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Show Noted Traveler To Address Knife. Fork Club - - -f lf , . i Carlos Fallon, former Colombian Colom-bian Naval Officer and more lately a captain in the army of the United States (retired), will be the next guest of honor at a regular meeting of the Escal-ante Escal-ante Knife and Fork Club, according ac-cording to Loren Whetten, the local secretary who is in charge of arrangements. The affair will be held at Hotel Ho-tel El Escalante on Thursday, Feb. 18 and it is expected that a large number of the members and their guests will be on hand to hear the distinguished author, auth-or, world traveler and lecturer. Fallon was born in Colombia and after he reached manhood spent 10 years in the Navy of his country, but a large part of his boyhood was spent in New Orleans Or-leans where his father was the Colombian consul. He knows the entire Western Hemisphere from Canada to Cape Horn, having covered it personally. He knows South Amerca as well as club members know Cedar City. He speaks' French and Portugese as fluently as he speaks his native Spanish Span-ish and his English is impeccable. impec-cable. Based on his behind-the-scenes, knowledge of international rela- j tions, Mr. Fallon presents a more startling picture of the enormous power for good or evil that can be wielded by the 300.000.000 Americans on the Western Hemisphere. Hem-isphere. An outstanding characteristic of Fallon's lectures is the fact that they are fun. It may bej that the Irish and Spanish com-1 bine to produce a special type of wit or 1t may be the mixture of Castillian culture and sailor's life but the end result is that audiences love it, Mr. Wheten stated. |