Colyumist Moses

Long before last November's Democratic landslide swept him out of the Senate, George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire was made a standing offer by William Randolph Hearst to become an editorial writer at $50,000 a year. Not to the Hearst organization, but to Publisher Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News, onetime Hearstling, went George Moses. Last week, from Washington, he began writing a colyum on national and international events for the News.

No lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat.

George Moses is no stranger to editorial rooms. He went to the Concord Evening Monitor after he was graduated from Dartmouth in 1890. Before he was sent as U. S. Minister to Greece & Montenegro in 1909, he was publisher. His defeat for re-election to the Senate (where he served 14 years on the Foreign Relations Committee), his 64 hard-lived years, have not dulled George Moses' tongue or wit.

Excerpts from first colyum for Col. Knox:

"In anticipation [of the World Economic Conference] the trek to Washington has already begun. . . . Italy and Germany--those newborn twins of dictatorship--will ... be seen and heard in the American Capital. . . .

"We shall doubtless hear some debate whether these guests are not in reality self-invited. On this head the only sound conclusion is that none of the nations involved intends to let any of the others get away with it when it comes to a matter of being entertained at the White House or of hobnobbing with members of the Committee on Foreign Relations."

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