Halliburton Will Cease Writing of Travels and Will Turn to Biographies--Finds College is More Profitable Than Navy

Richard Halliburton, intrepid globetrotter and author, stated in a recent interview that he would write no more books about his travels and adventures.

The author of "The Royal Road to Romance" and "New Worlds to Conquer" said that he had no definite plans for his next book, but expressed the opinion that he would like to produce some works of a more scholarly and serious nature.

"I intend to go to Europe in the near future either to study or to write a biography, possibly of Alexander the Great. I have been collecting material about Rupert Brooke, the promising English poet killed in the World War, and I may write his biography."

When asked why he didn't write a biography of an American, he answered that he had not become sufficiently interested in any American of note.

"I suppose I am like the person who cannot see anything of beauty in his own yard, but admires that of his neighbor."

Halliburton spent his freshman and senior years at Princeton, graduating in 1921. The two intervening years he saw the world with the Navy, and travelled in Europe. Since 1921 he has spent most of his time visiting numerous countries and writing of his adventures. He first became famous for his book. "The Royal Road to Romance."

This extraordinary traveler said that his most harrowing experience took place on Devil's Island, the notorious French prison. Here he lived with the prisoners and underwent the hardships of the life that kills half of the new prisoners each year.

He told about the tortures of being put in cages resembling bear pits and there through the want of anything to do, being left to go mad.

When asked whether he thought a man would get more good from four years of travel or from four years in college, he replied that everybody should do both if possible but that a college education was the more profitable.