Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-07
Intimate Stories That Show What Kind of Man, James M. Cox, Nominee
 For the Presidency, Really Is

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 The Boy Sexton-His First "Pav Job"
 Cox got his first "pay job' when he was 12 years old. The United Brethren church at Jacksonsburg, Butler county, Ohio, hired him at 35 cents week to be sexton: and few weeks later he went on the pay roll of the local school board at 25 cents week as janitor of>the district school.
 "The church was in cemetery and in those days the kids all believed in ghosts" the governor tells. "I used to be scared half to death as I would approach the church on dark Sunday nights to unlock it and light the lamps.
 And then I'd have to sit in the church alone until the first commu- nicant arrived. It was always an old Mrs. Keister''
 By the time he was 15, Cox had re- ceived all the schooling he could get
 
 the same time he had become tired of the farm work. His father, however, had farmers career mapped out for him.
 So the Cox boy "ran off'' to Mid dletown and got job, at $2 week, as "devil" in the office of the Middle town Signal, running the press and sweeping out the office, after school hours. A week or so later his father located-him, but didn't take him back to the farm. "Go ahead and be printer if you want to-" he said.
 At 16, young Cox secured teach CTS license and began teaching in the village of Heno at $40 month. At the same time he taught night school in Middletown. It was while teaching in the night school that he met Paul Sorg, millionaire tobacco board.
 After teaching several years, Cox got a job as reporter on Cincinnati newspaper. He was "fired,'' however for writing a story that displeased a railroad official, and then Sorg, by this time a congressman, made Cox his private secretary.
 Here in Dayton, they still tell the story of how Cox, IS years ago, escaped from hospital.
 He had been working day and night for months trying to put a rundown
 
 been acting as editor, editorial writer and business manager. When the nervous breakdown came the doctors said he'd have to stay in the hospital for at least three weeks. He entered the place on Sunday.
 Early the next Saturday morning they discovered he had left during the night. But no trace could be found of him until about noon, when he telephined the superintendent:
 "This is Cox speaking.' he said. "I'am all right now; I'll not be back"
 "But MT. Cox" pleaded the super "the doctor says you're al very sick man."
 "That was before I was able to bor- row enough money to meet this weeks payroll" replied the patient. "You'd have nervous breakdown too, if you had my payroll to meet and nothing to meetit with"
 Heckler Silenced.
 In Carroll county Ohio, where Dem ocrats are few and far between, Cox was making political speech several years ago to a crowd composed large ly of farmers. When he mentioned that he himself had been born and reared on farm, one of his hearers evidently jealous Republican, shouted out:
 "What do you know about moul- ing rails ?'' The crowd, thinking the governor would have to confess him. self ignorant, laughed uproariously.
 The governor insisted that his questioner come down in front where all might see him.
 "Now, my friend" said Cox, "1ll