Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON PAR TON JEW YORK in the prewar pre war NEW years about the only sure enough newspaper man who covered europe was henri Hn ando S de Do blowitz the boheme U US S scribes an who became set pace for a frenchman scooped ahe and british boys world with the full text of the treaty at the con ference of berlin at the end of the franco prussian war although he did this for the london times eng lish journalists distinctly that 1 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 m 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 he war the english correspondents started shaking a ie leg but with all th chauvinism loose in the world we may boast that it was the american lads who set the nace one press aa aid aia ai d a few of our newspapers sent over to the big biff war some news beagles who began retrieving 7 stories right under the nose ot 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 9 and fast thinking reporter in chicago for nine years before he went to the orient as correspondent for the chicago daily news and the poston boston transcript he was close in 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 g getter etter he is one of a pum ber 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 he grew up in roseville ill and fini finished shed at the university of wisconsin after two years at northwestern ile he is 37 years old ceorge rE G EORGE ORGE RUBLEE 70 years old VJ is beset with a thousand plans for taking care of european political refugees as he heads the amerin can n efforts in george rublee it this humane uri un vet of delicate der taking his IV negotiations CEO fame rests upon h his 1 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 aryn anywhere here 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 I 1 late ate dwight W morrow and helped him settle a number of oil and banking arguments in 51 mexico exico he is a native of madison W wis is and an alumnus of the har harvard vard la law school he began the practice ol of law at chicago T PHERE HERE was a news story the other day about a thwarted artist who came through and had a glorious revenge on his thwarters th warters vi flunked t j A the fm fine arts artist substitutes asso evens things cia tion in bompers oppe half of teachers flunked by the new york board of examiners gives an exhibition by which the public is is to judge whether the board bopped boppel them unjustly A among mong the exhibitors is i S 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 teus tells what he thinks of it and a nd cites his sue suc cess 83 23 proof of their 1 tence nce mr weber a native of rus sia here at the age of 10 wasa modernist 1 so far out of bounds that inai the me academicians academic ians would turn in ID a rot riot cau call whenever r a any n Y body mentioned his name nam e I 1 he ae has been marked up ni more ore by the critics probably than th a n another man in america the turn i in n mr webers fortunes in 19 1925 when S a discerning dis cernin new w york Y ork sun 9 rap bitic critic ri tic amo ers ng S oth piped h him am up as a thoroughly competent artist his he snut ong has island a nice hor botne ne at pictures great neck s sell 0 consolidated service news aca lures |