Show LITERARY Y FELLERS IN FAVOR AI WHITE HOUSE President Roosevelt Feels Especially Friendly Towards Towards To To- Toi i wards yards the Men of Letters Fr From m the West t WASHINGTON ASHI July 9 William Allen Allen Al- Al Al AI len White the Emporia Gazette man who ho wrote the immortal phrase e about his own State I If lan Kansas ns will stop raising raisins hell and begin raising corn she will be better off oCt and Is is' also tho the author author author au au- au- au thor of oC several sc magazine articles about men and some books dropped Into Washington a u few nights 00 ago arid and of course ate dinner with the tho President These are arc golden days day for or the literary men hid and especially for or the strenuous literary men The strinG latch of oC the White House Houge temporary or permanent Is n al always s 's out to them It was William Allen AJlen White who t had much to do with the appointment of oC Eugene Ware Vare as ns Pension Commission Commission- er cr Ware is a n. literary man maii When a new flew Civil Service Commissioner Commis Commis- Ioner abner was needed the President ent seized on William Dudley Foulke of oC Indiana who is IR a writer riter as wen well as a civil service service service ser ser- ser ser- vice reformer Henry Cabot Lo Lodge e who Is Ig a n. historian histo histo- Ian rian before he lie Is a n Senator as J he estimates esti- esti mutes mates himself and once collaborated on a book of oC hero stories with the tile PresIdent President Pres Pres- ident Ment Is la according to Mr Roosevelt's eUs public statement at the Ha lIa ard commencement commencement com corn the Presidents President's and most Intimate friend I Nicholas Murray Butler of or New York of ot Columbia university has 19 much In Influence In- In fluence at the White House e. e It was as his earnest urging that finally persuaded the President to Send Bend his special message message mes mes- sage to Congress on Cuban reciprocity Albert Albeit Shaw e editor of the thc Review of or Reviews ne and ond Frederick W. W Holla both literary the first professionally und and the second incidentally always s 's get ct to the President when mere politicians have c to 8 stand nd outside e and swear Besides the these e close friends there are Jacob ot of New York whom the President wanted to appoint first Governor Governor Gov Got of oC the Danish Wrest West est In Indies ies and Henry Loomis Nelson who Is persona grata rata anti and about a n. dozen n more men men from various cities who have reputations reputations reputations rep rep- as os writers All AJI these get het the most enthusiastic lastic greeting when they see the President He lIe Is a literary man himself Only latel lately he finished a n. natural history book about deer and he has declared he lie In Intends Intends Intends In- In tends soon goon to write a n. life liCe of oC Sam Houston ton It is 19 only four Cour years cars since the President President Prest dent told lold somebody at San Juan who vho called him a l hero that he lie was only a n. middle aged literary man He Hc Is still the literary man and he has not Cor forgotten his fellows in the craft cran |