Imaginary Interviews: Jun. 23, 1924

(During the Past Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the Following Men and Women. Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the Headlines.)

Rudyard Kipling: "I wrote an inscription and epitaph for a monument which the town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, is erecting to the 350 men from that place who fell in the War. My contribution concluded: "From little towns in a far land we came

To save our honor and a world aflame; By little towns in a far land we sleep, And trust those things we won to you to keep."

Theodore E. Burton, Congressman from Ohio: "The keynote speech which I made at the Republican National Convention found little favor with Percy Hammond and Franklin Pierce Adams, two famed Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself."' . . .

Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson: "The Harvard Law School (of whose faculty I am a member) extended my leave to live in Siam another year and serve as adviser to the King on international law."

G. B. Shaw: "In an address before the English Association in London, I deplored what I characterized as the increasing use of 'parrot talk' and the 'mumble mumble' of hostesses. I pointed out that parrots learn words and phrases distinctly at first, but gradually modify them so that they eventually become unintelligible to all except those who hear the parrots speak daily. 'What you ought to aim at,' said I, 'is to speak English that will be intelligible to foreigners. It is not sufficient for us to be intelligible to one another.'"

Edsel Ford: "At 'Ox Hill,' Seal Harbor, Maine, a beautiful new $2,000,000 house is rapidly going up. When completed, it will be my summer home. Perched on one of the highest hills in the locality (a veritable mountain), the building will be made of faced granite hewn from the ledges on the side of the mountain. It affords a full view of the ocean and in the near distance are such places as those of Dr. J. B. Murphy, famed pathologist, and Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, Mass. These places are noted for their scenic grandeur."