Show NEWS THIS WEEK W by LEMUEL F PARTON JEW EW YORK henry I 1 L stoddard d N N one of the best of all ad american political ri reporters porters friend of more presidents and cabinet officers officer than any other living stoddard on man Is the author shirt sleeve of it costs to be News president just gubel shed its mine of previously untold stories quickly transferred it from fr m the book page to the news page having enjoyed a long acqua acquaintance ingance with mr stoddard I 1 dropped in at his office overlooking the old park row bow which formed his genius close in nearly all his life with wing tag collar statesmanship states mansh ip he wanted eato to talk about shirt sleeve news papering the latter allusion had to do with Hitch cocks beanery Be enery where shirt sleeved waiters served ham and beans to I 1 printers reporters editors and politicians tic ians who mingled in a shirt sleeve forum which mr mft stoddard thinks helped to galvanize the new york newspapers of that day from 40 to 50 years ago sixty two years in iii news papering mr stoddard Is up from the case a prin printer teron on the new york tribune an ace political reporter and for 25 years owner and publisher of the new york mall mail it seems to 0 o me that every reporter ought to know the abe smell of printers ink he said bald the tha teat great newspaper of today with all its marvelous efficiency has lost something stimulating and vital in no BO longer having this mingling of the crafts I 1 remember that at nitch Hitche cocks ft a slovenly reporter might bo be called down by one of those omniscient ni old time printers or perhaps it would be the other way about with one of the newsmen berating the press room foreman and asking him why he banige manage a decent i m malic ake ready theodore roosevelt used to go to t Hitch cocks frequently perhaps with jake hits bits or eddle eddie riggs higgs of the new york sun and I 1 remember jarnes james creelman julian ralph and a score of then famous politicians and newspaper men mingling with the men from the mechanical departments P apartments part art ments arguing over the world war scare local and nat national lonal politics everything under the sun it was something like the free speech common in early colonial america annerl a where you could ste step pAnto into the enclosure and say what you thought about the king or anybody or anything else the gusto with which T R would dump a bottle of catsup and a slather of mustard on a plate of hara ham and beans or corned beef and beans was something worth seeing and remembering frequently these sessions at ai nitch Hitchc cocks ocko were a postmortem post mortem in on the paper just after press time in which any story of unusual distinction or a clean cut cat news beat was sure to ret get a cheer and quite as certainly any of us who had stubbed nil his toe was was la ii for a raking over my work lias has madi made me an observer of our efforts to establish true democracy in america I 1 have never it attempted tempted an exact definition of democracy but whatever it Is I 1 am sure S re it was exemplified in this craft ideal of the old time newspaper the spirit seems lost in the highly departmentalized mechanized and specialized chalao character of modern large ecale enterprise not only of newspapers but of business ln in general 1 I 1 stoddards studdards dards family newspaper tradition goes way back into the flatbed days his great grandfather established the ilie hudson N Y register in 1787 he learned the printers trade in his granda grandfathers a printing office at hudson A proofreader on the tribune at 15 be read proof on the famous tilden ciper dispatches a reporter soon thereafter oin on the tribune and the philadelphia press he wrote the first dally daily telegraph letter ever sent out from new york city a 0 ALWAYS thought the reason rea on I 1 allce alica paul never stayed in jail au a long was that she was just adraith a wraith and floated through the bars ban th the wan fra fragile gili little tiny riny feminist feminist locked sets SeOne one goal Goa up many times in for suffrage days past now tans fans up her national womans comans party to the world womans comans party of which she che becomes comes temporary chalman chairman its objective asahe is the abolition of all legal distinctions distinct lois between men ind and women to which goal she narrowed triumphant suffrage and to which sha che has held it ever since A tiny wisp of a woman she Is the living refutation of hauers contention that will and intelligence never go together 0 consolidated news hew |