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Show m. ksj Ml i ., a n M it A j B"Y B xf tf jn? I h ff Ohtv f I Kansas Poet Made the Goat in the Sin- clair Scandal Kansas City. Sept. 5. Harry Kemp, the Kansas poet, named by Upton Sinclair, the author, in divorce proceedings pro-ceedings instituted against Mrs. Sinclair, Sin-clair, in a letter to a Kansas City Mend, declares he was the "goat" iu the Sinclair matrimonial tangle. Kemp has found, he says, that he was the means by which Sinclair obtained columns of free space in the news-'. news-'. papers "I reajize now," the poet wrote, "that I was the 'goat and I was ', caught and here I am just beginning to see how easy 1 was. But It's over with now and Twill have to nnke the best of it. Up i "I came to visit Sinolair at his lujJ homo in Arden, as I had done before. rtji I Mrs Sinclair and I were working jS $ along the same lines and naturally ifc we fell In with each other a great .! deal. "Sinclair gave everything to the jfif v newspapers about mo. He told them i'A , nil the stories and, of course, they ! '.; we:e arranged so that he got the lS beat of them. Of course I am dls- W graced and I am sorry that it all Jm 1 happened." |