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Show COBB WENT OUT OF HIS LINE Fake Stories Are Accepted, But When Writer Sends in a True One Ho Is Dismissed. Years ago irvln S. Cobb, the humorous humor-ous writer, was a correspondent lor various out-of-town papers while working In Paducah, Ky. Not a great deal of genuine news for out-of-towu consumption Is manufactured at Paducah. As Mr. Cobb needed the money, there was a period during which It appeared tnat Paducah had become the news center of the middle mid-dle west Not a day passed that some astounding story was not printed print-ed under a Paducah date. "We stood for them," said the former telegraph editor of a St. Louis paper, "because they were so good, even though we knew they were fakes. But one day the boss called me In. 'Who Is this man Cobb at Paducah?' he asked. "When I had satisfied bis thirst for knowledge, he told me to fire Cobb. 'I know all the stories he has written tre fake,' said he, 'but I can't stand lor that oDe he sent us yesterday, i like some sanity even in a fake story. It must sound as though it might, possibly, under certain conditions, be partly true.' . "So," said the ex-telegraph editor, "I fired Cobb. He made no protest about getting fired In a letter he wrote me. 'It served me right for getting out of my line,' said he. 'That was the only story I ever sent you that was wholly true.' " Cleveland Leader. |