Modern Pilgrims

"Checking New Englanders Round the World" headlines the Boston Evening Transcript over an entire page--"Our Modern Pilgrims and Where They Are Today." Then follow great lists of Bostonians and New Englanders--"Leaving Kobe, Japan, tonight for Nagasaki": So-and-so and So-and-so and So-and-so; "At sea between Algiers and Monaco": So-and-so; " Now on the Nile": So-and-so.

Here is what The Daily News (New York) says about royalty: "Holding down a job as a king or a royal prince nowadays is pretty soft. They don't have to work at it--the lucky stiffs!"

This was apropos of Gustavus of Sweden, who went down to Nice to indulge in a tennis tourney. It was written for digestion by 500,000 readers.

Mr. Hearst has put a new man in charge of his Chicago paper, The Herald and Examiner--George D. Buckley, who recently resigned the presidency of the Crowell Publishing Company, which publishes the American Magazine, The Woman's Home Companion, Mentor, Farm and Fireside. George Wheeler Hinman, former president of the company that publishes The Herald and Examiner, will devote all his time to writing "signed front page feature articles."

On April 1 Arthur Krock, editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal, will resign to become executive assistant to Will Hays, cinema czar.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune purchased 5,000 Bibles and in fourteen days disposed of them to its readers at 98 cents each.