Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-02-04


amount Of it, although the salaries paid are in
general way more than fairly comfortable.
Robert Wickliffe Woolley is one of the latest
OF Americas wellknown newspaper men TO pc
appointed to a position in the treasury depart
ment AS someone else has put It, Woolley makes
more money than any other in the United
States but the personal difficulty is that he Is
not allowed to keep the proceeds of his manu-
acture He is the director of the mint, and every
body knows that the province Of the mint s--to
turn out money for the multitudinous uses OF the
people of these United States.
There are not many newspaper men in the
country who are better known than this present
official of Uncle Sans government. Woolley
looks about thirty years old but he can add quite
a number of years on to that and Civ no lie to
the date OF his birth He has been reporter,
sporting editor. managing editor, an editor, and
writer of magazine articles, and today he can
pick up any of his old jobs and do It justice,
and If the whirligg of politics In time shall thrust
him forth from the portals of the treasury de-
partment, he probably and very naturally will
turn to tread in the old accustomed ways.
The writer of this has known Woolley for
good many years, and worked with him side By
side for a considerable length of time q great
Chicago daily. Woolley then sporting edt
tor He is an outdoor man, who loves the things
which all full-blooded Americans love. and, more
| over, be knows how to write about them, whether
| It be as a close finish q Kentucky track or
Il innings $50 far" to at the National league
| grounds in New York city. Woolley loves sport
for sports sake, but It must not be supposed for
minute that sport ever occupied the major part
| of his time.
| From boyhood until this day the present drec.
tor of the mint has been student of sociological
conditions of economics and of the ways and
means OF legislation to get for the people what
| seems to the progressive-minded the things which
they ought to have. Convictions that certain
lines OF procedure were the right ones to follow,
and q determination to follow them. have given
Robert w. Woolley many strenuous and exciting
hours during his long newspaper career
II IL not necessary to explain to the people Of
the United States what political ring is. nor is
it necessary to explain what invisible govern
ment u.s. Certain brave spirits in newspaperdom
have been aghting rings and invisible government
for years. and it has made no difference to the
courageous ones whether the ring was composed
OF men of their party, or whether the in
visible government likewise was tinged with a
partisan color of hue ordinarily deemed ad-
mirable by the crusaders The director Of the
mint is a Democrat, but he has fought Democrats
when they were trying to exploit the people for
: selfish ends
J director of the mint had time Of it, which
tested his courage and the sincerity of his conyic
tons I am aot going to mention the name q
: the place where certain thing happened. but
. Internationally the scene OF it will be recognized
by many and the details will be remembered by
men who have not yet arrived on the borders Of
middle age.
{ Down in the South. and not very far In tht
: South either, Robert w. Wooiley was oncs
managing editor of a newspaper OF prominence
in a city OF considerable size The chief edito
OF his paper and the mayor Of the town wer'
: engaged in a row for the mayor. it was believed
= was connected with municipal political combi
:. nation which. as the editor viewed II, was Ia
from being an institution intended TO benefit thu
people OF the community. Finally the lie va
4 passed and the lie is. or was, anyway, sur
. lighting word in certain communities.
= One morning Mr. W6olley went down to tn
newspaper once and found the mayor Of the tow
:, and his son each with gun in hand holding tn