Show va HI westbrook peater released by features Fea turea hed TISDALE has bought an a n F in the times a weekly geeki y published publish di at new milford conn in a comfortable old phrase with k i rockers on it hill he is settling down in a beautiful yankee country to spend 7 the rest of his life as a small town editor mr T is a real professional J journalist ourn a list in the finest sense sensa of the word he was waft born in west tennessee at a time when the haunts ot gen nathan bedford forrest still rade in the moonlight to in the shrouds of the original xu ku klux klan landed in kansas city busted at a tender age wrote and drew pictures lor for the kansas city star aad played the grand gracd tour of the ke p newspaperman tha grand tour was variable like the route of an inveterate ballplayer some years ago newspaper reporters including a few spectacular alcoholics wandered from town to town to in the way of that class of cavalry soldiers called snow birds who enlisted tor for the winter w when h en the cavalry was snowed to in and went over the hill in the spring they must have been quaint the memoirs of an old soldier named hand which run endlessly to in the star in tucson casually tell of the execution ol of one of the boys by a firing squad of his own comrades because he refused duty the p tain ain pleaded with him to yield aborn do the duty but he ha had a born str streak eak so it was necessary to shoot him but hand addid added that they buried him with honors THAT SEEMED TO RELIEVE BELIEVE THE EPISODE OF MEANNESS in those days malting making my youngling days the too it if a man could circuit truthfully say that he had bad worked on the kansas city star he could hang his hat to in any shop la in the country chicago Minnia minneapolis and st paul were on the grand tour omaha st louis denver san francisco Si seattle attle new orleans and for some reason st joe mo MD des moines memphis dallas los angeles and ana fort worth were not and there was practically no such place as oklahoma city or tulsa in the newspaper sense or any other for that matter the pay ranged from 15 a week for cubs mostly atly sl runaway big city office P who would pitch in as busboys at the baltimore lunch for their hamburgers and coffee when they catch on in the local newspaper shops up to aja week for older hands of 28 or SO 30 with the knack avd competence of seasoned men there were lots of papers then we had four to in des moines when I 1 was a cub there to in 1813 1013 as a against two today and to in st louis L 0 ul we had five as against three now that Is about tho the ratio of survival and to in baseball it Is about the same there are lower ewer leagues and the young ballplayers like the young reporters utica take a strangely romantic view Isda lell clarion call to in his first says he going to try to make inake a smart city newspaper of the new milford times rimes and leave eave global problems to the e editorial writers of the great metropolitan tan daf dallies fles we flo do not presume to believe vald he that any ponder oiw arts pronouncement in the new bedford paper la Is going to soften the attitude of josef stalin or put an end to lynch ings in the south well W e 13 excusing loiue koiv that th at word ponder of ous and noting an people exception to that phrase p h r a s e to in the i South the voice of the tha new murd times could be b as influential Influent tal fal f its own circulation field as that of any dally daily after all those metropolitan ro editorials editorial are written mostly by the likes of tisdale Tl sdale hafed heed for their ability to express the policy ot of the person or the soulless lass corporation who owns the paper is a tradition ozi that practically all of them have one of two ambitions the th first is to settle down to country journalism and the second is to raise chickens it if we get any honest discussion of the questions which will settle the fate of the cited states to in the next few years say tour four y years ears and may do for us as a free people WE WILL GET rr FT FROM TOE THE metropolitan NON PAPERS there arent arena any ecks in the united unit le d j states stat le now after two wars ve e are a far traveled people and higher education Is as common as the common cold an item tight right under cla ion call oi or outline of purpose oti on the editorial page says say that james Al allarid allared lared who makes his home up long mountain mount aln awas was with ith jimmy doolittle on that famed filch over japan |