Show Walter Gets Epistle EpistleS S From Newspaper Man ALONG BROADWAY WITH WINCHELL Dear Winchell It was that column you recently had on reporters that inspired this If It you rou ou can get enough from it to holiday for or a few hours hours hours-go go to tot it Perhaps it is only fair for forme forme forme me to preface it by telling you that there once was a time I disliked yo you very much that much th ch-th that lt 1 considered you as one who didn't belong in in the business 1 I had heard the usual knockers that knockers that I thought you were a lousy reporter anyhow anyhow and and that I mow Inow now am glad to have bave met you youl 1 thought from Chicago that you were one of or those birds wh whose e world ends at the Manhattan entrance to the Holland tunnel 4 I I think differently now since sinco I sat down to the sad task of at writing the obit of Henry Justin Smith the late managing editor of the Chicago Daily Dally News In the morgue was one quotable comment about a Ii man who probably probably ably has meant more to journalism journal journal- ism in this country than any other single Bingle individual in the past 30 years years and and that one quotable comment about him hirn came from your column Henry Smiths Smith's influence extended extend extend- ed far beyond his own office and his own town as an you for forone one need not be told tol He Ho broke down the theold theold old stereotypes in news writing and demanded individuality in re re- re porting And the people he fostered fos fos- fos with kindly understanding are spro spread d over the world He sent out from the News New not only the authors author and playwrights and nd crl critics the the the and Mc Mo Arthurs Arthura and Hans Hansens Hansena ens that the country knows Meyer L Levin Levitt vin came from his school Vincent many o others ers The latest graduate to reach the Stork club Is in Jack Diamond now sports columnist for United Press in New York In Chicago Diamond was assigned to Interview Interview interview inter Inter- view celebrities He Ho met several thousand trains got to know more movie than the Los Angeles directory Ur Mary Pickford calls cans him by his first name He affectionately calls Mary Toots A dog once devoured a 20 bUlhe bill bUl he owned When a a. dog eats eab a reporters reporter's money that's news son But here Is the kick to that one Diamond found enough fragments frag- frag S ments meats to get back bock 10 from Uncle Samuel and sold two pieces about the Incident to magazines for the grand sum of oC 15 He made mode 5 on the deal The Thc U U. P. P hired him on the strength of the dog yarn Journal a a. reader served notice that he would meet him the tho next d day yat at the foot of Ashmun street and knock his head off oft For 10 years until years until he left th the Soo Knox appeared each day at nt 10 o'clock at the tho foot of Ashmun street waiting for the tho lightning to strike The challenger never ever showed up You ou must know v Junius B. B Wood He was a correspondent correspond correspond- derit d- d ant ent in the World war war and representative representative for tor his paper in Moscow Berlin Bertin and the Orient etc He has become an amazing legend In our business The memory of his v vigorous crusade crusade- for the right Ito to smoke a corncob pipe In hotel lobbies still causes jitters among hotel men in various nations It started when Wood r returned turned from Russia with s several pipes and anti a a tobacco that smells like burning brakes The one story about him you should use one day Is his gesture which established him as the doer of things all aU newspaper men men would like Jike to do He had hod come home from the far tar east after atter a 1 three- three year stay there there to to the little mUe old building in Wells street It was night and the door guard for forthe forthe the tho paper refused to let him in He had never heard of ot Mr Wood There was no mention of Mr Wood in the local office directory di dl- dl rectory y and apparently tho the guard had never read tho the News Anyway Wood sighed and then walked to the tho La Sallo Salle hotel and filed flIed 2000 words to his city editor around the tho corner Soe Sea yo you between trains in Chicago Chi chi- cago Robert engo-Robert Robert J. J Casey Two O Ottawa o. o newspapers Just spanked Frank Willis whose news talks from the Nova Scotia mine were so exciting In attacking Mr Willis VIllis of the Canadian radio radI commission one ono editorial quoted our orchid about his hi genius Oh flOh well it ended Mr Winchell Winchell Win Win- chell cheli would like Uke Willis Villis announcIng announcing announcing ing it was in his own American style Hams across the border |