The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-29

! the NJ. E. was skirting unusually neal
the truth. Skirting is becoming more
/ truthful and less conceaHng every day
so say the men who are brazen enough
/ 10 look.
! Just to show that he was brave, the
| reporter did not take his gun with
! him on his first hunt for news back
| on his old beat From a friend he
| publicity department
Frank FARRELL is in charge" he was
| told by a fellow newspaper man.
He's a prince, royal good fellow.
Find him by turning right around to
the right as soon as you get through
the jackson street entrance to the
new office building Little door there
with sign on it. Looks like the side
entrance to saloon. GOOD place TO
drop in"
So the 5. ]. man dropped in with a
l5mile on his face and his hat hung
over i cIinched fist and stated his
could muster. (All this is put on. OF
course we knew all the time that
Frank FARRELL was o. K Every news
paper man from Alma TO Wamego-
ever studied Greek knows that.)
FARRELL Advanced on Him.
farrell came toward him brisilly
with arm swinging. and the $ J. man
tap-tapped his feet in retreat without
letting them pass each other in APP
proved prize ring fashion But Jar
reli was only advancing to snake
And oh. We God-fries and little
fishes and a whole flock of tut-tuts.
Here instead of scowling department
heads and secret service men sup
messing news was a Sumptuous and
commodious office given over entirely
for publicity uses with an expert at
the head and assistants 70 help.
And if anyone has an idea that the
Santa Fe's publicity department is
merely a buffer between the railroads
actual doings and the public's knowl-
edge of them. he is mistaken Inere
knowledge of what the big railroad
is doing. shall pass
through Mr.. Jarrell's hands MT Jar
rell is not censor News Is NOT re-
ferred TO him before IL Is MADE puDllc,
if a reporter goes after it. Mr. Jar
rel is the railroad company's oftlclal
news gatherer and diSburSer OF news
but when . reporter seeks certain IN
formation he is not told. i Will see
abcut it Call again and l VIII give
Won what WE want published" In
stead he tells you Just winch MAN
Knows what you want 10 Know anu
YOU hunt that man up-Mr Jarrel
will SHOW YOU 10 him. If you wish
80 ION are courteousIy received and !
given any information at hand APP /
parentIy the Santa Fe is just as open /
to the public news gatherer as are tne /
peOpIe's own offices in the city nail or
Mt farrell showed the S. J. man |
ground. introduced him to busy men |
IF large responsibilities and every
where it was. Come whenever you
feel like. Glad TO help you. Tell
rou ANYTHING we know Drop in
oain The J. r man is not used
n droDping into skyscrapers, but he
liked the spirit shown
When Col. Savage Was Hard to See
Time was when Col. Savage, every
body in Topeka knows Col savage
vas pretty hard to see He was al
Tays all right when one could get 10
i'm hut there were barriers and SIM
,ly being a newspaper man was not
l1fficient Specific business was nee
ssary. He would impart news when
.sked directly about it, but no one
xpected him to volunteer 1t. ana one
id not feel like Just visiting. Now
9 has a way of making the news
amer men want to loaf with him, but
1ey know his time is too valuable Tor
And there is Bill Collinson, chief
Jerk to the general manag ger. The
ewspaper men all swear by MN as
cracker-jack of good Fellow.
gain we say time was" for there
as time when being held in high
steem by newspaper men would
ave been sufficient reason. or even
certain rea son, for a chief clerk
ischarge. |,
Down in the Rock Island offices
me has wrought the same kind Of
change. 1t will take a long time
)r the J. r. man to make the
1unds of the Rock Island offices.
-e is so welcome ne loses time and i
lis fact brings up a subject for spec
latfon. Do you suppose the J. :. | {
ian. who used to be snubbed and
ahmed and chilled with icy stares. I
i'll ever have a chance to swell up
nd get chesty and crusty while rail {
pad officials beg for few minutes {
: his time? Not likely. s
Now Working Together.
A better understanding has been
rought about between the newspa-
ers and the railroads. and they are
0w working together with mutual re
)ect for each other. The railroads
ave changed no more than have the
awspapers The better understand
lg has been brought about by the
ewspapers. They did not know
ley were doing it when they started /
le change In what the corpora
on men used to call the rsand-bag- I
ing of the railroads the newspapers
arted d campaign against the rail-
,ad pass Secretly they probably
anted free passes abolished for |
except themselves. but con- I
AIRY to their original expectations. {
lie legisla ton following the ani- I
ass agitation cut off the newspapers,
10. And il was one of the best
lings which ever happened to both t
lie newspapers and the railroads In /
cad of the mutual disrespect which 5
brings up where relations are on a
vOr, no bookkeeping basis, las /
,me the respect which accompanies
isis