The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1914-05-14
MUST SOLVE SOCIAL WRONGS
Former Manager Of the Chicago Inter
Ocean Makes Interesting Address Be
fore Large Crowd at st. Matthew S
Guild Hall on Tuesday Evening.

Charles N. Wheeler, leading news
paper man of Chicago, made an appeal
for a new and better journalism in Ke-
nosha on Tuesday evening when he
spoke before the Men $ Club of St.
Matthews church and many guests Of
the club at the Guild hall He diagnos-
cd the newspaper game in a new and
vigorous manner and declared that the
newspaper of the future must be the
newspaper which was willing to take
a stand for humanity and which was
willing to make as it's feature the So
luton of the great problems of class
distinction. The newspaper which was
to have a heart throb for the unem-
ployed and the children of the poor
and which was to cater as much to
the solutions of the great problems Of
social and industrial distinction as it
did to the men and women of wealth
and position. In a touching master
piece of eloquence Mr.. Wheeler brought
to the Kenosha audience great story
of the problems of the unemployed in
the real province for the future activi-
ties of the metropolitan newspaper
The address of Mr.. Wheeler was one
of the most noted ever given before
the Men rs Club With a record of
eighteen years in the active work of
the newspaper business in Chicago, most.
rs it el the oesk Of the reporter, Mr..
Wheeler spoke as one having authority
aud he gave to his hearers q most IN
terestng story of the " Newspaper
Game"
1t must have been a decidedly in
toresting taik for layman, as Mr..
Wheeler presented in happy CONVEX
sectional way the great story Of how
newspaper is made, He discussed the
activities OF the great press associa-
tio0s, the work of special correspon-
dents throughout the nation and the
world and showed something Of the in
side workings of Che great newspaper
Offices. He pulled away from the
glamour which many had placed about
the editing Of the big papers and show
ed that the newspaper was the result
OF conscientious hard work from a
trained army of mea. He discussed
The work Of correspondents in Wash
ington and on the firing lines with
great armies and had much to say of
the manner in which the policies of
great newspapers are dictated. He
gave pen pictures of the work of re-
porters in all stations and his stories
of the newspaper game, all based on
his own experiences in the eighteen
years that he had been in service, rang
true He told the real purpose of the
newspaper man to put the "punch =
an his story and make it story which
would attract attention. He declared
that the great mass of newspaper men
were accurate delneators of current
news and that newspapers stood for
telling the truth and not for mis-
representation.
Up to short time ago Mr.. Wheeler
had been the managing editor of the
Chicago Inter Ocean and his story of
the recent sale Of the Inter Ocean to
former competitor was one filed with
mock pathos and one which brought
real laugh from the large company of
men which heard the address.
As president of the Chicago Press
Club Mr., Wheeler had something to say
in regard to the private life of the
great army of men who were connected
with the great task of issuing the
metropolitan papers He declared that
the time had passed when the reporter
was considered a bar-room loafer and
that at che present time the newspapers
OF the nation were enlisting in their
corps Of workers the most brainy and
the most high minded young men of
the nation.