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Show 200 Men Can't Get All the News Washington, May 7 There is uothing which is a greater mystery mys-tery to the average. person than how the newspapers get their news. Here -in Washington there are perhaps 400 or 500 newspaper correspondents and reporters who are constantly engaged en-gaged in gathering news of what is going on and alsn forecasting wnat will come to pass. It would seem that there cculd be nothing happening oE importance that they would not discover and iuiKJrrxxrhwrrT)apfeirtnrotr very recent date 200 men engaged engag-ed in an industry which at the time was occupying a large place in the public eye, and which turns out a product worth some $300,000,000 annually, (this being a very unofficial estimate) met at a hotel in this city, held several business meetings, and adjourned, withont one word about their presence here being recorded in the papers. The men composing the convention were not seeking notoriety, but they were not especially, trying to avoid it and they. thought it strange that thoy were overlooked. |