The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-29
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
A reporter learns a lot of things

Among them that the veneer is not
Geep.
And the thinnest where you might
expect it to be the thickest-in fact
when you think it would go clear
through to the other side and ooze out
of the pores in good works.
He finds that the average private
citizen cannot be elevated to position
of authority without some damage to
his point of view.
Even if the authority is not great.
And brief
A dog catcher will have a lot more
side than the Mayor and the President
garbage man.
Humans can't stand it.
Il like to run things" said charm
ins woman the other day after relat-
ing her experiences S chairman of a
committee to get up something or 9th
err
so does everybody else" said the
other person.
The charming woman deprecated
this. She didn't want to be like every
body else. Didn't want to seem to be
herded with the multitude. Preferred
an elegant isolation as the only person
in the world who liked to run things.
1t is ever thus. We must be different
We really are all the same but if we
think we're different, what's the odds
However it's only the big soul that
pln To
ter if but the ward meeting or the la
dies aid society
The reporter will tell you this.
He will tell you, also, that the sim
plest in manner, easiest of approach
and most courteous and accommodate
ing is the really great.
If you find somebody harder to get
at than the president of railroad OF
the head of theatrical syndicate and
who, when found puts on God A
mighty airs put it down on page two
CT your little book, hardly the black
mark that he used to hoe corn in I'm
clo Abe's back lot or sold peanuts al
he entrance to a circus.
There is no fine lady so naughty as
| The mistress who has graduated from
the kitchen to the parlor. The woman
who bullyrags her servants, ten to one
hasn't had 'em long
George AIDE writes amusing ia
BILE, referred to here before a time OF
two, about some magnate or celebrity
Who was in abject terror for fear some
body would find out that the head
waiter who was serving the banquet
being given in his honor went to
school with him back at the cross
roads In the meantime he writhed un
del the calm, amused and derisive
gaze of this functionary who knew he
Lad him just where he wanted him"
The reporter has to be ION to his
job"
He has to get the news.
It's his business.
And it's what people want in the pa
per no matter how ostentatiously
ana conspicuously they retire into
taeir holes upon the sinister and i'm
pertinent approach of the low down re
porter.
The very ones who stop the paper
names among those present" and the
most insistent in their loud and virtu
, Gus lamentations that the papers are
full of nothing that's fit to print.
The reporter, in the words of DR.
Mckinney, of New York, who has beer
! rutting up pretty good line of talk
at the Sunday school convention, mus
cut his edges straight"
And he hasn't all day to do it IL
either.
Did you ever start out to report
convention that was holding simulta
| neous sessions in three differen
! churches and known that you had tt
i"cover" it all-details and speeches
and every single infnitesimal item
that possessed any significance?
Do it in a given time while the cit.
editor and the foreman waited impa
t;ently until you rushed in at the las
minute to sit down and arrange you
memoranda, whip it into shape on tn
typewriter, edit it and rush it to tn
composing-room?
In the meantime you have had moth
| lCS TO eat since the Gay De1OTe ana o.
account of the temperamenta1 peculiar
tiles of your celebrated street-car sys
TEN have been forced TO walk man
sun-heated cement blocks which other
wise might have been traversed NOR
expeditiously. if somewhat acrobaticaI
ly on our jerk-water cars?
Did you ever do this?
The reporter has.
And he finds out in the accumula
ton of his incunabula that he mus
grid on his armor of Indifference to tn
villainies of the uncou'.
Curiously he may find that the sc
called good" people will be the mast
est to handle. That those you expec
to be disagreeable will be the nicest
The writer has reported all sorts O
conventions, interviewed all classes O
persons.