The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-01

hAWkers won the college debate from
Missouri. The state bankers went In
to se1Bfon at Kansas City The Brit
ish officers are stf1l telling the British
Boyne that flows through Ulster
The editorial man sends In long
| article about chewing gum. another
about music and a third about boys
and girls on the farm
The exchange man cuts out stories
about a May Day fete to be held in
Glasco (Kansas). . reunion to be
held In Cawker City, milking cows in
Ford county, a man who went to
Jail In Wichita, and q woman who
| made a public speech In Wyandotte
county.
about a German wedding and another
about a dentists convention The
Rock Island issues bonds and burglars
break into a house There is a fire
on the west side, a dinner at the Com
mercial club. and fish ordered to be
used to stock a pond out in Pawnee
county.
There is an interruption here in
local news while the telegraph tells
about girl abducted in New York
and a man being killed in Baltimore
and man killing himself in Newark.
New Jersey.
Along comes preacher with q
church notice and another preacher
comes with story about wedding
and a third preacher comes with an
account of a death.
The Rock Island makes an appoint
ment and the Santa Fe reports rain
at Newton and fire at La Junta. A
politician announces for office and
another politician wants his speech
printed.
The court reporter tells q thrilling
tale about a man trying to get out of
A. 6n
Quet. A Mexican stole a watch. The
club women hold two teas. three meet
ings and give a party The city COM
missioners are happy to state that they
are well within the budget.
And so the long train of ages glides
away. A man comes in the full strength
Of years and swats another man on the
head and the police throw him in JAIL
A band comes up the street and 1t Is
playing a death march. And the hearse
follows the band. Some one makes a
speech. at the Commercial club.
Then the telegraph begins to tick
again. Along comes word from the
tongue Of the electric spark that the
lumbermen are hosting prices on clap
boards and that the Colorado strike
troubles and death and devastation have
been laid upon the head of that young
Sunday school teacher. John Rookie
Teller. jr. 1t says further that there
was a man killed in a mine and another
man died at sea and that still another
man was killed by an Italian in Bos
ton And then it says. speaking fur
Their, that a certain actress is sure to
get her divorce. Thus the gentle tele-
graph wire gets down to real business
and gives a lot of details about the
court proceedings of come Pennsyl-
vania scandal or other. 1t takes some
barges through the Panama canal and
quotes Col. Goethais and tells about the
Of thon
it goes ker bump! and dies for the day.
The reporters go their several ways
in pursuit of happiness. The foreman
takes OF his apron and rolls down his
sleeves. The proofreader beats it for
the street car. And the pressman turns
the switch that starts the wheels turn
ing round and in about forty seconds
the kids are selling the paper on the
street. Twelve pages of advertising ana
reading matter all made and set up
and printed where there was none In
the morning.
And every day of the year the coli
umns of the paper are filed this way.
Always there is a convention, a fight.
an accident. party, scandal, doc
tor who hurries, a court that grinds,
ball game that is lost and won,
that is builded, an opera house
that is burned, hearse whose wheels
turn round a gravedigger sharpening
his spade. a preacher with his prayer
book and a policeman with his club
This news pours in through the hopper
while men laugh and mourn, and it
comes out in the shape of a newspaper
at the other end.
Some times, the newspaper man Won
ders. in the early morning hour. II this
is not the day that the old world will
spin on it's peaceful way without the
Of pestilence, murder fire, flood,
war, scandal, accident. revelry conten-
tiousness and the babbling of the poll
tician to hurry and worry its sons and
fill the columns of the paper. But the
volume of news is just the same, only
bigger. Every day the newspaper man
cuts the news down. He never has to
pad. The sons of men are never idle
and their passions and ambitions and
hopes and fears are never still. They
make the news as fast as he can print
it. They marry and give in marriage.
They are born and they die They sing
and fight and pray. They tell the peo-
pie how to save the country and they
tell the police judge they are not guilty.
And every day the paper tells the little
story of their little lives. And every
day the angels smile and weep when
they read the story.
The newspaper man plays up the
news as he finds it. but he firmly be-
lieves that the things We think the
least of as the days go by are really
the most important. and the things we
count as big will finally turn out to be
very small C.
: SANTA FE NOTES.