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Show in conference, the reporter could open hii door and jet what Information he desired. One time, shortly after the Utah Coppei company had become one of the wonders of the-rnminr-rn4,0flrt;;,lckl,",,Ill made his niche In the hall of financial fame, he was having the arrangement of his suite of offices changed. A newspaper man happened hap-pened to be present when the plans were be-lnr, be-lnr, discussed and he said: ' ; . "Colonel, It looks as though well have a hard time getting into you now." ;J . "If that's the case 111 have the door taken off the hinges," Colonel Jackllng replied. And he did next thingl He bad private door off his secretary's Inner office fuced with an electric push button that released the catch and opened the door. This push button was known' to only his private secretary, a few of the higher officials of the company and the newspaper reporters. It was not necessary to ask permission to push the button. - Newspaper News-paper men. had equal rights: He credited them with, enough sense to' know that If they came Into his private office and found him In a private consultation with some of his officials to leave quickly. , , Colonel JacUlng always took newspaper men Into his confidence and . he knew that when he said "treat that confidentially" It wouIdbejeatedJtJ3eneyknown among newspaper men that the greater the man, the easier he Is to interview; the smaller the man, the tougher the job. 0 . lMeaurinr Greatness J "0 , . . npilE newspaper fraternity has a circuit of A information all of its own. Whenever a reporter Is sent to Interview a man of national na-tional importance, whether In the financial, business or political Yield he generally knows -when the assignment is handed him whether iui person to be Interviewed Is a "press Intimate," Inti-mate," or one of those cold Individuals who ! )uks upon newspaper men as a forerunner of t. ouble. . . Whenever a man becomes such a national t gait that he is due for en Interview no mat-t.-r what city he may visit," his reputation as t j the reception he rives the press spreads 1 roujhout the newspaper fraternity of the c uatry quickly. ' There are few jreat men, fortunately, who shun newspaper men and n:ke it disagreeable for reporters to get to t.iik to them. Coionel D. C Jacklinj, president of the L'.ah Copper company and one of the 'real. e:t f'gures in the mining industry, is a favo-r favo-r :::i the newspaper men. When he had ! o':;cs i:i Salt Lake he always made It ; t for reporters who called at his offices c.',j. I :..iJ of surrounding himself with a I evy of secretaries as a barrier to his private . 1 a.'.ltS office as many heads of great t ; -a':ons do, Colonel Jackling always had - - per men come directly into his office. . j : ho l-'y he was, or wha he had |