Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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What's the Matter with Emporia's "Young Bill" White was a last-summer guest of the Soviet Union . . . objects to Russian censorship of the press . . . applauds their theatre . . . doesn't think "Uncle Joe" is a Girl Scout THE Sage of Emporia had a son. YouVe heard of him. Without him, Margaret O'Brien might not have become your favorite screen child today! For he's the author of Journey for Margaret, that poign' ant and brave Httle episode out of the current war. He's also the author of a story poignant and brave in other ways, and bitterly true. It's called They 'Were Expendable. The writer is called "Young Bill." His full name is William L. White. He has written, also. What the People Said and Slueens Die Proudly, and one other book, not yet off the press. William L. White, son of the late William Allen White, owns a newspaper not far across the border from Kansas City. He is editor of the Emporia Gazette. But that's only one facet of Young Bill's career. He is also a roving editor for Readers' Digest, and since 1939 has been one of the most perceptive and alert of the war correspondents. Last summer he made a trip to Russia. He went with Eric A. Johnston, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Johnston, it seems, did most of the speechmaking — and ably; but Mr. White was busy, too. He was soaking up information about the great, sprawling country under Joseph Stalin, and his memoranda on that five-week visit will be published early this spring. Already the condensation of Report on the Russians has been printed in the Reader's Digest for December, 1944, and January, 1945. If you haven't read it, you must, to understand Russia. With Eric Johnston and four other reporters. Young Bill made the trip through the Urals and down into Russian Kazakstan, "to parts of the world that no American reporter had seen — a wonderful part of the country, a whole section that had been practically closed to the capitalist bourgeois world." In mid'January of this year, William Allen White came over to our town one day and. made a speech. He appeared at a weekly membership luncheon of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, made a few general comments on his recent Russian junket, and answered a lot of impromptu questions. At the luncheon that day were members of Kansas City's Russian Relief Group. "I'm very glad to have the Russian relief people here today," Mr. White said. "That is a worthy cause if there ever was one. The need, of the Russian people is desperate beyond our understanding. Almost anything that we can send over there