Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-04
REMARKABLE NEWSPAPERS
FROM the Baltimore American.

more American
organ of Santa Claus. 1t publishes more
letters from children each year just be-
fore Christmas than any paper in the
world. This has been an annual custom
with the Banner for a generation, and
IL has become so well fixed that the
children of middle Tennessee think they
will not be visited by their patron
saint unless they communicate with
him through the Banner. Last year,
from December 10 to "a, this paper pub
lished 1892 letters to Santa Claus, MAX
ing in all 131 columns.
Many Years Of Service
The strong editorial page of the Port
land Oregonian has given that paper a
national reputation entirely through
the offices of Mr.. II. w. Scott, who has
been its editor for nearly fifty years.
Another interesting feature of the Ore
gonian Is that it's manager and chief
owner, Mr. Henry L. Pittock, has been
continually connected with this paper
since 1S59-ffty-four years. He began
as a printer, and within five years had
become proprietor of the property Mr..
Pittock has thus been chief owner of
the Oregonlan for fifty years, and Mr..
Scott its editor and part owner for
nearly fifty years. There is no parallel
to this situation on any newspaper in
the United States.
Down in Texas
Two of the most remarkable papers in
the country are the A. II. Belo proper
ties in Texas. The Galveston News
was started in 1912, under the flag of
the Republic of Texas. 1t was pub
lished for a short time at Houston while
the Civil War was in progress, but was
afterward moved back to Galveston. |
The Dallas News started In 1885. The
two offices are connected with a leased
wire 315 miles long, and three special
trains are run every morning to carry
the papers to distant counties in the
state. The Dallas News Is housed in
one of the most elegant and COM
modious newspaper buildings in Amer
lea. 1t covers the whole field from
TeXarkana to Ell Paso, distance al
most as great as from New York to
Chicago. Such enterprise might we'll be
boasted of by a paper in city of half
a million inhabitants. but when it Is
remembered that Dallas has only
$4,000 people, the achievements Of its
great newspaper are indeed remark
able.
Elected Its Editor
For years the Memphis Commercial |
Appeal has been carrying a daily para
graph on it's editorial page credited to
the Hardeman Free Press. These para |
graphs are very funny on account of
their ludicrous errors in orthography |
and phraseology, and they have been
copied by papers in every state in the
Union. The Hardeman Free Press is |
the name of a weekly paper published |
in Bolivar, Tenn, but the funny things
it is credited with saying never appear
in it's columns. They are merely the
invention of a clever writer on the
Commercial-Appeal. This publicity
gave the Hardeman county paper an
increased circulation and brought it's
editor, Jack Reeves, into such promi
nence that he was put up for the lower
house in the Tennessee legislature and
elected by a flattering majority.
A somewhat similar feature was in
stituted by the Buffalo Times some
years ago. In the upper corner of one
of it's pages it reproduced a miniature
paper called "The Daily Hammer" The
motto of this sprightly little sheet is
with mallets toward all and charity
for none" It's stock in trade is local
hits, and day after day it convulses the
town with it's sarcastic wit and ridi-
cule.
Fighting the Mormons
The Salt Lake Tribune makes a spe-
cialty of fighting Mormon rule in Utah.
In a letter to the writer Colonel Will |
liam Nelson, the veteran editor says |
1.-THE Tribune is today fighting the only |
fight that is being fought in any part |
of the United States for the prevalence |
of free government and equal rights |
among white citizens of this republic.
We have here q dominant, lecherous, |
grasping, avaricious priesthood in the
control of politics and civil affairs,
which has made repeated pledges to |
the United States government of
obedience to the laws and conformity !
to American institutions, and has as re-
peatedly broken every one of these
promises. 1t Is the mission of the Salt
Lake Tribune to correct these evils and |
insist that the pledges made shall be
kept"
Schools and Statistics
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is dis
tinctive for it's comprehensive reports
of educational and Industrial work It's
page devoted to the discussion of
schools, school, problems and school
progress not only covers the state of
Virginia, but the whole south. Last
summer the Times-Dispatch issued
special educational number, which con-
tanned more school advertising than has
ever appeared in a single edition of
any other paper in America.
The Chicago Tribune, one of the best |
American newspapers, has for years
made speciality of collecting statistics |
on various subjects of public interest |
which are not within the purview of
any governmental bureau. Fourth of |
July accidents, lynchings and murders |
in all parts of the country are collected |
and tabuated in the Tribune office, and |
the press reports send the results all |
over the country.