Show WATSON TURNS THE DRY FACTS OF HISTORY INTO ABSORBING narratives TIVES A large number of the very in resting te s illustrated feature articles artl cles that hat elmo scott watson writes for this his paper deal with historical subsets this is natural since mr waton son tor for a very good reason Is grea IN Z K e ja EL MO WATSON ly interested in ili A merican american history lie ho comes from a long lone line of 0 americans ten generations of 0 them thein even though his viet ancestors in this leou country were ants they aln y ni livid on the mayflower lit in mr watsons later borl ancestors ancer tors had their part in baktis malc ilig A an r van history sor aig lit in the french and indian war in tile the tte ne and in the war of 1812 one of them on oil the paternal side a pioneer of ohio was noted as behig one of 0 the greatest hunters in the old northwest territory and on the maternal side he ha comes of a I 1 line hue of kentucky pioneers and indian fighters figh teis some of whom fought alongside alon gsida gaide daniel boone at the ramous famous battle of blue licks dorn corn on an illinois farm which has been in his family since the days of the earliest settlers mr air watson as a boy heard from the lips of his grandparents and others of their generation tales of the perils of pioneer life in that region of the indians who once lived there and of the stirring days of the black hawk war all AH of which ma may have something to do with the tact fact that frontier history has always blen been a study of absorbing interest continued to back pase pace watson turns dry facts into absorbing narratives continued from front page to him and that as a feature wilter for or newspapers on which lie he worked in colorado and illinois and as a tree free lance writer history liaa has been his principal theme ilis hil hi l special delight is in ili digging up in obscure places sonic little 1 known chapter aln american history bryand and giving his readers ing sidelights on some of the events they learned about in their school book histories that I 1 is one why teachers find hlf bis alticus altic aill cle hS excellent material matei mate ilaI ial tor for LIC ate lit in fleir fl mr air gatbon is a of haral historical hitoi ical and lias has done one considerable historical research but primarily lie he is a feature writer and as a trained newspaper man mail lie he knows how to take the facts of history and weave them into an interesting readable narra live put I 1 ut historic it ai tides at aie e not the alic only kind which he writes ile he has a lively interest in many other sub science spots sports literature and tine fine arts in tact fact every phase of 0 american Amie rican and out our readers will find his articles in these fields as interesting as those which are strictly historical they artay n ay bf be interested to know that mr air watson is not only ono cato 01 0 ill tc must most widely feature writers in am nilca ica today tt but a an all instructor ir in this subject in the medill school lit 0 journalism at northwestern university ver sity lie he is al also alo o training feature writers ot 0 the future we consider ourselves fortunate in being able to gio gile our readers the work 0 of mich a writer and all we feel sure that will not only enjoy these articles them ives but will share that pleasure by telling their friends about them fr |