Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-01
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7 NDBR this headline. am going TO contribute
" periodically a column OF observations and COM
rnent IN the nature Of a personal talk with who
ever 70 read Il. have aeected the caption
Views. Reviews and Interviews for the particuia-
purpose TO afford mltess latitude in topic selection
that may deal with whatever happens 10 strike
either timely interesting both. II goes
without saying that what interests me- may not APP
peal in the same way 20 others and stin feel that
the personal sldeligh possibly add Illuminating
ray and at rate should not deract anything from
pen picture.
BY Views do not propose to he confined to mere
expression OF opinion but to include "reminiscences,
narrative and international matter which
rent event furnishes hook to hang was born
and raised in Omaha and have attained 70 the rank
Of pioneer which makes OF tho connecting
links between the Omaha OF today and the Omaha
Of the past giving the historical setting back
ground recalling some haif-forgotten occurrence
may 10 explain to the comparative newcomers
a lot OF things not obvious to them the surface
BY Reviews" ] TO call attention 20 books or
magazine articles other literary products that
happen upon and find suggestive worth noting.
read a great deai--perhaps too much IN ono groove
and too much of the passing rather than permanent
kind-but In this reading. every and then hit
upon something that seems worth mentioning and
perhaps oommeding A review. too, opens up an op-
portunity TO dissent from or TO supplement the
thors findings with personal practical Application.
have intention Of going into the field Of abstruse
or technical criticism-1 leave that to the bookwors
and the hghbrows
BY Interviews" am putting latchstring out TO
pull in the observations OF other peope-who may
entitled TO be quoted who supply viewpoints and
Information with authority that carries weight
because talking Of things they really know about An
interview does always permit OF being classified
AZ news but II Of real general interest. may right
fully seek channel OF publicity through the newspa-
per.
During the year Just closed the Grim Reaper
stalked into the bosom OF The Bee family several times
and at every coming snapped a chord Of friendship
.VhO a. a atu Had he
he snatched from Horace Phipott few months
ago. the visitation struck with suddenness that
oaused full stop and gasp. Philpott Of
those nkeabie fellows who seems TO have been born
60 nickname OF endearment II always "Phil"
or ''Hod" with his associates and believe Il was
almost always the same with the officials and law
makers with whom he came in contact while repre-
sentng The Bee at the capital He had been trained
to ways in the home office here before being given
the Lincoln mission and he had twice
dered away and returned the beehive. As matter
OF fact the last time talked 70 him was when he
called to tell in his CHEEKY fashion he would like
to return to work and tho next time I saw him he
lay cold and speechess in the hospital where he had
passed away while his tear-faced widow cuddled the
toddIing boy who innocentiy eager TO be taken
home.
Only last Thursday attended the funeral OF "Jaci
Bonner known to all odtme printers In this section
and around whose coffin group OF fellow workers
gathered TO pay their last respects. learned 70 scx
type myself during a school vacation in the early
eighties and remember him being In irrepressble
evidence then. Ono OF the men told Bonner had
learned his trade The Bee In 1874 Be that as Il
may, he was good compositor and his own worst
enemy. believe he never quite bridged the chasm
between the old hand typesetting and the modern
chine compassionate became machine operator but
he never emerged from the shell OF the printer As
Mr.. Collar who spoke over the remains aptly said
drawing the printers trade dialect. HE has
emptied his last stick measured his last string. All
the lines not evenly spaced and there errors
caught by the proofreader. but the proof has been
read and corrected the forms made up ana sent to
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posed before the Master"
still another summons served about the same
time, called S. J. Woodruff. young man who had
come TO from Iowa TO look after the advertising
for agricultural publication and who went back
home with his fatal maady. In the short time he was
with he proved himself Industrious and loyal and
made many frends