South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-23

and by the sitter invective style OF
his editorials swayed the entire
United States 1t was he who first
created the phrase:
To hell with the Hapsburgs and
,he HOhenzOllerns, as the United
states lowered on the brink OF war.
For the last few years he has TAX
en no active part i'm journalism. He
retired when the Louisville Courier
Journal ownership passed from his
hands TO Robert Worth Bingham, its
present owner
Writes Memoirs Of Life.
After his retirement from active
editorial writing he composed the
memoirs of his life in two brilliant
volumes callc1 looking backward"
In this series he told the entire
story of his life He was extremely
proud of tho fact that he was born
in Washington "the center Of diplo-
macy" His father was a congress-
man from Tennessee and he early
became identified in national life.
John Quincy Adams used to walk
along the streets of Washington with
his arm on Watterson's shoulder
while the boy read TO him. He sat
on the knee Of Andrew Jackson. He
was an amateur page in congress
and was at John Quincy Adams side
when he fell.
Watterson began his newspaper
/ career as a reporter on the Washing
ton States Then came the Civil
war The fiery old warrior of the
pen. then a youth in his teens en-
listed and served as an aide de camp
10 Gems. Forrest and Polk.
After the war he began "a travel
ing newspaper" He edited the Chat
tanooga rebel, a paper printed in a
wagon. Later he went 10 Louisville.
Ky. where he stayed for half a
century 20 make newspaper history.
In 1856 he merged the Journal
and the Democrat of ". y. Halde-
man into the Courier-Journal "
Then he took up the editorial banner
: 90 strike for a solidided North and
South. With brilliant words that
struck at the heart Of every subject
| he mentioned. he drew the applause
/ of the nation and MS editorials were
reprinted in journals throughout the
country.
Then the world came to know him
as old "Marse Henry"
He was a ereat advocate OF journ-
I alistic enthusiasm. He repeated Of
I ten the old phrase that journalism
+ IS the art of knowing where hell is
going 10 break loose next and having
"a man there TO cover it,"
He hated the glossy" and the
SNOWY" things. He used to roll
\ down TO the Courier-Journal Offices
/ i'm big motor car wearing a sailor
/ "peajacket" instead Of an expensive
/ fur coat
on the wall OF his Office where he
wrote most of his editorials there
were no pictures OF famous lights Of
= literature There was little more
than an old straight topped desk.
stacks Of papers crammed iIlogicauy
in cubby holes and an ink well and
/ pen.
His Writing Eccentricities.
He wrote q miserable hand and
f most OF the printers had a hard time
+ setting ~ his articles.
There were no typewriters in his
/ DAY and when they finally came into
use he ignored them and stuck 10 his
f pen much 10 the disgust OF the print
I Crs
on one occasion he wrote In an
editorial the words gilt edge bonds
and the printers read IL guilty edge
bonds" and that was the way Il got
+ IN the paper. Another time he wrote
I IN tribute 10 an aged citizen Of Louis
lille who had died. "he has entered
/ the sleep that knows no waking "
( The printers read II. He enters the
I ship that knows no shaking" and
thus IL was printed.
Many famous Journalists began
4 their careers under Watterson.
Among the most prominent are