y expressed,
and continue with the speaker's name, the time, place, and occasion of
the interview. Thus:

|"What has happened in Mexico is an appalling |
|international crime," declared Theodore Roosevelt |
|last evening at his home on Sagamore Hill, Oyster |
|Bay, L.I. He had been out all the afternoon in the |
|woods chopping wood, and was sitting well back from |
|the great log fire in the big hall filled with |
|trophies of his hunting trips, as he talked of the |
|recent massacre of American mining men in Chihuahua.|

|The most damnable act ever passed by Congress or |
|conceived by a congressman, was the way in which |
|William J. Conners of Buffalo to-day characterized |
|the La Follette seamen's law. Mr. Conners is in New |
|York on business connected with the Magnus Beck |
|Brewing Company, of which he is president. |

=181. Statements of Local Interest.=--Almost always it is well,
if possible, to lead the person interviewed to an expression of
his opinion about a topic of local interest, then feature that
statement,--particularly if the statement agrees with a declared policy
of the paper. Usually a problem of civic, state, or national interest
may be broached most easily. If the city is interested in commission
government or prohibition, if the state is fighting the short ballot or
the income tax question, the visitor may be asked for his opinion. If
the guest happens to be a national or international personage and the
nation is solving the problem of preparedness, or universal military
service, or the tariff question, he may be questioned on those subjects
and his opinions featured prominently in the lead. Note the following
lead to an interview published by a paper opposing the policies of
President Wilson:

|Declaring that the national administration's foreign|
|policy has made him almost ashamed of being an |
|American citizen, Henry B. Joy, of Detroit, Mich., |
|president of the Packard Motor Company, a governor |
|of the Aero Club of America and vice president of |
|the Navy League, said yesterday that our heritage of|
|national honor from the days of Washington, Lincoln,|
|and McKinley is slipping through our fingers. |

=182. Inquiring about the Feature.=--Often the feature to be developed
in an interview lead may be had by asking the one interviewed if h