| Show NEWSPAPLR MEN IN ENGLAND Difficulties of Interviewing Officials of All Kinds FrDm the London News Among tile fit bt things thut on Amer lean newspaperman discovers 111 tills country in J that ho is I not so well considered con-sidered here its nt home Here oryhod tlos you fox a Ienna finer It Is I a I little puzzling to under wo and how a welldreso mn tan Ie set dovvji thin way often toy people who do not make halt what he doe In the course of a Year but that U the general Imprehslon I went lulu a I 1J0ndstr jewelers when I first came to ngIBnd to nl an explanation or a curious thing that I had noticed In the llIdow with the intention or writIng i writ-ing itup if I round It newsy The dealer who took me ror a probable purchaser pur-chaser explained what I wanted to know kindly enough Then I gave him my Coed An American would have doubled Ilia efforts to please arid tried to get mD to make on Article on the subject but that palronlzlllg Ia mark setled It I put It In the paper In about MX linen Hut It Is I In trying to obtain Im Irlont Information In the 1I0u0 or Parliament and about Um foreign and colonial oinccs that un American rePorter re-porter learns how surprising 111 served the InBllsIl ore content to bens be-ns rOIlrd news No Alderman 10 New York no lenlslator at Albany no congressman In Washington hardly the President of the United States himself would dare to be so saint of courtesj nnd dlsobllglne to even an unimportant American nepapor man as are scene private secretaries and even liveried Attendants in KnBllnh official life to representatives not or new agencies alone but of the biggest London daille It Is almost Impossible I U > get nn Interview with a mn like Chain herlnln People are content to gather his levvs In the report of one of his speeches at some countr hustings and walt for no explanation ur art Important Import-ant diplomatic move on the tloor ort or-t h house The neamst the mot expert ex-pert enterprising and capable reporter cn get 10 nn amount or the Cabinet meeting or a hint of the premiers policy to I a mid or smile from one or tho private secretaries to the effect I that some wild guess the reporter hale hazarded It nut altogether wong or a Hat denial of some canard the reporter hn brought In An American now uper man In his own country who could not gt at first land fresh now from the biggest politician would soon make life not worth living for that politician OnlY a few lay ego I iw In n ropy of tho mot wldils read social paper in America u pliagraph which ran like thlst Mrs lllank the Intimate I friend of Mr And Mrs Mm 51cli into Is J not meeting with anything Ilk the social success In Wnhlngton which her wealth beauty and noslllnn give her the right lo expect It Is I in open secret se-cret that Mrs lllanks social failure Is I due to her cool treatment or the new paper repicsintatlvos who were at Canton In the elslng days or the cm palgn The ld8 name was printed Another surprise awaits the AmrI can reporter in England when he goes out Interviewing Objectionable as some features or Arnexjeart Journalism tire the general rebliect for it reporter or them Is uch that never once even when I have had such n tile agreeable Assignment U8 going to a house mheie father or husband son or brothel lay I dead In order to Vet up rnct for nn obituary have 1 ever been received with anything except the greatest courtesy and given the furor ml1l1n 1 wanted The Average for cOllrty ccllatnlY far polloh III I higher here than It In I thele hilt on EnIlliallulan cnn ner gel out or Ills hd that no Interviewer In I nn Intrud eo lie ham nol hn triturated UI to tile I fact that his business 14 I Also other peoples hu lnrn It take more tact and diplomacy to nnd nut from an EnElKhnuin the mereit detail of every day life than It I would to make good friends ot Franco and Clerninny To Interview a man on anything ec i u ho wnts tit get Into cop t sumUllnr 9 the paper as n purr is I nn all You try to mnk n good flint Imprlon on jour victim then endeavor to give him an > Idea that It would he no harm tn nnybod arid n great favor to you Ir I ho would tell bout a few unimPortant unim-Portant little ficln Ot couise this Is I only the A II C or the science Sometimes Some-times a man too artful to be ensllv caught Is I surprised Into telling all h knows fin a bluff of knowing > all about It Anyway or toy tlIlIg hIm that some contra reolls canard lIoatlnr about Is I what you nro solns to print the following 1 Jli If he cannot aid you f hfnot by showing how false It It I Almost any Englishman of any m Port Arica that I have ever talked with ha punctuated Iris conversitlon with Well I renllv ont see how that would 10 t of any merest to the public That would ho rather l going on 1Int grounds would It notvntNTOll cn toll you Just where to find that 1t was printed In the Times last February a ear Ago or let Inv nee unant It two or ago Then nllllhmn 00 as act so little ccutom1 to Being them solves Into Iwed or Fit punctilious over tho utter of a Comma or an sometlinewe so horrified that they have been saving more than they trial any Intention ot things do look so different In type > that tie > generally write a letter to the Lnr the next day to pay that the InlPrvle am pllhUhet Is J limits of rIhooo1 And unless Rn it I y I a nt on co Iuhllhed h w 11I bwC har I from the Intelewd man b II I rllnr I onc Inteniewedi I lOm1n n ho ledwit Pit all me n ne the daughter or I lIn Mr s and had been robbed The next 1 I nex-t her huibind dtmanded a public reo I CAL I to nvo hloh w lia not glnand I 0 I r doys oller the laugh I ir of lion I I I IA I 2 m e u J file lintel ftr I I boot p rI lie tl w lI I And I kor being a nllnOn mnindler OlllolIt or n l mr unl irled np quildn InC the 10111 nn < l Ffru I I C wilt the Nol York reporters Iron suit Journalism hr allows a bar miss of tho mosllntcrestlng and exciting excit-ing I storlis to tiller G l tough Kcollnnd inrd without any mtin getting a I Ito of them Outolol In ulk I I-to known 1 I blo hentd 01111111111110 i like ill Cumri C114io It ouhl 100 Interellng to know1 how how I mllny crlm Vd Intelllllnt Lt 1 Iatmnt 1 1109 uceeetlrI not I only lu not punishing but In even hiding Cow llrely from the public I have spent time money and pa I ten ce enough In trying to get n llttU Information I out at Scotland laid tc a little world If applied a little more wisely chosen direction but the moil I Over Kot viras 10 tile oOed from rollow Ing A Wrong ocnl h ly 01001 particularly friendly omcr telllnl me No I do lint beNove there 10 Inv thing In tht I In No York the pollc or mellmes A 0 rronk with Ihclr Intolimitim that tho lelorter rrequnll 110 tho bl 1 HeR of lcerln tho lm11l11 I nOr Into their own hands fill eminent suc ems Undoubtedly this method rome tlnus detents tho end or Juitlce but for one bid trick It Play it prtorm tentn hundred mlraclci lIow Itinp 7r would It take thp smartest detective to frifthe the IUllIlrle II newsPaper news-Paper 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