Show NEWS THIS W WEEK EEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK henry L stoddard none NEW one of the best ot of all american political reporters friend ot of more mor than presidents and cabinet officers than any other living stoddard on man is the author shirt sleeve of it costs to be P resident just published pub lishe d its mine of previously untold stories quickly transfer transferred it from the book page to the news page having enjoyed a long acquaintance w with ith mr stoddard I 1 d dropped in at hla his office overlooking the old park row now which formed his genius close in nearly all hla his life with wing collar statesmanship he ha wanted to talk about shirt sleeve news papering the latter allusion had to do with Hitch cocks deanery beanery where shirts shirt s sleeved leaved waiters served ham and beans to printers reporters editors and politicians ti tic ians who mingled in 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 caie a printer on the new york tribune an ace political reporter and for 23 25 years owner and publisher ot of tho the new york mall mail it seems to me that every reporter ought to know the smell of printers ink lie he said the great newspaper of today with all its marvelous marv cloua efficiency has lost something stimulating and vital in no longer having wit this mingling of tho the crafts I 1 remember that at Hitch cocks a slovenly reporter might be called down by one of those omniscient ni old time printers or perhaps it would be the other way about with one of the newsmen berating the press room foreman and asking him why ho he manage a decent make ready theodore roose roosevelt veli 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 wom 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 the enclosure and say what you thought about the king or anybody or anything else the gusto with which T R n 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 Hitch cocks were a postmortem post mortem on the paper just after press time in which any story of unusual distinction or a clean out news beat was sure to get a cheer and quite as an certainly any of us who had stubbed his too toe was in for a raking over my bly work has made me an observer of our efforts to establish true democracy in america I 1 have never attempted an exact definition of democracy but whatever it Is I 1 am suro sure it was exemplified in this craft ideal of the old time newspaper the spirit seems lost in the highly departmentalized mechanized and specialized character of modern larncile large larg scale cile enterprise not only of newspapers but of business in ge federal deral 11 stoddards studdards dards family newspaper tradition goes way back into tho the flatbed days his great grandfather established the hudson N Y register in 1787 lie he learned beamed the prin printers tradell trade trad eln in his grandfathers printing office at hudson A proofreader on the tribune at 15 he read proof on the famous tilden ciper ala dispatches a reporter soon thereafter on the tribune and ahn philadelphia press ile he wrote the first arst dally daily telegraph letter ever sent out from new york city I 1 T ALWAYS thought the reason A alice paul in esver never stayed jail long was that she was just a wraith and floated through the bars the wan fragile little tiny feminist femin feminist isk looked locked sets one up many times in for suffrage clays va pasta P now ow f fans ans up her national womans comans party to the world womans comans party of which she becomes temporary chairman its objective Is tho the abolition of ril ell legal distinctions between men and women to which goal she narrowed trl suffrage sull rago and to which she has held it ever since A tiny wisp of a woman she Is the living refu tation of hauers contention that will and intelligence never go together 0 Comoli dated news r feature agures service |