The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-24
PATORY MADE TO ORDER
By FREDERIC ]. HASKIN -====z=

the BACK of one OF the orations an
apology for its being n few hundred
words longer than the order called for
The student failed To notice the note
and member of the faculty lighted
upon 1t. Several clerical looking gentle.
men with high brows called at the
newspaper office and charged one OF The
tirm of speech writer's with having writ
ton the winning speech, As it
happened, the other member of the
firm who was absent had committed
the particular offensc in question, The
journalist who received the delegation
Indignantly denied their charges and
pointed out that the initials signed
were not his, and dropped a suggestion
that further inquiry might embarrass
tho institution more than the student
The suggestion was adopted and tho
faculty never suspected that there were
seven other rcadyto-usc orations in
their contest.
Washington correspondent whose
name is familiar to the readers of n
prominent newspaper. and who is still
young enough To have friends in female
seminarics, received touching appeal
from prospective graduate vino want
ed 10 write an essay upon immgra-
tion and badu & the remotcst idea as
TO how to begin. She hoped that ne
would respond to her distress signals
The response was in the form Of an
article upon immigration such as any
well-trained correspondent might send
TO his paper as a Sunday Feature -
It was used without editing and the
author was somewhat chagrined TO learn
that his essay had won the medal. But
for his intended kindness the prize
might have been awarded TO any one of
a dozen young girls who should not
have been forced TO compete with a
professional writer.
\ bright Southern newspaper woman,
quietly and without advertising, did a
remuncrative business IN writing papers
for members of fashionable literary
clubs. 1t often befell that in her CO
pacity of reporter she was forced to
listen to the reading OF four or five
papers of her own composition AT a sin
gle meeting, each member of the club
being in happy ignorance OF the fact
that she was not the only customer of
the girl reporter The comments of the
club upon the various papers were of
course more or less interesting TO the
real author. Tho resourccful young
woman while making n holiday tour of
the East considered the pansies and
rhododendrons in one Of the beautiful
"'circles' in Washington, and decided
that the United States capital was
good place in which 10 live. Repairing
10 the hospitablc home Of a friend. who
took few boarders. she unpacked her
trunk and became a citizen Of the Dis
trct. Of Columbia. An advertisement
inserted in several newspapers soon
brought handsome returns in the way
Of orders for club purposes, and she
still makes n comfortable living by sup.
plving the ammunition for incompetent
literary aspirants.
How many speeches are deliberately
"cribbed' cannot he known. More
cribbing might he done were IT not for
the fact that the orator who uses
speech that attracts attention treads
on thin ice The late Senator ingalls,
of Kansas. upon the occasion Of the
death Of Senator Beck Of Kentucky.
paid eloquent tribute 10 the virtues and
sttainmcnts of departed colleague and
brought tears 10 the eyes of women IN
the galleries Senator Daniel of Flr-
ginia went over TO the Ksnsan's seat
and congratulated him upon his reading
Of q sermon. by Bossuet Senator In
gals was somewhat confused, but as
serted that ne had found the speech
in his own handwriting. Perhaps ne
had copied il many years ago, but nc
thought it was his own and used IT IN
uoccnlly.