| Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON NEW YORK henry L stoddard one of the best of all american political reporters friend of more presidents and cabinet officers than any other living stoddard standard ott on man is the author shirt sleeve of it costs to be News president just i ap published u b I 1 I 1 s h e d its mine of previously untold stor stories les 1 quickly transferred it from the book page to the news page having enjoyed a long acquaintance with mr stoddard I 1 dropped in at his bis office overlooking the old park row which formed his genius close in nearly all his life with wing awing collar statesmanship he wanted ed to talk about shirt sleeve news papering the latter allusion had to do with Hitch Hitchc cocks beanery where shirt sleeved waiters served ham and beans to printers reporters editors and politicians tic ians who mingled in a shirt sleeve forum which mr stoddard thinks helped to galvanize inize 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 tribune an ace political reporter and tor for 25 years owner and publisher of the new york mail it seems to me that every reporter ought to know the smell of printers ink he said the great newspaper of today with all Us its marvelous efficiency has lost something stimulating and vital la in no longer having this mingling of the crafts I 1 remember that at Hitch cocks a slovenly reporter might he be 1 called down by one of those om nis clent 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 he be manage a decent make ready theodore roosevelt used to go to frequently perhaps with jake RUs or eddie riggs ot of the new york sun and I 1 remember ijames james creelman julian ralph and a score ot of then famous politicians and newspaper men mingling with the men from the mechanical departments part ments arguing over the 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 would dump a bottle of catsup and a slather of mustard on a plate of ham and beans or corned beet beef and beans was something worth seems seeing and remembering frequently these sessions at Hitch cocks were a postmortem post mortem on an the paper just after press time in which any story of unusual distinction or a clean cut news beat was sure to get a cheer and quite as certainly any of us who had bad stubbed his toe was in for a raking over my work has made me an observer of our efforts to establish est ab true democracy in america I 1 have never attempted an exact definition of democracy but whatever it is I 1 am sure it was exemplified in this craft ideal of the old time newspaper the spirit seems lost in the highly hig departmentalized mechanized and specialized character of modern large scale enterprise not only of newspapers but of business in general 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 the tribune at 15 he read proof on the famous tilden ciper dispatches a reporter soon thereafter on the tribune and the philadelphia press he wrote the first daily telegraph letter ever sent out from new york city 0 0 0 ALWAYS thought the reason I 1 alice paul never stayed in jail long was that she was just a wraith and floated through the bars the wan fragile little tiny feminist feminist locked sets one goal up many times in for suffrage days past P now w tans fans up her national 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 triumphant suffrage and to which she has held it ever since A tiny wisp ot of a woman she is the living refutation of hauers contention that will and intelligence never go together 0 consolidated news features feature service |
