The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-06

] is a cure ana IL u llt ultchr we are
! headed for and riding to a hard fall.
Men and women are going around In
automobiles that were bought BY mort
gaging their homes. Money has become
the god OF the American people, Pope
Gregory XIII turned the aspirations OF
! the Catholic Church 10 art and architec-
ture. We must be turned To better things
than money, to pictures. music, and liter
allure. Spiritually. we are either dormant
or dead ! lay no claim to piety. but
why are the churches empty of men on
Sunday mornings? Because the fathers
and husbands of the women in the pews
are at their Offices planning new cam
paigns for getting money 10 spend"
While talking to me-" | said, you
stated that you began to write when you
were fifteen years old?'
Il began 20 earn my living by writing
when I was fifteen; I started TO write
when I was eight Wichita and l were
infants together I grew up with the
town. a bleak little settlement on
crooked. sandy stream. Wichita is still
growing So am I-Old and fat" Mr..
Murdoch is thirty-eight years of age and
weighs about 2l0 pounds.
Learned 10 Set Type.
My father was in Lawrence. Kans.."
he went on to say when it was looted
and burned by Quantrel. the guerrilla
land border rufian. He escaped by climb
ling down into a well Although. fired on.
he was not hit After the civil war he
established a weekly newspaper at Wich-
ita. ! learned 70 set type In his office,
picking up meanwhile some Of the strange
and picturesque language of the old-time
printers AT ten. l was writing Roman
tragedies, getting my ideas from Shakes
peare.
1t is strange how one IS drawn away
from the only thing DE really wants 10
90. I never liked politics and never eX-
peeted to hold public office. Having read
Beaumont. Addison. Fletcher, Steele, and
Ben Jouson. / yearned 10 do something
IN literature. I dreamed of it, worked
toward it and felt that fame had a big
wreath ready for my brow. To-day I
am as crazy as ever 90 write a book or a
play that will live and keep on growing
after / am dead. ] would rather be the
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,,o,t,,s 60. ,,-,. ,,ro7,.e5 with enthusiasm
.,t,,,, r,r.sf5.,,, ~ .ba T-ri,ed States
II seems 10 me that the cheers Of an
audience on the first night for the author
would surpass all human pleasures and
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,otio,.ar,sntg yysu tta, Is the NAV
Lola ,,-,,,, iitors,,,r. v.rar ar the aor
~ esta1, 7 bocsvno O. -anorfar ON INV
f,tber,s r,.g..,arer %
i ..you v,ra married rrattv early ir
i1igo9,- 7 esi5
oycs. s+ ,.f,e,ss1 saw the Girl
wanted and tre qirI who wanted me and
20 ma hove b.er comrades ever since
u,,,r+,,o-,,,ors u.o have ,gyo daughters,
y w., ,.,., , ,.,,,,,, ,.,a., 80 means .
. On. -f.,.g..
n ovs. .ir. ms getting 50 a week
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ar "a mn s..,,o,- .,,-+ I'D, r,.,s NOT r.,,.
inc mo on tI,,, Nc ,r,-,r 1roroorer
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+ lbead If q r-s,o,taIre yiobits family
s -, .f,, t,,,,-l.,.r,,r 10, ,ro .o,,D,f,,,,
o 80, d, -,,,r,a~.far r.~s,r ,,.f,bort ~,
l. s...t-, zi.. 80 Ito 80. .....;,,- 900
= " vito, NM, fstber rorlied .b,tb -
,,,,, r,.r.,,toeoe ors u-rore, Won an
: receiving more than vou are worth
Writing NV son. is cheap. The prairie
p are fuU o. vouna fellows who would h.
e glad to get your position. My book
d keerer however. is an almost indispens
able man. II he were 10 go I shouL
II have much difficulty I'm filling his place
r so sent for masses given us 70
nrirtiDr the timetable of the railroad
and Mrs NIurdock and I went to Chicag
10 and lived IN one room. NV wages as
~ reporter were go a week and I wrote
70 pleasant letter home to father. Wbe
% I returned 10 nv room nj O'Clock in tn
- morning would read Dickens. Thacks
70 raw. and Lamb. for stvle. Tomorrow.
p thought. I shall hit the target and rim
IS the bell. Fortunately. Mrs. Murdoc
10 thought so too. wrote and wrote
& sketches. news items, everything. TIL
NJ CITY editor said was a good man. But
couldn't impress the public. The fellow
~ inside the Office congratulated me an
declared I was doing well But I got n
- sign from the people who read my stuff
at The bell didn't ring.
IN Followed Mckinley
a+ "p,, tho ,,,,,etaries of fate that vre COR
m ,,o+ ,,,,5o,sio,,5 ,-os .,esio-,o4 20 ,,o1i+to
of I'm co,,rsa of time 7 was sent 70 Ohio ,
ye foIIou, NrcL-inIav y-bo v,as r,,rriro, r,
sb ,,o,.er,o~ roda g., ,,r~faoos MIL, III,
4 ard stood off The inbabltants Who, IN.
On ,,,arto5 - ebal,o bie hand Occaeio,,,I,,
mt sIept in the same room with him ,
ed night He told me stories of his IN,
nd hood and gently slammed me on the bacI
ed ono dav yvas v.ritine, q disna+,b &, .,