Show J 1 Americana 1 p e 0 By Elmo Scott Watson J HE Didn't Say It P POPULAR belief belle ascribes to HorA Horace Hor- Hor A ace Greeley editor of the New NewYork York Tribune the admonition Go West Vest young man go West Nest 1 I But Greeley didn't originate that phrase he he only helped popularize It The man who first wrote It at r least In Its application to the tIle AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Ivan frontier was John 1 L. L B B. B Soule editor of ot the Terre Haute Daute Ind Express In Richard Thompson Thomp Thomp- son urged Soule to go West and grow up with the country Thompson Thomp son also wagered a barrel of flour V that Soule could write an article that would be attributed to Greeley I The result was a column editorial about the West's opportunities for young men In which Soule declared declarer that Horace Greeley could never have ha given a young man better advice advice ad nd- vice than contained In the words Go West Vest West Vest young oung man go Although stated merely as Soule I thought Greeley ml might ht have exPressed expressed expressed ex ex- pressed It newspapers all over oer the rife country began to credit Greeley with the epigram Finally Greeley reprinted Soule's editorial with a note stating that even though he endorsed the sen sentiment t sen-t he did not originate the Go West phrase But people kept right righton V Von on believing Greeley said It t and V they still do Similarly they attribute to Charles N NA A A. A Dana Dann famous fatuous editor of the New NewYork A York Sun the definItion of ot news news news- III If a n dog bites a man roan that Is not news because it happens so often but If a man bites a do dog that Is news The real author of that laying say lay ay- ay ing ng was not Dana Dana although although he endorsed en en- endorsed i It but John B. B Bogart city editor of the Sun from 1873 to IBM Joke on the Library g j jOSTON BOSTON DOSTON OSTON the Athens of ot Amerl- Amerl U ca en Is proud of her public li library II- II as one of the symbols of her hel pre pre eminence eminence as ns a cultural center On three sides of the building are j names cut In blocks of granite granite- i Immortal after much deliberation from the pages of universal uni ersa versal history They were culled with care from all aU branches of buman human hu bu- man achievement and knowledge so that future generations might read them and be reminded of the accomplishments accomplishments ac ac- of the men who wh bore those names All of which was very fine until j one day a newspaper reporter happened happened hap hap- I V to read rend downward the names on one of the blocks They were Moses Mozart Wren Cicero Euclid Herrick Aeschylus Irving 3 Dante Titian f Milton Euclid Erasmus Then he wrote a story for his paper paper paper pa pa- per pointing out the fact that the Initial letters of the names spelled out the name of ot McKim Meade and White the firm of or New York architects which had designed the edifice Great was the Indignation tIon r. r of ot the board of trustees when they realized that some one had bad put it V r rover over on them So they quickly had the names chiseled off of and substituted a new plaque which wouldn't V give glye the architects some free advertising ad ad- with an nn acrostic from the names of or the Immortals A Foreign President T THE HE Constitution of the United J- J States says that only a native- native born citizen of ot the United States shall serve as President Does that mean that If a President becomes a citizen of another country he Is automatically au au- automatically barred from office If It It t does then Abraham Lincoln should have been deposed from the Presidency three weeks after he ra was Inaugurated For on March 29 20 1861 the regent captains of the tiny European republic of ot San Marino MarInG I officially made Lincoln a citizen of ot that republic In the San Marino Marine V archives is a letter from the American Amerlean Amer Amer- I lean ican President thanking his great y I and good friends for the honor and 1 If It this can be he construed as fiS an ac nc- acceptance V of ot It then he became a 11 citizen cItizen of ot San Marino V But Lincoln wasn't the only foreign for j sign eign President Herbert Hoover was another Under the laws of or Switzerland while he was President Prest- Prest 1 dent he was still sUU a n Swiss and still sun i. i V Is and technically subject to military mil mil- J nary service In the European republic republic re re- public Just because his ancestor a aman man then going by the name of ot Huber came to this country more l' l than years ago and didn't officially om- om V V chilly relinquish his citizenship In 1 i his native land V e Western Newspaper Union |