The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-27

"cussed" the telegraph company roundly
for letting a messenger boy talk to tele
graph editors.
1.-The manager told me to tell you this is
the story from Chicago said a messenger
boy. running up to the telegraph editor.
1.-The Chicago wire hasn't been working good
tonight
Then the telegraph editor read the spe-
cial story from Chicago. He put head lines
on II and sent it TO the composing room. 1t
was a good story. really. with the wear and
tear IL caused.
BOYS just out of high school, men of the
world in their own minds. blase and com
placent in their manner, frequently find out
that there are a good many things they
have not found out in the high school or
during their eighteen or nineteen years of
life, when they go to a college or a univer-
sity. Stories with morals attached to them.
or put into them in the beginning, are said
by a good many TO be dull, but in some sto-
ries. there are morals that stick out so plain
" that they cannot be overlooked And this
is the kind of a story in which the moral
must be recognized. The sooner 1t is out OF
the way the better. perhaps.
Bloomington to enter the State University.
He was one of the boys looked up to- in
his own little high school. and when he
graduated he was very worldly wise. He did
not anticipate a change of atmosphere
when he got to the State University, but ne
was destined to encounter a good many
things that fate had planned a little differ
| entity from the way the young man had
pictured them to himself.
"Frats?' Yes, he knew there We're frater-
mites and he expected, of course, to join
| one of them He guessed that he would size
| up the fellows in all OF the ''frats" and ind
out which crowd he liked the best before he
| pledged himself.
That he wouldn't be given the opportunity
! to take the Initiative in this matter. he
| never dreamed. At least what he did and
said wouldn't indicate that he knew that he
would have 10 be invited o join a frat
before he could become Fraternity man.
| When he went to Bloomington and got
acquainted with number Of the men in the
university he allowed it to become gener-
| ally known that he didn't know yet which
| frat he would join
| Six weeks passed by. University life was
on in full swing. the football season was on
and the "spiking season was about over.
But the Indianapolis young man, not so
complacent or so blase as when he landed
| In Bloomington a few days before the uni
| versity opened. had not been spiked"
/ And worse than this, he never was spiked,
and he never got to be a frat man.
Wait till you're voted in before you be-
gin TO express yourself about "frats.'
|
"A series of tales about the life of po-
lice reporter on a metropolitan daily news
paper will be published in the Sunday edi-
ton, beginning next Sunday. These tales
have been prepared especially for this paper
by an old indianapolis boy who went to Chi
cago and became one of the best police re.
porters in that city,.
A reporter who not exactly Il cub.
but who had not yet learned that it is much
better to listen than to talk read this an
nouncement with considerable interest
When the first story was published he rcaC
IT and liked 1t and said that il was good.
The second story ne did not like so we'll
1t lacked plot. he thought. and did not hay,
a central point about which the whole tai,
was woven. The reporter forgot that Their
is a difference between Il tale and
story and he was judgng-o- trying Il
Judge-the newspaper tales by short stor!
standard he had studied when he was a
the State University.
A man with whom the critical reporte
was not acquainted. had been loaing aroun'
the office for several weeks. and occasion
ally he had written story" And the stO
ries he wrote were good ones. and the re
porter knew they were written by a MAI
who knew something about newspape
work. He never thought OF the tales aboU
the life of a police reporter and this maj
having any connection.
The man dropped into a chair beside TIT
reporters desk one night when the reporter
was reading the last of the tales about tn
life OF a police reporter.
We'll. what do you think az thcm.'' h,
asked the reporter
"Oh. hardly know. replied the reporter
They certainly show good deal Of i'm
sight into newspaper work hut somewsy
I'm kind o. disappointed ia them. Somewa,
they seem 10 lack plot.
Just then the managing editor called tn,
man into his office. A few moments Later
the managing editor brought the old news