The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-25

Theodores aggregated six months board
 Little by little, Theodore grew really
 fond of Peter. He saw in Dunne force,
 and self-made force at that Think
 of it. It was only a few years since Dunne had been running newspaper err rands in Chicago. One day he had de-
 manded a raise and been told he was suffering from delusions of granduer. Still, he might "try the Sunday editor on space So the Sunday editor was tried. Hence Dooley Or, to be histori- cally correct, hence McGarry. Every week MT. Dunne turned in a monologue, at s per, and wished it on a silent, sol emn saloonkeeper, named McGarry. There were no kicks comin," at least
 at first McGarry relished seeing him self in print. and if the jokes were Fin | Hey Peter Dunne's and not his what mat ter?
 But it so happened that McGarry pos sessed proud and sensitive daughter who took it into her head that Dunne was spoofing the old man and bringing down ignominy and disgrace on the en- tire McGarry tribe. One morning, conse- quently, the McGarrys came laundering around and intimated that help thm," they would stand it no longer. Then it was that Dooley succeeded McGarry, re- signed, as alleged perpetrator of the monologues-still at 5 per mind you; no | more.s no less. and, as Dooley himself might have said, "thim were happy days"
 At present you can offer Finley Peter 5000 a head for "Dooleys," and "divtle wan will you get. He edits Golfers. If the American Magazine should revive "The Interpreter House." he would jump at the chahce tosfwrite it. While it lasted, it was
 his pretty regularly. But don't speak of 'Dooleys" to him. He aches at the thought of them. He began to ache the minute they became famous and im- mortal and marketable at 5000 pe- capital. He lodged He sulked. When nation hungering and thirstinG for ''Docleys' had to be satisfied. the syn dicatc men would be obliged to comb the town for Peter, capture him by main force, throw him into a box stall, banker around outside while Peter scribbled inside. and then, like as not. he. would come bouncing forth with the thing barely begun. and say, Hang it, let's go for a little walk'-which means that there was grim, black, Dooleyless Sunday ahead for the American people. It is true that one | year he cleaned up s4o.ooo, but it is also and equally true that for six weeks at a stretch he eiuded his pur- suers and. when finally caught. re- marked innocently. "Its spring! Don't you know it's spring? How can man work when it's spring?"
 Around the clubs, fellows who half know Dunne say it is funny that he called his joking work. Jokes pop out of him as naturally as pink and green balls out of a Roman candle. But when Iyou get next to his intimate and espe- cially the syndicate men who know nim through and through. you discover what ailed him. Conscience! Honor! ANprofund sense of responsibility. Facilitating the power he had he shud- dereG to exercise; it. How could he tell but that in'some mad moment he might lam tn head off'n" the wrong man? Himself as fine and white a chap as ever walked, he was slow to take ths risk However. he is known more by his fun than by his consummate wis dom. 4 So be it. His is matchless fun. Blessed if l can tell quite how to size it up. It is more than commonly Irish. You expect bulls of the Irish ways-the sort of thing my friend Skifington used to delight in on ship board. One morning Skiffington re- ported taht he had "shivered so in his bunk that he got all in a precipitation" and between meals he would complain that he was "hungry enough to eat a live corpse" Although by deep study have made myself a fairly acconlp- lished Dooley scholar. recall no- where bull in the writings of the -Archey Road philosopher except when he remarked carelessly, If Rookhia wud shave. we wud not be afraid iv her"
 Ano this fun is more than western! Westerners exaggerate and let it go al | that. Dooley may exaggerate, but there