The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-03-25

Something more than the mere re-
cital of facts is required in regard TO
the recent passing of three men, each
of whom left mark because he lived.
One of them is Winfield r. Gaylord,
the Mr. Modestus of the ILNS column,
Riding at Anchor"
Another is Col. Roy Dickinson, who
resigned as president of Printers Ink
to reenter the army and serve as exc
cutive assistant to Gen. Hershey IN
administering the Selective Service
Act.
The third is J. =. Morgan, who
headed the House of Morgan and saw
it change character under the impact
of laws enacted by the New Deal
while Congress still had the courage
and the sense to keep it's face to the
front.
Does it seem strange to link these
three names? But it isn't.
x x
Gaylord was one of those pioneer
Wisconsin Socialists who were power
full when the late Bob LaFollette was
taking the Badger State away from
the lumber barons and the railroads.
No man did more to bring the Wis
consin legislature to factual basis in
the making of laws. He, perhaps more
than any other, showed legislators the
meaning of real research.
He left the Socialist party in bitter
anger when the first World War found
it swinging to the Prussian viewpoint
under the last of Victor l.. Berger.
Then he fought nightly alongside
Samuel Gompers for the American
cause.
But victory in the war brought de-
feat for Gaylord, who had thenceforth
no place in Wisconsin politics. Not un-
til he came to Washington just before
the election of Roosevelt was he to
find another proper place in which to
give his energies.
He wouldn't debase his conscience.
He would tell the truth. More impOr-~
tant, he would move heaven and earth
to find the truth. He was a great man.
He was a great friend of justice. He
was a great friend.
Roy Dickinson served i'm the Army's
famous CO during the first World War.
A young man of tremendous energy,
he was assigned to help step up pro-
duction and to get the alien prOpa-
ganda blocks out of the road.
Thus he, too, met Samuel Gompers.
When the war ended he went with
Printers Ink as associate editor. From
thence he was to go on up the ladder,
to head the big publishing enterprise.
Roy Dickinson had high courage. He
rsked his future for the sake of his
convictions. He saw good wages as the
making of purchasing power He saw
unions as vital necessities.
He taught many tycoon to be
tolerant and to have some understand
ing of the meaning of ebor.
Nobody could put a ticket on Roy
Dickinson and say that he would stay
hitched He would stay hitched only
to what he saw as the truth. He
hatched ideas as rapidly as drops fall
in a rain storm. He was a restless,
impatient soul, driven by tremen-
dous urge to be moving forward.
x X x
j. z. Morgan, born to wealth and
enormous power, heritage of those
days when men could steal a state and
be sent to the Senate for it, left no
great mark, for all his cash and bonds.
Perhaps when it is all unfolded,
his greatest job was in his financial
help to Great Britain i'm that same
first World War.
Other than that, he yielded fairly
gracefully to the changing order, in
which what we know as Wall Street
lost so much of its power to rule or
ruin.
Like the elder Rockefeller, also gone
hence, he yielded in his later days, to
the manipulations of freak publicity.
in an unnatural gesture intended to
portray his as human" 1t were better
if men clung to what dignity they
have, rather than start playing with
the equivalent of paper dolls in their
homage.
But Morgan passed as about the last
stalwart symbol of an era that had
about it certain raw and grandiose
courage, marked also by a what the
help attitude toward those poor hll-
mans unable to meet on terms OF
equality the ruthless power of those
who could rule because they had the
price.-CMW.