Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-01-26

but he doesn't get hold of any great amount of it, although the salaries paid are in a general way more than fairly comfortable
 Robert Wicknffe Woolley is one of the latest of Americas well-known newspaper men to be appointed to a position in the treasury depart ment- AS someone else has put it. Woolley makes more money than any other man in the United States, but the personal difficulty is thas he is not allowed to keep the proceeds of his facture He is the director of the mint and every body knows that the province of the mint is-to turn out money for the multitudinous uses of the people of these United States.
 There are net many newspaper in the country who arg better known than this present official of Uncle Sam's government. Woolley looks about thirty years old but he can add quite a number of years on to that and gvv no lie to the date of his birth. He has been a reporter a sporting editor, managing editor an editor and a writer of magazine articles, and today he can pick up any one of his old jobs and do it justice and if the whrligig 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 a good many years and worked with him side by side for considerable length of time on a great Chicago daily Woolley then sporting edi tor. He is an outdoor man, who loves the things which all fullblooded Americans love, and, more over, he knows how to write about them. whether st be close finish Kentucky track or "A innings ESQ far to at the National league grounds in New York city. Woolley loves sport sor 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 direc- tor of the mint has been student of sociological conditions, of economies and of the ways and means of legislation to get for the people what seems to the progressve-mnded the things which they ought to have Convictions that certain ~oPx 1l,.-, and determination to follow them have given Robert W. Woolley many strenuous and exciting hours during his long newspaper career.
 It is not necessary to explain to the people of the United States what political ring is nor is 1t necessary to explain what invisible govern ment is Certain brave spirits in newspaperdom have been fighting rings and invisible government for years, and it has made no difference to the courageous whether the ring was composed eof men of their own party whether the in- visible government likewise tinged with partisan color of hue ordinarily deemed ad- ruirable by the crusaders. The director of the suint is Democrat. but he has fought Democrats when they were trying to exploit the people for frolfsh ends.
 Not long after he entered newspaper work the sGirector of the mint had time of it." which
 tested his courage and the sincerity of his convic. ticns I am not going to mention the name of the place where certain thing happened but sunquestionably the scene of it will be recognized by many and the details will be remembered by anen who have not yet arrived the borders of middle age.
 Down In the South and not very far in the South. either Robert w. Woolley was once managing editor of a newspaper of prominence Tn city of considerable size. The chief editor <0f his paper and the mayor of the town were engaged in row, for the mayor it was believed, was connected with municipal political combi- nation which. as the editor viewed 1t, was far from being an institution intended to benefit the people of the community Finally the lie was spassed and the lie is or was, anyway, sure lighting word in certain communities.
 One morning Mir. Woolley went down to the neTsf<ssper office and found the mayor of the town s4nd his ,san. esch with gun in hand. holding the