The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1930, Page 8

RET 2 one a The MUSIC that TODAY Makes .... THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1980 Wns ... winged words ... seeking and capturing the pulsating tempo that is Today. Mere words, crying to fulfill their destiny before To- morrow crowds them into history. Telephones ate jangling insistently ... telegraph wires chatter with them ... futilely, as if aware that a few hours will see their burden forgotten. {| Like fragments of a musical score whose re- frain sings tragedy, history and comedy in one—“Prison Fire: Toll is ‘318”— “Five Power Pact Signed”—“Local Team Runs Wild, 18. to 0”—bits of paper are whisked away. {| Type-setting machines rumble rhythmically. A few new bars in life’s symphony are crystalizing. And always the hands of the clock advance; behind them, skilled fingers and tireless machinery move endlessly to keep pace with time... {{/Done! The pattern is complete. And now the petty clamor is silenced by a fuller note. It is the rich diapason of the-rotaries ; ... the Song of Today and of Tomorrow ... the clarion call of the press. Then plaintive notes begin to echo; raucous shouts; the cries of tomorrow’s mes- sengers, the newsboys. The Bismarck Tribune is on the street. | And so an- other brief measure in time’s endless symphony is played; already tomorrow’s happenings are finding birth beneath the maestro’s fingers. |... To record Today before Today is gone ... to foretell Tomorrow before Tomorrow. comes .. sto paint with a brush of Truth the million pictures: of the things that ‘hap- pen, in your own street as in Singapore and Peru, into an interesting pano- rata, accurate and unbiased ... to bring this, the news of the day, unfailing- ly to your fireside ... that is our self-appointed task. 5 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE North Dakota’s Oldest and Better Newspaper ;