Show 4 KM 4 S 44 i ae A 4 A 5 srichard FR ichard lloyd jones jene SJ 4 S S S tsi ts i I 1 IK Ss vl p I 1 M 4 sop c EDITORIAL IAL GENIUS SET I 1 MILLIONS OP OF UIE rICANS READING till THE I 1 31 AGAZINE AND IS NOW GOING RL TO INTERPRET AMI I 1 AND AM rn niss IOK FOR till rank alk recola alio joins Is author or of 1 lla I and A brother of 0 men former editor of 0 cosmopolitan and associate editor of colliers former owner and editor of the lWis wisconsin conin state journal present joint owner and editor of 0 the tulsa okla tribune and the jack sonville fla journal jones grew up in chicago where his father one of the most noted ministers li tile the country was pastor of 0 all sauls church for forty ye years rs As a boy jones bean ills newspaper career by selling sell ln chicago dallies lai lieg laring during 1 rig TV bots nots in 1884 when lie he hudso saved nn ill lie he decia ed lu lo see tho world alrh boy ot of ten took its his savings and delit ent to indianapolis there lie he eam nod tile tho state bouse inspected the soila goda foont fountains ains and returned home with a full report A and n 1 I lies hes been reporting on places and institutions and men ever since silice jones was educated educatO ll in the universities of chicago anti and wisconsin but before entering college he be had worked as kitchen boy on a government pilot boat on the gull r f mexico its as an apprentice cheese rucker and farm hand he studied law in Ch chicago acquired r d two legal degrees tuck tool a turn at being a cowboy in nevada and then decided to be a writer during hla his eleven years of magazine work jones made journeys of investigation and research that carried him more than miles he saw america first handi hand its cities its towns its farms its industries in 1311 1911 jones bought the wisconsin state journal when the war broke out he wanted to get into the fighting but president wilson told him he would render his best service to the country by staying with his paper in wisconsin where german propaganda was most active jones stayed and f ought fought a light fight against disloyalty that won ivon the applause ot of the entire nation ili iii 1919 jones sold the wisconsin state journal and bought the tulsa oklahoma tribune with wh ill h paper lie he has put up the biggest battle for civic decency and honesty in city and state government that W oklahoma 1 1 lias has ever known ile he threw a corrupt chief ot of police out of office ail and d S stopped t op the grafters drafters gr from stealing the peoples money repudiated a thoroughly t h oro hughly rotten rity city administration and awakened awalt ened the public conscience to quest I 1 0 liable practices in the state wern men recently jones purchased halt interest in ili the jacksonville fla journal I 1 chit jones jone will do no newspaper writer of mhd liny day is better fitted to constructively interpret the fiend ot of american thought its ideals and its practical approach to the problems that must be solved before those ideals are ale realized jones will write weekly tor for thil th 1 park record readers ili his s first arciclo appears in ill this issue |