The Washington herald., 1914-08-02
NEWSNOTEs FROM UNCLE SANS PRINTERY

President Eugene Smith. Of Columbia
Union, and the four delegates-Arthur A
Haley. John B. Dickman. Dale N. Sheriff
and Charles N. O'Connell-expect TO leave
next Friday for the convention OF tho
International typographical Union. which
convenes In Providence, R L. on August
TO- going to New York and thence by
boat to Providence. Quite q delegation
OF visitors from the membership OF the
local union will be in attendance at Prov
idence. some going by rail and some by
water, and II Is expected the Washing
ton people VIII be Joined here by Q num-
West II 10 predicted that the Providence
convention will be one Of the largest In
the history Of the great printers union.
Andrew J. Gleason, clerk In the once of
accountant. has been given an increase
in salary from $50 to 1900 per annum.
Edward W. Moreock has been trans
ferred from the night to the day force
in the monotype keyboard room
Mrs Annie c. Allen, clerk In the once
OF the superintendent of documents, has
been awarded an increase in salary from
500 to 1900 per annum.
II. Lee Rsgland, Of the day keyboard
room, and Mrs. Ragland are spending Q
months vacation at Virginia Beach
Michael J. Heating. of the machine
shop. with his family. is spending his
vacation in New Jersey.
Ia-.. s.o,t ,h. y.t.ran nonvhold.r Ia
reported Ill out In Iowa, where he went
q month ago TO visit relatives.
Like the baseball umpire, the proof
reader is so universally condemned and
so rarely given credit that the following
editorial from Golfers Is worthy Of re-
production:
I'VE have always felt safe. II by any
unhappy chance-Mexican invasion. small
pox, or act Of God-we were cut on in our
prime. there would be a man to step right
in and I'LL our shoes to overhowing-the
proofreader. Now, the careless reader
might infer that this Is irony; that we are
trying to get even because the proof
reader queries" our colloquislisms on the
galley proof: underlines the words when
We write Can you beat it?'' or low
brow" and. with gentle representatives,.
writes slang In the margin. But II Is
man than we. Whether he has read more
books, We know not: he seems to remem-
Der more OF them by name or to remern-
Der those names more correctly. Dates
and figures are our plague, but the proof
reader has them all cold. Once we came
within an ace OF making out Charlotte
Bronte to be Jane Austen's contemporary;
II was the proofreader who saved US from
that disgracefuI error. The proofreader
L.. = ha
round the rules for should and would"
in his head. whereas we must always con-
suit A. 8. HilIs Principles Of Rhetoric
In complicated cases. Either the proof
reader is cleverer than we are with the
World Almanac or he has q miraculous
memory for Congressmen's middle names
and the way to distribute French accents
The proofreader knows the score Of yes
terday's baseball game, the time the sun
got up this morning. and the probable
result OF tomorrow's vote on the river
and harbor bill He knows the more es-
sential facts Of Assyriology, bacteriology,
and ceramics: he Is not ignorant Of the
xanthoptera. Yiddish. and zanyisn. We
have a high regard for the proofreader:
1t Is he who saves US from making more
breaks than we do. The proofreader Is
much more critical than any OF our other
friends: we are sure Of one reader at
him. We mind our postminini and our
quadrates
Frederick l. Knobles has been rein
stated in the Government Printing once
after a couple Of years spent as fore
man Of the composing room Of the print
ing ONCE at Cristobal Colon. This was
the second time he had tried the tropic
country. being connected with the gov
eminent ofice at Porto Rico at one time
John s. Gamer assistant foreman OF the
night proofroom, has been enjoying
short vacation about Washington and
neighboring resorts.
william McEneany. OF the night title
page section. is enjoying a month Of
pleasure including the sights OF Atlantic
City and river summering places about
Washington.
John NJ. Barr. OF the day keyboard
force. has a cottage on Lake Champlain.
New York where he and Mrs Barr have
gone for a month and where they hope
to entertain a number of Washington
friends with boating. fishing. etc.
Pressman John A. Cunningham has re-
turned from a visit of three weeks to
his old home in Boston. which he spent
very pleasantly with his aged mother
and other relatives and friends.
Jesse A. Lednum and Joseph E. Hodge.
foreman and assistant foreman. respec-
hi. tesrinz foes he passes to his last