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*Paul R. Leach, pQlitical writer for *the Chicago Daily News for many vears and since. last fail head of its Wýashingtofln bureau. is a great îeliever in luck, or as the newspaper men cal! it, "IIthe: breaks." WVeIl he might be tooi for wheti be first came to Chi- cago in 1910 and tired -of b is six mnonths grind in the credit. depart-. ment of an electrical concerti, he'de.- cided. tc, apply for a reporting job on the l)aily Nemws. I* had seen an item .ini the paper about the .death of a second baseman for the -Cubs," recoltects. Mr. Leach with a grini , "o 1 sat down anid wrote 'a letter to Victor F. Lawson askingl story on. condition that he tell who gave him the tip. "I was dumb," said Mr. Leach. "anid told him the truth, that my sports editor biad sent Ile out. WVell, he wouldn't go back on bis bar- gain, so I had the story and it was a one-day sensation in Chicago.", Soid Niewapaper Feundatiom For, six years Paul. Leacb covered sports and after a tinle wrote the number one features. Then he de- cided he wanted a change, which, to his disgust resulted in bis covering' the police beat for six nonths. "That was the best thing that could have =apee to , ne," said Mfr. Leach frnl,"but 1 didn't sec it then. It' for a job in~ the -sports çlepartmnlent. It1 gave me a chance, so bappened I found out later that a work for our wh( mian (luit ini the department the day tutre." For. two ye )get the grounld- e political struc- rs after that he material on Pershinhg and Dlawes in at biography of William Jennings Bryan. One of the odd things about writing the book is that I had been wanting to write it long before Riley came to me, and my ti tie was 'hat Man Dawes!' So was- Riley's 1 It was a happy co- incîderice to take over my own titie." Tke Mile Stomy. Que of the stories about' Dawes which did'not get in tbeelbook was the yarn relatéd to Mr. Leach by the late James Keeley,, former ma nagingeditor of the, Chicago Daily Tribune. That was the famous mule story about Quartermas- ter General. Dawes needing 25,000 mules and winning them .f rom a reluctant Britishler wbo had 50.000 on0 hand- by playing some Ameérican jazz for 'bim. 1*1 wrote Mr. Dawes in London wherc be was the American, ambassador at the time and asked if, this, were, true," comments Mr. Leach., "He wrote backý and said it was not.* so 1 could&it use it. In a postscript to bis note he asked, 'Did you get' thi s yarn frorn Jim Kee- lev?'I1 think le got bis mules, a thou- sand of them finally, from a bunch smruggled over from Spain." Motivation is the thing which makeË character study of anyone ifiteresting, m<ld Mr. Leach said that after he dis- 'overed two tbings about Charles G. D)awes, the rest of the biography was easy. "He made Theodore Roosevelt his model of a public man, and he stud- ied'Gustave Le Bon's 'Mob Psychology.' Few people have ever heard of Le Bon, Inut Dawes studied bis theories and tised Euxplains Pipe Habit It Nvas Dawes' profane rejoinder t<> the Seniate investigating cornmittee ab out the price hie paidl for mules, "Helu 9 i' Maria, gentlemen, we were. wining a war," which brougbt him faine as a mfaster of expletives. Mr. Leach recalis. and the underslung, pipe which struck the popular f aucy 'had its beginning when the dotor forbade him tol smoke bis custoniary 30 to 4Ô cigars a day.- He cut dowNn to 10 or so, substittuting extra long cigars. but lie finally took to a pipe. and later to the underslung style whicn a Chicago man named Lyon umissed the council quietly, and there w a s nô~ strike. 1 found'thatthe work- ers were at.home patcbing.thingi that needed répairs, the ârmnory was filled ,with armied vets dying for excitement. The CoMmmunists did flot dare to comne ont.:.That was my first idea of how' the English do thingu." Luck bas usually folloWed Mr. Leach, in bis traviels. Wlten in Washington.a f ew years ago a colleague, on the,, I-, dianapolis News told bii tbegovern- mient was closing. the Great -Lakes Naval 'station. "Hie said hie was sure," said Mr. Leach,. "so I siat downand wrote a'story for my paper, sending-it on the wire immediately. Then I got to thinking about it and decided to check. 1 f ound out that the government was Simnply closing Camp Perry, across the traiçks, the old war cantoipmmnt, so I wired the paper my stôry was incorrect and to kil! it. 1 caugbt it just ini time for the, story ivas àlready in the formu with a number eigbt bead. But my friend smeared it ail over bis paper, liot knowing Camp Perrywas an insignifi- tant part of the Great Lakes station." MIsseJ CoituUdgStoey One time hia luck failed him corn- pletely was the year of Coolidge's fa- mous "I do flot choose to mun." Leach had been with him but while at Mac- a dramatic pohmcai arena tor at 1C851 the next three years, and as bead of the Washington bureau of the Chicago, Daily News be bas bis finger on the political pulse of tbe nation, or, to mix. the metaphors, -in the. alpbabetical soup whicb i-, apparently :to be our daily bread. .The fatnily basý left -the'home at 71 Warwick road, and Mrs. Leach and Betty are with Mir. Leacbi in Washing- ton, while Pau! junior is enrolled in a nmm, and wnat nis m-ai jiauiva. infornied me bow to locate Michael J Kernna iii his cigar Store on Clark Street." Mr. Kenna tumned ont to be an un-' derý-sized man, with steel-blue, eyes who sat at, ease ithe backroom and fet the bartender direct- callers to bimi by a, thunib Jerked vigorously toward the rear; He gave you ng Leacb the family, dig int te igaheso is o es and brilant wniting abili- 741 Prospect avenue, Win etka. ilie period. ty and Robert J. Casey on the Chicago Altbougb of course it is handy to Dpiltv News is one of these. lie thinks The regular meeting of the Moth-* bave a publisher corne to a writer Whemi asked if be would not like to ers' club of St. Josepb's parisb will and asic for abook, it. is hot s0 hancfy bc a foreign correspondent, Paul Leacb' be beld Friday evening of this wéélc to bave tû conform to a schedule whicb slîo6k bis h ead. "One. little 'country 'SundayV nigbt will be Fatber's might. the publisher 'makes out. Mr. Leacb about the size of Ilinois? Most foreigný The program'*is being arrange*d by ohs.ervcs. Keeping upé to the deadline corresplosideflts are claps- with a studious Mrs. C. Henrichsen.