Show 50 Years Writing News p z t. t 1 4 94 1 4 Al AI Philips Still in Step Herald Veteran r an Defies Time for Half Century of Smiles and Tears Ii n 11 V IrI S' S a fellow passes the fifty fifty- W WHEN V V year marl mark In life lICo und and starts for tor forthe forthe the three throe score core goal Joal he usually Is III placed cI In the been tins class When hen henhe he passes passos that mark marle In the newspaper per game there arc those who would call thirty for tor him ring down the curtain and say play tho-play is ended And yet yet there there are some of or us who have not yet et finished tho the pIn play who ho have ha not had tho ho curtain tn fall who tall who are aro still In the tho game Yesterday I passed m my milestone with 5 52 62 years ears spent In the newspaper game this as assignment assignment as- as given Ilven to me by the city editor edi edi- tor or lIe He wants ants m my stor story Fifty years ears IH is a n long lonh time In the newspaper game ame particularly tho the morning newspaper Of the many who with the tho writer started In the long ago In tho the regulation grind of ot a newspaper newspaper news news- paper there 01 arc c few tew left lect all have ha gono Iono to that great beyond to tho the reward that comes to those who wait walt and particularly particularly par par- lar rl to the tho men in the newspaper world the largo large majority of or whom despite all tho the wickedness the they sec see have havo sublime faith III in the tho future bc beyond ond the veil velT So Ho on this golden holden anniversary of or mine I am asked askel to tell a stor story I may mayRay say Ray ay I Just up In III a newspaper office A country print shop was wall my college my lay university I never have ha gotten Jotten away avay from the tho environment The rho lure and fascination was there thore It will always alwa's be bo Mill Just a n Kid I might become reminiscent But I dare not do that for tor when one reaches that point ho lie becomes old and I am still Just a 1 kid So no reminiscences Tho newspaper to me Is like a mill to the miller To this mill has come conic during the tho fifty fitly years ears I have ha been watching the burrs many n a grist to bo be ground And of ot this great number there have vo been many how many how many I cannot say that say that never have been ground but have been thrown Into the race raco to bo be carried aw away avay y and tor forgotten for tho the grinding would have shattered many a castle broken many a heart sent many to the grave with ruined while the living would have ha suffered So down from tho cobwebs In this old mill In tan fancy looks man many a face tace as It watches matches the burrs continue the grind and the smile seen in th the memory memory mem mem- ory cry recalled Is III worth a n life for the happiness of ot hom homs homps s who whose e good name nam has s been kept untarnished been because use the grist that thal was sent to the old mill mUl was not ground Much of or Good And a as the burrs continue to revolve the they hum man many things of the good In Inthe Inthe inthe the worM world It has been the tue pleasure of or orthe the writer to detail Of or the good deeds deed ec performed b by men and women komen of the thousands of ot kindly acts of ot tho the aid and help to 10 humanity so tho the world might I be better that you U and I might live ll And as th grind continues there are recalled many heart rending stories I that had hart to be tout told and In the telling lOt of which many Innocent ones had to toI suffer because of or the misdeeds of or one I Then hen too come recollections of or tho the stories told of or weddings of or friends happy years ears that followed the story of r. r I the first lIrt born and the others of or the happiness when hen those little ones onos grew up and the story of ot their wedding was told how tho the grandpa and grandma beamed with Joy as they asked me to write a story of or the grandchild Likewise when the dark angel came and arid the stor story of ot the end had to be told but but I am nm becoming reminiscent as I listen to the whirr whirl of ot the burrs Wonders of or Age n Recalled And In the tho fifty years that have havo I gone hone what hat wonderful things thinS's have ha been accomplished The Tho large majority of I tho the labor saving ln Inventions of ot modern ln times have o como come I wrote a story and was present when the tho first elt city in the world was sas lighted by electricity I re recall recall re- re call tho the Invention In of or the modern automobile automobile auto auto- mobile In m my old home horne I town own when tho the Inventor was compelled to have havo his hla ear car r hauled out Into the country countr to a a. away Ih- Ih way that was little used so flO tennis U-ams would not be frightened nt at his gasoline wagon when ho Jave gave a a. demonstration But again this Is reminiscing One can tell a n. tor story now that covers two or three generations In a few words I know the greatest story ever told told the tho creation ot of the tho world World Is Is de detailed detailed do- do I tailed In less than half halt a column The burrs of or tho the newspaper mill In which I It have o labored so long have ground so 10 many gnats the cry of ot tho the Master Miller Is to get the tho most out of ot the grist In tn tho shortest grind therefore this grist is III near the finish Looking ba backward backard over the tho fifty years ears that have h passed since I first came camo on tho the editorial end of ot a n. newspaper news news- paper paper paper-I I had mastered tho the mechanical end before on before on this my ni golden anniversary anni annl- I cannot recall l how I could have done any better Do Daj n Recalled And almost every ver da day comes someI something something some some- thing to remind me mo of tho the happiest of oC I all days In my newspaper career when I was on In a country newspaper In tn m my old home town Occasionally I take down a volume of or the old home paper and look over the stories of ot the tIle long ago ngo to see ace how much better I did tho the work then than now i and how when the sheet came from tho the o old oh hand press and the boss complimented com com- mo inc on n a story atory or gave me mo hades It was not better done dono tho the temperature was as then as now no ac according according ac- ac cord cording In to what he said enid at nt tho the top of ot the stem or the tho bottom of ot the tho bulb In tho the office thermometer I 1 1 c 5 l 4 ed R 7 |