South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-18

the paper on the front porch, or the
back porch or Rave IL put behind the
screen door in case Of rain. lie must
also look after 1000 odd accounts,
collectible weekly. and must be COM
mander in chief OF an army Of small
boys
Now the circulation manager who
achieves success is one who can COM
mand the loyalty Of his boys For
the average small boy is an indepen-
dent young descendent Of George
Washington who can't be driven or
bullied. but who will render the high
est kind Of service for the feiler
that's on the square with US kids"
out in back off the press room and
off the alley is the mailing room and
the carriers department, where the
papers are snatcSed hot from the
press. dealt out to the carriers and
street sellers and stamped and
wrapped and tied up ready for the
trains that shall scatter them over
the country
It's a busy scene as the big press
begins TO rumble and roar and spit
out finished newspapers. all folded
and with all their pages right side up
and in the right order. after some
wOnderOus fashion Of its own, and
the circulation department, men and
D
In the Editorial Department.
Let's go up stairs. Here in front
are the editorial rooms, with library
and reference books and magazines
and exchanges from all over the coun-
try. And also 1.-The morgue."
Now the morgue" isn't as bad as it
sounds. It is simply a big filing
system where some 10000 photo
graphs and engravings and bushels
,ns 1r1 n faw
use at a minutes notice.
For example if the king Of England
should die suddenly, the man in
charge Of the morgue would be able
10 lay on the telegraph editors desk
in two minutes. the kings picture,
the picture of the queen, and Of the
heir apparent, of Windsor palace
where the death occurred. Westmin-
ster Abbey where he would be buried,
and perhaps throw an interesting
light on the funeral parade of the late
king Edward. He would also have in
typewriter form a previously pre-
pared "obit," that is an obituary
sketch OF the kings lifel- ready for
just such an emergency.
The editorial rooms are quiet COM
pared to the news rooms. For IN the
news room things move fast. The
city editor makes out the assignments
that are TO happen" and arranges as
we'll 10 send his men to the city hall,
the court house and ali the other
places where news is apt to be re-
ported.
The arranging of a system to have
men stationed everywhere where news
is apt to break" so that the paper
will be informed of every important
event that happens is complicated but
f,v, n
systematized as TO move without jar
or friction. AS the news comes in, the
city editor must separate it. the wheat
from the chaff, decide what items can
be compressed into two lines and
what are of such compelling i'm
portance as to require treatment in a
column or more.
If a big news event happens ne
must arrange to throw his staff like
flying squadron into the field, with
each man assigned a definite duty, and
the man at the desk weaving the
whole into a connected news article,
and often in the briefest possible
time.
Six Men i'm Field.
During the Peru flood, the News
Times lad six men at the front, not
counting photographers. so that the
readers who had friends or relatives
in the flood stricken district could
gain authoritative news Of the scope
OF the disaster at the earliest possible
moment.
The telegraph editor takes the news
as II comes off the Associated Press
and United Press wires, sitting, sort
ing. arranging, balancing. working to
make his part of the paper a true
accurate picture of the worlds &C
tivities Of the day.
BY wonderful system Of wires
and exchanges. newspaper operators
in New York and Chicago and Indian
apOlis and all over the country are
sitting in on the same wires that ticks
the news into South Bend.
If gold is struck in Tasmania, or
the rebels take a town in Mexico or
the Boxers break out in China, or
another English nobleman is welded
to a charming chorus girl, the news
in code letters of dots and dashes is
flashed over the wires simultaneously
TO the various newspaper offices in
the country.
And the News-Times telegraph edi-
tor must edit and handle this for his
readers.
The society editor is always a busy
young person in her efforts TO keep
South Bend informed Of what South
Bend is doing. She too must keep her
file of future events. her assignment
book. She must know when folks are
going 10 get married and what kind
of a dress they will wear and who is
10 be the bridesmaid and where the
happy couple will go. and so on and
on. And she must be sure 10 spell the