Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW EW YORK in the prewar pre war ayears years about the only sure enough newspaper man who covered europe was henri S de blowitz the boheme US U S scribes an who became set pace for a frenchman british boys boji and scooped the world with the full text of the treaty at the conference of berlin at the end of the franco prussian war although he did this for the london times english engish ii journalists distinctly that rather than newspaper men seemed to think it quite cricket and they went on wearing spats carrying canes and dodging leg work I 1 remember citing to an english friend the de blowitz book published posthumously in 1903 in which he told how he got that beat on the treaty an exciting newspaper yarn if there ever was one bit of a dont you think said the englishman after the war the engl english ish correspondents started shaking a leg but with all this chauvinism loose in the world we may boast that htwa fie f fe american lads ads who set the pace one press association and a few of our newspapers sent over to the big war some news beagles who be began bean an retrieving stories right u under der the nose of of the morning coat scribes been getting better all the time and one of the bell ringers is frank smothers of the chicago daily news the tenth correspondent to be bounced out of italy for faithful reporting in the last year mr smothers was a fast stepping and fast thinking reporter in chi cago for nine years before he went to the orient as correspondent for the chicago daily news and the boston transcript he was close in when the japanese made their first grab for china and pegged home some of the best stories from that beat in italy he made a similar record A keen analyst as well as news getter he is one of a number of american foreign correspondents spon dents who have told the story of world catastrophe faster and better than any others at any place or time lie ile grew up in roseville Ko seville ill III and finished at the university of wisconsin after two years at northwestern he is 37 years old gis r EORGE RUBLEE 70 years old VJ is beset with a thousand plans for taking care of european political refugees as he heads the american efforts in george rublee this humane un vet of delicate der taking his negotiations fame rests upon h his i s achievements as an international lawyer of the firm of covington burling rublee of washington he was a strong supporter and ally of the late robert la follette whenever they have had oil trouble anywhere in the western hemisphere they have sent for mr rublee lie ile has straightened out snarls over oil rights in colombia mexico and other countries ile he was a friend and associate of the late dwight IV morrow and helped him settle a number of oil and banking arguments in Al mexico exico he is a native of madison wis and an alumnus of the harvard law lav school he began the practice ol of law at chicago T THERE HERE was a news story the i other day about a thwarted artist who came through and had a glorious revenge on his th warters the fine fhle atts arts flunked 11 1 1 t J artist A substitutes asso evens things cia tion in bompers ha half of teachers flunked by the new york board of examiners gives an exhibition by which the public is to judge whether the board hopped them unjustly among the exhibitors is max weber distinguished artist represented in the metropolitan museum who was among those flunked by the board with his picture goes a note to the board in which mr weber tells what he thinks of it and cites his success as proof of their incompetence mr weber a native of russia here at the age of 10 was a mol modernist ernist so far out of bounds that the academicians academic ians would turn in a riot call whenever anybody n mentioned his name ile he has been marked up more by the critics probably than an other man in america the th e turn in mr webers fortunes came in 1925 when a discerning new york sun critic among others piped him up as a thoroughly competent artist his pictures sell he has a nice home at great neck long iong island 0 consolidated news features service |