Show T IS A CLEVER WRITER JOE HOWARD A MAST MABTCH IN JOURNALISM II lmt > lfit Kt rr rmUInn from DRIri II r Hi in hills Ill typos tin nvlmndlnn or 1rrllrnl Ilnrolr utlHC she tvn N every place 1 In f America where nnwipaperi n r e published the name of Joseph Howard I la known IWIlnn tif of the great metro pnlltan dallies arc lumldia with their t official Hi only and are heard ot na the editor of the Time of the World or of the Tribune Mr Howard persona Ity however til way accotnpaulp his work and It It I perbapa no exaggeration to any that ho bat either written for or been quoted In very newepoper In the Inlllli flint He In I eerlalnl nn unique figure In American Journillani end best charse ttrlKNl la an allaround newspaperMan newspaper-Man Sixty two year old 1 Joe Howard I to all Intent and purposes n hay among boy a man among men and n litterateur littera-teur among thOM who look In style aa the saving crape Ho lias a manner I which ueget that he ban salt to him Mil nt odd lime They thing 1 in bet ler natural than I nni and Im darneJ If Ill allow the lmpreon 10 prevail A lyro might enter his ofnce nt the Time building nnd propound the most borwomo questions Imnglnabe nnd Joe would explode with the Intention of tearing him but he nouldn That tyro would i stay right there 110 would tee li the kindly eye confronting him an Intention to help Ibo min fellow out And he wouldnt be mlatnken for Jee Howard has n nod spot In hli heart for young and ambitious fellows Ct4 Jon IlOWAIin nrlleuiariy It ho aeea that they Kara tbe truo newspaper Instinct 1vcry position on n newspaper from offleo boy up lo managing editor hats been filled by Joe Howard Howard column would bo n welcome acquit lion to nny journal on this continent Hut they all cant get IL I Aa n reconlour Howard M l without Dn equal not excepting Col llobirt Ingcr soll and Chauncey 11 Depew says D writer In Metropolitan Maimlno Am then Mr Howard lint the advantage oat 01 least one of them In ate though > oud never think to till you heard him recount things away back In the fifties An arllelo which bo contributed to D Wealern palter onThuTraKeJlolln Now Yonlt Journalism ihuwa what a been eye he has kept on hnppcningi sod what n serviceable memory be has TMt combined with raro detcrlptlv powers and unlimited vocabulary place him In advance of others who would recount the notable things which halo happened during hit eventful cancer ca-ncer Joe Howard participation In tho hi tory of Ibo late rebellion la not n matte that need be left untold Ills authorship author-ship of the famous proclamation which created a greater tcnuatlon than nny thing of the kind during that memor I able contest was not known sl the lime but haa wince served to place his name In patriotic chronicle And yet he lethe le-the moat unpretentloua of men Kara ous literary and newspaper men call on him often and are accorded a kind roo ceptlon but no bil I than that whlc bo glees to the most illffldent repreen tallve cf a provlftil newspaper Ho will probably bo at work until be t drape tho quill for the slirouJ Am tlil by thfny tugceata that although clinging to old newspaper tradlllant bola bo-la I anything but an opponent of new paper progress for bo hat In reality already dropped Iho quill and dlctal the croat ma of matter which he turnout turn-out to a Btrnographcr Uten ho nee lapses Into tho use of Iho pen Ilia 10 lend Height lo a request for tho ap polntment of some Itinerant preen tallve of Ibo press In whom ho takc a kindly Interest Howard success with the people Is due to the fact that hu write for the people He take them Into hla confidence confi-dence be chats with them be praises them he arolda them ho laugba wit them and sometime ho erlra with them That It I why the people have a soft place In their heart for anything signed Joe Howard |