NOT HELPFUL

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 12

NOT HELPFUL

MR. MORGAN RETURNS

Mr. J. P. Morgan returned home to the United States recently from a long vacation in England and Scotland, and successfully met a barrage of questions on subjects ranging anywhere from Mrs. Simpson to the Roosevelt landslide, says the "San Francisco Chronicle." The financier, who usually avoids interviews, consented to see reporters in his sitting-room on the Queen Mary, but they got precious little out of him. Before anybody could ask him a question, Mr. Morgan announced: "I'm not going to say anything about anything." "Well, how are you feeling?" he was asked.. "I'm feeling fine, thank you." He appeared to have recovered completely from the illness with which he was stricken last spring. "How old are you, Mr. Morgan?" was the-next question. > "I'm sixty-nine years old." "Wo assume you're going back to your office." • "Well, you may assume it if you want in. I'll probably be doing the usual .things."

"I thought you might want to say something about Mr. Roosevelt's election" a newsman said.

"You didn't think any such thing," Mr. Morgan replied.

"Whajt do you think about Mrs. Simpson, being the next Queen of England?" somebody asked.

"I don't think."

"Would you like to see the Budget balanced?" "Would you?"

He was asked whether he believed the business improvement in England would continue,-

"I think so," he said. "They're getting along pretty well over there."

He was asked whether he had any statement to volunteer.

'"£ou never get into trouble until you volunteer statements," he replied.

"Well, Mr. Morgan, you're making it pretty tough for vs1 to write a story," a reporter said.

■ "That's' exactly my intention," he said.