The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-03-27
0F AMERICAN
IS V YEARS OLD
Creator of Bowser and Other
Characters Gets Tributes
From Noted Persons.

is and keep US humble enough to work
hard at it."
Walt Mason, the Emporia QKan)
prose versifer:
Happy veteran of mirth! You have
sent around the earth joyous smiles
these many years. Generations dried
their tears, which were dripping ON
their vests, as they read your whole
some jests. Can a man do better work
than to conquer gloom and jerk all
the features from its tail? He who
teaches that q wall Is n cheap and
sordid thing, that it's best to smile
and sing. is a teacher ! admire; hence
this twanging of my Tyre. May you
reach a green old age. kindly Jester,
smiling sage! And in heaven there
will be further harmony and glee
when a genial, mirthful God says he's
needing you, NJ. Quadr'
s. +. Kiser:
May you in nineteen thirty-two
Be with us, hearty still and hale,
To teach us, as you daily do,
That humor never need grow stale;
To show to us, who sometimes fear
Our efforts are of little worth,
That merriment year after year
Allows to youth a newer birth.
Samuel G.. Blythe:
First off, think and know that in
these seventy years of yours you have
given more enjoyment to more people
than any other of our time, and that
should make you happy and probably
does.
"And, second, / hope you will live
many more years and keep it up.
IL add my fluctuations and congratu-
lations and tender my sincerest re-
gard
Tom Mason, associate editor of Life:
Greetings from an old friend ON
your birthday. You may not recall the
fact, but l was the editor who first
had the pleasure of seeing your Ari-
IONA Kicker start on its glorious ca
reer. | remember well the effect it
had upon my mind. The wonderful
enthusiasm with which it was con-
Quoted and its perfect American i'm
pulse have always endeared this con-
ception of yours to me-"
John S. Phillips. editor of the Amer
lean Magazine:
"To NJ. Quad, known among hui
morculturists as the Detroit peren-
nial.' When / was Il child my father
found solace in NJ. Quad from the
rigors of country doctors life. In the
earliest memory of my own budding
opppociotion nj ht11,on, bic mama L. fon.
gleI up with Mark Twain. Here's hop
ing he may 90 on to be the scout and
pioneer of humOr for my grandchil
dren as he has been for these preced-
ing generations OF us"
Don c. Seitz. business manager of
the New York World:
Long life and good cheer to Charles
b. Lewis, the man who made the town
of Detroit known across the seven
seas"
Among the many other letters was
this one from forne" United States
Senator Chauncey NJ Depew:
Contributors to human welfare are
found in many lines OF literary effort.
The preacher, the philosopher. the so
cioio"ist and the theoriSt have their
audience and influence. but the writ
er who daily reaches mutitudes
through the press in IL way that en-
lists attention and creates an eager
desire for more because he gives in
struction with humor is II perambula
tory sanitarium for the sick in heart.
mind or body. Humor is the solvent
of sadness. 1t is the bother of the
blues. To have done this benefcent
work for more than forty years until
he has become n welcome guest in mil
lions of homes is the rare distinction of
NJ. Quad"
Among those who sent in humorous
drawings depicting their congratula'
tons and appreciation We're Gelett
Burgess, "Zim," Marshall p. Wilder
Walt McDougall, r. f. Outcault. Carl
A. Schultze, A. ID. Reed. Ed Carey, the
present illustrator of the NJ. Quad sto-
ries; Foster Follett j. X. Bray. Il. w.
Kemble and C. r. Anderson.
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