"The World's Leaders"

Three hundred U. S. hotel executives, male and female, were acclaimed and feted at Berlin last week perhaps more enthusiastically than in any of the other countries through which their whirlwind European tour has taken them.

The Herr President himself received in his private study eight hotel people, who scarcely believed their ears when they heard the mild drawing-room accents of the onetime "Blood and Iron War Lord."

Upon Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann fell the responsibility of uttering honeyed words to the hotel tourists en masse. Diffident hotel gentlefolk blushed as Herr Stresemann cried: "You are the world's leaders in your line of business, and, indeed, one may ask wherein Americans are not leaders. . . ."

Next day before the 300 proceeded to Cologne, hip flasks filled with cognac were presented to all members of the party, after they had been led by candle light through miles of wine cellars. A ballet of genuine Rhine maidens subsequently performed in one of the great cellars. Mrs. James Walker, wife of the Mayor of New York City, and an honorary member of the hotel-tour said: "This beer is the best I ever tasted."