The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-24
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~ OSsIBLY the Long Bow man Is dream of one day
r. opening letter and fs9ing check from rich
admrer who had long felt of
knowledged obligation for having had his attention
drawn from the seamy side Of life may yet be realized.
While in America Journalists get nothing except per-
mission to visit Rockefeller's estate and help them
selves to all the apples they carry away to
over to Indianapolis and listen two hours speech
by the vice president different pace has been in
Italy. This was done by the Warehouses Isabella
Lucni OF Pavia. She gave 1000 to the editor of
comic journal whose paper she had taken for long
time and always enjoyed. This not to take care
Of subscriptions in arrears for the marchioness had
always kept hers paid up. 1t given Gin recogni
ton of the pleasant hours spent in perusng its
humorous columns Nor this all. In addition,
the marchoness set aside $500 for banquet which
all the members of the staff to be feasted I'm
agne the of that editor try to picture
the joy Of that banquet. Think of the resolutions
passed by the Press club of Pavia.
Why do not these things happen in Americaa Is Il
because the humorous paper and the humorous column
have become prevalent be taken seriously, like
the piano in the fat7 surfeit of good thing
is bad for the stomach. There is such thing
doing worthy movement. Humor is a worthy
ment but it is sadly overdone in the press of America
where there is nothing serious except the extrav
agant efforts to This may explain why the
humorists do not receive legaeies Another
may be that people take papers without understanding
them any whatever. A will take paper for four
teen years without getting at what the funny
saying. Another gets mad at the editor and stops his
Malthusian doctrine which he doesn like The editor
has said the thing forty times before but he has
not happened to it. Another pods thru his paper
daily for ten years and at the end of the tenth year
he could not tell you what part of the sheet to look
for the local AS for the market department he
heard of it. Talent, nay, genius, has been
heard Of It, These represent the careless type of
paper readers but there others just annoying to
the editor. There is the who watches the paper
like hawk surveying the field for sparrows Not
false note turned letter escapes him. He knows
every line of each issue by heart and his delight is to
member Of the staff and call up obscure
item. The newspaper man has not heard of ita Why,
it was in your own paper. Is it possible you don't
read your own paperi You ought to- 1t sometimes con-
tains bits of information Thus lightly he rubs it in
until the staff he will get up at daylight and
the paper thru every day, the society
But he soon falls down and in about week is caught
more.
But why cannot have Warehouses; with the
"dough'' in this town. Surely, we have funny ed.
itors and funny papers Who will be the first noble
woman to will $4,000 to the South Minneapolis Tele
gram, throw thousanddoIar bill over the transon
Of Old Pease, hand out $500 for banquet for the
Press club4 Imagine Smith Hall experimenting such
pure food exhibit in the presense of 200 reporters
and editors.
Or, perhaps Charles W. somerby would be the
to do the experimenting Charles used to be news
paper man before he fell the clutches of the law.
He was always an enthusiastic member of the Press
club, too He continually reorganizing the Prest
club when it died, it frequently did. Some people
corded he revived the Press club just at the psyche
logical moment The Press club had just had it
funeral when suspicious package
arrived 1t addressed to the Press club and note
on the side from Judge Kerr Of the municipal court
requested that the club should smoke with him.
Everybody present, that is myself and somerby, was
dumbfounded. We had not expected such windfal-
I for cracking open the box nstanter but even
then the coral shelving Of great legal mind wal
slowly building itself up in the Uranium of Somerby
Such coarse work not for him We must obtain
title first The thing to do to reorganize the Press
club. In so1ne feeble objection raised that il
would take too long and the cigars wouldn't 60 round
such large crowd anyway. But Somerby had bet.
ter plan He and should constitute the Press club
limited The Office boy, who did not smoke, brought
in as the third member of the corporation, and the
cigars were divided, not like Gau into three parts
but into two. very neat little note of thanks was
sent to Judge Kerr saying that his the first dona
ton received by Press club and inviting him to call
at the rooms Judge Kerr could not trust himself to
say what thought of the brightness of this
couple Of years. and it is perhaps well that in the
the meantime members OF the Press club limited
were brought into his court.
Dr. Folwell In his youth studied the shorthand %
Brother Pitman and became impressed with the fact
that however short you make the record you had
always write it out in the elaborate longhand be
fore it became the property of the race, so to say
He has had for years an idea OF simplifying th
written communications on the plan OF the grea
SCULPTOR who being asked how he made such lfelik
statues replied briefly, cit is very simple you jus
take block of marble and with hammer and chise
system knocks out the letters that are not needed
These are mainly the vowels He also takes the knk
of punctuation, which drives everybody but PRINT
ers insane anyway. In explaining his SYSTEM Dr. Fol
well wrote:
'tHwn ay VIZ KID ay lrnd oh fngrf Isaac Pitmal
g nd nv VIZ sns bn intrstd n fntk prjkts
;, The gain in this system is that people would lear
to read It without translation into the longer hand
Typewrters could be arranged to carry man
of the common words in slugs People would complain
for time about the appearance of the stuff but theI
pc ole used to complain about men having their hal
,e cut short They went to war about it, but tn
f.ct that short hair at first considered elegan
IS did not prevent it being universally adopted by Car
"a casians.
g No am not a candidate for alderman from th
thirteenth ward. The who is candidate is jaime
[, S. GRAY gentleman who was once member OF tn
civ council and who should know better than do
egan, but it appears does not. james Gray
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