Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-23

aluminium from ignominy' to, prosper.
lty. He collaborated with Ebert H
Gary In the organizing of numerou.
fragments Of the. industry Of the meta
iron into the United States Steel Cor.
poration. He was thus in the circle
OF the activities Of those dominating
steel masters, Andrew Carnegie anc
lander G. Knox. was particularly close
to Mr.. Prick in business and in friend.
ship.
The boy David Aiken Reed begar
with aspirations-that is, he started q
newspaper. 1t was a very local affair
for circulation among his fathers Pitts
burgh neighbors. He unscrupulously
dragoot1ed almost all those neighbors
into becoming subscribers. He pushed
the circulation Of the paper up to more
than 1000. It had a firm editorial pol
Icy which colored even its news col
umns. It achieved great success In
its treatment of the famous Homestead
strike. It noted that there were numer-
Gus assaults upon strikers by the guards
of Mr.. Frick's steel mills. It, accord
ingly. all across the front page, called
Mr. Prick murderer"
That was the biggest edition that the
paper ever had. The boy editors father
bought up the copies as fast as the boy
1t did not stop the boy He was rap
idly on his way. He arrived at Prince
ton College at the age of is. There, in
continuation of his twin specialties OF
being always both deep in study and
deep In trouble. he threw an orange,
which caused him to be arrested for
assault and which gained him the long
friendship Of Woodrow Wilson.
The orange was one of a consignment
sent him by his loving mother. All the
others had been eaten. Only the fatal
one remained. Two Of his classmates
physically struggled for it. It rolled
away from both of them and was
grabbed, by young David. He hurled it
through an open window. It smashed
the glass of another window, travelled
onward, alighted on table, bounced
from the table and violently hit a
peacefully disposed lady.
A few minutes later young David was
arrested for assault upon the body of
lady. The warrant so charged him.
He was hailed before a squire. While
the squire was earnestly entering the
charge in big book young David stole
the warrant and put 1t into his pocket
and subsequently into his trunk. I'm
cidentally, when his loving mother I'M
packed his trunk In Pittsburgh at the
end Of the term and found that he had
been charged with assault upon the
body" Of lady, 1t took his father the
whole evening, to explain to her that
such was merely the legal phraseology
bound to be used In such o case.)
Defended by Wilson.
More Importantly, upon finding him
self charged with assault, the boy in
stinctively and natively resorted to the
best available lawyer. He reflected that
surely nobody could know more about
law than q professor of law. Woodrow
Wilson was Princeton's professor Of law
in preparation for becoming Princeton's
president. David Aiken Reed took him
his orange case. Wilson listened to 1t
till its gravity was wholly overborne by
his uncomfortable laughter. He then
successfully adjusted It with the squire
and added young David to the little
list Of the boys In whom he had an af-
fectionate interest. @
The affection lasted for many years,
until there came the tragedy of the
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