FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

“THE LOOK-OUT MAN."

TO J I, lIAUPTMAN M. Hauptman, a Tyrolese, has arrived at Geneva after spending eight years in travelling the world to collect autographs. He collected 4,000 names, and was imprisoned fourteen times. You who pursued your strange, exacting quest Around the globe, in many different la ndsj Who button-holed celebrities ivith zest, And thrust your precious book into their hands. You who pursued the Syrian and the Turk, The Hindu and the Brahman and the Chink; Who for a strange subscription went berserk, Small wonder that they put you in the clink l You learned six tongues, and gained 4,000 names, Induced by guile or monumental bluff; Oh, champion at most curious of games, Fourteen times jugged—and still not jugged enough ! — T. TORERO A. * * * COWS DISAPPEAR A herd of 18 cows has disappeared from a farm Te !’a pa. Presumably the owners are now waiting till the cows come home. TRAIT , OF THE SERPENT The benefactions of Lady Houston, widow of -a gentleman who founded a line of steamers, became a conservative M.P.. and a millionaire several times over, are a bright feature of a contemporary life in Britain. Consequently the lady cannot be accused of merely talking when she gets on to the trail of unionism (pictured as a wicked-looking serpent) as a primary cause of distress In Britain at the moment. Where she may he going wrong Is in accepting hundreds of letters of approval as a sign of the concurrence the miners and other workless toilers who write them, wheras it is probably the truth thac the writers have learned that the easiest way to a rich person’s heart Is to fall in with some of his or her fine ideas. A share in the opulent one’s benefactions usv%lly results. *■ * * PULITZER MILLIONS Where Byrd is getting the money from for his explorations in the Arctic, plus radio, gramophones, chewing gum and other luxuries, is revealed by the copyright lines above all Press dispatches from the Byrd camp. The St. Louis “Post-Dispatch,” one of the wealthiest and most influential newspapers in America, was founded 50 years ago by Joseph Pulitzer, a young Hungarian who had come to America to light in the Northern cavalry in the Civil War. Buying the tottering St. Louis “Dispatch” lor the almost nominal figure of £7OO, Pulitzer had It showing a profit of over £20,000 a year within five years. Heartened by his success, he went to New York,, and in ISB3 bought the New York “World.” These two papers quickly made Pulitzer a multi-millionaire, rivalling Hearst as the most influential figure in United States journalism. The Pulitzer papers were among the few large American dailies that championed the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti.