Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON ayears NEW EW YORK in the pre waz wai years about the only sure nough bough newspaper man who cov ered europe was henrs de blow itz the boheme U S scribes an who became set pace for a frenchman british boys and scooped the world with the hill full text of the treaty at the con ference of berlin at the end of the franco prussian war although he did this tor for the london times english journalists distinctly that rather than newspaper men seemed to think it quite cricket and they went on wearing spats carrying canes and dodging teg leg wor work k 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 in n the treaty an exciting oer yarn if it there ever was one bit of a dont you think aid the englishman atter alter the war the english correspondents started shaking a leg but with all this chauvinism loose in the world we may boast that it was the american lads who set the pace one press association and a few of our newspapers sent over to the big war some news beagles who began retrieving stories right under the nose of the morning coat scribes been getting getling 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 chicago 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 borne some of the best stories from that beat in italy he made a sim liar record A keen analyst as well as news getter he be 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 ile he grew up in roseville ill and finished at the university of wisconsin after two years at northwestern he is 37 years old G GEORGE EORGE RUBLEE 70 years old is beset with a thousand plans for cor taking care of european political refugees as he heads the american efforts in george rubles rublee this humane un vet of delicate der taking his negotiations fame rests upon pa h his i s achievements as an in international ter national 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 ile he has straightened out snarls over oil rights in colombia mexico and other countries ile he was a friend and associate of the late dwight W morrow and helped him settle a number of oil and banking arguments in mexico he is a native of madison wis and an alumnus of the harvard la law school he began the practice ol 01 law at chicago flotre was a news story the other day about a thwarted artist who came through and had a glorious revenge on his th warters the fine arts flunked artist substitutes asso evens things cia tion in be with bompers half of teach teachers ei Is flunked b by the new york board of examiners given an exhibition by which the public is to judge whether the board bopped boppel them unjustly among the exhibitors is max weber dis 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 tie he thinks of it and cites his sue suc cess as proof of their tence mr weber a native of russia here at the age of 10 was a modernist so far out of bounds that the academicians academic ians would turn in a riot call whenever anybody mentioned his name ile he has been marked up more by the critics probably than any other man in america the turn in mr webers fortunes came in 1925 when a discerning new york sun critic among oth ers piped him up as a thoroughly competent artist his pictures sell he has a nice home at great neck long island 0 consolidated news features service |