| Show HAROLD ROSS IS MAKING G GOOD tOD RUNNING a S NEWSPAPER IN CANAL ZONE WITH AID OF V 7 DUSKY NATIVES NATIVES' COMPRISING HIS STAFF V S S SV S j V V VV V S V S V VS VV VV S V 5 Vf 44 V V V S 1 S s. s l V 5 i 4 J S S S V V VS S i V S V f V XV S V VS VV Vt S. S V V t V S 4 q c V S S S VI SV S. S S SI S I V VS S' S S S 'S 5 L S SV S L V V S V. V V V VS S. S S V V SV S SS S 4 q V S S 5 SS V V V tl I. I S 3 4 5 S' S V S S S 5 4 S Panama Panama anama street scene near the office of ot Harold Ross Boss f formerly erlY of this city who I V V is 18 editing a a. leading Panama newspaper r In Panama are radically different from those thoo In the United States as s- s far tar as n newspapers rs are re c concerned Is Mi by I letters received from Harold Harod V it ss a a. former Salt Laker who Is now S managing editor of or one of the largest dallies i In tho the Isthmian strip 1 Vt Mr Ross writes that he ha Is the only V bIte man on the paper the others on S the force forcer being natives of ot Panama and some dome being negroes The office Is equipped with antiquated typewriters and copy for tor forS S the paper p Is ts written on the back of ot ad ad- r circulars circulars- These circulars circulars' expo expound ex ox- po pound nd tho the merits of ot the Isthmus brewery rewery 5 p ii products the V Spanish language being V used When h Mrs Ross the boys boy's mother I V t telve received a a. letter from her son and openIng opening open open- ing It sa first the announcement of at the brewery she was war at nt first confounded but liter later learned that the Interesting epistle that t longed r for r wa was as on the other V side V i Ir r. r Ross Is 15 well wen kno known 11 In Salt Lake City ity t having spent the early part of his i v A here here Ills His ls schooling was cut short ii In his second year at Salt Lake Lako hl high h lI hool he was offered a position as 1 ort r on on the tho Salt Lake Tribune which lt 11 accepted ted Frank I. I S frIt then manag manager man man- ag ager g r ot oZ tho the Tribune wished to o try an experiment and nd put out out-an advertisement V for one ona hundred boys bo s 's to work as ag reporters Of or tho the Mr Ir Ross and nd one other otherS S showed excellent merit and entered tho the newspaper game as their life Ute work V N 5 Mr Ir Ross Boss started work when a a. young young- V ler sier H He made good from the jump and wishing to get wider experience he left lett Salt Lake e ctt City when a mere bo boy and andS S V went to Colorado At Denver Den he walked Into Vinto the tho office of ot the Denver POs Post otto one of ot S V 1 Denv Denver's rs r's big dallies dailies and straightway V i landed i a a- Job After a while he began S tra widely and finally landed In Ino inV V t o e edles edIes l s Cal Cat V S 'S Had Varied Experiences r At tt this place he found no reporters reporter's Job lob so 10 he started dishwashing for tor fora a a. a while Soon Soon however h he lie pot got Ol a chance to dia- dia dis Play his ability and was given work ork keeping time timo for fora a. a railroad j crow crew Several months later he came came home borne again be decked In brand now new cloth cloths clothes s and ond riding In a Pullman car much to his Ii parents parents' surprise Again ho he went V to V mla V and nd In a a. short time was editor of ot the Appeal in that state He soon tired d Ot of this however and took a a. po position on on- on the Sacramento Union of that city and again won favor At this time his paper decided they wanted a unique story on the tho free tree freeman freemans freeman's treeman's man mans man's s life lito Harold Ross Ros was the man man the they chose to get It tt Straightway ho he took off oft his good clothes I and put on rags rag's pursuant to appearing on the road as a tramp of ot the Weary Willie Ho ao went over the tiie country for tor some phase In e after ph phase e of thc their life much to to the I horror of ot his anxious anxious' mother but hut he tired of the tramping lIfo life and feeling I ho he had had enough of or that experience experienc went back to the paper and took a more congenial position though possibly not so eo Inter Interesting ng to him He again to d' comet home lome S and after staying here a a. few months went to Texas when he and his cousin de decided to go to Panama for foran an excursion They arrived In that V place last hurt June 17 p 7 and Mr Ir Ross thinking there would be no noway noway noway way of ot seeing the con conditions there and of meeting prominent V people decided to apply for tor a place on on ona a newspaper which he did obtaining Jt It the 6 second day lay after ter h his ar arrival v I S 1 Since working for tor the paper paperS the Star and Herald ho has s met many prominent men of ot Panama Including the president mayors of or different states and numerous other celebrities While there he Intends to make a study of ot the Panama canal the people and customs and will add as much more Information to his present stock as hard hud work ork will let him Mr Ross expects to return to this country soon as ho thinks the work there I Is 15 not tot quite congenial enough due cue ue to tho the surplus of ot native V V |
