BAKER, RAY STANNARD

(1870), (‘David Grayson’) writer; 6. Lansing, Mich. He studied law and literature in the Univ. of Michigan. On Chicago Record, 1892-7; managing editor McClure’s syndicate, 1897-8; a ociate editor McClure’s Magazine, 1899-1905; one of editors of American Magazine, 1906-15. Supply commander Dept. of State in Great Britain, France and Italy, 1918; director Pre Bureau of American Commi ion to Negotiate Peace at Paris, 1919. Author: Boys’ Book of Inventions, 1899; Our New Prosperity, 1900; Seen in Germany, 1910; Second Boys’ Book of Inventions, 1903; Following the Color Line, 1908; New Ideals in Healing, 1909; What Wilson Did at Paris, 1919; The New Industrial Unrest, 1920; Also under pen name of ‘David Grayson,’ Adventures in Contentment, 1907; Adventures in Friendship, 1910; The Friend- — ly Road, 1913; Hemp field, 1915; Great Po e ions, 1917; contributed largely to American periodicals, writing chiefly on social and economic subjects. He published in 1922 an extensive record of the Paris Peace Conference, from the. records and papers of President Wilson.