Radio mirror (May-Oct 1935)

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Father Coughlin's GREAT SECRET % §QQO All photographs on these pages made exclusively and especially for Radio Mirror by Wide World t £>' He learned it a quarter of a century ago— but it is told here for the first time by FRED SAMMIS Q.EXoUgHL.Nj&A ■VrE* FATHER COUGHLIN'S most dramatic and significant story can now be told! The clue to his secret — the secret of his formula for success — stands revealed when we interpret in new terms the personality of this crusading priest — this man who has become one of the most powerful figures in radio through the magic of his voice and the working principles on which he stakes his very life. It is a clue which, though tucked away in his boyhood and buried in the memories of those who were his schoolmates, was brought to light by a trip to Toronto, a talk with the men who taught him and the men who played and studied with him. With this clue Father Charles E. Coughlin becomes an identity, stripped of all the mystery of myths with which he has already become surrounded, a man you can know and understand. It is the story — told here for the first time — of how Father Coughlin made a boyhood decision and how steadfastly he has followed it through all the successive years of working and fighting and preaching, up to the present days with the intense and bitter three cornered arguments he shares with Huey P. Long and General Hugh S. Johnson. Come with me to Toronto, in the province of Ontario, Canada, up the wide street which leads from the downtown business section to the more quiet, dignified residential district, and through the iron portals of St. Michael's school. It is here that Charles Coughlin began his career as a boy of twelve. Walk across the stone pavement to the heavy oak door, step inside the dark corridors down which Charles Coughlin hurried every morning to his classes. Come into the more cheerful study of a Brother who, because he was one of those who helped reveal the story, must remain nameless. Stay and learn Father Coughlin's secret — how, in the quiet of the dormitory room in which he slept each night, was born the knowledge of what life is and must become to a priest like Charles Coughlin. You know, if you have read a life story of Charles Coughlin, that he had made up his mind to be a priest by the time he was a boy of seven. That his mother, a devout Catholic, fired his imagination and filled him with dreams