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Show - WHO'S WHOS WHO'SNEWS ' " NEWSi NEWS NEWSk1 k1 k1THIS ! NEWSTHIS THIS THISf f WEEK WEEKBy THISWEEK THISWEEKBy By LEMUEL F . PARTONNEW PARTON NEW YORK YORKHenry -Henry Henry - L Stoddard Stoddardone Stoddardone ' one of the best of o1 all American AmericanpolJtlcal Americanpolitical Americanpolitical polJtlcal political reporters friend of more morePresidents morePresidents morePresidents Presidents and cabinet officers thanany thanany than _ any other llvlng living ' UvmgStoddard livingStoddard , ? , Stoddard Stoddardon on man Is the author authorShirt I ShIrt authorShirt Sleeve of It Costs to BeNewspaperingPresident Be BeNewspapering . N ewspaperzngPresldent NewspaperzngPresldent NewspaperingPresident Newspapering 1631 ' justpublished just 'ust ust ' I Ipublished " published u b 1 i s h e d Its Itsmme Itsmine It mine mme of previously untold storIes storIesqUickly storiesquickly stonequickly * qUickly transferred It from the book bookpage bookpage bookpage page to the news page Having en enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed joyed a long acquaintance acquamtance with Mr MrStoddard MrStoddard MrStoddard Stoddard I dropped In at his office officeoverlookmg officeoverlooking officeoverlooking overlookmg overlooking the Old Park Row which whichformed whichformed whichformed formed his lus geniusClose genius geniusClose Close innearly in nearly all his life lite With Withwmg withwing withwing wmg wing collar statesmanship he want want- wanted wanted - . ed to talk : about shirt-sleeve shirt sleeve shirtsleeve - - news newspapermg newspapering newspapering papermg papering The latter allusion had hadto hadto hadto to do with Hitchcock s Beanery Beanerywhere Beanerywhere Beanerywhere where shirt sleeved waiters walters served servedham servedham servedham ham and beans to printers prmters stereo- stereo stereotypers stereotypers stereo-typers stereo typers - - typers reporters editors and poll polltlcians pollticians pollticians tlcians ticians who mingled in a shirt shirtsleeve shirtsleeve shirtsleeve sleeve forum which wluch Mr Stoddard Stoddardthinks Stoddardthinks Stoddardthinks thinks helped to galvanize galvamze the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York newspapers of that day-from day from day - from40 40 to 50 years agoSixty ago agoSixty Sixty two years innews in news newspapering newspaperingMr papering paperingMr Mr Stoddard is up from the case 'a a ' a printer prmter on the New York Trlbune Tribune Tribunean Trlbunean an ace political pohbcal reporter and for for2a tor2a 2 2a ; ) years owner and publisher of the theNew theNew theNew New York Mail Mall ' . It seems to me that every re- re reporter re reporter - porter ought to know the smell smellot smellof smellof ot of printer prmter s ink he said 'The The 'Thegreat ' The Thegreat Thegreat great newspaper of today , with withall withall withall all Its marvelons marvelous efficiency , has haslost haslost haslost lost something ttimulatme stimulatmg stimulating and andvital andvital andvital vital in no longer having havmg thfa this thfammghng thismingling thismingling mmghng mingling of the crafts I re- re remember re remember - . member that at Hitchcock II1tchcock s a aslovenly aslovenly kslovenly slovenly reporter might be becalled becalled becalled called down by one of those om em omJ1Isclent emniscsent ommscient J1Isclent niscsent old time hme printers or orperhaps orperhaps orperhaps perhaps ft it wonid would be the other otherway otherway otherway way about with one of the news newsmen newsmen newsmen men berating the press room roomforeman roomforeman roomforeman foreman and asking askmg him lurn why whyhe whyhe whyhe he couldn conldn t manage x a decent decentmake decentmake decentmake make readyTheodore ready readyTheodore Theodore Roosevelt used to go to toHitchcock toHitchcock toHitchcock Hitchcock s frequently perhaps perhapsWith perhapswith perhapswith With Jake Rus Bus or Eddie Riggs of ofthe ofthe ofthe the New York Sun and I remember rememberJames rememberJames rememberJames James Creelman Juhan Ju1Jan Juiran Ralph and anda anda a score of then famous polJticlans politicians polJticlansand politiciansand politiciansand and newspaper men mingling mmglmg WIth WIththe withthe withthe the men from the mechanical de departrnents departments departments partrnents partments arguing argumg over the world worldwar worldwar worldwar war scare local and national nahonal poh pohbeseverythmg pohticseverything polltics bes-everythmg bes everythmg tics-everything tics everything - everythmg under the sun . . It Itwas Itwas Itwas was something somethmg 1 I 1 ke the free speech speechcommon speechcommon speechcommon common in early colonial colomal Amenca America Amencawhere Americawhere Americawhere where you could step into mto the en enclosure enclosure enclosure closure and say what you thought thoughtabout thoughtabout thoughtabout about the king or r anybody or any anythmg anything anything thmg thing else'The else'The else elseThe ' ' The 'The gusto with wlth which wluch T R would woulddump woulddump woulddump dump a bottle of catsup and a slather slath slath- slather slather - er of mustard on a plate of o1 ham hamand hamand hamand and beans or corned beet beef and andbeans andbeans andbeans beans was something somethmg worth seemg seeing seemgand seeingand seeingand and remembering remembermg ' . Frequently these sessions at atHJtchcock atHitchcock atIIitchcock HJtchcock Hitchcock s were a post-mortem post mortem postmortem post-mortemon post mortemon postmortemon - - on the paper just after aftcr press presstime presstime presstime time m In which any story of un unusual unusual nnusual usual distinction dlstmctlon or a clea.n-cut clea.ncut clea.n clean cut clean-out out cleanoutnews clea.ncutnews clean-oatnews clean oatnews . - - - news beat was sure to get a acheer acheer acheer cheer and quite as certamIy certainly certamIyany certainlyany certainlyany any of o ( us U3 who had stubbed lus his lustoe histoe histoe toe was m In for a raking r&kmg rkmg & over overIIy overMy overMy I\Iy I Iy My \ work has made me an ob observer observer observer server of our efforts to estab estab- estabhsh estab- estab establish establish - - lish hsh true ( rue democracy in m America AmericaI I have never attempted an e'laet elaet etact e'laetdefiml10n etactdefinition eiactdefinition ' : defiml10n definition of democracy , but butwhatever butwhatever butwhatever whatever it ( Is s I am sure It Itwas itwas itwas was exemplified in m this tills craft craftIdeal craftIdeal craftideal Ideal of the old tune tlI11e newspaper newspaperThe newspaperThe newspaperThe The spirit splnt seems lost in the thehighly thehighly thehighly highly departmentalized mech meeh mechalllZed meehanrzed mechamzed alllZed anrzed and specialized Spiclamed ! charac charac- character character character - - ter of modern large-scale large scale - - enter enterpnse enterprise enterprise pnse prise , not only of ot newspapers newspapersbut , but of bus business mess in general ' Stoddard s fam family y newspaper tra traI tradIt tradit tradit I dIt on goes way back Into the fiat fiatbed flatbed ' bed days His HJS great grandfather es establJshed estabhshed estabhshed tablJshed tabhshed the Hudson NY N Y , Regis Register Register Register ter m In 1737 1787 He learned the print printer printer printer er s trade in his grandfather s prmt print prmting printing printing ing office at Hudson A proofreader proofreaderon on the Tribune Tnbune at 15 he read proof proofon proofon proofon on the famous T Tilden den Ciper Clper dlS dis dlSpatches dispatches dispatches patches a reporter soon thereafter thereafteron , on the Tribune Tnbune and the Ph Philadelphia PhiladelphiaPress PhiladelphiaPress adelphia adelphiaPress Press He wrote the first da daily Y tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph letter ever sent out from NewYork NewYork New NewYork York city . . . ALWAYS thought the reasonAlice reason reasonAlice reasonAlice D I IALWAYS Alice Paul never stayed In jaillong jail jaillong jaillong long was that she was lust Just a wr.utb wrutb wraith wr.utband wraithand wraithand . and floated fioated through the bars Thewan Thewan The Thewan wan fragile lJttIe little lJttIeTzny littleTrnyFeminist littleTiny TrnyFeminist Tzny Feminist feminist fenurust , , locked lockedSets lockedSets lockedSets Sets One Goalup Coalup Goal Coal up many tunes times inForSufirage 1I1ForSuffrage in 1I1 inFor ForSuffrage ForSufirage ForSuffragedays ForSufiragedays For Stiff days P"1- P"1 P1 past P"1now " , , - noWfans noWfans now rage " fans up her Nabonal National Na National tional bonal Woman s party to the World WorldWoman WorldWoman WorldWoman Woman a II s party of . which v.hlch vhlch she be becomes becomes becomes comes temporary chairman Its ob ob'echve objective objective 'echve echve jective ' is the abolition of all legal legaldlstmchons legaldistinctions legaldistinctions dlstmchons distinctions between men and wom women women wornen en to which wluch goal she narrowed tri try triumphant tryumphant triumphant umphant suffrage and to which wluch she shehas shehas shahas has held it Jt ever since smce A tiny WISP WISPof wispof wispof of a woman she is the tlle living lJvmg refu refutatIon refutatson refutation tatIon tatson of Schopenhauer II a * contenloD contention contenloDthat contentionthat contentionthat ! that will and intelligence 1I1tell1gence never go gotogether gotogether gotogether together . , y 0 l m < , ) Contolldatcd Consoildated Consolld ted New News * Featiuu FeatiuuWNU Felltur F otur . 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