The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
By DOLLY DALRYMpLE

667T7HERE is no especial cut-and-
 dried rule for success, should
 say; but optimism and service in any line, it seems to me, are very necessary attributes. Stay on the job; work hard and keep up the pace"
 This was the brief summary of the sit uation as viewed yesterday by MT. Rich ard F. Lussier, vice president of the new Tutwiler Drug company, which today in- vites-the public to it's formal opening.
 It is very pleasing to me to be the chronicler of the success of one of my former colleagues. Mir. Lussier and have worked side by side our typewriters have clicked merrily along many times in the big news room of the big Age Herald. each of us vieing with the other to make our facile encomiums upon the happenings of the day when reproduced in the public press as blazoned forth to the world better than the other and each invariably believing in his own mind that he was the winner.
 MT. Lussier, erstwhile police reporter, socialistic agitator, moving picture critic, biographer of Commissioner Arlie Bar Der, and social worker on The Age-Her- aid, is gifted young man and has hun dreds of friends in this city who remem- Der him for his many original and unique contributions, for he had the happy tal- ent of laying it all over lot of the cleverest quill drivers in this neck of the woods.
 Naturally having been a newspaper man himself, MT. Lussier shrinks from the limelight, with the modesty and re- serve of g. Ziegfeld Folies chorus girl, and his timid temperamental soul shud- ders at the mere suggestion of cold gray type; only necessity, the inspiration Of geniuses, burglars, and politicians which know the value of publicity, compelled him yesterday to submit to the deadly game of interview, the same game having been put over" if you please, by this delectable gentleman many times on many unsuspecting but worthy victims.
 To be exact, MT. Lussier has acquired a perfectly good drug store-just about the prettiest and neatest and most up-to- date drug store in the country, and I be- ing of the inquisitive turn of mind indi- genous to newspaper people, wanted to know which he liked best being a drug store man or just a plain, every day, or dinary newspaper person, with but one aim in life, namely, news gathering.
 CT admit it.' MT. Lussier said, after coaxings and promises to get him to talk about his newly acquired line of business.
 "The Tutwiler Drug company, I ad- init, has the prettiest drug store in the south. To be more emphatic, 1t is reg ular city drug store; and now I'm going to tell you all about how it happened, because when I was an interviewer that was always the main point with me. For two years on my many daily rounds to The Age-Herald I passed and repassed the Tutwiler hotel corner and every time passed that corner I pondered deeply upon the emptiness of the ground floor which naturally offset some of the beauty of the big hotel Somehow, as coming events cast their shadows before me, said event being my exit from the news paper game, I was interested in the idea of drug store occupying that corner and so I set About to find out why some body hadn't already done 1t, and it was pretty soon eXplained-the rent was too high.'
 ''Time, which has a little way of just keeping on going on,'' Mir. Lussier con- tinued, kept up it's merry little round and between puncturing the vanity of MT. Arie Barber and exposing the