Glacier County chief., 1940-07-19
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON

By LEMUEL r. PARTON n
Consolidated Features-wNU Service.
NEW YORK.-Howard Linds
~ needed makeup to play IT.
With Father" DR.. Charles Phil
Cooper, managing editor Of the NJ,
Dr.. c. p. Cooper s sSnl E ssaa
Natural Lead for the turn RI
Life With Father the eentm
walked right into the part withc
taking of his hat. As he retires
professor Of journalism at Column
university, after more than SO yes
Of practicing and teaching journi
ism, he still commands affection al
respect from his one-time proteg(
an emotion somehow flial, al
somehow belonging in that most;
gic picture which the late Claren
Day and Mr.. Lindsay and Russ.
Grouse have recreated for the stas.
They used to set the type for q
old Evening Sun in the local rooi
Charles A. Dana ordered some lin
type machines, found worimen d
hvering them to the World instea
got into a row about II and said 4
the devil with the whole busines
or words to that effect. At n
rate this classic Of newspapers Z
many years thereafter kept clear }
all chronological entanglements, 1
GLIDING typewriters.
DR.. Cooper's spouting mus
tache was electrified during the
ordeal Of getting out the paper.
Reporters used to say Il was Ike
sensitive anteanae, catching Inn
pulses out Of the air. This was
the only way they could explain
his way Of spotting . red-het
news story In some bit Of trivia,
moving across his desk. They
called him 1.-THE Human Sieve"
That was due to his trick Of
sitting bugs, libel suits, and slop-
py writing out Of . piece Of copy
with q swift slash Of his pencil.
When a reporter was beaten on
story, or made a serious error, {
otherwise offended, DR.. Coope
would clutch both sides Of his desl
lean back, close his eyes and how
And when one Of the boys real
put something over Git had to b
good) DR.. Cooper would Groom an
cluck over him affectionately.
He was always yelling for
copy and the boys, II the story
was hot, had to write It In short
takes. There was always . blix-
zard Of copy paper loose in the
city room. As press time came
near there were yells, beats,
running foot-beats and . bed
lam which could be heard all up
and down Park Row. Out Of
all this came q paper rs cool
and neatly fashioned as 4 daisy
in the meadow-human, subtle,
civilized and deftly done. The
noise, smells Of ink, grease and
tobacco, and above all, DR..
Cooper's rip-snorting energies
seemed to make formula for
newspaper "oomph."
DR.. Cooper, short and stock
with his bright brown eyes alert az
narrowly focused behind his glasse
joined the Sun staff as a report,
in 1889, after year with the HaI
ford Comm Post. He was with Il
Sun "a years as city editor, new
editor, assistant managing edit
and managing editor. He retired
become a teacher of journalism
1919.
Rounding IA, DR.. Cooper new,
means over the good old days, al
has no regrets for the passing
personalized journalism. He thinl
newspapers of today are doing
better job than their predecessor
Among his colleagues were Arthl
Brisbane, Richard Harding Davi
Woodford Patterson, now secreta,
of Cornell university, Nelson Lloy
O'Neill Sewer, George Cartar,
Stephen French Whitman, HON
St. Gaudens and a score of 9th
long-remembered names.
IT'S long stretch from Gen. AID
R. Chafee's small-arm Indis
fighting equipment to Brig. G,
Adna R. Chafee's new mechaniz
From Boots and army q ss,. corp :
SaddIes' to Mon SON saga. ]
The Gear Shift father u
greatest Indian fighters in our
tory, battling the Kiowas
comanches along the 900-mile {
to the Sierra Madre in New Mex
The son. schooled in the mcur
service, was cava1ryman I'M
father, but in recent years has
cialized IN studies Of mschan
warfare.