Imaginary Interviews: Sep. 17, 1923

Samuel M. Ralston, U. S. Senator from Indiana: " In reporting an interview that one of their reporters had had with Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer, the New York Tribune ignorantly referred to me as ' Senator James Ralston'."

Henry Ford: " By selective breeding at Dearborn, I plan to evolve a ' more efficient, two-in-one' cow— the milk-producing propensity of Jersey, Holstein or Guernsey coupled with the beefy lines of Hereford, Black Angus or Shorthorn."

Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third.

"My mother is Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative of my numerous novels and plays. I have lectured in Great Britain, Ireland, Jerusalem, Holland and the U. S. I am nearly 60.

"Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim N. Bialik, Russian, the great Hebrew poet; Stephen S. Wise, Manhattan rabbi; Henri Louis Bergson, the great French philosopher, member of the French Academy and Commander in the Legion of Honor; Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian, 'supreme in the field of belles-lettres.'