The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-05-31

would Not Say to His Face: Print
Nothing Of a Man in Malice: to
Respect the Old, Defend the Weak
and to Give the Boys and Girls a
Square Deal.
(By the Associated Press
New York, May 2S.-Henry Waiter
son, the editor Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, at a banquet tender
ed in his honor by the New York
Press Club tonight, in a speech told
Of n duties and ideals of the news
paper profession Mr.. Watterson said:
Il was born next door to a print
shop, and grew up in a newspaper
office. First and last l have filled
every newspaper function from galley
boy to leader-writer. am proud Of
my calling and jealous of its good
name. Until / ave up all around,
all night work, | was never 50 happy
as toward the wee sma' hours, When,
the boys around me, wires were Hash
ing and feet were hurrying and the
presses were beginning to thunder be
low Now that l no longer see the
paper to press, it rejOices me to find
myself still surrounded by the boys
the boys in the trenches-and to re
call the old days and nights, and, in
fancy to believe that there's life in the
old man yet!
Not one Of you has walked these
streets in search of work more visit
fully, and sometimes more despairing-
ly than / have l remember once see
ing u James Gordon Bennett
through a WindoW Of the Old Herald
n ff1no dnv-n ahn1,f + h. 0rnaI or RrO96
way and Fulton street, and of muir
muring, with John Leech's ragged
urchin, looking upon a little boy in a
London home, eating plum-pudding,
wouldn't it be bully to be him? Just
ffty-two years ago Mr. Dana, then on
the Tribune, paid me five dollars for a
bit of what would be called space
writing now, and ten years later when
we had come to be as it We're PROBES
sional colleagues, he was pleased to
be reminded of the circumstance, ana
from that hour to the day Of his death
was my most excellent TREND ana
comrade
L beg YOU will not be alarmed. ]
am not going to weary you with the
reminiscential, nor get up for a school
master. Still less is it my purpose
to deliver a lecture on Journalism. |
think l know what news Is and now
to prepare it equally for the tea-table
n the DIcdkldSt aux. Iiho ~
tuals, it may be served hot and say
DRY, or raw and ~unsavory, be brought
on plain. or be dressed and decorated
to suit the ever varying publlc taste.
There is in this, as III cooking. an
art. A fine, rudy murder. Ike a TAR
round of beef, may be ruined IN the
roasting and a scandal, fat and juicy
blonde and frowsy, wholly spoiled by
a fieurative excess of oil and garlic
A skillful chef can take a few scraps
and fabricate a dish to de1Sht q
gourmet SO a deft reporter can put
this ana that together and piece a
story TO set the town attacking. IN
cases. however, there must be
the basis of essential fact. 1t is given
to no man to make a silk purse out
of a sow's ear; to no COOK TO render
a salute out Of saWdust and boot
heels: to no reporter to turn q scoop
out Of a lie.
II was engaged as general utility
man upon an afternoon paper IN
Washington City. Each mofnlns
there was laid upon my desk the New
York Evening Post and the New York
Evening Express of the preceding al
ernoon. A part Of my business was
with pencil, paste ana SCISSORS -
the contents of those two IN
sheets. For better attrac-
tion. adopted the form Of a daily
New York letter. lawn no leg
work to do and fresh from my early
with the Post and the Express
before me. knowing all the local
noints and people, nothing was easier
thon the fling Of an apt column or
two with a New York date line
fairly reveled in my artistic fraudu-
ia,cy 1t was SO disguised in the
W. rming-oyer process that for a long
time the stuff was regularly copied by
tho papers from which it had been
ar;yinaIIy taken. Those, however.
nyora halcyon. innocent and happy
Ss,s when genius had some chance