The evening world. Newspaper, April 26, 1912, Page 5

OFTHE BOSSES | OF NEWSPAPERS And a Powerful Time They Have at the Waldorf in Convention. THEY KEEP DOOR SHUT. Their Object Is to Get a Lot of Oratory Out of Their Systems. Ques each year that unobtrusive, gen- tle voiced, generous little person, the pibleher of the daily and perennial Nerth American newspaper, gathers at Be Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (locel) and enfoye himself, the cecasion of sald emsoyment being the annual convention ef the American Newspaper Publishers’ Assoclation. Just by way of letting the eee aplendor of Mifth avenue and ‘Thirty-fourth street know he ts about the| hotel (and especially the second floor of the same) is hung with signs, lettered in funereal black, and with even funerealer Doréers of black, bearing large black index hands and the initials of the asso. ¢tation, which all point away from the | bar. But that has nothing to do with our eays Marcellus M. Murdock of the Wichita (Kan.) Bagle, who ts brother of Victor Murdock, one of the inventors of the Brearessive Movement, Congress and Kaness, ‘a certain irrepressible impulse | @owart forensto oratory. Your editor ‘can get tive curse out of his system by fuse of double leads and even by using eapiials, This alleys the acute pain and fever and passes on the inflammation to the helpless reader, But the publisher cant rid of It in any normal or Jegal way; to be sure, he may misrep- Tesent his circulation. But the com- munity {8 apt to misconstrue his mo- tives and believe that he has low and Dane intentions of self-gain. THE REASON WHY THE AS&0- CIATION MEETS EVERY YEAR. “Hence we have the Publishers’ Asso- @ation and the annuak meeting in your fair young city. This is our annual op- vortunity to journey to the A.Jantic coast (at the expense of the office), to atay at the Waldorf (at the expense of the office), to nue New York (at the ex- Dense of ihe office) and to get ~'’ of the Stored up prayer-meeting oratory that we have been too busy to take to @burch experience meetings and throw ‘overboard for the last twel months. “It 18 too ad these meetings are held fn executive session, There are exultant narratives of deep-dyed personal expert- ence of disaster and trouble ‘old inside "YEARLY BLOWOUT | Som OF THE NE NEWS Worse, Pate \ COLA.S, BLETHEN oF THE> SEATTLE Times Is the VERY great Now, that may seem to you to be a RASH STATE- MENT; put LISTEN!" And most usi unless he looks as innocent and therefore as dangerous as Mr, Murdock and Mr. Thompson, the Publisher signs, Meanwhile the pub- Usher-hunters, who oannot go Into thd meetings, because all the sessions are gecret, prow! and prowl and try to catch strays who have wandered out of the corral. They have lara all meeting hall where they show ‘“matts,” original cartoons, and even 98-cent dio- tionarles which they will sell you for $3 cents, worth 98 cents to be sold with seven coupons at an actual profit of $8 cents, and make an 18 per cent. In- crease of circulation at the same time— oh, take our word for it, a publisher has his troubles. Suave and calm, as becomes one who looks out from the bluffs of El Paso upon the battlefields of Juarez, we find H. D, Stater of the El Paso Herald. Mr, Slater deals in calmness and suav- Ity, wholesale and retatl. If he lived down tn the lowlands district of Juares, where the explosive arguments of Ma- deriet and Orozcolst fly, perhaps he would not be so calm. But so long as there f@ a telephone to the office from the bluffs up near the emelters—oh, well, there !s no reason why a pub- Neher should be a prisoner to his office, those do ‘hich would k-op @ drome- arg smiling for twelve months, It bea:s| perdition what a man who derives lis Whole income from the business office! of his paper will tax his expense count with #0 long as the books cha: ft against expenses and not against his! personal Income.’ RATING A CONGRESSMAN AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. “Is Representative Murdock,” inguired @ stupid reporter, “the editor of the ‘Wichita Eagle?” ‘He ie not," said Brother Marcellus, whose hair 1s even ess aurifcrous than | that of the Firobrand of Progress. “He| fg a mere politician and our principal @Avertiving medium.” ‘Mr. Murdock and Mr, James M. @homson, publisher of the New Orieans Item, are such boyish, innocent youns Persons that they are able to get abou: the Waldorf-Astoria with comparatively Witle personal peril. Your ordinary normal newspaper publisher or editor- tae-chief te & singularly scif-conscious ons auch as those. rest of the world throws out its chest and beetles its eye © when @ newspaper man is around. And, by glory, when he ie @ delegate to o national convention of publishers he san't help feeling the way he thinks the otber feller has felt. He ‘en't nasty or umptious about it, but the fire burns tn his eagle eye and the righteous pride stiffens his convexing ribs and all the world looks Hike an anthill to him, Yt es for the mild spoken, youthful ia. Thomson—he would try to convince you he was his own head office boy If Ne did not think that sucn a claim ‘AL be an insult to your intelligence he does not fear the wicked Ways of Mannattan, He has his shield of un- conscious innocence. Every little while one of the shellfish and sharks of the depths fails for it, And then the Thom- arm of the childlike amile wrings of a jurge, fat claw or a fin and whisks ft away to the spot where ho Keeps the spolle of the present New York trip. Be !t Known, the Waldorf Is a weird place during a publisher convention, Not being in the “4 yourself, gentle reader, you “ot know what va special representative,” a feature syndicate,’ ‘a pate wocess man" or t Pp * may be. “@ circulation fac PUBLISHERS THE PREY OF MON. STERS OF THE DEEP. But in Peavock Alley of the Waldorf. anyway, ONE OF THE ‘ADVANTAGES OF BEING THIN. we observe the door of ntton room being unlatched, mut not opened, and see Mr. Hal Gay- erd of the Kansas City Journal slip forth, Mr, Gleed of the same outfit 1s Now, he not present, or botn might escape ati once from the unopened crack, out being thin, personally, in ternoon, when ar with seven same he Waldorf yerte: we got into the sa! members of the Rubenstein. Club and of their daughters, Publishers and 1 women ought not to meet, in he same hotel In the same afternoon— vot !¢ fat reporters are to on the Joo. Stalling through tho press of high- waymen and bandits who clustered about the doors walting for victims, the eagle-eyed weribe of The Evening World observed the Hon. R. A. Croth- ere of the San Francisco Bulletin. There was an alleged earthquake in vicinity of Sen Francisco about five or six years ago. Did it bother Mr. Crothers? It did not. Everything on the stre Mr. Crothers went down Into the un- burnt di roof of @ stor- jay m and kept on tetin, The Leekennys and the Alblums and the Raypullmans and the Jabber- wocks of the Waldorf-Astor caverns and shadows had no such as these, HANDSOMEST MAN IN ALL THE STATE OF TEXAS. Neither did they for Lewis J. Wortham of the Fort Wortham (Tex.) Star-Telegram, Mr. Wortham's friends admit that he {x te handsomest man In all Texas, ke Mr. Wortham where not mo; an two or thre Present and he will not deny tt, Ina larger audience he hands the fragrance of modesty to beauty. Mr. Wortham shaves twice a day, But, as Mr, Long, the conversational art.it, has carefully noted, Mr, Wortham's hat does not, Somewhere !n this world there may be somebody as Conde Hamlin of the Tribune (local) was yesterday while he was trying to get tickets for the arnual ban ast night Into the hands of those who had pald for them, In this morbid pursuit, Mr. Hamlin all day long wrote warning, exhortatory, OUsS loving and threatening words upon a blackboard tn the meeting room. But nobody seemed to care. It was patheti- Hy certain that the owners of those tickets Were going to appear (as they did) about an hour after the dinner ed last night, and pluck Mr, Ham- Astoria iss for the publisher days sleeved | creatures He in walt like devilish und the settecs and clr s of the co: and slip out and pin him to the wall, Smiling shapes t seem all jollity, jump at him from beiind doors him to the floor, extract an nual con. tract from his clothes and i chuck. Mng tt hoarse triumph. ‘As one walks down the tain corrt- Aor of the hotel! one of these queer an!- mals rises out of nowhere, plucks one's publisher companion by the coat lapel, | ardon me, sir; one moment, | minutes Iater, one hears e of the syndicate fea- ture man: “AND 1 said to him, sir NOT, ‘This 1s one of the greatest services in the world, but, I said to him, air, ‘This | town deliver ng t lin's beard from’ hie noble chin, halr by halr, because he had not run around n person, Back of Mr. Hamlin, however, ts a sturdy person whose portrait will be found {n w0ut the centre of our cut, L, B. Palmer, who is the astute tndi- vidual that bosses the assoctation of publishers from behind the scenes, They think th tyrranize over the poor reportera who erin and curvei whenever they walk by, ‘sely murmuring, Ww But Mr, Palmer le the slave driver of the bosses. With A. N, Kel- legg of Indianapolis, chairman of the Standing Committee, he {s the tyrant of the gatraps, The ®eost pudlisher of the nation might have arisen in yee- terday's meeting (we are guessing at this, but we ere not eo far wrong), and about the| e of the Cardinal Features Noted At the Publishers’ Association Meet Coa.Lous o.WORTAAM Fr WORTH STAR-TELEGRAPA If either of these two had frowned the} Preauming creature would have been thrown to the syndicate wolves without the portais, It Is a source of sorrow to the artlat and the chrontcler that there is no| portrait of line or word here descriptive jof Tams Bixby. A man with a name Itke that ought to have an accompany- ing diagram. Your scribe ran hither and yon through the splendid hotel yeste’day asking somebody to show him a Tams Bixby. Nobody would not our fault. In some subsequent itlon It may be— who {s_ thi Jack?’ Other: Oregon Portland Journal, Anybody else | i but Uncle! S. Jackson of the Who, y run themselves just as they, “Work, slaves! | will tell you that Uncle Jack controls | the whole State of Oregon. But he} sald to an Evening World reporter at an early hour to~lay that this was | exaggeration, As a matter of fact," he sald, “I own only 4) per cent. of the Stat Nobody who {s suffering from ingr ing delusions of self-importance, mai nificence and power has any right to neglect his present prilviege of auto- matic self-cure, Col. A. J. Blethen of the Seattle Times {« not ta no blatherekite, But he ts the grand- | wither and try to crawl under tho hem Gay evening's proceedings. In to doth, it ts here stated that our late informenion ts to the y Woodson, suh, of the Owen: Kentucky, Messenger that didn't think the man was qualified to bo |elther a gentleman oF a candid M. Johnson of the hack and emiled hia wises: | 4 made up his mind what he |would tet then do when they w No, air, young man Jachoot of Journalism, which te te be anened on the Pulltzer foundation at {Columbia next year, we sueeeet that there is nothing more instructive than for you to take a bl Waltort sofa to-day and stady | faces and the manners and the vole e pud!isher people. Tf you w the samo with men like that luck to you. But if you get hurt, |don't Mame us. For it ts strong | a GEN. TRACY, 82. FEELS WELL ENOUGH TO MAKE 100 MARK. One of Republican Party's Organ- izers, He Doesn't Believe in Third Term. war veteran and one of the organizers ‘of the Republican party, is celebrating his ofghty-second birthday to-day at his! home, No, 14 East Sixtleth street. Hi still spends seven hours a day at his law office, ang sald this morning he felt well enough to live to be a hundred, ut did not expect to do so. “Many of my old associates are dropping off now," be added, “and It ts getting rather lonely without them.” When President Lincoin called fr 300,000 solliers, Gen. Tracy organised the One Hundred an@ Ninth and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh New York Regiments and served with Hundred and Nint Colonel. | Secretary of the and L . here from 1886 to 1873, and from ciate Judge of the New York Court of Appeal: Speaking of the present Presidential fight, he sald: “1 do not think the people of this country will give any man a third term. That was sottied, I bel t yr | when a thint term was dented President Grant. The decision rendered then le not golng to be altered now. ieee WANT LIGHT ON ARCHBALD. Mouse Requests Papers ti of Charges Against J WASHINGTON, D, C., April %.—The House late yertreday decided to turn est Mttle setter-bagk of undue perso! pride that r¥, er turned loose Fifth avenue And Phirty-fourth stree| Tt was worth while to follow the hawk- ers of circulation stimulants around the Waldorf yesterday and watth them of rpets when Col, A, J. turned] | mn aatihe 4 4 crapir his cold, calculating eyo on them | te Htmetight on th chases that have ry $75 Purchases, Weekly 1.00 PRICE, When he turned his lanterned orb in| Scr mado oaks enrohbe lo Of . nN thelr direction there Wan @ Hag | the United states Commerce Court and @] §0 ba a Vic CASH 10 95 found, a smell as of burning hom and| Which have beon a aubject of inveatt PRICE, fe leather and there was a great wold, | sation of the Department of Juntice. bd The Norris resolution providing that the Attorney-Goneral shall forward to the House all papers and documenta tn connection with the Archbald charges Col, Blethen, running his hand thmugh his hair, moved on. Once there was a man elected Lpu- tenant-Governor of the so-called State of Rhode Island. His name was p,| 4nd investigation was passod by the Russell Brown, 1 it he war not, Mouse. ashamed, As soon an they let him opt emer > Curious Prank of the Wind W he went right to work to besin life over again, and now he has advanced so far wey darsen Chany Fine fy to become the publishe the Prow- dence Evening News. Which shows, a Ww wrenched from the church and whirle around, turning a complete somerrault hefore It landed tn the churchyard be- Wo learned In the secon! reader, tha\| while there's Iife there's hope, ‘ SETTLING THE AFFAIRS OF THE! NATION FOR ALL TIME. The Evening World has Informa:ton that H. M. Pri low, Not @ window was cracked and\a nest © pigeon exes was so little disturbed that only one eng wan broken. exclusiv: How Build Today | vel being all muased up, ' | To Replace the Worn-out Parts of Yesterday? Each day thinkers use up cells of the Brain. 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