIN Continued from page 1 1 V 1 Mashies Mashie's first first f tiow ow created a national national national na na- sensation His Ills first letter was written to satirize the attitude of ot some of ot the British at that time toward the American American Japanese Japanese question At about the time when criticism from certain British quarters was as being leveled most vehemently at alleged American j i brutality against the Japanese ina In Ina Ina a British Columbia riot Japanese were raided and some killed It was at this point that Wallace Vallace Irwin wrote a letter to Colliers Collier's signing It ft Hashimura Togo I TOGO RECOGNIZED J I i The quaint contribution stirred up such a storm of ot comment and applause that Irwin was compelled compelled com com- compelled to continue the series while everywhere readers debated whether or not It was really written wrItten written writ wrIt- ten by a a. Jap Colliers Collier's even ran rana a a. portrait of ot Irwin togged up as asa asa a n. Japanese and assuming a n. typical Theodore pose poso Later LaterI I an undisguised picture of ot Irwin was printed and readers were asked to Identify tho the real author I Certain Californians recognized Irwin Ir Irwin Ir- Ir win at once and thereafter the Togo letters were run under his own name Wallace Irwin was as born In Jn Oneida Onelda N. N Y migrating to Lead- Lead vIII yule ville eo Colo when whon 4 years year old After a n. preparatory school in Denver Denver Dener Den Den- ver er he went to Leland Stanford university California where he heI hewan was wan a freshman n when his brother I Will vm IrwIn was a 1 Junior Both BothI i brothers were graduated prematurely prema- prema I I at the request of ot the au au- i Subsequently Will Viii now also a a. prominent author returned I to Stanford and was officially graduated But Dut Wallace declares ho never had th the time nor Inclination inclination tion to follow tollo his brothers brother's example example ex- ex ample and so 80 he continues through life without a n. college colleg degree delree In 1599 without a a. cent In his pockets and absolutely no experience experience experience ence ho he started looking for a 1 jobin job jobIn In San Francisco Ills first application application ap ap- Rp- Rp w ws ul s to J J. J OHara O'Hara Cosgrave Cos Cos- grave rave now Sunday editor of ot the tho Now New York World orld then conducting the San Francisco Wave ae Cosgrave Cosgrave Cos- Cos i grave had nothing for or him but sent pent him with Ith a 1 letter of or introduction introduction introduction intro intro- to the editor of or the tho Chronicle Chronicle Chron Chron- icle who promptly turned him down I I f WORKED IN FRISCO Ashton Stevens Gertrude Ather- Ather KE TELEGRAM M TU S A. A tons ton's In brother then with the San Francisco Examiner having Ing seen some of ot IrwIns IrwIn's rhymes had him write for tor the Examiner After a year ear of ot writing comic verse for tor that paper he became editor of ot the Overland Monthly where as a aside aside aside side Issue he wrote Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum his first published book Then he migrated to 1 New ew York where his first Job was writing a poem a day for tor the Globe with regular contributions of at verse erse t to o Life Saturday Evening Post and other magazines This was as th the e high tide of ot muckraking g Lincoln Lincol n Steffens shaking up municipal rottenness with his Shame of ot th the e Cities ClUes a series which Irwin 1 t t Y E EV EVENING V Ei ING APRIL 1 il satirized In the Saturday Evening Post with The Shame of ot the Colleges closely followed by The and then came The Letters Letters' of ot a Japanese Schoolboy In addition to being the father of ot Hashimura Togo Wallace Irwin Ir Irwin Ir- Ir win has made other notable crea crea- His first hit was was The Love Sonnets of or a Hoodlum followed tol- tol fol followed lowed by The of ot Omar Kanam Jr and b by sue such gems as The Tho Tedd's the marathon Saturday Evening Post verse burlesquing bur bur- The Odyssey and Theodore Theodore Theo Theo- dore Roosevelt A master of ot humor hu hu- hu- hu mor both in verse erse dialect and prose Irwin has line also achieved a notable reputation as a serious s Author author His last novel The See Seed d 2 1 17 J. J 1 J 1 97 I j of ot the Suii de dealt lt the with the Jap Japanese r P anese question question qu Hon on on the Pacific coast His Ills forthcoming novel Is Lew Tylers Tyler's Wives One of ot the most famous or of Wallace Wal Wal- al allace lace Irwin s 's humorous humorous humorous' verses verses' Is as follows A GR GRAIN IN OF SALT Of Ot all aU the tho doubly blest bles t I The sailors sailor's wl wife's s 's the happiest For all she does doe's is stay to home And knit and dam and darn and let im 1 m roam Of ot all the husbands husband on the earth The sailor ha has the finest berth For In is cabin he can sit And sail sall and sail and sat and let Jet er knit |