The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1940-07-19
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON


Y needed makeup to play Life
With Father" DR.. Charles Phillips
Cooper, managing editor Of the New
Dr.. c. P. Cooper s york Evening sta,,ns
Natural Lead for the turn of
Life With Father the century,
walked right into the part without
taking of his hat. AS he retires as
professor of journalism at Columbia
university, after more than so years
OF practicing and teaching journal
ism, he still commands affection and
respect from his one-time proteges,
an emotion somehow filial, and
somehow belonging in that nostal-
gic picture which the late Clarence
Day and Mr.. Lindsay and Russell
Grouse have recreated for the stage.
They used to set the type for the
old Evening Sun in the local room.
Charles A. Dana ordered some limo
type machines, found workmen de-
livering them to the World instead,
| got into row about it and said to
the devil with the whole business,
| or words to that effect. At any
rate this classic of newspapers for
many years thereafter kept clear Of
all chronological entanglements, in
Guiding typewriters.
DR.. Cooper's spouting mus
tache was electrified during the
ordeal of getting out the paper.
Reporters used to say it was like
sensitive antennae, catching i'm
pulses out Of the air. This was
the only way they could explain
his way of spotting a red-hot
news story in some bit Of trivia,
moving across his desk. They
called him "The Human Sieve"
That was due to his trick of
sitting bugs, libel suits, and sIop-
Ply writing out of piece of copy
with swift slash of his pencil.
When reporter was beaten on a
story, or made a serious error, or
otherwise offended, DR.. Cooper
would clutch both sides of his desk,
lean back, close his eyes and howl.
And when one of the boys really
put something over cit had to be
good) DR.. Cooper would Groom and
cluck over him affectionately.
He was always yelling for
copy and the boys, il the story
was hot, had to write it in short
takes. There was always a bliz-
zard OF copy paper loose in the
city room. AS press time came
near there were yells, bleats,
running foot-beats and a bed
lam which could be heard all up
and down Park Row. Out of
all this came a paper as cool
and neatly fashioned as a 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 a formula for
newspaper "oomph."
DR.. Cooper, short and stocky,
with his bright brown eyes alert and
narrowly focused behind his glasses,
joined the Sun staff as a reporter
in 1899, after year with the Hart
ford Comm Post. He was with the
Sun "a years as city editor, news
editor, assistant managing editor
and managing editor. He retired to
become a teacher of journalism in
1919.
Rounding "a, DR.. Cooper never
means over the good old days, and
has no regrets for the passing of
personalized journalism. He thinks
newspapers of today are doing a
better job than their predecessors.
Among his colleagues were Arthur
Brisbane, Richard Harding Davis,
Woodford Patterson, now secretary
Of Cornell university, Nelson Lloyd,
O'Neill Sewer, George Cartaret,
Stephen French Whitman, Homer
St. Gaudens and a score of other
long-remembered names.
IT'S long stretch from Gen. Adna
r. Chafee's small-arm Indian
fighting equipment to Brig. Gen.
Adna r. Chafee's new mechanical
From Boots and army fry, corps ,
SoddleS to Man son saga. The
The Gear Shifts father was
greatest lnuldn HBnIeIS IN our MS
tory, battling the Kiowas and
Comanches along the 900-mile trail
to the Sierra Madre in New Mexico
The son, schooled in the mounted
, service, was a cavalryman like his
father, but in recent years has spe.
cialized in studies of mechanical
warfare.
His new armored divisions are
said to be similar in organization
to the German panzer units. Army
men say they fill a long-felt need
in the service Brigadier General
Chafee was born at Junction City,
Kan, in 1884, and was graduated
from West Point in 1906, a few years
too late for the Spanish-American
and Philippine workouts, but he is
a veteran of our later military en-
gagements in Europe, holding the
Distinguished Service Medal and
is regarded as a good organizer and
fighter - IS boots and saddlesi"