Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-08-31
Nc Two Are Made Alike from Standpoint of News
Every Worker An Essential Auxiliary Methods
Employed ed-kmbrocia pld Nectar.
Dy Xornon L. SmIthD

The first thing that the novice no.
tees besides the fun. In that, as Billy
Sherman probably would have said
had he been as good newspaper
man as he was n scrapper lts heIl
on the poCketboOk. Sull say you,
the newspapers always seem to worry
along somehow or other. And It's
the ruth, too, they do. An old es-
tablshed newspaper that never made
nickel for any OF its stockholders
ia harder 10 Kill than an elephant is
when attacked with hpyo loaded
with nothing deadlier than elderberry
wine.
Folks who monkey around a news
paper office for "A living usually look
fairly well but none of them can tell
Won how or why. There never was a
newspaperman who didn't at times
swear at his lowly Job and call al
of the gods at once to witness that he
was quitting right now; yet you
couldn't pry him loose from his JOB
with anything weaker than his
takes with It the all-meanins
word Of thirty" which In news
paper circles means The enc
finis, nothing stirring fired, canned,
or Whatever else you wish TO call II
when you're bodily Kicked out ana
your Job is glommed temporarily, at
least.
Better Than the Towns
OF course, what Is here said deals
strictly with oklahoma journalism
In order 10 not deceive you, II might
bo said that there are no metropoh-
tan newspapers published In Okla
home. Horrors,-But it's So II
takes big cities for metropolitan news
papers. oklahoma has no Dig cllles'
She has several In the making. put
as vet they are no Moscows or Toklos,
Iikened to a big city, they are about
iilte n Fatima to a baseball bat, But
at that, practically all OF the news
papers published in the three larger
cities of this state are better than the
cities in which they are pubhshcu.
You perhaps won't believe that, Dut
rs true. Nine times out or ten n
newspaper presents prettler' u
grander, truer portrayal OF wnat
a town really is than anything else
in that town, though the other thlns
be worth q thousand times as much
I'm metal that has the stamp OF APP
proyal of the treasury department
That Is because you cant hhui Ten
story buildings around In man Vai
When YOU wish to see such build
vicinity, But nowadays most news
papers are so equipped that they can
take n picture of that very Oullu,
ing tell how many and the dlfferehS
kinds of brick in its composition anu
nguratlvely speaking, that same pulIu,
ing is wrapped up In piece VI
paper and may be sent around the
world That Is one reason why news
naners are nearly always better thaH
Inc towns in which they are puDhsh-
ed. one other chief reason Is tht
ed one other chief reason Is tho iac'
that with newspapermen, glory comes
oblv I'm the next world. II Is also
well 10 bear in mind that news
paperman can owe more ana at tht
same time show fewer symptoms OF
It than any other creature eNoop
a sure enough tramp
Each Worked Necessity
Let II soak In good and strons
that every person actNeiy coiIlID ,,.s
ed with the real making OF news
nener believes he Is indlspenslple
That statement will hold true IRON
the palley boy on up to the heaVy
editorial writer. But the fact OF II
Is as nearly everybody In the game
sooner or lator learns, the only man
on a newspaper who Is really mus
nepsible ia the man who Is backing
Il With his money. Perhaps II ism
that newspapermen think they are
Indispensable as much as IL IS tHu'
they have hazy idea that they
each and individually, have more o'
II hand In 1t than any OF thelr CO
Iaborers. The pressman VIII tell you
that unless the rollers on the press
are working at their best, the thing
Of n newspaper. He's right about 1t
The stereotyper will tell you that IT.
no paper unless he does everything
renuIred of him. He's right about II
too. The foreman OF the composing
room SAYS It's no paper II the au'
are not properly set. The makeul
man who lays out ads and news hho
distributes them around In the paper
saws It's all in the way the thing !;
made UP. They're both rlsht, 100
The fellow who writes the heads
says It's all In the heads The PROOF
reader lays the whole thing on MN
self and declares It's a rotten paper
A. someone else does the proofreadlns
The editor says the strength OF th'
paper Is In the editorials he writes
The cub reporter will bet you any
thing that you wish to bet that th'
thing that makes "A newspaper wortf
while are those little ten and fifteef
line stories which he greedily pounce!
upon at first opportunity. The city
editor says It's all in the way HI
tIpped the reporters of and the wal
he made them handle the stories
The reporters say it's all In the news
features they Pinkertoned. The tele
graph editor holds up his right hanC
and swears the telegraph news 1
all that is worth readirg-and every
blamed one of them Is right NOR
often than not. Everybody has t.
do his work or there Isn't much o
a newspaper, in fact And then here
comes the business manager and de
clares that II 1t wasn't for him TN
whole thing would go to smash-an'
believe usl he also speaks truth
fully.
A newspaper derives It's supper
from its advertising columns-and {
few other things. There's no profi
on news. Not In Oklahoma. Th'
newspaper that gets the most new
usually gets the most advertising
because II is more widely circulated
News helps to get advertising; ad
vertislng makes 1t possible to ge
more news. They're bound to worl
together
But that Is neither yonder moi
here. The burden Of this story is t.
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