The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-07
By JOE ROSS


 There Is hardly person who has not heard a great deal of the neces- sity of putting ones self in what ever work one is called upon to do
 The schoolboy has this dlnned into his ears. the young man hears It as he starts upon chosen or enforced business, career And, ordinarily, the man who has to be begged to put his real self in his work does not do 1t, because he has no self--or anything else worthwhile--to put in hls work, or Into anything.
 The man who has 1t in him to do things, to make his work a part of himself. needs no long winded max inns by which he may shape his course. He accomplishes things while others less busy dig through a dictionary which someone else has compiled, searching for suitable words to form sentences telling someone else how to succeed
 Which all brings us to man who has never needed anyone to suggest that he put himelf in whatever task he found before him-Robert c. Hlden-for Mir. Hiden has from his earliest boybood automatically be- came the life of whatever work he found to do, and he has always found his share.
 Mir. Hiden, whose name is known throughout the United States as a newspaper and magazine writer of worthwhile material. is one of the very few writers whose work is pen and ink picture of himself. When one has read an article by Mir. Hiden, he, if he be a discerning person. knows MT. Hiden. For Mir. Hiden's real self, his life, is in whatever he does.
 It would be just as impossible for Mir. Hiden to write an editorial. an article or story and not uncon- sciously put in it part of his very being, as 1t would be for a heavy rain to fall and not dampen the earth.
 Robert c. Hidden, whose home and work has for the past several years been in Birmingham. was born at Portsmouth. Va. He was educated at the University of Kentucky and Richmond. Va, university. He is a Deta Theta PI alumnus of Richmond. Va. university After graduating at Richmond university. Mir. Hiden be- came a reporter on the Richmond Times, now the Times Dispatch. He was connected with this paper for 10 years. becoming in turn city editor, assistant managing editor and man aging editor.
 Then 1t was that Mir. Hiden came to Birmingham. becoming associate ed itor of the Birmingham News during the ownership of the late Gen. Rufus N Rhodes. After eight years Mir. Hiden purchased an interest In the Birmingham Ledger and became as- sociate editor and vice president of that paper. Later. he became editor, president and publisher of the Led ger until that paper was sold in April. 1920.
 Despite the fact that Mir. Hidden has always been a worker, he is widely read and has travelled quite a great deal, having visited most of the Eu- ropean countries, which contact with the people of other lands has given him a clear vision of many prob lems confronting the American peo- pie today, and has shown clearly In a number of his editorials and articles.
 Despite the fact that Mir. Hiden while actively engaged in newspaper work had but little spare time to de- vote to outside efforts he contrib uted feature articles to many Of inc larger Sunday newspapers. inciud- ing the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Chicago Trib- une, New York World. New York Herald, New York Sun, Philadelphia North American, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Washington Star, New or leans Times Picayune, Memphis Com merciai Appeal. Nashville Banner, Att lanta Journal, Dallas News ana others.
 Articles on civic and general top ics of interest and outing stories from his pen have appeared from lime to time in The World Today Golfers Weekly, Leslie's Weekly