The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-10
AIR. DO0LEY, PHILOSOPHER
 IS 47 YEARS OLD TO-DAY

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 Philosophy was formerly the mental product of fscIeistereds grazbeards who dwel+ apart. far. from the, busy haunts of men, The philosoRher whose pl1il- osophy was capable of being grasped by the. eonmoa or garden intellect was considered a charlatan and a fraud. Now all this has changed. Audacious youth has dragged pfatlos-. op1y from it's c1otster, shaved off its hfrsute appendages logged it out in strictly modern clothes, and forced 1t to associate with common dubs.
 Chief among the producers of this modern sugar-coated philosophy is Finley Peter Dunne, who has been voicing the thoughts of Mr. Dooley'' for more than fifteen years Some people refer to ..Adr. Dooley'' as q hu- rnorist. just as Mark Twain was often so tagged; but DooIey, like Twain, is really a philosopher, and the humor is but the sugar-coating on the pill of his ratiocination.
 One of the funniest things about Mr. Dunness career Is that he didn't begin it in Indiana The creator of MT. Doofey" was born in Chicago forty seven years ago to-day, July 10, 1867. A conmon school education in the Windy City was the structure on which his fame was built Like Mark Twain and so many other disting gufsh- ed philosophers, Finley Peter didn't have to cope with the disadvantage of college course. Instead-also like NEr1S 6lemens-he completed his education in a newspaper office. Fin ley Peter was seventeen when he re- .ce1ved his first assignment from an eagie-eyed city editor in his native city There are rumors af1oa that the young reporter was not always appra-s cfated, and that on more than one Oc-' casion he received from the cashier pay envelope. of that color which in 16s with that particular journal is brought to a sudden and abrupt conclusion This may or may not be true, but it is certain that no city editor would ever admit that he had fred Finley Pe- ter. All Of the old timers of the Win. dy- City Fourth Estate who knew Mr. .Dunne in those days will admit that they knew from the very first that Pete was a genius and destined for great things.
 Whatever. his early successes and failures, MT. Durne was not slow sin climbing the ladder Of success. In his early twenties he was a member of the editorial staff of the Chicago Evening Post, and later of the Times Herald. MT. Doo1ey," the Archey Road philosopher, was first introduc- ed to the readers of the Evening Post. From 1897 to 1900 MT. Dunne was managing editor of the ChicaEo Jour nal-N He resigned that position to de- vote his entire time to t'Mr. Dooley.'' who had become an internationa.lIy famous character. MT. Dunne has since resided in New York
 It has been alleged that English men are lacking in a sense of hurnor but the popularity of ''AGr Doolev| and his creator in John Bulls island gives the lie to this canard. Next l., Mark Twain, MT. Dunne probably has more admirers in Great Britain than any other American. writer of his class. widely known or read in Ireland. hJt his popularity in the Emerald Isle is gradually increasing.
 In dragging philosophy out of. the
 clofster and establishing it in a bar room MT Dunne has conferred a boon
 upon humanity; and humanity has ro-
 ciprocated. by conferring- upon MT.
 Dunne a large and, juicy fortune.