Whitlock Returning

Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium during the war, is to return to America during the summer. He has been writing a novel at a quiet spot near Mentone on the Riviera. Now he expects to settle in Westchester County, N. Y., (near New York City) and busy himself with writing.

Thus coming back to his native country he also returns to his original profession--but in neither case, of course, to where he began. He always had a tendency to circle back to his beginnings. From Urbana where he was born (one of the numerous Urbanas, this one happening to be in Ohio) he went to Toledo and became a newspaper reporter. From there he went to Chicago, still at the same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married-- and from there returned to Toledo. There he was elected Mayor on an Independent ticket and held that office for eight years--through a maelstrom of strikes and political campaign. At the end he retired voluntarily.

In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium, and held that post until Christmas day, 1921. (His title was changed to Ambassador in 1919.) When he retired, King Albert called personally to express the thanks of the Belgian people for his services during the war.

While still a young lawyer at Toledo Mr. Whitlock published his first successful novel, The Thirteenth District, a striking tale of political life, and since then has given to the press several other works including The Turn of the Balance (during his term as Mayor of Toledo), The Gold Brick, Forty Tears of It, and Memoirs of Belgium Under the German Occupation.

Another hunter home from the hill: ex-Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, returned from the Far East.

Others who are visiting their own, their native land, include Theodore Bretano (Minister to Hungary) and Cyrus E. Woods (recent Ambassador to Spain, new Ambassador to Japan).

Senator Borah, speeding on his way to Idaho, stopped at Chicago long enough to say:

1) that President Harding will be renominated.

2) that the World Court proposal will be killed in the Senate.

3) that there will not be a third party in 1924.

"If I went into a bank to borrow money for the development of a newspaper enterprise, I would not say: ' I will pay what interest 1 please, I will give such security as I think best and I will repay when I feel like it.' If I did, I wouldn't get the money."--William Randolph Hearst, discoursing on the recognition of Mexico and on the problem of how Mexico is to borrow needed capital.

Representative Kelly (Republican) of Pennsylvania, was obliged to turn away a pension seeker. Saying that he "thought such patriotic service should be rewarded," Mr. Kelly was yet obliged to inform the applicant that Uncle Sam had no special pensions for mothers who bore twins.