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Commentator offices, on east Main Street overlooking the lake, are a two-story frame building with green shutters. Natives call it the old Sawyer's Blacksmith shop. From Editor Eggleston's office he might easily fish in a babbling brook that flows out of the lake past the building. The Commentator has taken a five-year lease. With wives and families the Commentator migration numbered about 20; they live in six houses overlooking the lake. Editor Eggleston took along his cruising sloop. Publisher Payson remained in Manhattan, will go to Lake Geneva once a month for editorial conference...
...isolationist theory-expressed privately rather than publicly-is that civil war is brewing in the U.S., that it will be led (and won) by Midwest farmers against warmongers in the effete parts of the nation. Editor Eggleston, settled in Lake Geneva, denies that he anticipates civil war. "But," says he meaningfully, "others...
...conspiracy theory is carried further in Nieman Fellow Arthur Eggleston's otherwise excellent exposition of the situation on the labor front in America. Eggleston presents a very real and terrifying picture of the dangers facing organized labor, but he insists that the war is the source of all of labor's troubles, and he omits any mention of labor's recent gains. The defense program appears to him only as an excuse for labor-baiting. His analysis of jurisdictional strikes is, however, sufficient by itself to make the article worth reading...
Speaking before the Teachers Union yesterday afternoon at Phillips Brooks House, Mr. Arthur Eggleston, of the San Francisco Chronicle and a Nieman Fellow, in a discussion of the press coverage of recent strikes asserted that "labor alone has vitality to defend our democratic rights." For this reason he believes all labor organizations should be strengthened, rather than curtailed...
...Editor Eggleston got his friend Douglas Stewart, a New Deal-hating, Wall Street economist, to put some money into Scribner's Commentator. Last March they began reorganizing it. Out went Editor Francis Rufus Bellamy, Managing Editor Fred Hamlin, other editorial associates who were unsympathetic to their new policies. So far they have not only the satisfaction of promoting isolationism, but they claim it pays-that it has doubled Commentator's circulation, reduced operating losses very comfortably...