Show Way Back When WhenBy By JEANNE FARLEY WAS ONCE A BOOKKEEPER BOOKKEEPER BOOK BOOK- O K KEEPER N OT everyone can be an individualist and blazo blaze his own trail iran to fame tame Some of us are arc better fitted fit ted for falling Into line as part fit I of an organization James A. A Farleys Farley's Y rise in politics Is an example of the rewards which may come to the good lieutenant Farley was born In 1889 In Grassy Point N. N Y a small village on the Hudson river There were five children children chil chil- dren and the father was a saloon keeper When Jim Farley was ten years old his father died and his mother started a combination saloon saloon sa loon and grocery store The boy often tended bar or worked as grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery clerk derk on the other side of the store Through these jobs he learned to meet the public be i- i IL w. w w ik r t r r friendly with strangers and show sympathy for their problems He attended the Stony Point high school and the Packard commercial school In New York Graduating in 1906 he was employed as a bookkeeper Jim was always Interested in politics politics poli poll tics and before he was old enough to vote he called house to getting out the Democratic vote in Stony Point His first political job was as town clerk of Stony Point He was courteous courteous courteous cour cour- to all jolly a hale well met s sort rt of man who had a pat on the back for everyone Through Alfred Alfred Alfred Al Al- fred E. E Smith whom he helped elect governor of New York and Franklin Frank Frank- lin D. D Roosevelt for tor whom he was f faithful lieutenant in the Presidential campaign F Farley forged steadily steadily stead stead- ily ahead He won the top the top political plum in the United States postmaster postmaster post post- master gener general L S POET WAS ONCE A LAWYER READ EAD this story of the conventional conventional conven conven- who became one of our most famous poets pacts Not a dreaming unsuccessful lawyer but buta a man with a profitable and Important important important tant law practice important enough to associate with Clarence Darrow at one time A busy man of commerce commerce commerce com com- merce who became a writer of songs and poems sonnets essays and dr drama ma Edgar Lee Masters was born inthe Inthe In Inthe the little town of Garnett Kan in 1868 His father was a descendant of old Virginia stock his mother th the daughter of Methodist minister and descendant of Israel Putnam of American Revolutionary fame tame The The family moved to Petersburg Ill and later to Lewistown where Edgar Edgar Edgar Ed Ed- gar was raised in the typically respectable respectable re re- re atmosphere of small town America He did newspaper work for the local weekly learned the printing I p h i iy y I 41 aY c. c I v t z zt J ti r trade and studied law under his father lather who was wa one of the l leading ading lawyers in the state In 1891 Edgar Edgar Edgar Ed Ed- gar Lee Masters was admitted to bar and practiced in partnership with his father The Thc following year car carbe he lie opened his own office in Chicago where he was a highly successful lawyer until 1920 But even in high school EdgarLee Edgar EdgarLee Lee Masters was interested in writing writing writing writ writ- ing and he never forgot his am am- He contributed to the Waverly Waverly Wa- Wa verly Magazine of at Boston and the Saturday Evening Call of Peoria he wrote poems for a Chicago news paper His first book boole published in 1 1808 1628 3 while he was struggling to establish establish establish es es- es- es a practice in Chicago was called simply A UA Book of Verses Songs and Sonnets followed but none of them attracted much attention at attention it until his Spoon River Anthology Anthology Anthology An An- was published in 1915 Those of or you who lament your unexciting lives and yearn for opportunity op Ope opportunity look at his dual personality personality person person- the poet who has won such high high awards a wards awards in the realms of mod mod- modern modern ern literature Q J |