The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-23

ItarlH. lie never mad the slightest
idea of making any money on his
25c weekly, but in the course OF
time it grew to be a big money
maker.
Think about your duty TO your
public and the cash drawer will
look after ITSELF" is one of Nelson
favorite remarks. He has the high
est and broadset conception of the
functions of journalism.
The thing that has got him into
trouble" with the court is his SYM
pathy with those who suffer a wrong.
He doesn't think that masses of the
people ought to be held up by the
courts in the interests of the law
yers. He is friend of the masses.
Naturally, his associations in his
own city are with those who are fit.
test socially. He has one of the fin
est houses in America and enter
tains royalty, but he doesn't run a
paper for those who put their legs
under his mahogany. He runs his
paper for the great impersonal pub .
/ lie. He studies their interests all the
time. He has a great gift for know
ing what their interests are.
A man who runs that kind OF a
paper naturally is not very popular
| in the clubs. Those who are seeking
favors from legislatures and city
councils do not love him. He is a
thorn in the side of every CRATER
and lobbyist. The malefactors OF
great wealth regard him as a COM
mon scold and a general nuisance.
But every year the Kansas City
Star has a greater number of read.
ers and a bigger volume of adver-
tising. The people know their friend.
Mr.. Nelson is progressive in every
though and act. He is 73 years old,
but has as much initiative and imagi-
nation as a boy. He has only re-
Gently completed a great newspaper
building and plant.
Speaking of his building, Mr.. Mel
son is almost an architect and quite
a landscape artist. Before he went
into the newspaper business he had
been a contractor. Soon after he
went to Kansas City he bought 4
big tract of land and built a castle
for himself. He didn't have the
money, but he had a prophetic vi
sion. His house is marvel of ar
ohitectura beauty. There have
grown up around him on his land
the most beautiful suburbs of Kan
sas City. 1t has all been done un-
der tho influence of his love of the
beautiful.
He has a summer home at Mag /
nolia, Mass. He and Mrs. Nelson |
went there one summer and liked
It.. When they looked around for a
lot on which to build there was
only one piece of ground left that
was at all eligibly situated. 1t
was thirty or forty feet below grade.
The average person would have said
it was utterly unfit. The Nelson's
bought it and managed it from a
and architectural point of
view in such a way as to make it
The most attractive place in Mag
nola.
This love Of the beautiful strikes
he keynote of much of Mr.. Nelson's
usefulness in Kansas City. 1t was a
lideous Missouri town when he land
I'd there. Now it is perhaps the
most beautiful of all the western cit
es. Under his strenuous leadership
Is uglinesses have been turned into
beauty spots,
He has insisted on parks and boul
Yards everywhere. His aspiration
r this direction knew no bounds.
Nom resident land owners who have
lelped to pay the bills have felt the
ute of taxation. But no matter
Nelson has got away with his policy
If beautification, and Kansas City
las the goods.
Naturally, in every political cam
)aign, an attempt has been made to
)ring Mr. Nelson personally into
he discussion. He has always re
used to be drawn into that discus