POLITICAL NOTES: Bulow v. Wallen

Is Theodore Wallen, of the New York Herald Tribune staff, big, fat and slick looking? He was so described last week by Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota, in an interview published in the New York Times. The Governor, a Democrat, felt that he had been misquoted by Mr. Wallen, who had attributed to him a "feeling" that President Coolidge would be reelected.

Said Governor Bulow: "... A big, fat, slick-looking man walked up to me and said his name was Wallen and that he was from New York. ... He seemed to know all about my folks. He led me to believe that he was acquainted with President Coolidge and Senator Norbeck. He talked like a powerful smart man. . . . He told me a lot about politics that I never knew before. I occasionally said yes, yes, to the things he was telling me, in order to keep him going and tell me more. . . .

"I notice Mr. Wallen says that I was busily engaged in chewing Granger Twist tobacco. I will admit that I was chewing tobacco, but it was not Granger Twist and Mr. Wallen was as near correct about most of the things that he says I said as he was about the kind of tobacco that he said I was chewing. . . ."