The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1910-05-05
HELPS THE EDITOR.
Messages From Kings and
Presidents to Publishers.
PRESS TREMENDOUS POWER"

The Associated Press and the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Associa-
tion Banquet Together-A de, the
Humorist, Makes Notable Address.
New York, Special.-An interesting
feature of the joint banquet in New
York Thursday evening of The AS
sociated Press and the American
Newspaper Publishers Association
was the receipt in the banquet room
at the Waldorf-Astoria during the
progress of the dinner Of some
twenty-five or thirty cablegrams Of
congratulation from all parts Of the
world. These messages were sent by
crowned heads, presidents ot re-
publics, prime ministers ahd proml-
nent statesmen from the four corners
of the globe and expressed the send
ers' views of the American press.
Following is from ,Mt. Roosevelt:
"The American Press:
Brussels, April %.
"I send you my hearty regards.
1t is unnecessary to say anything
about the enormous power OF the
press. The wise exercises whereof
is not only an essential for the nation
but an essential to the perpetuity OF
the press itself. With best wishes
to those upon whom rests the heavy
responsibility of using that tremen-
dous power Alright, | am, sincerely
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
George Ade delieverd brief ad-
dress on "Helping the Editor" Mr..
AIDE said:
"The A. P. is a great institution.
Nv out-of-town assignment was usu-
aliv given to me in the following
words: Send in a good story, the A
P. will cover the facts.
"Every man who has not tried 1t
thinks that he can edit newspaper,
write q comic opera and manage
hotel. I still believe that l know
lot about, the hotel business.
Everybody wants to help the edi-
tor. Not as regards cheaper wood
pulp or keeping down the payroll but
with suggestions for filing up the pa
per. Most people still believe that
every newspaper must hustle to get
enough copy to seperate the adver-
tiserlents.
"The first newspaper with which l
wae oscociateG came ont every Thurs
day from a room over a hardware
store. The fires of civil war were
still smoldering Indiana's chief oe-
cupation was politics. Nearly every
man was voting as he shot, and some
of them a good deal oftener. Our
office equipment consisted Of a Wash
in.ton hand-press, a foot-power job
press, a perennial towel and a few
fonts of type-mostly italics. All,
but we had an editor!
"The old-time editor, the one we
all read about who stamped his In
dividuality on every issue of his
paper and didn't bother about the
press-work, do you> remember what
he called a man if he didn't care
much for him7 He didn't call him
mollycoddle or an insurgent or
malefactor or an undesirable. He
said that the man was a poltroon, a
hell-hound, a pusilanimous liar, an un-
mitigated horse-thief, jackal, mar
plot, a caitiff, a reptile, viper, q
cur and a whelp. Here are a lot Of
valuable expressive words that are
gradually being eliminated from our
vocabulary because the editors Of to-
day, stepped in eommercialism, have
abandoned the methods of William
F. Storey and accepted the leader
ship OF Edward W. Box.
"Also the newspapers Of today are
criticized because they are kind to
the big advertiser. / think news
papers are somewhat under tbe domi-
nation of the big advertiser. In fact
the big advertiser has go. them so
worked up that many Of them want
to run him for third Germ.
"I read not long ago that down In
Brown county, Indiana, the front
room of the county poor-house,
large, cheerful apartment with south
ern exposure and plants in the win
dows is occupied by man who for
many years conducted newspaper
that pleased everybody. On the other
hand, it's hard to be successful with
out disappointing some Of your best
friends. So if you can't please all
your critics do the next best thing
and please your subscribers.