Show while walter waller winchell is on 1 temporary e du duty ty 4 ith th the e V U S not nnie y h tin i ampora co column is being conducted by guest col columnists ests this beeks is irr ilten by believe it or not ripley the first gossip column the statue of pasquino a witty barber was set up in rome and contributors pasted satirical and witty comments on its base thus columnists were born the first war correspondent was george wilkins kendall who reported the mexican war 1846 47 from the battlefield exclusively for the new orleans picayune by means of a special pony express he was able to scoop all other papers and the war department as well A newspaper printed on cheese was published in gouda holland about 1840 since the cheese could be eaten the dutch readers were said to be in the habit of swallowing anything A french newspaper published on a large handkerchief was another curiosity which did not at all tie paris in the eighties it was the origin of the nosey press another publisher in brussels be belgium had an idea he printed his paper on rubber sheets to enable the ladies to read it while taking a bath a and the blanc sur noir white on black was a french innovation reversing the usual order by printing its news in white letters on black paper and talking of up to date news the french la presse tique was published for the purpose of giving the news of next year it was not a success because it was published in hieroglyphics 0 S a when the newspaper business was in in its infancy the reporter was called an emissary the editor a register the of athens is a daily paper published in verse the coordinated co german newspapers have recently discarded question marks from their headlines because one editor of essen germany was sent to a concentration camp by mistake the headline hindenburg congratulates hitler was provided with a question mark instead of an exclamation point suicides are banned from turkish newspapers when I 1 used a picture of the emperor of japan in my believe it or not cartoon the japanese ambassador in washington made a very urgent telephone call to me he requested that if a picture of the emperor must be used then it was of the highest importance that this picture be printed on the front page of the newspaper because it is a japanese law that nothing must appear over the supreme portrait of the son of heaven I 1 explained to him as gently as I 1 could that this rule cannot be followed in america his excellency thought for a minute and then he suggested that I 1 place over the cartoon a printed admonition to the american public not to set down any objects such as drinking glasses pots and pans etc on the pic picture he was greatly disappointed when I 1 explained that the american ican pu public alic will not be restrained by any such printed admonition a a a the japanese newspapers carry on their staff a special employee called the prison editor he is paid a salary for taking the rap in case the newspaper is fined or sentenced to jail in such a case the prison editor whipping boy goes to jail without interrupting the even tenor of the newspaper the japanese p press ress law provides jail for the offense of belly treason another word for secret disloyalty of the paper aglaia pages for everybody is the title of the eskimo newspaper published at nain labrador it is published in the winter only because in the summer its readers have no time to read being busy with seal and fishing the oldest newspaper was recently discovered in ostia italy it was published in 58 B C was engraved in wax upon stone and contained the following news items date 7 days before the calends of august july 24 in the land of curno cumo born 30 boys and 40 girls harvested loads of wheat supplied labor steers crucified the slave for having blasphemed against the spirits of his master repaid sest erces for which there is no need the real father of newspapers was julius caesar who instituted the famous acta which ran for six centuries and so it is in order that italy should be the first to modernize her newspaper business by introducing the pushbutton push button press which brings all italian newspapers totally under the domination of the italian press and propaganda ministry the germans copied that system with its minister of propaganda and public enlightenment under the famous dr goebbels |