The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-29

SESSlOU uI the UUllOu tHdt ut - III
to hold office from Mayor to pres
dent of the United States. Morally
speaking his mind must be bowling
Wilderness
Then followed the scene heretofore
described. When order was researed
Woodrow Wilson, president of Prince
aon University emphasized the GI'
cline OF the editorial power, and the
growing importance of the prompt
accurate and unbiased news gather
er
George AIDE, himself practical
newspaper man, spoke in a lighter
vein and won laughter from his ati
dience by deft touches on the trials
and enjoyments they had all alike
experienced.
Cables Bring Greetings.
Through out the dinner cable mess
ages OF greeting to the American
press were read as they flashed from
American representatives abroad,
rulers. dignitaries of Europe, Asia
Africa, and South America. They
were obtained by correspondents Of
the Associated Jress In various cap
itals; cablod to New YORK tolGy atst
copied in the banquet room from q
telegraph wire looped up with the
main ubmarine cables reaching IN
thee city. They We're read as fast
as received by the toastmaster, and
then displayed to the assembled din
ers on cardboard sheets fifteen feet
wide and four feet deep, hung on one
side OF the hall.
One From Roosevelt.
Cheers broke out from every table
as one from Roosevelt at Brussels
was read. 1t said:
81 send you my hearty regards. 1t
is unnecessary to say anything about
the enormous power Of the press, the
wise exercise whereof is not only an
essential for the nation but an essen
tial to the perpetuity of the press
itself With best wishes to those up
IN whom rests the heavy RESPONSE
bility of Using that tremendous pow
er Alright, | am, sincerely yours"
The remainder of the dinner pass
ed off without incident and in bet
good fellow ship, as If a scene un
precedented at public banquet had
not marred the evening.
Geo. AIDES Address.
Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen
1.-THE A. p is great institution.
Around Il newspaper office we always
felt easy in our minds if we knew
that the A. p was on the job My
assignment was usually
given to me in the following words:
Send in good story-the A, P. will
cover the facts.
Il respect the A. P. because it has
nothing to do with the Sunday supple
ment. The A. P never sent in
heavy editorial at 10 p. m. and
marked it must. 1t never ordered
pictures to go with the stuff and it
never came around the next day to
inquire why it had not been played
up. The A. p. bears the same rela-
ton to the modern American news
paper thatthe solid business man
does to the modern American family.
It 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 the front page
When there Is grand jubilee, father
and the A. p. are behind the potted
palms with the orchestra checking UP
the expenses.
II am g'ad to be here for several
reasons. Now that you may have for
gotten what you paid fon it, am
willing to meet the gentlemen who
bought my merchandise. sold you
an assortment of capital letters and
q job lot of Chicago@ernacular, and
you thought you were getting a new
brand of humor. Very often | would
weaken Wien it came time to sign the
Then would think of the
other syndicate stuff and take cour.
age.
Every man who has not tried IT,
thinks he can edit newspaper, write
a comic opera and manage hotel. y
still believe that I konw a lot about
the hotel business.
When | went to Chicago to heir
Victor V. Lawson uplift community
that did not want to be uplifted, Il
noticed every day, In going to the
roof garden, large and well lighted