University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-05-11

the newspaper men and women VIII
will speak here during Journalism
Week, beginning tomorrow:
John T. Barker, attorney-general o
Missouri, was born in 1877 in Carroll
ton, Mo. He was graduated from tn
high school there and began the stud.
of law. After a few years he wa
admitted to the bar and located a
La Plata, Mo-. where he became activ'
in politics.
In 1906, Mr. Barker was elected II
the Legislature. He was reelected
in 1908 and again in 1910. At the
Forty-fifth General Assembly he was
, the Democratic nominee for speaker
The following assembly saw hin
elected by reclamation. At the re-
cent election he was elected attorney.
general.
Sarah Tyson ROrer is teacher Of
domestic science, an editor and an
author. She is widely known through
her articles on food and cooking in
the Ladies' Home Journal.
She was born in Richboro, Pa, and
was educated at East Aurora Academy
New York. In 1871 she was married
to Albert Rorer of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Rorer has been an editor and
author twenty-one years. She was
editor and partial owner of Table
Talk from 1886 to 1892 and was editor
of Household News from 1893 to 1897.
Since then she has been on the staff
of the Ladies Home Journal. She has
been principal of the Philadelphia
School of Domestic Science and di-
rector of the Pennsylvania Chautau-
qua School of Domestic Science. She
is the author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook
Book and of about fifteen other short
books and pamphlets on cookery.
L. p. Adler-Advertising is his busi-
ness and system his hobby. Mr.. Adler
is president of the Lee Newspaper
Syndicate, Davenport, Ia, and he car
ries his system to the extent that he
can tell at any time what the financial
standing of the newspapers of the
syndicate is. He started in the Office
of the Ottumwa, Qt) Courier as a
printer when he was a boy. He has
worked for the syndicate ever since
and eight years ago he became presi-
dent.
Mr.. Adler is an advertising expert
and handles all the foreign advertis-
ing for the five papers of the syndi-
cate. the Davenport Times, Ottumwa
Courier, Muscatine, Qa.) Journal, La
Crosse, (Wis.) Tribune and the Han
nibal, '(Mo.) Courier-Post. The Of
tumwa Courier is the only daily in a
town of 10000, while the Muscatine
Journal is the oldest newspaper in
Iowa, having been established before
Iowa became a state.
VI. ID. HuntOn is a Southerner and
came to the University of Missouri
from New Orleans. He received a
degree in 1882 and later entered the
real estate business in Fort Smith,
Ark. Later he went to New York City
as advertising representative Of E.
W. Stephens, who was then issuing a
patent sheet He was successfully
with the Hand-Knox and
the Van Dorm advertising agencies.
Since the Van Dorm company went out
Of business he has been the eastern
of the Hearst news
papers. His advertising experience
covers seventeen years.
Z. +. Cutter of Kansas City has been
manager of the western division of
he Associated Press for about twelve
years. The Kansas City office dis
tributes Associated Press dispatches
70 Western Missouri, Kansas, Okla
loma and the Southwest Mr.. Cut
ter's business is to superintend the
and distribution of the
news sent to his Office from other
divisions and that gathered in his
division.
j. ]. McAuliife-"Joe" McAuliffe
hey call him at the Post-Dispatch
office in st. Louis, where he is star
reporter of long standings one of
the best known reporters that ever
worked in st. Louis. For many years
he has covered" the sessions of the
for his paper.
Mr.. McAuliffe is the man who as a
reporter procured the evidence on
which ]. W. Folk, then circuit attor-
ney, based his prosecution for graft
in the Municipal Assembly.
Mr.. McAuliffe's visit to Columbia
Week will not be his first
He covered" the trial of Colonel Ed
Butler of ST. Louis, who was acquitted