Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Apr 1939, p. 34

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Guggenhelms," and the torthcomig tale of the th( Astor famwily for Knopf started -out ini Tacoma, lie WashL, as the: son of a very. poor family, liesays. Rée managed to get through high 'sdhool, then he went to work ini a logging camp. Shortly afterward the war fever struck hs section of the country, *and he. joined up with the Merci- ant Marine. Joins. Merchant Marine * In the liglit of mature knowledge lie realizes that the Merchant Marine was a .most. dangerous branch o! the service in -which to be engaged, aiearly, as. dangerous as the aviation brandli. The. ship in which le embarked for HaWali aged to reacn agaim. That 011E career ithe immer v eA,751L<ue verrai;ed pub- at famnily. Just for fun be hlm- hip man- id home Lnded its Marine. 1 into a cation of the trend. " ~ 1 KUU 7W Hence lis belle! that there is room for a inew sort o!publication with a different fo rmula for success, an arresting treatmnent of signiftcant opinion. Here he-threw in, a rernark whidli many thiought. ful Americans will appreclate. In slpeakinýgo! the excellent treatmnent j o!fforeign news, especially by the Chicago Daily News, lie said, "th~e * fartiier away,, the more the truthi can. be told. If tlie News pulled its foreign staff out of Europe and turned. themn loose in Chicago,. tley wou16 get. a. great deal o! news. .But the.News would flot print what- tbey found out." The labor press is the'best field forhe j'ournalist t oday, Mr. 0'Con- noir believes. It offers a vital, cru- sading sort'of career. Of course it Aostpy wn; bt nt hèier dôes the conservative press, and the op- portunity for service is very great. Mr. O'Connor was carryin.g around in lits. hand a littie book which proved to be a publication of the Left Bookç club o! England, that successful book-selling scienie j f or Loeral works at littie cost. Mr. O'Connor said hie sent over $5 and received about 20 such books. His finsborrow tliemn 50 fast and Me~ Unitdateais. t persistea until 1926 and then ceased publica- tion. SHe. went from this paper to the L( Engineers Journal in Cleveland. the Harvey O'Connor Franco a$s mosl Rin is being fouglit tlieir st tlie Fascist powers," Fe sees tlie granting of riglits to General ýng to the loyalist cause, 1'

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