Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-01-11
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FROM THE NEwSMAN'S NOTES


after 1t is dropped into the local post
Office.
1t happens that have part of my
mail addressed to the Office, and the
ret Is come to the house. Yesterday
January 10, ! received u letter ad.
dressed very plainly to me and, &C.
cord!ng TO the yostmark thereon, re.
cCiyed 4, the post office on December
"a.
What really astonishes me is that
the post Office was able to find me
at all, in view of other occurrences.
At the time when Lionel Hart was
TN trial for attempting to burn the
attempting to burn the government
warehouse and the story was occupy
ing large part of the first pages of
the newspapers; when even the small
children In the streets knew that
Hart's residence at that time was In
oahu jail--the post master advertised
two letters received at the post office
, for Lionel Hart, present address un.
known. suppose | really ought to
be thankful that ] got my mail at all.
While | am on the subject. | am
ieminded of one other instance of
superhuman intelligence. saw my
! anne some time ago in the adver.
, tised, letter list, and hiked for the
post Office to claim my lost property
After the usual amount of red tape
, had been unwound, the clerk handed
me letter very plainly addressed to
me at the Bulletin Office. Probably
they couldn't find it in the books.
| was going to say something about
the wise and benefcent system of
having only one money order clerk
at the money order window on
steamer days, and of the joys Of hav.
ing to stand in line for an hour be
fore one can get chance to buy an
order-but | won't. This paper has
to go through the mails.
The charge of misquoting a man in
terviewed is one to which Il news.
paper man must get accustomed, but
To which few OF them ever become
reconciled. Plenty Of men are free
enough with their tongues. They are
ready to make all sorts of charges
against their neighbors, sometimes
with proper foundation for the charges
and often without.
But when they see their utterances
in cold print, what they said to the
reporter does not always look so nice
as II sounded. The sound OF their own
voices may be music in their ears, but
the same sounds represented on pa
per by symbols do not appear artistic
And so they renig. 81 never said 1t;
have been misquoted," is the wall
which they raise. The reporter Is.
liar. You can't believe anything you
see in the papers, anyway"
II Is hard to decide which Is tho
worse pest,-the man who goes bach
on his own statements or the man who
comes to the reporter and tells hin
highly sensational story about som'
one else and winds up with "fol
mustn't quote me, of course. I'm jus
telling you this so you can use i
Yourself on your own responsibility.
There is only one brand of man whit
causes more trouble for the news
,aper man. He Is the one who rushe'
wildly to the editor and demands tina
. a story be not published. In Homo
, lulu It makes no difference as to wha
the story Is, whether it will injur'
: anybody or not. keep it out, any
way. It's none Of the papers business
and none of the public's business.
4 Anything, from meeting Of the ANA
4 gamated Association of Oriental Disl
g Washers to an executive session o
| the Board of Directors of the Plant
4 ers' Association is tabu. Keep II ou'
4 It's nobody's business but our own.
Q Everybody goes into executive ses
4 sion. The Booze Board holds eXecu
$ tive sessions to pass upon public bus
( mess which is in no way private. Tor
: Jones goes into executive session wit
his wife to have a little family lai
v The Board of Supervisors holds eXecr
;, tive sessions to transact the publ
3 business. Any effort on the part o
: the newspaper men to find out VIVA
e is going on is regarded as impuden
: impertinence. "It's of no interest I
I the public. Keep 1t out"