Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-14 | Page 6 | Merry-Go-Round

M Round Rou nd Merry Merry-G Round Merry e r ry By DREW PEARSON and end ROBERT ALLEN Mark Hark W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON- WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-A A fellow newspaper publisher publisher pub pub- lisher usher who has known Colonel Frank Knox for many years recently remarked I III wonder if Frank hasn't scooped himself on the Republican Republican lican nomination I The probabilities are th that t he has hasAs hasAs hasAs As far ar back as April last year ear Knox Headquarters Headquarters Headquarters Head Head- quarters were in evidence at the American Newspaper Publishers' Publishers convention As far back backas as July long before Governor Landon or Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Borah h had d tossed their hats in iri the ring Knox was storming at Roosevelt Upon what does this our Caesar feed What madness has seized upon him Does he not see how dangerously close th this s comes to conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy con con- to break down our institutions of government government government gov gov- It is the proud boast of the colonel that of all G. G O. O P. P aspirants he is new anti-new deal enemy No 1 But having beaten the war drums and sounded sound sound- ed eq the call to arms Knox now finds himself like so many other leaders in b battle elbowed out of the limelight Newspaper r Career Carcer The colonel is one of the shrewdest and most successful newspaper p publishers in the country His pro progress ess up to the ownership of the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Daily Dally News was was' no accident He built up the Grand Rapids Mich Herald then bought the Manchester N. N H. H Leader became an important important important im im- im- im executive in the Hearst organization and during this time dabbled a bit in Republican Republican Republican lican politics Meanwhile Walter Strong publisher of the Chicago Daily News died specifying in his will that the of the paper bp given the first opportunity to buy it James Lawrence Houghteling vice president president president dent of the News and related by y marriage TI to Franklin Roosevelt worked for this But ut the paper was heavily in hi debt to Dawes' Dawes ba bank k the Central Republic Trust and Dawes returning suddenly to the United States States' from his ambassadorial ambassadorial ambassadorial am am- post in Great Br Britain tain intervened in order to swing the paper into the Republican can camp Senator George Moses G G. O. O P. P mogul also a New Hampshire publisher recommended d Knox and after consultation between Dawes and Hoover Knox got the job job and and the paper Sacrosanct Hoover Knox has been as big a success with the Chicago Chicago Chi CM- cago Daily News as he was with everything in life life except polities politics s. s He has won respect of his men but not their love The They talk glowIngly glowingly glow glow- indy about their paper but not about their pub pub- lisher Usher During the Hoover administration one idea was uppermost in Knox's mind friendship for forthe forthe forthe the man in the White House There was nothing nothing noth noth- ing lug he would not do for Herbert Herbe t Hoover This has conti continued since Hoover left office In fact when Negley Farson Parson one of th the most brilliant members of the Daily News News' foreign staff wrote a cr critical review of f Hoovers Hoover's rs r's book bookin bookin in a London paper Knox discharged him by which cable cable which may have been a blessing to Farson Farson Farson Far- Far son for he promptly sat down and wrote a new best seller The liThe Way of a Transgressor x Two Defects There are two big reasons why Knox will get nowhere politically 1 L He lacks popular appeal 2 He lacks organized political backing Of the other two leading candidates Borah is weak in political organization but has strong popular support Landon has public strength though less of it than Borah but Borah-but but makes up for it by powerful political underpinnings Knox on the other hand lacks both A flood of canned publicity has been poured out by his campaign managers to humanize Knox He has bas been painted as as s a happy-go- happy lucky Rough Hough Rider a deb debonair newspaper man and boon companion But it has not worked To the public at large Knox has continued to be only a name That certain intangible quality which Elinor Glynn popularized as It uIt is lacking and no amount of canned ballyhoo can take its place lace 1036 by United Uli ture Inc 1 s as