The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-16
!, Land park College Paper Prints
s..-v Written by keokuk Jour
naIlst on Editorial
Writer.
s1NcERE AND EARNEST
sIl,lnaness to Help Young People Is
shown In Little Incidents
Of His Iowa
Trip.


Tne Highlander, the official students
..per Of Highland Park College al
yss Moines, prints a story by DR.. G
waiter Barr on Arthur Brisbane, ed
aorial writer, who was in Des Moines
let week, and who spoke before the
sudents. Following Is the story by
me- former Keoluk writer:
Manhood is innate and never super.
scial It oozes out OF the man who
Aas Il. because he Is surcharged
Ith 1t. 1t never can be put on or
,tastered over the outside, and if any
body attempts this, the deception is
/; apparent as grease paint on an
,ctor in broad daylight. Arthur Bris-
nne is surcharged with real manli-
lass, the manliness Of King .Arthur's
nights. of Cromwelps captains, Of
me old Virginia aristocracy and of
The prairie pioneers combined The
most important thing about Arthur
Brisbane is not that he is the best
maid editor In the world, but that he
( so full of christian manliness-or
manly christianity, whichever you
|please-tfat the slightest contact with
him leaves one better man or bet
fter woman. There are few men
like that, certainly two in America,
The first impression this man makes
[is one of tremendous earnestness. He
|rattled off to some reporters a plan
for preparedness that sounded as
fantastic as anything that H. G. Wells
ever wrote, and he did it with direct
ness and earnestness of diction that
proved convincing at the time at least.
When he spoke from the Highland
Park college rostrum about the great
ness of Lincoln, the public square OF
Athens, the common sense Of Napol.
con, and the evanescence of the fame
Of newspaper men. his tones, his
rhetoric and his gestures were like
those of any good speaker-but there
was an earnestness exuding' from him
which is seldom perceived sufficiently
to be felt as it was felt by that large
audience.
This sort OF earnestness is always
based on firm foundation of sin
certify Men often have the looks and
make the motions of earnestness, but
the force never gets over the edge OF
the platform into the audience as 1t
does In the case of Arthur Brisbane.
He is not only sincere, earnest and
forceful, but precisely and innately a
When young newspaper woman
asked him for ain interview, he sug-
gestea that lney get somewhere to
typewriter so that she could write it
more easily from his dictation. Later
In the day when she happened to ar
rive at the luncheon hour. he let the
august Greater Des Moines commit
tee keep the soup hot for half an
hour while he gave the ambitious
Young newspaper woman. better
chance to make good. When young
man from another paper asked him
70 write an editorial to be, printed on
The first page in Des Moines that
evening, Arthur Brisbane instantly
agreed, and his only remark was to
orange for time and place for its
ilctation. 1t is perfectly true that
ne did this to help the young men
Tho are making Des Moines even
ng paper and for no other reason.
When a score or people were
lnxious for his company-some of
hem insistent, some of them men Of
high official position, and some Of
hem merely snobs-he left all of
hem, the down town clubs and the
newspaper convention to come out to
Highland Park college-because he
would rather accept the sincere in
itation Of the twelve hundred stu
ents here and give these students
Measure than to sit in the tents OF
ne almighty down town.
Things like this tell more about a
nan than all the small type in the
hick, red Who's Who. 1t is possible
0 accurately estimate some men in
n hour or less, not by what they
ay. but by, what they do just as
Is possible to analyze substances
the chemical laboratory by the
'ay these substances perform under
factions. 1t is this sort of analy-
Is that proves Arthur Brisbane to
real philanthropist-
1t Is that same sort of analysis
hat proves Arthur Brisbane to be
big man-the kind of man that
the Missouri river WIN the
acific ocean by railroad: that
arnesses the Mississippi at Keokuk.
MS man is doing constructive en-
lneering of another sort, using the
lobile American brain instead OF
oncrete for his material. He is
ping as much with leaden types
nd printers ink as other men have