The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-04-29
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND PUB
llsHERs' ASSOCIATION HOLD
A JOINT BANQUET.
ADE FURNISHES HUMOR
Noted Writer Delivers Breezy and In
terestins Speech on Newspaper
Work, Recalling Incidents and Con-
ditions Of Early Days Of Papers
Crowned Heads Send Congratulations.

New York April 2s--An interesting
feature Of the joint banquet In New
York this evening Of the Associated
Press and the American. Newspaper
Publishers association was the re-
ceipt In the banquet room at the Wal
dorf- Astoria during the progress Of
the dinner Of some 20 or 80 cable
grams Of consratulation from all parts
of the world. These messages We're
sent By crowned neads. presidents Of
republics. prime ministers and prom
lnent statesmen from the four corners
of the globe. They were obtained by
the correspondents of the Associated
Press in the various capitals cabled
To New York today and copied in the
banquet room from u telegraph wire
looped with the main submarine ca
bles reaching the city. They were
read as fast as received and We're
then displayed to the assembled diners
on cardboard sheets ID feet wide and
four feet deep. hung on either side of
the han.
AIDE Speaks.
AifpISc SNdt was dIiioiB tIl' SItuh~
ers at the joint banquet In this city
tonight of the Associated Press and
the American Newspaper Publishers
association. delivering brief address
ON Helping the Editor" Mr.. AIDE said
Mr. Toastmaser and Gentlemen:
The Associated Press IL great In
stitntion. Around newspaper office
we always felt easy i'm our minds If
we knew the Associated Press was on
the job. My out of-town assignment
was usually given to me In the follow
ing words: Send I'm a good story; the
Associated Press Will cover the facts
II respect the Associated Press be-
cause 1t has nothing to do with the
Sunday supplement. This Associated
Press never sent I'm IA heavy editorial
mt 10 p. IN. and marked 1t must 1t
never ordered pictures 10 go with the
stuff and 1t never came around the
next day to inquire why he had not
been played up The Associated Press
bears the same relations to the Amer
lean modern newspaper that the solid
business man does to the American
family. II stands In the background
provides the wherewithal. keeps out
of the spotlight, takes all the blame
and gets mighty little glory. Re-
speeted but not featured on the front
page When there is Il grand jubilee
father and the Associated Press are
behind the potted palms with the or
chestra checking up the expenses
Wha. ho Sold.
q am glsd to be here for several
hn ho,
gotten what you paid for 1t. | am Will
ing to meet the gentlemen who
bought my merchandise. ! sold you
an assortment of capital letters and a
job lot Of Chicago vernacular, and you
thought you We're getting new brand
Of humor. Very often would weaken
when it came to sign the vouchers.
Then ! would read some of the other
syndicate stuff and take courage.
Every man who has not tried 1t
thinks that he can edit a newspaper,
write a comic opera and manage a
hotel | st!l believe that | know Il
lot about the hotel business. When ]
went to Chicago to help Victor i. Law
son uplft community that did not
want uplifting | noticed every day, in
going to the roof gardens. a large and
well ll-lighted apartment in which a
number of nobby gentlemen We're seat
ed at rol-top desks talking about cir
Culation. Most Of them We're smoking
and the more they smoked the more
enthusiastic they became about the cir
rulation. learned that these aristo-
Gratis of our profession We're what Is
known as the business end of the pa
per About the time we began to dia-
gram the daily murder they would put
oa their topcoats and dogskin gloves
and sa,,nter over to the Auditorium
hotel. In those days. II young man
from somewhere out Of the corn belt
came to the office and applied for a
Job he was asked IL he had attended
a first class western college. If he
replied yes and could produce a let
ter from the professor of English
showing that he had written articles for
the college paper, he was put into the
editorial department at SIS week. II
he could prove satisfactorily and alb
solutely that he had not attended any
college, he was assigned to the busi-
ness department at $40 week.
Made a Mistake.
u JeirHeu, upon INVESTIGATION, tia'
had make mistake in taking up the
literary end Of the game, so resolved
to go In for advertising. Therefore.
became AN author and playwright
After 10 years In the rarified atmos-
phern of dramatic art. as practiced
to-day at 80 seat or 81 on the side
walk, feel that | am peculiarly quail
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