The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-29
Well-KnOwn American HumOr-
ist and Playwright Delivers
Characteristic Address.
CONTRASTS THE OLD DAYS
WITH PRESENT CONDITIONS
Some Pointed Criticism of Pub
lications Is Mingled With
Warm Praise.

NEW YORK, April 2S.-George AIDE
banquet in this city tonight of the AS
sociated Press and the American News
paper Publishers association, deliver
ing brief address on Helping the
Editor' Mr.. Ade said:
Mr.. POSTMASTER and Gentlemen: The
Associated Press is great institution.
Around newspaper Office we always
Associated Press was on the job, MY
out-of- town assignment was usually
given TO me in the following words;
'Send IN a good story; the Associated
Press viii cover the facts
I respect the Associated Press because
1t has nothing to do with the SUNDAY
sent in a heavy editorial at 10 p. m, and
marked il Must" 1t never ordered pic
lures to go with the stun. and IL never
came around the next day 10 inquire
why il hadn't been played up, The
Associated Press bears the same relations
to the American modern newspaper that
the solid business man does to the Amer
lean family. II stands In the back
ground, provides the wherewithal keeps
out OF the spotlight takes all the blame
and gets mighty little glory, Respected.
there is a grand jubilee father and the
Associated Press are behind the potted
palms with the orchestra, checking up
the expenses.
Jokes as to His Work.
1 am glad to be here for several rea-
sons. Now that YOU may have forgotten
what you paid for II. l am willing TO
meet the gentlemen who bought my nler.
ChanGiSe. | sold you an assortment or
capital letters and a JOB lot OF vernacular:
and you thought you were getting a
new brand Of humor. Very often would
vouchers. Then I would read some OF the
other syndicate stun and take courage.
Every man who has not tried II thinks
that he can edit newspaper, write
comic opera and manage hotel l still
believe that l know lot about the
hotel business.
When ! went to Chicago TO help Victor
+. Lawson upllft community that did
not want uplifting. | noticed every day,
in going TO the roof garden, large and
well-lighted apartment in which a num-
Der OF nobby gentlemen were seated at
Eoll-top desks talking about circulation,
Most OF them were smoking. and the
more they smoked the more enthusiastic
they became about the circulation. l
fcssion were what is known as the busl-
ness end OF the paper. About the time
we began TO diagram the daily murder
they would put on their top coats and
Auditorium hotel. In those days, II a
young man from somewhere out in the
corn belt came 10 the office and applied
for job he was asked II he had at
tended a iirst-class western college. II
he replied Yes and could produce
letter from the professor OF English
showing that he had written articles for
the college paper. he was put into the
editorial department a. SIS a week II
he could prove satisfactorily and abso-
lutely that he had not attended any colI
lese. he was assigned TO the business
department at $40 a week.
Results of Advertising.
learned upon investigation that I had
made a mistake in taking up the literary
end Of the game. so | resolved to go In
author and playwright. After ten years
in ths rarefied atmosphere of dramatic
art as practced today al 50 a seat or 81
on the sidewalk, / feel that / am pecu-
liarly qualified to discuss American
newspapers. l can proceed with safety.
because II ] say anything uncompliment-
airy, ] have a scrap book 10 prove that
Everybody wants to help the edi-
tor Not as regards cheaper wood pulp
or keeping down the pay roll. but with
Most people still believe that every news
paper must hustle every night TO get
enough copy 10 separate the advertise
ments. Being post graduate. l know
unns and columns OF stuff on the floor.
Very often. in glancing over long
tariff editorial, wonder what was
thrown on the floor. However. | am not
here to upset any traditions-merely TO
offer a few helpful hints.
In The first place. the city newspapers
OF today as compared with the Indiana
newspaper OF the seventies arc tame in
vertebra te. colorless and apologetic. The
.irst newspaper with which | WAS asso-
clated came out every Thursday from
a room over the hardware store.
In the Strenuous Days.
The fires OF the civil war we're still
smouldering; Indiana's chief occupation
was politics. Nearly every man was
voting as he shot, and some of them,
a good deal oftener. Our office equip
ment consisted of a Washington hand
press. foot-power job press a per-
ennial towel and few fonts OF type.
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