Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18

paper. All newspaper men Will EToDdpi.
say Amen TO the moral. Here is the
| yarn:
| There is energetic young W ASH
ington correspondent who represents. or
| helps represent, one of the best middle
north newspapers, who is now determined
to write jokes about Brooklyn whenever
i he gets a chance. A certain Brooklyn
newspaper is responsible for his desire to
ridicule the well known New York sub
| urb. The editor of a Brooklyn paper Of
| fered him the position of Brooklyn cor
| respondent. Il will make it we'll worth
while for YOU. said the editor in his let
! ter.
| After consulting his chief on the middle
north newspaper. and having gained per-
mission to take the Brooklyn employment
as side line. our young friend accepted
! the offer.
| For five weeks he raked and scraped
Washington for news Of interest to
Brooklyn. Frequently he was admonished
by the editor to use the telegraph spar
| ingiy. although tolls do not run high
for the short distance.
He put over" fine scoop one day
Getting a tip thai Assistant Secretary
of the Navy Franklin d. Roosevelt was
soon to make an official trip and know
ing there Is Brooklyn navy yard, the
enterprising lad boarded a street car at
the Capitol and rode half way across
Washington 10 the Navy Department. In
two hours he got story to the effect
that Roosevelt would inspect the navy
yard at Brooklyn as practically his first
official act. The story was teleeraphed,
of course. and was printed in box on
the front page of the Brooklyn paper. 1t
was five six lines long-that story was
and was printed in black type.
Boarding street car-the street car
mention is important-the busy Brooklyn
| correspondent rode back to the Capitol.
At the end of five weeks he received
a letter from the Brooklyn editor to the
effect that if string of the items that
had been furnished from Washington
should be made up by the correspondent
at the rate of $50 column CHATS low
pay. The correspondent hadn't KEEP: any
string
Here is what he wrote to Brooklyn:
Il sat up late last night trying to fig
ure how much had coming to
me from the You say you
are paying me $50 column for
telegraph stuff. Take that Roose-
velt-to-Brooklyn navy yard story,
now. l measured it, Including in the
space the border on the box around the
five lines. you owe me cents for it.
l paid > cents street, car fare to the
Navy Department and cents for the
return trip. That makes 10 cents.
the story and called on the assistant sec
rotary of the navy himself to get it
straight. After working for you five
weeks l figure that l owe you a dollar
and quarter, but trust you won't press
me for it,
William Atherton Du Puy the news
paper writer, who says his province in
life Is to back long-winded. technical
worded. microscope-bearing scientist into
a corner and wiring from him what he
knows. so that the world at large may
read the stuff In words Of one syllable
and understand it-has monkeyed with
science from the time he was boy, but
has never had the slightest hankering
to be one He told about his first meet
ing with science few days ago. Perhaps
that contact soured him for life. Here's
his yarn:
Il met my first true scientist in this
way: | was a youngster, ten years OF
age, in Phoenix. Ariz. A bystreet held a
curiO store in which the many novelties
of the section were sold to tourists at a
price four times as great as that charged
the home folks. In a box in front of
this store was a ella monster. one of
those lazy, lizardlike reptiles peculiar to
that part of the world. The proprietor of
the store had posted card warning the
curious against too great familiarity with
the creature. for, 1T was announced, it's
bite was certain death.
There appeared upon the scene a young
scientist whose head was wondrous full
OF the lore of eastern and European uni
versities. He was greatly amused at the
shOpkeepers placard, for. he declared, the
ella monster was entirely harmless. In
the colleges where he had been educated
the head of many ella monsters had been
analysed and never trace OF poison had
been found. There was no poison
Science had so determined. He would for
titled by this verdict Of science be willing
to allow the ella monster to bite his
finger. He thrust that member into the
cage and the creature obiigingly accom-
| modated him.
This was the first scientific folly l ever
witnessed. In half an hour the coroner
looked into the young mans notebook.
found the address Of his mother and
wired her that the body would be en-
balmed and held awaiting her orders"
Probably if the announcement Of the
discovery of the hookworm had been
left to the verbiage of the scientist
the world at large would have been
years late in recognizing this fright
full pest, and II the discovery had been
made by any one but Dr. e. w. Stiles
of the public health service it is quite
possible that the wide newspaper pub
licity given to his researches would
have been lacking. Perhaps also the
first newspaper story, written by Irv
ing c. Norwood, once OF The Star now
of the Hall of Fame Of Davenport,
Iowa. is responsible for the million
dollar endowment by John d. Rookie
Teller who recognized the necessity
| for stamping out the disease generated
by the hookworm
1t came about in this way: There was
a convention Of scientists Of some sort
droning along in one of the hotels
here one summer eight or nine years
ago. News was scarce and excitement
scarcer. Norwood was asked to keep
an eye on the scientists and to get out
of them for newspaper consumption
anything they did or said of genuine
interest to the masses who read one
interest in the stuff they were reading
from their long essays. No one could
understand what they were saying un-
less translator was furnished, but
when Stiles read his paper Norwood
thought he saw a glimmerinS of inter
est to the world a large through the
tangled MISS of verbiage which con-
ter half OF the paper and then, put
tonholing DR. Stiles. he said:
Now. if you wouldn't mind telling
me in words OF one syllable Just what
| Won were talking about | would IKE
| to write something about 1t.
The request was granted. DR.. Stiles mas
| inst as fine a command of simple words
as he has of the snorting, slX-cS nnoereu
| technical variety Irving Norwood mas
Quick grasp of any situation. Also he
was q grand writer. The result was tnas
emhIazoned upon the first page was
rjuninC fine story of the discovery OF the
| hook worm, and it was told in a way 'nat
any child could understand and be IN
terested. ;,
| That story was copied all over the
world stiles began TO be famous IN inc
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