A. P. To G. O. P.

When last year the Democratic National Committee dipped into the corps of Washington correspondents, of all journalists the most politically wise, and plucked out Charles Michelson of the New York World as its press agent, the Republican National Committee felt badly scooped. This feeling was increased when, during the summer, Press Agent Michelson earned more than his pay by masterfully effective broadsides against the Republican Tariff Bill.

Last week the Republican National Committee made up lost ground by hiring as its Director of Publicity James L. West, the Associated Press's No. 1 political writer in Washington. Virginia-born 35 years ago, Newsman West has covered many a National Convention in his 16 years' work with the A. P. He closely tagged Herbert Hoover from his Kansas City nomination to his entry into the White House. A hush-hush reporter with the manner of always having a big story up his sleeve, Newsman West has worked so long in the shadow of the G. O. P. that he will have little or nothing to learn as the new expositor of its political creed.

Heavy have been the recent losses of the Washington A. P. to press agentry: Lionel Charles Probert, onetime locomotive fireman left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol.

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