Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-17

The House or Bondage" runs into hundreds
week,
ONLY those familiar with newspaper work
" can conceive what night like that of
the Slocum disaster or the Titanic tragedy
means. Real ncwspapermon do not get ex-
cited no matter what the provocation. A
few hurried orders to reporters and pho
tographers-a brief wire to a correspondent
an order on the cashier for necessary funds
and apparently, the thing is done. But the
collecting of a great news story-one, two
or three pagcs-is not accomplished in an
hour or a day. The foundation has been laid
months and years before in the upbuiding
of an organization The managing editor,
the news editor, the city editor know their
men-thcy need simply start the machine
going
Take the Titanic disaster an example.
For fully As hours the newspapers had known
ntuitivcly that something wrong with
the ship--that news had been suppressed.
But what?
Then came the bare outline Of tragedy
hints of awful things as yet untold-whispers
of appalling loss of life. The machinery was
put to work-the wires clicked-the type
writer's bu2zed-the story was printed and
the world shuddcred!
Ana yet, Slllple tS llIlS SttlllS' tllSle NSiS
stretches of As hours when newspapermen
stuck to their desks-when weared eyes and
strained nerves were on the point of capitu-
lation still it was all in the days work
and as SUCH done!
TRANCIS Is. REEVES. of the Ciirard Ma
i tiona Bank. visited Russia in days gone
by and. as Il matter of course, made flying
trip to the estate of Leo TOlstoi-altruist,
materialist, dreamer--the bete noir of the
Russian reactonaries The free American
and the free Russian struck up a friendship
and discussed themes nearest their respective
hearts. Then came the day Of parting Toll
stoi asked the banker to defer his departure.
In America" explained Mr., Reeves, time
is money"
What a low value you put on your time"
retorted TolSto
TVEN as our own Liberty Bell is cracked,
IL so has similar mshap overtallen the
famous Roclandt bell in Ghent next to it's
prototype in the Kremlin, Moscow, the most
noted of European bells. Roelandt is the
Oldest bell in Belgium having been cast in
1914, and forms one of A chimes on its
face it bears the following inscription in
Flemish
My name is Roelandt when I toll, there
Flanders"
When the Due d'Alva proposed to Charles
Y that he should destroy the city, the sover-
cigu took him atop the belfry and, pointing
to Roclandt, asked:
"Combtcn faudrait-il de peaux dEspagnc
pour faire un Cant de cette grandeur
CHow many Spanish skins are needed to
make a glove Of this size?)
The phrase was play on words Gand be-
ing the French for Gheut and being pro-
nounced as is gans cglove).
A PHILADELPHTAN, travelling through
"A the South, came upon one Of the largest
manufactures Of smoking tobacco in the
world Impeed by curiosity he visited the
place. At the railroad siding stood a freight
car curiosity again caused investigation,
The freight car was loaded to the brim
with--alfalfa!
And not so long ago a freight car filled
with peanut shells, was wrecked in West
Virginia, The bill of lading showed that it
was consigned TO a Western breakfast food
foundry
MAORI was arraiguel in police court
Am the Antipodes the other day-about
five weeks ago according 10 the date of the
information. Through his left ear was stuck
a black stick. looking like slate pencil.
'What is that in your ear" asked the
magistrate.
Dynamite responded the black. They
led him gently and gngerly into the court
yard and separated him from the explosive
Which shows that even on the other side of
the world the safety first" campaign has
made headway. BRADFORD