The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-30

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everything the man said went t0 bear
ont the impression that this IHlIGer-
.nce was nothing but self-T-lIauce
Nr. Hearst doesn. our IN anything
that may be said about him. one ts4y
or the other. ~ those who ar not his
friends ne counts on himself and his
own. Have Your OWN baseball nine.
run your oHn publications. organic
your oNn POLITICAL party. That's the
way to get done the thing that yoU
want 70 have done. 10 1t yourself
\ Mystery to Iii, own Father
Whether the son understood his
father or not, the father confessed Of
ten that he did not understand his
son. His friends tell how the senator
used to wonder about his boy BIN"
He let the boy 90 pretty muca as ne
pleased. and the result was always
amazing. He saw a shy. rather retir-
ing child. Of whom he heard the most
remarkable stories. He saw this basin
ful boy go back East" to school. and
get dismissed: then to Harvard, and
get dismissed. Then he saw him
come back a dude; a tall, quiet stran-
ger, dressed in the loudest fashion of
/ the fools. William Randolph Hearst
was a mystery to George Hearst.
And the old senator made one othet
, observation which we have made. one
day he said, without any preliminary,
to a friend Of his:
n : one Illlng sure GDOuJ NY
boy Bill. I've been watching him,
and | notice that when he wants cake.
ne wants cake; and he wants il now.
And l notice that after a while he
gets his cake"
The cake his "boy Bill' wanted
when he came back from Cambridge
was a surprise. There We're mines this
spoiled child could have, and the old
Senator offered, with glowing descrip-
tions, a fair choice among those ne
had. The son wanted no mine. Well,
there was land. The Senator had a
m~illion-acre ranch in Mexico which he
had hoped the son would take hold of
and develop. The son wanted no
ranch. He visited it dutifully, but
when he got back, he said:
'J could never learn to manage
else"
NJ son wanted the San Francisco
Examiner. The father was shocked.
He had supported that newspaper rof
I political uses md, despite all his care,
il had cost him a great deal of money
! h thought of what it would cost
with an e~xtraVagant son in charge and
alarming even to 4
aud what if the boy did succeed?
Tom" said the Senator to Tom
Williams. "suppose a man mad a sue
cess Of a newspapers; a great success.
greater than anybody else-how much
could he make OF it?'
Oh, Sllu w lllld1liS CdItISSolS, q
hundred thousand a year"
"Hell." the Senator exclaimed,
'That amt no money
Not After Money.
You can see how the fathers mind
! was working. But the sons mind was
working privately in another direc-
ton.
Il didn't care" he said, "apout
making money, at least not just to
, n 10 1anJ11I- nn1 Inn3t "a - any,
thing about that now. If money was
what I was after, I could get that
noW-more easily, more surely, n
With less trouble and less labor, in
some other way
Lots of people find it as hard as
Senator Hearst did to think of a man
aiming at something else tina money,
but the money Mr.. Hearst could make
by playing in with the interests he
is fighting now. must vindicate him
Mr.. Hearst didn't despise the uses of
money. for the end he did ave in
mind.
L wanted to make the Examiner
pay Mr.. Hearst continued. "A news
! paper should be self-supporting. 1t
can't last if it isn't, no matter how
much money is benin it. But" he
concluded, q didn't expect to have
any great difficulty in making the pa
per pay"
Lie young Ouue got HIS cake, anu
San Francisco laughed. San Francis
! co didn't know. and his father, if he
had heard Of it, had overlooked the
fact that all the while "W. r." was
raising Cain at Cambridge, he was also
at work. He was publishing the Har-
ward LampOon. The fellows who were
on it With him worked and wrote and
enjoyed the game and the proceeds
banquets and all sorts of gay times.
But even they didn't realize that CIV.
r." their leader. was going through
the press-rOomS of the Boston news
papers examining the machinery,
talking to the editors, publishers and
other workers, learning the business
III detail. They caught him lying on
the floor of his room with all the
leading pap Of the United
States spread out before him. but he
didn't tell them hat he was picking
out the best story" of the news of
the day and trying to make out just
| what there was abOut the writing and
! the setting of it that made it the best.
II was watching all the while I was
at Cambridge the rise of Mr.. Pulitzer's
World" h ,ays, land [ thought l saw
the principles underlying his meth
, DDS"
.'Strikine' journalism.
The young man applied to the Ex-
aminer the principles underlying the
methods of the World and all the
ether sensational newspapers of that
Gay, and since it was the principles
and not merely the methods that he
Srasped. he went the methods one bet
ter. He doesn't like the word "sen-
s~ational": he calls his methods 'sstrik-
ing" Whatever he calls them. We
know what they are. They a = appIi-
cation in Journalism of the modern
commandment of business. politics ana
everything else, viz: "get results.
Mr.. Hearst got results; Mr.. Hearst
himself. | mean.
| Mr.. Hearst worked and talked and
dlned-he lived with his staff. He
conducted the Examiner personally.
and his part was decisive. The men
he employed had all been in the bust
ness befOre; he personally made them
make the Examiner different from the
! other papers. commercially and editor
tally.