The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-28
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devoted to selfish ends might make
him one OF Americas richest men.
in money; he's bigger than that. ~
aims at other ricde.-cIes riches OF
achievement. No American Is CIV
ing 90 much to the nation few give
anything like - ach. ne does not
ask cent of 6zgs anyvheFa.
His vaudeville alary does not pay
his expenses. Hlhdpedss OF news
boys working from HIS stands, sup
ply him the sineEs OF war in his
for the neN boys all over
the land.
Is An EdncatOF.
Z He educates upon sanitation; he
lectures against tuberculosis. ciga-
rettes and strong drink; he has q
hundred little isms that go TO make
men healthier and brighter. And
he Is the apostle Of the smile. Be
CHEEKY Is his perennial message, dis
seminated through cheerfulness, un-
known in this world since Mr.. Dick
.ens's pen dropped from his dead
hngers Be CHEEKY. Be happy as
you can. Cut out the doleful. Try
to encourage the other fellow. Let
the milk of human kindness mellow
everything. What a message for
noodles. originated this. No
body told it to him. He had his
own struggles-he must have had,
although he will not speak Of them
and he knows what must be done
and how. He can not lift every news
boy, every gamin in America out or
poverty, but he can give them good
time: tell them how to bear the
burdens of life, call public attention
to their trials and prfvations and
make the life of each little
brighter. So he is doing it. He is
mot staying back in New York piling
up dollars, but he is migrating from
city to city. another apostle, an
Apostle OF good cheer, carrying his
message of love and kindness and
hope and honesty as none but man
with his experience, his past, his
memories, could carry 1t.
isn't this an achievement? Isn't
this enough to secure him a hearing
anywhere. People sometimes won
der why newspapers give him
the space and attention he secures.
They call it another advertising
fake They say he is a clever press
agent advertising himself as an
actor and his theateF as we'll. But
the men of the newspaper know bet
ter; they, who have long wrestled
with the newspaper problem, stand
hat in hand at his success with that
problem, which they have never
solved. They give their space be-
cause Noodles" is doing a work no
other American has attempted. No,
your favorfte newspaper in employ.
ing Noodles is not guilty of bit
of cheap advertising. it is honestly
trying to assist great movement.
For Noodles can reach this type
as no other great American has
reached them.
Fagan's spiel"
His "spiel' rarely varies and Is
simplicity itself. Keep clean
physically, mentally and morally.
Revere your parents and cling to-
your friends. Here Is his creed
In a nutshell. He breaches no relig
ious faith and reaches Catholic,
Protestant and Jew with equal ease
them as no minister Of
the gospel ever can, and as no man
in American life ever has
Public life" do you sneer. II is
unbiased. Noodles has ceased to
be a private citizens. He is a pub
lie character. For he has found a
way to render America a tremen-
dous service.
Think of this man button
holes, enthuses. inspires, year in and
year out, the very children who most
need mis- service. The little fellow
whose home affords little hope and
whom a callous public gives scant !
courtesy, finds the magnetic energy |
Of this man a bond of strength that
may last him to maturity. He
teaches the gamin that he has a
place in the world, he with his
shoes that need toes and his trous-
ers need patches-he is told that he
has part in this great republic, that