Show HE MAKES LIVE narratives FROM DRY FACTS OF HISTORY 71 W ELMO SCOTT WATSON theres a gaoa reason tor for the intense interest of 0 elmo scott watson in american history and tor the fact that many of the illustrated feature articles in the times deal with that hat subject for he comes of a long line of americans ten generations erat ions of them in tact fact it Is true that his earliest ancestors in this country were immigrants they arrived in the mayflower in 1620 but his later american born ancestors had their part in making american history serving in the french and indian war in the revolution and in the war of 0 1812 one of them on cai the paternal side a pioneer ot of ohio was noted as being one 0 of the greatest hunters in the old northwest territory and on the maternal side he conies canies of a line of kentucky pioneers and indian fighters some ot of whom fought alongside ot of daniel bootie boone at the famous dattle dattie ot of blue licks born on an illinois farm which has been in his family since the days of the eai earliest liest settlers mr watson as a boy oy heard from the lips of oc his grandparents and others of their generation tales of the perils of pioneer liffin that region of the indians indiana who once lived there and of the stirring days of the black hawk war all ot of which may have something to do with the tact fact that frontier history has always been a tudy of 0 absorbing interest to him and that as as a feature writer for newspapers on which he worked in colorado and illinois and as a free lance writer history has been ills his principal theme ills his special delight is in digging up in obscure places some little known chapter in american history and giving his readers fascinating sidelights on some ot of the events they learned about in their school book histories that is one reason why teachers find his articles excellent material for or use in their classes mr air watson is a member of 0 several historical societies and has done con bid bide rabla erable historical re but primarily he is a feature writer and as a trained newspaper man he knows how to take tho the facts of 0 history and weave then them into an interesting readable narrative but historic articles ai bidos lidos are not the only kind he writes he has a lively interest in many other subjects popular science imports literature and tine fine arts in fact every phase ot of american life and our readers will find his articles in these fields as interesting us as those which are strict ly historical they may be interested to know that mr air watson not only is ono one ot of the most widely known feature writers in america today but as an instructor in this subject in the school of journalism at northwestern university he Is also training feature writers of the future we consider ourselves fortunate in being able to give our readers the work of such a writer and we feel sure that they will ell cn joy these articles |