Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-17
PRESS CLUB
LIBRARY'S BOOST
Washington Newspaper Men
Get Lift From
Indiana.


WASHINGTON, D. e., July IT,
Those Indiana literary fellows ar,
causing the National Press club q
Washington no end of worry. News
paper paragraphers may all scribbIe
squibs about the multiplicity of ths
Hoosier authors and talk about this
luxuriant growth of literature on tn
banks of the Wabash---it sounds
funny and all that, but the library
committee of the Press club is IN
against real problem and isn't in
elined to treat the oyerpFoductlon oil
Indiana writer's with laughter.
The trouble came about through
the agency of one Thomas r. Shipp,
who used to be city editor of the In
dianapolis News, and who, although
now respectfully above the newspaper
game as secretary of the joint COM
mittee on conservation, still has a
warm regard for the correspondents.
When the Press club moved to its
new quarters a month or so ago \
big library was planned, wherein
hard-worked newspaper men might
seek surcease from the tariff and
other dry subjects A library COM
mittee was accordingly appointed to
geek contributions and install about
sixty feet of books.
Tom Ship, who happens to be one
OF the leading lights of the club, and
who, incidentally, halls from Indiana.
Informed the committee that he
thought he could persuade a pub
fishing house in Indianapolis, one OF
the members Of the firm being known
70 him personally, to donate a set of
Indiana authors to the club. The
committee was overjoyed and told
the club to do its worst.
shipp made successful touch. He
got a letter from the book firm stat
ing that they'd sent a complete as
sortment of Hoosier literature
that is, all the volumes by Indiana
authors they'd ever published. The
assortment totaled up to forty-niEe
books. 1t included George AIDE,
1ames Whitcomb Riley, Booth Tark-
lngton, and other famous writer's
Tom Ship was so pleased that he
tipped of some of the Indiana CORE
spOndents and they wrote nice little
pieces about it for their papers.
Right there trouble butted in. The
hrst mail back to Washington
brought the library committee this
letter:
Dear Sirs-I notice than India
napolis publishing house has donated
! set of books written by Indiana au-
lnOrs to the Press club. beg to
'tate that that collection is not COM
pete. My own work does not APP
pear 10 have been sent you. IT.
asn't printed by that firm and 4
haven't any doubt but that they pur-
POsely neglected mentioning my au-
nOrshtp out of revenge-at any rate.
Haey refused to publish my book. and
had it privately printed later. In
''oer to make your library complete
ao remedy the glaring deficiency in
vi having my work. / am forward
as you copy under separate cover.
Yours. etc"
HE next day another missive
Oaehed in similar terms was re-
SIZED, Then came more. Books
Alriy flowed in on the library com
-''tee and letters arrived by every
-they all roundly berated the
aaiana publishing house and. mere
IN order thar the collection OF In
ana authors might be represented.
legged the club TO accept my own
fining book"
he library committee is now Try
: 10 figure out some way OF gettinr
20 With Tom Shipp- II has aban-
Oaed any aeeting idea II might have
: OF accommodating all OF Indi-
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