The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
ED HOWE AND THE GLOBE.
New York Sun Prints Some Original
Observations.
[From the New York Sun. ]

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Atchison, Kan, July s--The Atchi-
son Daily Globe, edited by E. w.
Howe, who years ago wrote two or
three widely read novels, does things
differently from most newspapers.
Howe is an aggressive chap who has
made a lot of enemies. He says that
about every five years he accumulates
enough of them who get mad enough
to start a rival newspaper for the pur-
pose of running him out of town, but
these have all died. One of Howe'S
pet diversions is the metropolitan sys-
TEN of getting news. On the Globe
the Howe system is in effect, and has
been for tWenty-Seven years.
Atchison is a sleepy sort of town, one
| in which something happens promptly
about every two years. The marvel
of it, therefore, is that the Globe is as
| bright and neWSY as it is. Most of the
news is of routine character, telling
of the comings and goings of folks, the
| Improvements at John Jones place
the marriage of Lysander Appleton's
daughter, the doingS of the DorcaS So
convulse country communities Speak
ing of his system, Howe says:
Every new man on the Globe OBJ
jects to the papers system The head
man in the Globe office-who. by the
way, is a woman-doesn't keep lit
tie book out of which assignments are
made. The Globe plan IS to send its
reporters all over the town and vicin-
ity without instructions other than to
hunt for the news. They are expected
to return every hour or two and hand
in their copy, which is sifted and re-
jected or accepted by the managing
editor. the young woman referred to-.
Certain reporters have certain ter
ritory, but all of them are free to work
in the Big Field-the field where the
best items originate, which is Com
mercial street. That is where Strang-
ers may be seen and their business in
quired into, where farmers from all
sections may be seen, and farmers
always have news. There's where the
business men are, and they can be
rounded up easily.
when two men take a contract to
do a job they stand around and hire
men to do the work. At the Globe office
the contractors work In most newspa-
per offices the head men sit around and
the young reporters go out and find the
news. In the Globe office it is the head
men who do the leg work, because a
head man can write a better item than
young reporter; he can get nearer the
source of news; many men will talk to
a head man who will not talk with a
young reporter
Another peculiar thing about the
Globe office is that it has no advertising
solicitor. The reporters, including the
editor, solicit advertising, and the pro-
prietor and editor and advertising man.
ager are reporters.
The truth probably is that most sub
scribers to the Globe take it for the
pleasure of reading Howe's column of
''Globe Sights" Every day there is
half a column of keen and witty para
graphs. Here are some taken at ran
dom:
The soldiers in the far east are not
only wasting their governments
money, but our time.
No woman likes another woman
whom she has caught casting a SYM
pathetic look at her husband.
It is a suspicion in every mans
mind that his family never gets half
of the fruit his wife puts up.
Howe takes life easy. He thinks a
great deal of his paper, and he has
made a modest little fortune out of it.
He objects to anybody thinking it an
odd or unusual newspaper.