New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-07-04
81 THE STROLLER.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


solely upon the gifted Wisconsin poetess,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, for what are pop
ularly termed poems Of passion. New
Ulm ozone also inspires the divine af-
fatus, in testimony whereof I append
the following touching verse from the
indelible pencil of a we'll known travel
ing man who makes periodical trips to
this city. The lines were addressed to a
prominent young lady Of the town and
reached the Stroller by grapevine tele-
graph. Read them:
If --. eyes would shine for me
I'd give the sun fair warning,
1t needn't rise to light my skies, Z
Because the beam in - eyes Z
Would make my morning.
If - lips we've red for me,
In weather sad or sunny, /"
I'd say to every buzzing bee, ...
You need not rob the rose for me, -
Her lips are honey. :. ~
If heart would beat for me ..
SO low L just could hear 1t,
I'd give the world, leastwise my part,
For just the beat of -heart
And my heart near it.
We fear that with, increasing years Pa
pa Pease, of the Anoka Union, is permit
ting his egotism to get the better of his
judgment. Just listen to this:
"Sit down here, right by my side, and
see how many good and able preachers,
lawyers, doctors, merchants, business
men, ETC., ETC., you can call to mind, re-
sidents of Minnesota, and you will ex,
perlence no trouble in making out a
splendid list. Then just for cod, try
again and do the same in regard to news
paper men, and the fingers Oh your hand
will complete the list"
I am perfectly willing to admit that
Pease is one of them, but just who he
would name as the other four, I confess
that 1 am unable to determine. Further
on he says:
"Only the other day, the city editor of
big daily told me that out of the three
hundred that had graduated at the state
university, there was not one among
hem, who was fitted to fill the position
Of a reporter on his paper, and that he
found it impossible to secure capable
mel for this line of work. Plenty for
all other profession, but none for his"
The aforesaid editor of the city daily
must bear in mind that just so long as
the ci,y oalIy depends upon recruiting its
reportorIal ranks from the university at
the magnificent stipend of So to $40
per week just so long will 1t fail to Sc
cure good ..serv.ce. Think of hiring
"journalists' Tor less money than is pad
to the man who shovels d;-t n ,he
streets.
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The fact of the matter is, the average
great city daily is great big bluff with
less Influence, either morally or politi-
cally, in its own locality than the small
est country paper published in the state.
1t would require the fingers of several
hands to count the number CT country
newspaper men who could fill the city
editors chair of any of the twin city dai-
lies efficiently and effectively while the
chances are that any one OF the afore-
mentioned city editors would make a
complete failure of country newspaper
in less than three months. The fact of
the matter is that the city daily journal
ist has come to be specialist who from
the reporar to the managin. editor has
some one else to do rs &, w. ,, for him.
This may seem to be broad assertion.
but if you don't believe it I'll leave it
to Pease himself to decide.