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age should use to achieve success
is to do what they want most to do.
The advice carpe here as the still-
active southern editor on the eve
,.f his 85th birthday today, relaxed
in iiis second-floor sitting room
here at "Wakeslone," his home.
"I have a theory that every man
born into this world with average
health and mind will succeed if he
gets into a profession or a channel
in WIllC'll ne UKes, uaiuejo aaiu.
"I would advise every youngster
to do what he wants to do, to do
what he loves then it isn't work.
1 know, for my years as an editor,
although at times hard, never were
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work. They were always fun."
He's continuing to have his fun,
too, at the rate of eight or 10 hours
work daily except Sunday. He
spends about six hours each week
day in his editorial office at the
News and Observer, and then re
turns to Wakestone, where he con
tinues to work on what he de
scribes humorously as his "ought-not-to-be-biography."
He is referring to a series of five
volumes which trace some of his
experiences in private and official
life from the Reconstruction era to
his term as Roosevelt's good-will
ambassador to the Mexicans. The
latest of that series, "Shirt Sleeve
Diplomat," is to be released by
the University of North Carolina
Press at Chapel Hill on the last
day of this month.
Titles of others in that series are
"Tar Heel Editor," "Editor in Pol
itics," "The Wilson Era Years of
Peace, 1919-1917," "Years of War
and After 1917-1923." He says
he is now writing a book emitted,
"Life Begins at 70," and he says
that he is looking forward to writ
ing and publishing still another
volume on his 100th birthday, "How
It Looks to a Centenarian."
He has written other books: "Our
Navy at War," "The Navy and the
Nation," "The Life of Woodrow
Wilson," and "The Life of Ensign
Worth Bagley." Ensign Bagley
was his brother-in-law and the
first United States naval officer to
be killed in action in the Spanish
American War.
Editor at Work
The sitting room was full of
comfortable furniture. In the cen
ter was a work table which groaned
beneath the weight of notes, re
search books and rough drafts of
writings. To one side of his chair
was a Mexican-decorated wicker
basket which caught his unwanted
production.
Around the walls of the roonl
hung the souvenirs of his career as
a fighting editor, ambassador and
Secretary of the Navy. There were
cartoons some not too favorable
to him many pictures and com
missions of his service under every
Democratic President of the United
States since the Civil War.
He served as chief clerk of the
Interior Department for Grover
Cleveland. Secretary of the Naw
for Woodrow Wilson, Ambassador
to Mexico for Franklin Roosevelt
and the fourth offered a hitherto
unpublished surprise, a commis
sion as "special presidential ad
viser" to Harry Truman.
The last commission was rialpd
December 17. 1946. and was isKiipri
Daniels said, when he returned last
year from Mexico where he attend
ed the inauguration of President
Miqucl Aleman as a guest of the
Mexican Republic.
"It is verv rare for me to nroffer
any advice now," Daniels laugh
ingly confessed. "However, I hold
myself ready to volunteer advice
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editorially, if need be." His grey
eyes twinkled. In spite of his
years of writing and editing, he
docs not wear glasses. That black
ribbon that hangs around his neck
is attached not to spectacles, but
to editor's shears with which he
clips daily interesting items for
his editors.
That observation caused him no
concern. "Why, so far as I know,
I feel as well as 1 did when I
played first base and captained the
Wilson Swiftfoot baseball team
when a boy. But I don't suppose
I could be up to playing baseball
today."
No Celebration
There are no special celebrations
planned for his birthday tomor
row. It will be an old-fashioned
family reunion mostly. His four
sons Josephus, Jr., Jonathan, and
Frank, all of Raleigh, and Dr.
Worth Daniels of Washington, D.
C. will be here with their wives
and children for a dinner.
"Of course, I plan to go to church
as usual," the Editor interposed,
lie is a member of the Edenton
Street Methodist church, and all
his life lie has been a devout read
er of the Bible.
"1 really would not believe that
I was 85 unless it was recorded in
the family Bible," he said. "But
I believe everything in the Bible
from 'civer to civcr' so I know
it's so. However, I feel more iike
I did when I was 58."
Asked about his impressions of
the United Nations conference
which he recently visited, Daniels
admitted that he was as profoundly
impressed as he was when with
Wilson at Paris following World
War I.
"The United Nations must fash
ion a world league of peace, or
chaos will follow," he predicted.
"Failure to do so would be the
greatest tragedy of the world, un
less it was the failure of the United
States to enter the League of Na
tions. The work of the United Na
tions must insure the settlement of
all differences between nations
without resorting to wars that
would be universal tragedy and a
lasting tragedy of tragedies.
Conscience in I'N
"In spite of all the obstacles and
differences, 1 daily hope and pray.
and have confidence that the
United Nations can secure the
peace for which millions fought
and died. The attainment of that
peace would be easy if all nations
lived un to the Atlantic Charter
and the pad of San Francisco.
"Whenever the nations violate
the Golden Rule, they have tram
pled on one universal rule given
for the guidance of mankind. That
rule is the very bottom of it all.
Asked what he regarded his
greatest achievement in his varied
life, the old gentleman paused.
One could almost see the many
chapters of state, national and in
'ernational history whipping past.
Then he replied, "my being an editor."
"I mean it," he said. "My whole
life from boyhood has been the
work of an editor. I am certain if
one gets printer's ink on one's fin
gers while one is young, it will be
more difficult to remove than Lady
Macbeth trving to wash off the
blood from her hands. I know I'm
never tired of being an editor.
"While I was in the Navy as Sec
retary, I was merely the manag
ing editor of the Navy. While I
was ambassador to Mexico, I was
serving as foreign correspondent
for the State Department and
Franklin Roosevelt."
And the history of his life proves
his point. When a mere lad of
16, he edited "The Cornucopia."
after finding printer's ink more in-
trieuine than base hits with the
f Wilson Swiftfoots. By the time he
was 19 he owned and published the
Wilson Advance, a weekly. He
later disposed of the paper, and
studied law at the University of
North Carolina. He won his li
cense from the State Supreme
Court, and by the fall of 1885 he
obtained controlling interest in the
State Chronicle of Raleigh, and
changed it from a weekly to a
daily. He served in the Interior
Department under Cleveland, but
his love of newspapering brought
him back to Raleigh where in 1894
he bought the News and Observer.
It then was the only other paper,
besides Daniels' Chronicle, pub
lished in Raleigh. He combined
editor and published until Wilson
Called him to a cabinet post 18
years later.
It was in Washington that Dan
iels picked for his assistant young
Franklin Roosevelt, a man with
whom he had been captivated at
the Baltimore Democratic conven
tion. Their association in the Wil
son cabinet was unusual, and was
carried over to the days when
Roosevelt became President.
Of Daniels, it has been said, "he
can't be bought and can't be
scared." He insists that no news
is too hot to handle. His report
ers are instructed to paramount
accuracy in their stories. His hard
hitting tactics as an editor who will
expose graft have in no small way
been responsible for the fact that
the state has a record for clean
government.
The News and Observer, a pio
neer member of the Associated
Press, is the second largest news
paper in the Carolinas, with a froz
en circulation of 94.991. That could
be increased easily but for the
shortage of paper. That's a long
way from the sparse 2,000 circu
lation that Daniels took over when
he bought the paper shortly before
the turn of the century.
He is an ardent prohibitionist
Hazelwood School
8th Month Honor
Roll Announced
The Hazelwood school honor ro'l
for the eighth month was an
nounced this week by Lawrence
Leatherwood, principal, who also
reported that a graduation pro
gram will be given the night of
June 2.
Honor roll students for grade
one are: Barbara Ferguson, Freda
Ann Breecc. Catherine Frady, Joel
Rathermel. Auldcn Rhinehart,
Joan Prevost, Agnes Robinson,
Ernest Henshaw, Jr., Ray Lane
Medford, Ross Hooper, Jimmy
Mann, Janet Milner, Hilda Ann
Hale, Shirley Ann Smiley, Lawan
da June Smith.
Grade two Joe Bryson, Ann
Burnetle, Patsy Clarke, Lillic Mae
Gibbs, Barbara Hyde, Jo Ann
Moore.
Grade three Gerald Swanger,
Stephen Woody, Marie Scruggs,
Colleen Smith Fannie Smith, Sonja
Snyder, Ann Hardin, Barbara
Jones, Betty Jane Morgan.
Grade four Bill Putnam, Paul
ine Inman. Louise Arrington, Bob
by Hooper, Donald Shaw, Michael
Troutman, Edna Parris, Medara
Queen. Joan Robinson, Shelby Jean
Wood. Betty Jean Wyatt. Margaret
Cotter.
Grade live Mack James Buchan
an, Mary Sue Morgan, Carolyn
Hathbonc. Eileen Gcrringer, Bar
bara McClure, Juanita Kelly, Wan
da Mills.
Grade six Joel Burrcll, Carolyn
Bischoff, Nancy BischoHf, Grace
Blanton, Patsy Urendle, Doris
Burgess, Mary Ann Byrd, Judith
Davis, Sarah Jane Davis, Marjorie
Early, Shirley Ensley, Vivian Gil
liland. Geraldine Kelnani, Betty
Lou Korbler, Mary Lou Gcrringer,
Denton Hill, Mary Lou Ferguson,
Vivian Green, Vivian Sayer, Shir
ley Shehan, Mary Sherrill and
Ruth Henshaw. '
and a foe of the sales tax. He has
fought against special privileges
or special rates which he says the
railroads and insurance companies
tried to put over on what he de
scribes as a "sleeping public." Ik
fought with Governor Charles B.
Aycoek for public schools for all
races. More recently he personal
ly visited the legislature to cham
pion increased salaries for teach
ers and a good health program,
and there is still editorial fire in
his brain and hand.
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