The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-05

The daily newspaper is a twentieth een- tury necessity. and in the glamor of it's present day glory is interesting to note that in the beginning of the last century even at it's halfway mile post our grand fathers would have scoffed at the idea of the possibilities of newspaper of tho present day. Our grandfathers were con- tent to hear the events of world wide im- portanee weeks or months after their oe- euranee. If the king of Patagonia was asslnated they possibly heard of it some time during the year and, il was counted as news. Election results came slowly and tediously, generally delayed for months
 How different all this is today The events of twenty-four hours ago are old and every passing hour adds to their happens within the past few hours and this refers to the events of far off China as much as to the happenings just around the block in which we 4ee.
 Yet the average newspaper reader, to whom the newspaper has become a com mon affair, one of the necessities of life. but little appreciates the vast amount of iiphCSf LII atitS anu 0llNi bS HtttSSdlS AO provide him with information.
 The newspaper is a world within it. self. A world that never sleeps or rests It's ever wakeful agencies are busy in every quarter of the globe day and night engaged fin the one task of supplying the world with a full concise history of the hourly events from Jones Cross Roads 10 Windsor Castle. While you sleep in ease and security this powerful agency
 is busy so that in the morning while you take your breakfast you may be able to inform yourself on the events of the pre- vious day. Then you go to your business feeling that you are up-to-date. You are familiar with the history of yesterday and have a forecast of today. You are indeed a monarch of the earth, having aominn over the earth and all creatures therein. while the few pennies you give for the newspaper do not begin to pay the cost of this necessity though 1t brings you power and satisfaction that cannot ae purchased in any other way at any Drice
 A visit to the office of your favorite newspaper during the busy hours would possibly give you an idea of the immen- sty and strenuousness of the enterprise. Let us climb the dark stairway to the ed .torial rooms at nine o'clock in the osfsn- ing. The force is just now getting doS'l sp iCdi btSiut'S. HIlt HuS bttil |bilsid-
 'rable skirmshing and pichct No... e-..-
 ng the day while the office has been al- most deserted. You have perhaps caught sight of a reporter now and then dartlng
 town the street, now minglng with the
 'rowds on the busy thoroughfare. now hurryng down an alley, now catching a
 ,ab or car for some eutlaying district
 where the city editor has dispatched him on the trail of red hot story.' He IS everywhere.
 At nine o'clock they are gathering into the reporters room to put their stories in shape for the printer With hats and coats off and sleeXes rolled to the elbow they are busy with the tasl of rounding up their several assignments. Typewrit- ters are going at a chatter that almost deafens you and telephone bells ring until you are nervous. In the midst of all this copy making you wonder where these young men got so much 1.-Two material. During the day you have seen and heard but little that would make a good news paper story. These young men seem loaded to the roots of their hair with news. and they are. You note with some curiosity, that they are all young men. The pace necessary for this work is too swift for the old. It requires nimble limhs strong constitutions. active brains and