| Show NEWS THIS EEK by L LEMUEL UEL F PARTON w YORK henry L stoddard d NE NEW ons one of the best oi of all american political reporters ra friend 0 f moro more pr residents esi dents and cabinet officers than any y other living stoddard on man is tho the author shirt sleeve of it costs to bo News just p pub u b I 1 i s h a d its mine of previously untold stories quickly transferred it from the book page to the news page H having enjoyed a long acquaintance acquaint anca with mr stoddard I 1 dropped in at his overlooking the old park row which formed his genius close in nearly all his lifo with wing collar co ilar statesmanship he wanted to talk about news papering the latter allusion had to do with Hitch cocks beanery B earsery ear iery whore shirt sleeved waltera waiters served ham and beans to printers reporters editors and poll tl ti clans who mingled in irv a shirt sleeve forum which mr stoddard thinks helped to galvanize the new york newspapers of that day from 40 to 50 years ago sixty two years in news papering mr stoddard Is up from the case a printer on the new york Trl tribune bune an ace political reporter and for 23 25 years owner and publisher of tho the new york mall mail it seems seema to me that every reporter ought to know tho the smell of printers ink ho he said bald tho the great newspaper of today with all its marvelous efficiency has ban lost something stimulating and vital in no longer having this mingling of tho the crafts I 1 re ra member that at Hitch cocks a slovenly reporter might bo be called down by one of those omniscient ni old time printers or perhaps it would bo be tho the other way about with one of the newsmen berating tho the press room foreman and asking him why he manage a decent make ready theodore roosevelt used to go to Hitch cocks frequently perhaps with jake ails or eddie riggs of the new york sun and I 1 remember james creelman julian ralph and a score of then famous politicians and newspaper men mingling with the men from the mechanical departments part ments arguing over the tha world war scare local and national politics everything under the sun it was something like the free speech common in early colonial america where you could step into tho the enclosure and say what you thought about the king or anybody or anything else the gusto busio with which T R would dump a bottle of catsup and a slather of mustard on a plate of ham and beans or corned beef and beans was something worth seeing and remembering frequently these sessions at nitch Ilitch cocks eks were a postmortem post mortem on the paper just after press preas time la in which any story of unusual distinction or A clean cut news beat was sure to 9 set et a cheer and quite its as certainly auy any of us who had bad stubbed his too toe was in for a raking over my bly work has made me an observer of our efforts to lish true democracy in america I 1 have never attempted an exact definition of democracy but whatever it Is I 1 am sure it was waa exemplified in this craft ideal of the old time newspaper the spirit seems lost in the highly departmentalized mechanized and specialized chalao character of large scale enter prise not only of newspapers but of busin business ess in general 0 stoddards studdards dards family newspaper tradition goes way back into the flatbed days his great grandfather established the hudson N Y register in 1787 he learned the printers trade in his grandfathers printing office at hudson A proofreader on an the tribune at 15 he read proof on an the famous tilden ciper alper dispatches a reporter soon thereafter on the tribune and the philadelphia press lie he wrote the first dally telegraph letter ever sent out from new york city 0 0 0 I 1 T ALWAYS thought the reason alice paul never stayed in jail jah long was that at she was just a wraith and floated through the bars barn the wan fragile little tiny feminist lern feminist inist locked sets one goal up many times la in for suffrage days ya past now fans up tier her na lional womans comans party to the world womans comans party of which she becomes temporary chairman its objective Is the abolition of all legal distinctions between men and women to which goal she narrowed trl tri suffrage and to which she sha has held it ever since A tiny wisp of 01 a woman she Is the living refu cretu tation of contention that at will and intelligence never go together 0 consolidated news new rea creatures tures service |
