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Show jjyfakWhen By JEANNE -TffAS ONCE A BOOK-fiBiE BOOK-fiBiE KEEPER ,ot everyone can be an individ-i individ-i .list and blaze his own trail " Some of us are better fit-Z fit-Z 'ailing Into line as part ot ! Uatlon. James A. Farley s 1 politics is an example of ards which may come to the j lieutenant ;,.,was born In 1889 in Grassy -t N Y- 8 smaU viUage on toe on river. There were five chll-' chll-' and the father was a saloon ' . When Jim Farley was ten i old, Ws father dled and his ' started a combination sa- ni grocery store. The boy '. tended bar or worked as gro- L" clerk on the other side of the Through these jobs he to meet the public, be - 13 :Jly with strangers, and show :?athy for their problems. He :ided the Stony Point high school ie Packard commercial school Sjw York. Graduating In 1906, m employed as a bookkeeper, uas always interested in poll- and, before he was old enough tile, he called house-to-house, :.g out the Democratic vote In :; Point i first political job was as town ' s of Stony Point. He was cour-1 cour-1 j to all, jolly, a hale-fellow-well-iort of man who had a pat on : :ack for everyone. Through Al-Z. Al-Z. Smith, whom he helped elect 1 ;mor of New York, and Frank-' Frank-' 3. Roosevelt, for whom he was :j lieutenant in the Presiden-:jmpaign, Presiden-:jmpaign, Farley forged steadied. stead-ied. He won the top political f i in the United States, poster post-er general. E - ET WAS ONCE A LAWYER :AD this story of the conven--onal lawyyer who became one 'J most famous poets. Not a ling, unsuccessful lawyer, but n with a profitable and impor-jw impor-jw practice, important enough aciate with Clarence Darrow ;i time. A busy man of com-:e com-:e who became a writer of i and poems, sonnets, essays irama! 'lit Lee Masters was born in Me town of Garnett, Kan., in His father was a descendant 1 Virginia stock; his mother, slighter of Methodist minister descendant of Israel Putnam of ican Revolutionary fame. The J moved to Petersburg, 111., ater to Lewistown, where Ed-iJs Ed-iJs raised in the typically re-Ale re-Ale atmosphere of small town ica. "'d newspaper work for the 'weekly, learned the printing l a"d studied law under his ;; o was one of ae leading Lee m 6 State- In 1891 Ed-Masters Ed-Masters was admitted to ;iS llPracticed Partnership :?" The following year ;s hea his own office in Chicago mi92o. hi8hly SuccessfuJ 'hsiH ta high school, Edgar -;was interested in writ- never forgot his am- ' Bston and the " Hull, 7 Chicag wws-thile wws-thile h. ok- Published in ' practTaS stru"g to es- ;C'epm?icaeo' was ;, W A Book of Verses." '1 Cm ne,S" foowed, but 'tSrah,I' acted much at- :" wa, 's. , Spoon River An-ie An-ie as Pubhshed in l915 C 2 lament yuur look f u yearn for OP" the p k. a' hs dual person. ' h s won such Mature " realms of mod- NU Servlc. |