Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-22
NEW STAFF DOWN TO WORK
White, stsffsns, Dunno, Baker and Tsrbsll
on hsw Magazine.
PHILIPS PUBLISHING COMPANY BtelNNlNG
Editorial Prospectus Promising and
Contents of the First Number
Tnaieafe strong Bin for
Popular support.

That every writer has not felt the sting
Of the editorial blue pencil is probably due
20, the fact that some authors have the
wealth and poor judgment to print their
work without submitting Il to the inspeo-
ton Of oven friendly critic. and II IL
equally as certain that no editor was ever
able to prepare publication in a manner
pleasing to those who contribute to its
existence.
As a carollary to these facts the fate OF
the American Magazine, launched at New
York Thursday, will be of more than pass
ing interest TO the makers and readers OF
magazines, for IL Is a magazine largely
owned BY authors who have made names
for themselves in these piping times Of
sensational exposures in business and po-
ltical methods Under the title OF the
Phillips Publishing company William Allen
White, Ida M. Tarbell. r. p. Dunno, Lin.
coin ]. Steffens. Ray Stannard Baker and
others have associated themselves in the
enterprise. and II they are as able to hold
the attention Of the public as they wcro
20 attract it their venture should prove
phenomenal success. That they have set
their ideals high is shown by the conclud-
ing paragraph OF the publishers announce
ment:
After all, we live by visions. Though
we have hardly attempted to express II,
we have a. vision of magazine; IL may
part. But we conceive that in It no great
thing of human interest would go I'M
recorded; than in II would be something
snd poetry refreshed the emotions and the
oye of life; art, that stirred anew the
faculty Of seeing beauty and truth IN the
light upon men end public events that con-
Germ us all; new knowledge Of mans
devices and discoveries; and all set forth
with such zest. such knowledge, such art
of expression that there would be no dull
line and no Indifferent picture-thnt some
glow Of truth or humor or sentiment would
play on every page, and that you would
rise from reading with the mind enllvened
and the heart refreshed and a confirmed
belief that II was worth while living in
this world, and worth while living to make
u better.
white and Dunno Lead.
The FIRST article in the new magazine 10
by william Allen White, who makes a
reputation telling what is the matter with
things in general and makes a living by
publishing the Emporia CKan.) Gazette. The
title is THE Partnership OF Society,"" and
in its course Mr.. White finds occasion to
remark
Follys crown of follies il on the head
of him who tries 10 pay his debt to human
fly by mere money. Service is the coin In
which humanity's greatest debts are paid.
Money does not pass current In the real
world Of service. 1t Is false coin there.
The next OF the editorial contributors Is
Mr. r. p. Dunno, whose popular ''Mr.
Dooley" first exploded upon the public.
with the shells at FL Caney. His theme IL
THE Power OF the Press" and IL the press
Is not convinced that It is the most power
full thing in America today the fact will
have to be communicated TO 1t through
some other medium than the brogue." for
Mr.. Dooiey says:
No. sr, as Hogan says, care not who
sssS.n . IL Sas al about IF Ssr
day. There amt anything like II an
there nver was" says he. ALI tn priests
hundherd thousand people wanct week
an" he says, "all tn papers preach TO
,S %.s % asy \. aT ave y tw S.
on SUNDAYS an they give We hell all tn
time" he says.
tn fountain pens !: III /" hand that rules
tn wurruid. Tn press Is fr tn whole
univarse what Mulligan was f'r his beat.
He was tn best polishman an tn worst
liver knew He was terror to evil doors
whln he was sober an a terror to ivrybody
whtn he was dhrunk Martin dhrink e
printers ink. May they not put too much
" tn FRED stun In 1t an may 1t niver go
10 their heads"
Dynamite and Medicine.
Two acticles. which will attract at
tention are Dynamite, the Power I'm
tamable." by Samuel Hopkins Adams and
Popular Medical Fallacies" by Leonard
Keene Hirshberg, NJ. d.
The description of a professional dyna-
inter. the kind who operates in America,
not in Russia, is described as follows:
The finished type of the dynamiter is the
man who has had the ability 10 rise and
the luck to survive long enough to graduate
from the plant and become an agent. In
~ s somethinR Of a Chemist somsthins Of !
quarry -man, something OF an electrician, 9
good deal OF a nineralogist. and, above all
man of resource and GOODNESS.
OFTEN he meets his rivals on the ground
Then comes the tug of war. Tricks OF
the trade are many, and not all Of then
gathered together 1t seems to be point
of honor with every man to handle hi'
parent careiessness while he manifests
shrinking timidity toward the products o
his competitors. This is TO impress tn
twenty nye- pound package OF dynamite Tx,
so much meal; kick II, drop II over fence.
dS~a Iedges and ir ssSneT ,h mslfreas u
and theory, together with the theorist, Il
blown TO atoms In practice.
Other contributors. mainly of ligh
nature are Edith Barnard, Casper Day
May McIIenry. Edwin Balmer. Maude L
Radford and e. J. Rath.
stenens and TarbelI.
Announcement IL made that LincolI
steffens will contribute a series Of Mickey
stories, the first appearing in the presen
issue; that Ida NJ. Tarbell is on her farm
engaged In writing series of articles. tn
first to appear In the December number
and that steffens win present a characte
sketch of William r. Hearst in the Novem
Der number. Adventures in Contentment