Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-05
from Printers Apprentice to Cabinet Member

ship as printer in the office of the
Lynchburg Republican. His pay was
$3.50 week.
Maj. Robert H. Glass. his father.
Scotch Irish by descent, had been an
editor. and for twelve years the post
master at Lynehburg; also he had
. gone into the Confederate army.
cviI w were en BAD in Virginia after the
Glass left school at the age of four
teen Some day, he said, he would
own newspaper.
THESE We're his steps upward:
apprentice. printer. pressman, fore
man, reporter. city editor and editor.
publisher and proprietor. He worked
IN MS native town and at Petersburg.
When he bought the Lynchburg
Morning News for $4,000. his liquid
assets. all IN cash, totaled $50.
his paper.
This transaction occurred in 1888,
carter Glass was thirty years old.
IN 1885 he purchased the Lynchburg
EVenlng Advance. He has owned both
papers since He has town house
ana country home. which he named
Montview, on the surrounding acres
OF which tine cattle and other live
stock are foddered and pastured.
most fortunate man." his neigh
pors and acquaintance say, but a
man Of moods as, for instance:
friend will be waiting i'm his
office. Carter Glass. when he appear
VIII NOD but not utter n word.
Blue aga:n?' the friend will OBJ
serve w"
Yes Carter Glass will answer.
iou are committing sin against
tate and nature" the friend will say
You have been successful in bust
ness, IN politics and in every other
way fou haven't Il real trouble in
the world" -"
That is true, Carter Glass Will
ansWer, OUT. dad-bum it, l can't help
being blue this morning.
Dad bum is Carter Glass on1y
eNpletlVe and the worst explosion
that ne, sound Methodist ever gives
with language Thus dad-bummed
traitor. a dad bummed demagogue is
. we tinaS or his condemnation and
Inc crisis OF his scorn or wrath
j.
For eighteen years this silent and
retiring man made laws for the
United States. Many Washington
names scores of them, in the mean
time became familiar to the readers
OF newspapers, but his until recently.
was strange After the enactment or
the law that established new class OF
BANKS he confessed, during a olnnrr
speech that with outward gravity
and inward amusement | have heard
myself accused OF statesmanshin
and-have liked it,"
Liked IL because deserved as anv
man or any woman likes commenda-
ton for services. no matter how
small, well performed. In his survey
of the currency question Carter Glass
examined every country in the
word. The coinage of the anciants
was included among his studies.
In MS sweep Of history Carter Glass
learned that the visible man moves
with the centuries, but that the In
visible man is almost stationary, So
with his knowledge and philosophy.
his books and documents he sat down
at the great table I'm the room of tho
committee on banking and currency
and prepared his bill.
Through one window he saw the
Potomac river. the wooded hills Of
Virginia and TIE spires Of village
churches. From the other window ne
looked out upon the bronze statue Of
John Marshall. down the sloping walk
lined with plane trees to Pennsyls
vania avenue and onward to the Greek
columns of the Treasury.
At the table. mahogany, with a.
green top. or welking back and forth
in the long. vaul'ed room, Carter Glass
wrote or dictated day by day and
month by month until his task was
finished.
Copyright, 1913, by James II. Morrow.D