Harris Up

Julian LaRose Harris had the perfect entree to Southern journalism as the son of Joel Chandler ("Uncle Remus") Harris. He cashed in on it so brilliantly that at 23 he was managing editor of Henry Grady's Atlanta Constitution.

Just before the War he moved on to Manhattan and James Gordon Bennett's Herald. In the War Harris won the rank of captain of military intelligence, returned to Paris as editor and general manager of the Herald's European edition. When the Heralds were sold to Frank Munsey in 1920, Harris drifted back to his native

Georgia, picked up the moribund Enquirer-Sun in Columbus. For the next ten years he and his wife had the time of their lives, baiting Ku Klux Klansmen, lynchers, the great Evolution trial. In 1926 he got the Pulitzer Prize for "most disinterested and meritorious public service" from Northerners but in 1930 he lost his paper to old-line Southerners. A financial failure, he had, however, attracted the respectful notice of U. S. liberals, of his old friends on the Atlanta Constitution and of the far-seeing New York Times. Contributing to the latter, he went back to work for the former, as State news editor, news director, advertising manager and finally, up a blind alley, as literary editor.

Among the properties of the New York Times is the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times, publishing springboard of the late Adolph Ochs, now published by Ochs' Nephew Julius Ochs Adler. Last week Nephew Adler plucked Julian Harris, 61, from the Constitution, made him executive editor of the Chattanooga Times, a lively paper in a lively newspaper country. In subordinate jobs Harris' bitter temper and sarcasm have often hurt him but on the Chattanooga Times Harris was told that he would be Boss.

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