The Washington herald., 1911-05-28

Here's a question that the average res
ident OF this city would puzzle over a
long time unless he had access to the
American Newspaper Annual and Direc.
tory.
OF course, every one knows our foul
big daily papers and is probably familiar
with one or two weekly periodicals., but
there are many little Washington publi
cations issued in the interests of a va.
riety of pursuits and organizations abou,
which the average citizen knows nothing
and copies Of which he never has seen.
. The Newspaper Annual gives the names
i of seventy-four publications in Its list fol
. the District of Columbia. These paper:
! and magazines range from trades papers
! having circulation of upward Of 10000 tc
little partisan weeklies of less than as
many hundreds in circulation.
The Offices of these journals are scat
tered in every quarter of the District. A
number of them are edited in the parlors
of private houses in quiet side streets
and published at a nearby job printing
! shop. Some Of them have pretentious
quarters in the downtown business dis
Q trict. But wherever and in whatever
. manner they are brought to light, each
manages to interest enough subscribers
and the ever-necesSary advertisers tC
keep its head above water.
"Arms and the Man."
"Arma virumque Cano'' sang the Latin
poet nearly 1900 years ago when he put
into hexameter the story of the travels
Of Aeneas from the bloody fields Of Troy
to the new empire of the West. So also
sings Arms and the Man, the weekly
published every Thursday from 1902 H
street. Particularly of arms and men,
but also of range finders and ammuni-
ton and verniers and targets, of soft
nosed bullets and of drill. 1t is the un-
Official organ CT the rihemen, military
and civil, all over the United States.
James A Drain is the editor. The pa
per was esta blished in 1879. 1t is, there
fore, in the thirty-third year of publica-
tion. 1t contains articles devoted to the
regular army and navy. the Marine
Corps, and the National Guard. From its
columns are collated each autumn the
of the National Rifle Associa-
ton. Secretary W. S. Jones. of the as
ISOLATION, considers the publication his
strong right arm. This is the motto
which Arms and the Man carries ever
at the head of it's editorial column:
That a man shall serve his country in time OF war
IS noble brave. and patriotic. but that man shall
properly prepare himself in time Of peace 10 serve in
OF all these tbirss and more II is noble with
nobility which is real. not ideal 1t Is brave With
a bravery which assumes in time of Unconditional
peace many burdens among them that Of bearing the
lack Of appreciation Of those who do not consider
military preparation or training necessary.
Arms and the Man is in no sense Of the
wcrd a local publication. 1t numbers
among its subscribers the citizen soldiers
in ha Mi q hrrp
weekly consignment is shipped to the
Philippines and other possessions Of the
United States beyond the seas.
The Postmasters' Advocate is another
publication that is national in character.
1t is monthly periodical of some twen-
ty-odd pages devoted to the interests OF
the third and fourth class postmasters
the country. Lately it has
taken UP the cause of the assistant post
masters of the first and second classes.
and its circulation runs well over $1,000
The offices of this magazine were for
merly in the Jenifer Building, at Seventh
and D streets, but have lately been
moved to the upper floor of the National
Bank of Washington. J. W. Mckinley
has long been the editor and publisher
of this widely read little magazine, but
1t is understood that he is to relinquish
his control in favor of c. A. Stillings,
formerly Public Printer.
For Parcels Post.
One of the causes that the Postmasters'
Advocate is fighting for is the parcels
post. Every issue OF recent date con-
tains a summary of the developments in
favor of this movement and a plea for
further activity among the postmasters
in creating a feeling among the farmers
and other rural district dwellers favor
able to parcels post legislation.
Another publication issued from the
same offices is entitled the Feather. This, |
too, is a monthly, but II devotes itself
entirely to poultry and pigeons. Here
the chicken and pigeon fancier may learn
he should know about the
care and raising of all kinds of fancy |
fowl. In its columns also one may find |
OF everything pertaining |
to this pursuit from prize stock to the
latest form of patented chick food.
Out at Takoma Park is the Review |
and Herald Publishing Association, where |
he interests of the Seventh-day Ad- |
rentists are exploited in a number OF
weekly and monthly periodicals. The !
weekly is the Advent Sabbath |
Review and Herald. This Is supplement-
ID every week by journal devoted to |
he young people Of the sect styled the
monthly magazines published by this as
'ociation which go all over this country |
nto the homes os the Adventists: Lib
srty, a magazine of religious freedom;
he Protestant Magazine, Christian Edu-
,stion, and the Sabbath School Worker.
The organ of the American Federation
" Labor has been printed in Washing
on for more than seventeen years. Its
publication was commenced in 1894, when
he Federation was In its infancy. To-
lay the circulation of the Federationist,
to the newspaper directory,
S more than 10000.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
american Federation, is its editor. He
S also its principal contributor. Al
hough the Federationist is nom
ARTISAN publication II is not nonpoliti-
al. Its influence has been thrown to
me side or another in almost every po-
itcal fight since the publication came
nto existence. Through its medium the
Federation took its definite stand in
avor Of the election Of william Jennings
bryan, in 1908.
1t was in the I'VE Don't P4tronize
list section of the paper since elm.
mated. that the name OF the Bucks Stove
md Range Company was printed some
hree years ago It was this aiIesed At
aek upon the stove company which pre-. i