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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13
First Pay Check Brought
Vanderbilt Just $50

II got $50 q week when I got my
first Newspaper Job on New York
morning staff. and I told the other fell
lows with whom I worked that I in.
tended to live on my earnings- They
didn't see how could do It and doubted
I could, but somehow I did. Now,
while am making some real money
on my own initiative as an Independent
writer Of news, selling Il to . list Of
papers, I have a heavy expense, al.
though I mako every effort for scono.
N.Y."
Young Vanderbilt is unquestionably
In deadly earnest about his work and
puts all of his available time into It
to the exclusion Of everything else. He
said that he was out Of bed every MORN
ing BY 10. that he has a light breakfast
and then plays tennis for 4 half hour
Or hour for exercise so as to keep fit.
BY noon he IL at his Office and ION
tho Job" Assistants in his ofics said
he frequently Is there until IL or I
o'clock at night and that he often
works on Sundays and holidays.
my favorits outdoor sport 10 sailing,
and have . hne sloop, but I haven't
been out IN It this year moro than four
times. 1t has besn suggested that I
might a. well sell It for an the good It
is doing me-"
The bissest reporting JOB that Van.
derbilt has done was the Disarmament
Conference at Washington, where his
colleagues said hs was BY far tho young
est officially accredited news writer
present. He wrote for moro than 20, =
000, 900 readers.
my work." Vanderbilt went on to
say, "is matter Of pride with mo. In
trying to accomplish something con.
structive and worth while want to
earn my own way In tho world and
make good. This being q member of
well-t do family Is too frequently a
very serious handicap when ono has
such an ambition. take tho greatest
pleasure In my work. It Is naithsr q
fad nor hobby with me.
Il personally write svery limo that
appears under my signature. and with
all that I have b do II is a pretty
tough Job at times. But ! am young
and keen on my work, 80 I can stand
the pressure. Eventually expect o
spread out and take in European and
International topics and personalities
everywhere and greatly to extend nv
acquaintance among big men of affairs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13
Urges All Americans
to Study Oscn Counfru

Urges AH Americans
to Study O,on Countrv
This ambitious writer Is . ,r...
lever in his own America. sp.,,,..
Of the shiploads Of prosperou. E.as
ernsrs that have been carried ,h,.',
this year, he said:
1T Is surprising and disappo,,u,.
how little the majority Of thes. I. n...,.
know of their own country, nar,,,~
larly Of the great Pacific Coast ,
want to emphasize that since I N.
covered the Coast I have had no AMIN
tion to visit Europe. though befo,. :,
made my happy discovery went o,,.
there every year.
Zone doesn't have to cross N. A.
lantic for change Of scenery or ia VIA,
the worlds wonders. Those who IN.
In the East ought to turn their font,
steps westward to those States wa,hsd
by the blue waters Of the Pacific. Tbs,
put It all over Europe in diversity a
scenery and health building surround.
ings."
This young mans views on what ,on,
Of rich men ought to do with th.,,
time and money came to light In NJ.
discussion Of the son Of Detroit auto.
mobile manufacturer, who, when ask.d
what he intended doing with a million.
dollar legacy left him BY his father
replied:
II intend to spend It in play and
travel"
wealthy Americans with ills son,
ought to think over what that fellow
said" observed young Vanderbilt, with
a rather grim frown. "Too many soma
with too much money have the same
warped view Of life as this callow. d..
troit youth. They play. travel, dance
smoke, drink. motor-do most every.
thing except work. You see them
Rolls Roycing along Fifth avenue,
New York, wasting, their best years
and missing entirely the best fun there
10 in the world--that Of industriouLy
earning an Honest living.
'They XII afternoons In Washing.
ton hotel Hobbies. They ambls along
Chicago's Michigan boulevard and
Broadway, Los Angeles, in all thsr
highly tailored uselessness. I ON.
heard ono of them tell another recently
that he had q frishtful bit Of news h
repoyt-nsmely, that Jones had %.
tually gone d work. Both yawnsd IN
disapproval Of Jones' fatal resofudoa.
"The country swarms with tAss
vasrant sons who look upon work %
leprous thing to be avoided. The con.
mon tramp 10 sent to the workhous
because, hating work, hs 70 brandA Z
parasite on society. Arc these Idle saas
Of the rich D., despisins work no less tAaa
the tramp, to continue TO 30 scet.hss
because they arc spick and derbisd snd
don't have to forage for meslf II
thsy could know the inexpressibls Joy
in q days hard work our commwi'
ties would b blessed with q lot more
,,.>A,,1 ne<A,a~n -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13

flee. 1t Is, therefore, not easy to catch
Mr.. Vanderbilt between his appoint
ments, but this democratic young man,
who might serve ~ . model for many
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13

responsibility of newspapers is there
fore tremendous. In the hurry of pub-
fishing what is not only daily news
paper but oftentimes q daily magazine
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13

And now, following his apprentice
ship as police reporter and general
assignment man, young Vanderbilt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13

AAo o"h civ IAAo hc . tiul-
Hon dollars worth Of wedding gifts,
he returned to newspaper work and
small salary, just to show that he
meant it when he said, "T want to
do something worth while"
No career Of the social butterfly
Tor Cornelius, Jr.; no life Of ire
sponsibility for this blue-eyed scion
of the Vanderbilt family; the height
Of his ambition is to be accepted as
q journalist on his own merits-and
his task has been no lead-pipe cinch.
He wants to own string of news
papers, and his ideal is the late Lord
Eorthcliffe.
He was born in 1898, and, son Of
Brigader General Cornelius Wander
bilt, engineer and specialist on loco
motive boilers, he was fondled in the
lap of luxury. But it didn't agree
with him. At dance in his mothers
palatial home he met pretty Rachel
Littleton, daughter Of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas J. Littleton, of
Tennessee. And the lap of luxury
didn't agree with her either.
They were attracted to each other,
and their mutual interests led them
90 talk about llfe-with a capital I.
~Earn Your Opn Way,"
Girl Said, and He Did
"Thts world h changing" op.ned
NO young woman, who Is two years
younger than Cornelius, "and every
lbna, Will have TO learn TO look after
hhmseh. want you to live by what's
esaI1y IN you--1 want you to rub
thoulders with the humblest Of rsn
ead measure your ability with them.
Xoo mustn't allow your wealth to
hslp you, nor your name, but you
Inust hsht Il out alone. I believe IN
rou- I think You can DO It."
And Cornelius lived to find hts
wealth and his name a handicap. The
MAR broke out and he enlisted. He
became = chauffeur for Generals
1srshing, Haig and others, and later
became chief WAGNER IN the Thtr-
$oonth Division. He was gassed
'sw1ce, learned to live more or less
comfortably in mud, filth, on army
chow and short ratons.
Later army authorities sent the
Toung man to Camp Lewis, Wash
ington, as instructor in army trans.
porration, and he was discharged
honorably from service in 1919.
All this time he communicated
with Rachel, and once out Of the
army, Cornelius determined to try
his hand at newspaper work.
"A long while back" he says, II
made up my mind that newspaper
work was the thing cut out for me.
When the world was torn by terror
and bloodshed, it seemed TO me that
newspapermen were playing the
biggest part in the game of rehabil.
itation. When men of resource were
needed newspapermen We're called in.
at was the profession that seemed
20 me to afford most chance for pub |
lie service To give folks the news
Of the world honestly and impair
TALLY appeared to me to be the
biggest kind of service"
He secuted around, then, for
New York paper where he knew no :
enc; where no one might wrongly
suspect that he would use his name
and wealth to help him in his chosen
esreer.
His fathers lawyer did not get him
~ fob; he got it himself, in the
ppal difficult way. He asked foS 1t.
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has embarked on q career - free-
lance interviewer and publicist.
He is now engaged in interview
ing statesmen, politicians, financiers
and celebrities looming large In tho
news, setting down their observs-
tions on life and events with his own
hand and selling the product TO
newspapers IN the United States,
Cuba, France and England.
An hours chat with young Van
derbilt to learn his future plans and
what lies back Of tho selection Of
Journalism as a profession developed
the fact that, although he Is having
the time Of his blithe but entirely
serious and purposeful life, ne has
a much moro weighty goal.
He labors often far into the night
IN a compact and plainly furnished
suite Of offices in New York, on the
avenue bearing the family name,
within sound Of arriving trains at
Grand Central Terminal, monument
to the transportation genius Of his
great-great-grandfather, founder Of
the multi-millions railroad dynasty
and the phrase, "The public be
damned"
AT twenty four Vanderbilt 10 work
Ing long, arduous hours in pursuit Of an
earnest, consuming ambition. In prose-
cutting his plans, he said, he has been
Obliged to relinquish most Of his favorits
pastimes, for he b ono Of tho most pre-
occupied persons in busy Now York.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-13
q GiUen First Taste
of His OLDn Medicine

He spends about half Of his time In
Washington, where he also has an Of
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19
A Veteran in the Senate.

W/HEN MAJ DAVID A: REED, of Pitts
w burgh, took oath as United States Sena-
tor the other day element introduced
into the Upper Chamber of the national legislature
an element which is bound to become increasingly
strong as years go by.
There is considerable contingent of former
service in the House. One or two were
elected Immediately after the war The next year
there were one or two more. The next session
will find ten dozen who saw service
against Germany filling seats in Congress. But
Maj Reed is the first world veteran to sit in
the Senate
1t is a sign, perhaps, of the passing of an old
order. There young in the Senate.
The majority, however, we'll past middle age.
Some of them have held their seats through many.
sessions. They about to give way, this year
or next or the next year. to younger men. Most
OF these will be world veterans.
Col Brookhart probably will be elected in
Iowa. He will be the second war veteran to have
place in the Upper Chamber.
1t is interesting that several of the
older Senators civil veterans The num-
Der OF men who took part in the between
the States however, grows smaller and smaller
from session to session. These civil war veterans
have exercised enormous influence on the devel-
opment of American civilization. They have legis-
lated foolishly at times, bndly at times and self
HHly al umeS Dut, on the Whole, they have been
worthy to guide the destnies of the United
States during its period of greatest development
They have been patriots. They have been states
men,
The men who olive drab succeed to no
idle thrones They must exert themselves to the
utmost to duplicate the excellent record made dur
ing the past forty years by Senator. who once
the blue and others who once wore the gray
But confident they will be found wanting
neither in patriotism in ability.
Maj. Reed leads the vanguard of new order
He and the who come after him will find
heavy burden pressed upon them. 1t will be
heavier perhaps than that carried by their prede-
cessors for the United States is entering a period
OF development which will outdistance that of the
half century following the civil war, But we are
confident that they will make good" on the Job
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19
An Athletic Stadium.

"IHEN will Washington officials realize that
w athletic stadium capable OF seating sixty
seventy thousand people is necessity, not
luxury: When will they realize that, purely as a
business proposition, such stadium would pay
for itself in addition to its upkeep in less than ten
years? Why should Washington the seat OF the
government, be backward about such a project
when other cities not nearly so we'll located such
as Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. are planning huge
stadiums to house sporting events which, inside Of
ten years may reasonably be expected to draw as
many as 100000 outdoor enthusiasts?
Eventually Washington must have such a
stadium, either government controlled or privately
>owned. y huge bowl, built and controlled by the
government, would certainly be better than one
controlled by private interests But unless govern
ment plans in this respect get under way it
may not be long before individuals see the neces-
sity OF such structure and rush it to completion
The Penn State-Navy football game scheduled
for Washington November 3 reveals again the
necessity OF a real athletic stadium for the
Nations Capital.
This game, of the biggest in the country
next fall. will draw anywhere from thirty to sixty
sfessand people. Football followers from far and
vide will see this classic.
The game is to be played in American League
Park this season. But that park, while fine for
Baseball. is far from suitable for the gridron game
from Tie spectators STANDPOINT furthermore, 1t Is
probable that not than half or, at most,
two-thirds OF the people who to see the
game will be able view it. Tickets will be issued
only for the number of seats available and at the
most American League Park can not house more
than 10000
Why should another 10000 people be denied
the privilege?
Again. how Washington expect to be
granted the Army-Navy football game without a
suitable stadium to house the huge crowd which
almost fights to see this yearly classic?
Owned and controlled by the government a
huge stadium OF this kind could be erected in one
OF the citys parks. 1t would serve far better as
monument to some departed statesman, than a
pile of marble.
1t would pay for itself IN less than decade
Its value stimulus to business is also unques-
toned 1t would have Washington business men
asking why it hadn't been built before
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19

move to lay II on the table and kill
IL was opposed by a majority OF
Republicans, but there were enough
Democrats to carry the motion to
Kill. thus saving our national honor.
But this had shown the President
the menace that confronted him, a
menace that must be met Well.
with unfaltering frmness he did
meet IL and when he called on Con-
gre-s for declaration of war he
had whipped his INSTRUCTORS into
line.
And when war came. how skill
fully our Country Newspaper Ed
itor" assembled his navy, opened
the lanes of the sea and carried
over 100000 men across more than
1000 miles of German submarine
infested ocean without a single
mishap, And our little Secretary
of War" How masterfully he or
ganized his sixteen great training
camps. keeping relays of $4,000
men drilling to be sent fully pano-
piled for war as fast as ships could
carry them to the blood-drenched d
hel1-blasted fields of France.
/ can readily understand how this
great American achievement would
be wormwood and gall to a Hun.
but i have no unit of measure di-
minutive enough to measure the
soul of any American who has no
pride In the contemplation of IL.
NERITAS.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19
Who Invented Telephone?
% the Editor. The Washington Herald.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
1t will no doubt come as a shock
to many to know that the inventor
Of the telephone was a native of
Frankfort. Germany. So much has
appeared in the paper since DIR.
Bells death concerning the tele-
phone that have wondered
whether the original inventor Of the
telephone has been entirely over
looked.
Philip Refs was the first man to
speak over a wire with the aid OF
the electric current and to call his
instrument the Telephone" but
when the United States Supreme
Court in the SOS was called upon
to decide the question OF priority
II rendered judgment for Bell on
the ground that he had made IL COM
mercially valuable. says Issues Of
Today, New York City.
Bells natents were secured IN
1875. In 1865 Refs wrote as follows:
''Incited thereto by my lessons in
physics in the year 1860. 1 attacked
a work begun much earlier con-
corning the organs OF hearing and
soon had the JOY of seeing my pains
regarded with success. sance / sue
ceeded in inventing Itn apparatus
by which IL is possible to make
clear and evident the functions and
organs of hearing. but with which
one can also produce tones OF all
kinds at any desired distance by
means of the galvanic current I
named the instrument telephone -"
In Manchester. England. before
the Literary and Philosophical So
c.ety. Reis' telephone was shown in
1866 by a Professor Cliften. To
Reis' great disappointment the Phys
ical Socie:- of Frankfort took no
further notice OF the invention.
Other societies treated it as a scien-
tific toy. The Naturalists' Assembly,
including all the scientific men OF
Germany had, indeed. welcomed him
TT Giesen. but too late. His SENSITIVE
temperament had met with too
many rebuffs. and the fatal disease
with which he was already stricken
told upon his. energies. In 1873 he
disposed OF all his instruments and
tools to Carriers Institute. and to
Herr GARNER he made the remark
that he had shown the world the
way to a great invention which
must now be left to others to de-
velop. monument in the ceme-
terry of Friedrichsdorf bears this
inscription: Here rests Philip Refs,
born January Z. 1884. died January
IL, 1874. To its deserving member.
the Inventor of the Telephone, by
the Physical Society of Frankford-
onMain."
An English scientist. SyIvanus
Thompson. B. A. II. Sc. professor
of experimental physics in Univer-
sity College Bristol. has commem-
GRATED his achievements in a work
entitled. Phillip Refs, Inventor of
the Telephone: Biographical
sketch With Documentary Test,-
mony. Translation Of the Original
Papers of the Inventory and Con.
temporaneous Publications"
L have scanned In vain the aunl.
biographical articles on DIR. Rell
Tor a mention of the inventor of the
telephone. Nc
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19
Tennis in Washington.

r. OLLOWERS of tennis in the District have
been arguing in The Herald's pages recently
about the Capitals net prowess, the battle center
ing largely the ability of past and present
tiers of the sport here All have agreed, however.
that the District is sadly neglecting the develop
ment of its youth in this branch OF sport.
Every city the size of Washington and less
staged junior tennis tournament and boys
tennis tournament this year and last Practically
every city of above the 10000 mark in population
sent its champions in these tournaments TO the
national events last year and is, planning to repeat
this fall. Why has not Washington attempted the
same?
The District title has been captured the last
two years by Clarence NJ Charest, player ci the
best ability and highest caliber sportsmanship.
Charest resides in Baltimore, although he is en-
ployed in this CITY. However. Washington is with
hoae-bred champion and Judging from
results in the recent Tournament staged the
Dumbarton Club courts is without much chance
of seeing Of its capture the city's trophy.
Washington has among its lot the best of the
nation in youth. Its enthusiasm in the present
baseball sandlot series now being staged in which
than thousand boys playing, is sgnih-
cant. From these young stars players of major
league caliber bound to develop-witness Lew
Blue premier first baseman of the Detroit team.
and Others
Washington youths being developed in
every other sport but tennis. Bill Tiden worlds
champion. has number of youths under his care
at Philadelphia-stars in the making. 1t is time for
Capital tennis sportsmen to set the ball rolling.
1t is too late
few junior and boys tournaments and Wash.
ington will figure again in the tennis world in
the days of the Doyle brothers.
The District possesses players of rare ability
and their play in the recent city tournament
deserves the highest praise They must aid others,
however, they aided.
Sports OF all kinds American institu-
tion-Washington should not fall down in this one
branch.
The Washington herald., 1922-08-19
Deserters Under Fire.

WYE LIKE to believe that the American work
w man is gentleman. We like to consider
the railroad engineer social par with the rail-
road president. We like to consider the miner as
good man as the fellow who the mine.
That is AMERICAN. That is democracy
But there are, without doubt some i-mannered
fellows in the ranks of labor who are doing their
utmost to anger the public against all strikes and
all protests on the part of workmen. Such were
the men who staged the death dance at Herrin,
ILL., Such, we are afraid, the train crews who
deserted their passengers in the middle of the Ar-
desert.
As the details of that situation are disclosed
the public gives way to good deal of righteous
wrath. The facts seem to be that the passengers
were left helpless in barren waste. Some of them
were sick. Some of them were in danger of death
The train crews knew that this condition existed.
The helpless people. most of whom probably
sympathized with the cause of the strikers, pleaded
for the sort of treatment usually accorded fellow
human beings. They got this answer: Go to
hell"
Ot course, the men who perpetrated this act
were not representative. The public should remem-
Der, before passing judgment, that the brotherhood
chiefs were indignant as anyone else They
were indignant not because the strikers had struck
violent and sensational blow They were indig-
nant because an act had been committed which
ordinarily would not be attributed to citizens of the
United States of America.
AT the head of most labor organizations stand
upright, clean, honest, sincere Americans. While
they hold their places the movement is safe and
conservative. But they have undesirables among
their followers. They must weed out such fellows
in justice to themselves and in justice to the aver.
age American workman-whose standards of honor
and decency are high
Arizona furnished the Herrin of the rail strike
1t was not so bloody butft was just as illustrative