The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-04-29
new WORKERS HEARD
HIS EXPERIENCES
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Man From Indiana Told Big
Ones Where They Might
Go toT Experience
(By Associated Press.)


New York, Apil 90 George Adc
was among the speakers at the joint
banquet IN this city last night of the
Associated Press aud the American
Newspaper Publishers association,
delivering a brief address on Help.
ing the Editor" Mr.. AIDE said:
Mr.. Toastmaster and Gentlemen,
The A., p. Is great institution
Around a newspaper Office we always
Ielt easy in our minds il we knew
that the A. P, was on the job. Ny out
OF town assignment was usually Civ
en- to me in the following words:
Send iD a good story--the A, P. will
cover the facts,
Checking Up Expenses.
II respect the A. p because 1t has
nothing to do with the Sunday spL.
plcment. The A. P. never sent in a
heavy editorial at 10 p. M and mark
cd It must. 1t never orderedt pic
surcs to 80 with the stuff and it new
cr came around the next day to in
Iuire why 1t had not been played up
Thc A. y. bears the same relation to
the modem American newspaper that
the solid business man does to the
modern American family. 1t stands
in the background, provides the
whercwithal, keeps out OF the spot
light. 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. 2. are behind the potted palms
with the orchestra checking up the
expenses.
Il am glad to be here for several
reasons, Now that you may have
forgotten what you paid for lt, | anu
willing 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 were getting a new
brand oi humor Very often ! would
weaken when it came time to sign
the vouchers. Then would read
some OF the othcs syndicate stuff and
take courage.
In the Hotel Line.
Every man who has not tried 1t
thinks that be can edit newspaper,
write a comic opera aud manage a
hotel, ~ still believe that know a
lot about the hotel business.
When | went to Chicago TO help
Victor f. Lawson uplift commun-
Ity that did not want to be uplifted,
noticed every day. in going TO the
roof garden, large and well lighted
apartment in which a number of mob
by gentlemen were seated at roll top
desks talking about circulation. Most
of them We. smoking and the more
they smoked, the more enthusiastic
they became about the circulation.
In the Old Days.
Il learned that these aristocrats OF
our profession were what Is known
rs the business end of the paper
About the time we began TO diagram
the daily murder they would put on
their top coats and dog-skin gloves
and sauntef over to the Auditorium
hotel. In those days If a young man
fom somewhere out in the cern-belt
job he was asked ii he had attended
first class western college. II he
replied yes and could produce 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 $l5 a
week If he could prove absolutely
that he had not attended any college
he was assigned to the business de
pagtment at $40 week.
Il learned upon investigation that
had made amistake in taking up the
literary end OF the game, so | re
solved.to 90 IN for advertising. There
fore became an author and play
wright After tens years in the rare
fled atmosphere Of dramatic art al
practioed today at two dollars a sea
or -four dollars on the sidewalk, fee
that Fam peculiarly qualified to dis