The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1943-03-26

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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. Gay
lord, the Mr.. Modestus of the ILNS
column, riding at Anchor"
Another is Col. Roy Dickinson, re-
signed as president of Printers Ink tc
re-enter the army and serve as execu-
tive assistant to Gen. Hershey in ad-
ministering the Selective Service Act
The third is J. P. 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 its face to the front
Does it seem strange to link these
three names? But it isn't.
Gaylord was one of those pioneer
Wisconsin Socialists who were pow
erful when the late Bob LaFollette
was taking the Badger State away
from the lumber barons and the rail
roads.
No man did more to bring the Wis
consin legislature to factual basis II
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 Wal
found it swinging to the Prussiar
viewpoint under the last of Victor L
Berger Then he fought nightly
alongside Samuel Gompers for tht
American cause.
But victory in the war brought de
feat for Gaylord, who had thencefortl
no place in Wisconsin politics. Not un
til he came to Washington just be
fore the election of Roosevelt was h,
to find another proper place in which
to give his energies.
He wouldn't debase his conscience
He would tell the truth. More import
ant, he would move heaven and eartf
to find the truth. He was a great man
He was a great friend of justice. HI
was a great friend.
Roy Dickinson served in the Army:
G2 during the first World War.
A young man of tremendous en-
ergy, he was assigned to help step VI
production 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 en-
terprise.
Roy Dickinson had high courage
He risked his future for the sake o1
his convictions. He saw good wages
as the making of purchasing power
He saw unions as vital necessities
He taught many tycoon to be tol
Grant and to have some understand
ing Of the meaning of labor.
Nobody could put ticket on Roy
Dickinson and say that he would stay
hitched He would stay hitched only
to what he saw as the truth. He
Matched ideas as rapidly as drops fal
in a rain storm. He was a restless
impatient soul, driven by tremend
Gus urge to be moving forward
J. P. Morgan, born to wealth anc
enormous power, heritage of those
days when men could steal 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 in 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 in
tended to portray him as human" 1t
were better if men clung to what dig
nifty they have, rather than start play
ing 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 grandi-
ose courage, marked also by what