The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-14

The Age-Herald prints facts and noth- ing but facts, as nearly and accurately as human skill and modern conveniences will do 1t. Mistakes creep in, errors and misrepresentation appear; it is a physical impcssibility to gather the news in such large quantities from such large territory and with such a limited space of time and have everything perfection. The wag who said perfection could only be found in the dictionary has since been reeog- nibed as a prophet. The Age-Herald prints all the facts all the time and never considers who the shoe fits or who it does not fit.
 It is the business of the man in charge of the state editors desk to keep himself informed of all events that have hap pened lately and which are expected to happen in the near future. With the aid of the news editor and the co-opera- tion of his corps of correspondents he Is able to get everything that happens and get it quick. Real important events are anticipated when possible and special in structions sent the correspondent or special staff man sent out to cover the story. The state editor knows what is interesting to the readers of his state news and he and his correspondents bend every energy to get that news when 1t IS news and get 1t right
 Before the copy gets into the hands of the printer it goes through the same cull- ing process which was described last Sunday in regard to the local copy Noth- ing yellow, nothing overdrawn, nothing suggestive of indecency or immoral things, nothing but what is fit for every mans mother and sister to read, is al- lowed to get into type.
 The way to read this state news Is to read 1t so it will interest you. It will inter- est you just as soon you bed)me in | terested In the affairs which the state news tell about every morning. You often gossip, have little friend ly chat, with your neighbor. Did you ever ask why?
 | He tells you how he raised a big corn crop, perhaps; he tells you the news of a law suit, maybe he tells you things about this man and something else about | another man; he tells you about neigh | boring city: he tells you about a great | fire, about great flood, about a mine disaster or a thousand and one other things and you are interested in them all | because you knew something about them | before or else there is something about | the story which newspaper men call l human nature stuff" You like to gossip | with your neighbor because he tells you something about somebody whom you know or about some incident with which you are sufficiently acquainted to imag-
 
 | fered or laughed or got mad or worried or enjoyed himself.
 1 Read one story in The Age-Herald about | your governor said at a banquet and the next story you see about a speech he has made you will find yourself want ing to read in order to compare it with what you read the first time The third time it will be the same way and it won't be long until you will watch for every word printed about the governor, what he says and what he does. Is it neces- sary to tell why?
 It is because you and the governor have become acquainted!
 Certainly you did not meet him, and he wouldn't know you from your mother if he should see you but you've got "a newspaper acquaintance with him." and you'll like to read every word that's printed about him just for that reason.
 And what happened with you and tho governor will happen with you and other men; you'll have a newspaper acquaint- ance with hundreds of men you may never know; with towns you may never see, with crimes and disasters and cele- brations and events in every corner of the state that will interest you because they made somebody happy or some body unhappy.
 It Is men who know these things that become public servants and whose names live in history, it is due to men who knew these things that we are not liv- ing in caves, with a dog skin tied about our groins. our children living on wild Berries and their mothers polishing stone dishes with a javelin. When you know these things the nation will have a better native. the state will have a better cfsl zen, the community will have a better member, somebody will have a better sister, or a better brother, or a better father, or a better mother, and The Age Herald will have another friend and con- stant reader, helping to make it the best newspaper published in the United States
 CThe story next Sunday will be How To Read The Age-Herald-Telegraph News"