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Show BUSINESS SUCCESS As a newspaper publisher. Cox has alwuK shown great daring 1 Twenty years ago some railroad men who were trying to build into Dayton without eliminating grade crossing, sued him for $.r.u 000 criminal libel because of the hard fight his Dayton Ni wa made against their project. Under the law at that time, when criminal libel was alleged, it was the ',dui. of the sheriff to take possession 'of the property unless tho person sued i was able to give bond in twice the amount sued for. rno snerirr of .Mongomery county, h Republican, locked up the News of-fT of-fT e, With Cox and his entire working force o:i the Inside, engaged In getting OUI the day's paper. If Cox failed lo give ISaO.iiOO bond the afternoon Issue wouldn't appear. j U tie lis was op he telephone SOll-l Cll id from PVerj friend ho could think of, tUe opposition came out with a.i extra with a big headline. "News Is Suspended." An hour later, however, the News, wax on tha streets With an extra, telling tell-ing how i is friencs had come to the, res ii with the $Sf.0,uOO bond J- ixteon years ago Cox I might a newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, and in one day he did three things t(, it Changed Its nunc from Press ite- public to The News. Changed its politics from Republican Republi-can to Democratic. Chanced its time of issue from morning to evening;. Inatead of wrecking the paper, ihese ; three radical changes started the pa-per pa-per on the road to gp-at prosperity. I |