MAN WHO WAS NEVER UNHAPPY

Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 25

MAN WHO WAS NEVER UNHAPPY

HOW A NEWSBOY WON FORTUNE AND FAME He had never known w’hat it is to be unhappy. They said that of Colonel Arthur Goodman, who died recently at Camberly, England, a wealthy man and a member of Parliament. Forty-seven years ago Arthur Goodman sold newspapers in the streets of Melbourne. He earned 8s 6d a week, with carpentry as a sideline. When the gold rush was at its height young Goodman tramped 200 miles to stake a claim, but he failed to find a single nugget. Friends of those days say he was just “ plain dogged.” No amount of illluck could wipe the smile off his face or change his cheerful nature. Finding his luck out he simply took a job in a broker’s office at £3 a week and gave up his dream of finding gold. Eleven years later ho went to India, set up as a commission agent. At 46 ho had acquired a six-figure fortune. Then he sold out, went to England, became a partner in a real-estate company. His fortunes still flourished. Ho turned his attention to politics. Defeated at Bow and Bromley in 1929 by George Lansbury, he tried again in 1931, when North Islington returned him as its Conservative member. He was re-elected in 1935. A close friend of Colonel Goodman told the ‘ i)aily Sketch ’ that he was especially proud of his rank, honorary colonel, in the Tcritrorials. Colonel Goodman was 57. Ho loaves a widow, two sons, and a daughter.