Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-07
CRIPPLED IN BODY, YET
WITH ACTIVE BRAIN, MAN
BECOMES BIG SUCCESS

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relations with the government, to
which he had turned over his fac
tory during the war, were such that
no man could possibly criticize him
for going to the senate while retain
ing his connection with his COM
pany.
But C. Lee Cooks ideas on poll
tics, like his ideas on many other
things, are Illuminating. He told
his lawy ers and political friends he
could not afford to give away his
business and SO long as he was con-
nected with it and it's government
contracts so long did he feel ne
must decline an office.
Bit. gentlemen" he said, II he
lieve that every citizen should be
successful in business before accept
ing office of any kind. After he has
laid by all the money he needs, as
I have, I believe it is his duty to
spend the later years of his life in
some service to the country that
has given him all he has. want to
do that-in public office, too, if that
is possible. But here and now l.
want you to know that no party, no
set of politicians, no group of even
my personal friends, need waste their.
time telling me what to do if you
ever send me to congress, elect me
mayor or give me any other office"
Thinks and Directs
In his factory Mr.. Cook sits like
Buddha directing the destinies of a
little world. He thinks and directs.
Willing hands carry out his orders.
His employees all love him. He hasn't
an enemy in the world. They know
him as justice personified. If there
is troubel or dissatisfaction-the
come directly to him.
He allows no profanity. If q man
mistreats his wife, he gets the worst
possible punishment-a lecture from
&c. Lee" And &C. Lee" is sure to
hear from any domestic squabble
among his employees, for the wives
bring him their troubles to adjust
and the children, too. According to
Mr. Cook man must be well paid
and efficient to work for him. Do
nestle trouble, drink, profanity and
debt impair a mans efficiency-so he
won't permit these things.
Often women with tears in their
eyes come to thank him for what he
has done in making real men out of
their men. tits just a little matter
Of human ACCOMPLISHMENTS
building" he says modestly. AS a
philanthropist, c. Lee Cook has lot
of trouble hiding his light under a
bushe1. He is perhaps the most
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Louisville, though a Democrat in
politics.
But it is in his home life that
this remarkable man is most re-
markable. Here he is, the devoted
husband of a beautiful wife, who
is an accomplished horsewoman.
Here h is the artist, the art col
lector, historian, whose knowledge
of American history is second to
no mans. Here he writes and
paints. He is now debating work
on architecture and travel and his
tory in several volumes for which an
eager publisher waits. 1t deals with
the lives of twenty of the worlds
most famous painters.
With the slight movement nature
has allowed his hands he paints in
oils, water colors and with crayons.
An old river man offered him $4,000
for one Of his paintings of famous
boat steaming up the Ohio but was
refused. He knows the philosophers
of anciet Greece and Rome and all
their great writer's. And he has
travelled and painted in thos coun-
tries and many others. His reproduc-
lions of the masterpieces of the TWEEN
txy +:c,fc 1,4 Sc,
writing are said by competent art
critics to be remarkable for their
likeness % the originals.
Great Versatility
So versatile is the great mind that
dwells in the helpless body of c. Lee
Cook that even many Of his GLOW
toWnsmen who have known him in
timately for years have never
nlumbed all it's depths. No greater
homo could be given one Of them,
oWeYer, than to be low. as a
fl md of Cook, the engineer; Cook,
tie artist; Cook, the manufacturer,
or Cook the man Of business in
about { 'venteen trades and profess
SONS, of which he is master men,
tally and which he can have phys
ically executed by his employees at
any time he desires
Centre College conferred the de-
ee of master Of arts upon him
eight years ago, although he was
rot a candidate, He is chairman
If the executive committee of the
Presbyterian church, of which he
is a Iember. He is chairman of tho
board of patrC s of the Louisville
School Of Art. When the old Ken
lucky home commission, which the
legislature charged with making a
rublic Shrine of the old place where
the states famous song, my Old
ntucky Home" was written,
wanted law C-lacted it was he who
wrote it on the statute books. The
legislature just passed it.
NOBODY XII ows today just what
C. Lee Cook is worth in money. But
Louisville wouldn't part with him
or many millions. He numbers his
friends around 294,000 there-this
is the population Of Louisville.