Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-23
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Henry Jones Ford, EdItor.Professor.
A. X. Rothenberser and His Farm
Extension Work--A Little h..
story About a Poet
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN

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| II drops into Philadelphia on his way to
Baltimore and Washington. lie s profes
sor of politics at Princeton. Largely due.
| think, to his modest ways az well as to
his learning he 10 ono of the most popular
members Of the faculty.
| Prof Ford had, unlike many other col :
! lege professors, had the rare experience OF
| being n trained newspaperman before he
BECAME a college professor.
i first met and was associated with him
when he was managing editor Of the Pitts
burg Gazette twenty FIVE years ago. Even
then he had been an editor and editorial
+, writer for over twenty years. He began
his newspaper career as an editorial writer
That was away back In 1872 on the Balti.
more American, which was bought the
native city.
1t was natural that after long and hon
orablc career in Pittsburgh, which closed
when he resigned the chair us editor of the
Gazette in 1905, he should return to Balti.
more.
lie became lecturer on political science at
Johns Hopkins University and from there
went to Princeton in 1908. Harry" Ford
has never completely lost touch with the
world OF newspaper workers.
Even now, though out of hearing of print
shop machinery for fifteen years, he could
direct the policy and make up'' an edi.
torial page with the skill and rapidity that
once characterized him.
M1ILL1AM II. RAU'S death has removed
'! most unusual man from the life of
this city
His wide experience Of the world, his
jovial personality and his unusual range Of
acquaintance will cause him to be missed
more generally than many other men whose
names figure conspicuously In public print
He had travelled extensively. He had pen.
etrated the depths of the southern seas as
m n Flptn ttGfa a,,.l hal -LA
the little known regions of Syria and Pales.
tine to reproduce life in Bible lands.
In the course of an acquaintance covering
thirty years ! found that he rarely ex-
pressed himself on the subject of his expert
ences except when some incident In modern
travel or adventure called forth reminis-
cepce.
In conversation n few months before his
death he recalled what he described as his
two most unusual experiences.
One was his trip to the Chatham islands
IN 1874 to photograph the transit OF
Venus. The other was In Palestine when
ne held up his caravan for several weeks
until he could secure a supply from Europe
OF Photographic dry plates which had then
Just made their appearance In practical
form.
William II, Rau will best be remembered
as an artist in his profession, rather than
as a commercial photographer.
A X. ROTHENBERGER is known to
4 4. every farmer, by name at least, in
Montgomery county. That is a pretty broad
assertion. but it's true.
lie is the extension representative of the
Montgomery County Farm Bureau. Only
few years back, and. indeed, in many
counties yet. he. would be designated as the
county agent
In Its broad and practical term Mr.. Roth
enbergerI, is the farmers friend. And yet
city folk. ignorant Of the strides that
modern agriculture is making. may be- in.
clined to tilt their noses ut the idea of n
iarm director, or farmers representative,
having an office In a big bank building in
a city OF 10000 inhabitants like Norris
II you are 4 farmer, fruit raiser, or Just
an ordinary "trucker,' and you are in
doubt about anything or want information
or instruction concerning your agricultural
work: write to Rothcnberger. He'll set
That's his business. And it is not a
theoretical reply that you will receive. The
chances are that he has met aud overcome
the same difficulty himself
lie is not theorst, or a political worker
holding down soft snap. He II A prac. |
tical farmer, owns his own farm and he
knows his business. II. he did not he |
wouldn't hold his job very long. The |
farmers In the vernacular, would ''git onto |
him in short order.
MIR. ROTIIENBERGER IL responsible in
A'Ahi work to three organizations: the |
county farm bureau, Pennsylvania State |
College and the United States Depa rttnent |
OF Agriculture. His services are free. That's |
the beauty OF the system. |
. l 10 not eXaggerate his importance or his |
industry when ] record the fact that Mr.,
Rothcnberger Is one of the busiest men and |
most conscientious workers in our neigh. |
boring county.
For months past he has been working
on the annual corn aud fruit show of the |
county. 1t Is to be held in the City Hall |
at Sorristown the first three days in Decem.
Der. 1t Is some show.
IT has half the county fairs In tho state
beaten to a pulp.
1t Is worth while for Philadelphisps 70
know that within thirteen miles OF the city |
line there is annually held the largest fruit
and corn show in eastern Pennsylvania.
a. X. Rothenberger Ia the high priest
Of publicity. adviser. organizer and god.
father in demonstration to the exhibition.
IL he continues to add new features every
year this annual affair before the end of the
decade will reach the proportion OF an indoor
agricultural fair minus the midway, the
horse races and the balloon ascensions
It's real farmers show.
TOJONEI CEORCE DoIrtI L.,