The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-05-06


Associated Press and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
delivering brief address ON Helping
the Editor Mr. AIDE said
"Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen
"The A. p is great institution
Around a newspaper office We Away,
felt easy in our minds II We knew
that the A. P. was on the job. My
out.of-town assignment was usually
given to me in the following words
Send a good story--the A. p will
cover the facts
II respect the a. p because Il has
nothing to do with the sunday supple
ment The A. p never sent 10 a
heavy editorial at 10 p m. and mark
ed It must. II never ordered pic
lures 70 go with the stun and II never
came around the next day TO inquire
why It had not been played up The
A. p. bears the same relation 10 the
modern American newspaper that the
solid business man does 10 the modern
American family Il stands in the
background. provides the wherewithal
keeps out OF the spotlight. takes all
OF the blame and gets mighty little
glory Respected but not featured on
tho front page When there Is a grand
jubilee. father and the A, p are be,
hind the potted palms with the or
chestra checking up The expenses.
4 am glad TO be here for several
reasons. Now that You may have for.
gotten what you paid for L. | am Will
ing 10 meet the gentlemen who bought
my merchandise sold you an as.
sortment OF capital letters and Job
lot OF Chicago vernaoular. and you
thought you were getting a new brand
OF humor. Very often | would weaken
when Il came time 20 sign the vouch.
ers. Then would read some Of the
other syndicate stun and take cour-
age
Every man who has not tried II
thinks taat he can edit a newspaper
write a comic opera and manage a
hotel. still believe that | know a
lot about the hotel business
when went to Chicago TO help
Victor +. Lawson upIift a community
that did not want to be uplifted. I
noticed every day In going to the roof
garden. large and well-lighted apart
ment in which a number Of nobby gen
tlemen were seated az roll-top desks
talking about circulation Most OF
them were smoking PA Che more they
smoked, the more enthusiastic they
became about the circulation. / learn.
ed that these arlstoerats Of our pro.
fession were what is known as the
business end Of the paper About the
time we began to diagram the daily
murder they would put on their top.
coats and dog-skin gloves and saunter
over to the Auditorium hotel In
those days # young man from some
where out in the corn belt came TO
the Office and applied for a job he was
asked II he had attended a iirst-class
gestern college II he replied yes
and could produce a letter from the
professor of English showing that he
had written articles for the college
paper he was put into the editorial de.
partment at SIS a week II he could
prove absolutely that he had not at.
tended any college, he was assigned 70
the business department at $40 a week.
7 learned upon Investigation that
j had made a mistake IN taking 40
the literary end OF the game SO re.
solved 10 60 iufor advertising There.
fore / became an author and a play
wright After ten years in the rare
fled atmosphere Of dramatic art as
practlced today at two dollars a seat
or four dollars on the sidewalk. ! feel
that ! am peculiarly qualified 20 dis.
euss American newspapers can pro-
ceed with safety because if say any.
thing uncomplimentary. | have a scrap
book 10 prove that they began II
Everybody wants to help the edi
tor Not as regards cheaper wood
pulp or keeping down the payroll. but
with suggestions for filling up the pa.
per Most people still believe that
every newspaper must hustle every
night to get enough copy to separate
the advertisements Being past
graduate know that you are oompeli-
ed TO throw columns and columns OF
stun on the floor Very often. In glane-
ing over a long tarin editorial won.
der what was thrown on the floor
however. ] am not here 20 upset any
tradltlons--merely to oifer a few help.
ful hints.
In the first place the city newspa.
per OF today as compared with the IN
diana newspaper Of the seventies Is
tame. inyertebrate. oolorless and
apoiogetlo The FIRST newspaper with