Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-03
Responsibilities of Lives
Never Worry His
Brain.
MUST BE ALL OVER
Settles Family Fights and
Takes Last Messages of
the Dying.
CW. Is. HALBERTD

| The police reporter, the pusilani-
nous pestiferous police reporter, un-
like any Of the other necessary evils
Of a newspaper office, has no grief
In his life. The responsibilities
weighing upon the mind of the tele-
graph editor never worry him and
the tribulatons Of the city editor
reach this irresponsible being very
indirectly. He has nothing to fret
about, not him! If he gets in trouble
he has the consent of the whole force
to fight out, beg out or run out as
he may see fit. The higher-ups have
all been over tho road and managed
to forget all about what good"
times they used to have
The Fireman Hero,
The only one thing expected of the
police reporter is that he be every
where all the time. If n fire breaks
out in the forty-three hundred block
on North Quebec street he must be
right on the job with a pencil in his
mouth when the whistle blows, get
just as wet as any fireman and find
out who lives in the housa, how many
children are in the family, to whom
the property belongs, how much
damage was done, how much insur-
ance the owner has on the building
and be sure that the fireman who
reaches the top OF the ladder first
Is made the hero of his story in order
to keep on good terms with the fire
department
The Family Fight
If at that same minute Mrs Newly
wed gets sore at her husband for
spanking the baby and runs a hatpin
through his windpipe in the parlor
of the pretty little bungalow at the
corner of Twenty Fourth street and
South Jerusalem avenue tnc police
reporter must be ringing the door
bell, right on the Johnny spot after the
details. Mrs. Newlywed is hysterical
and pours out the history of her
little-eventful life into the sympa-
thetic ears of the attentive scribe and
the matter of getting the dope is
easy. All the reporter has to do is
take notes, the enraged woman is
framing the story without being
questioned. The trouble comes the
next day, when Newlywed gets the
paper Domestic peace has been es-
tablished by then and the combined
Indignation of man and wife settles
on the reporter.
Was just "Fircd."
The reporter is sitting at his ma
chine at work when chubby" comes
in the door and approaches the city
editors desk, his eyes full of salt
drops and his hand on his hip
pocket. Where Is that fellow who
wrote all those lies about my wife
land me) ?" is his Introductory In
terrigation.
81 fired him ten minutes ago and
ha hac Loft at
without a twitch of the eyelid.
81 knew you would" half sobs
hubby as he leaves the office for the
city editor to mildly admonish the
police reporter in his own way.
Now old chap, be careful what
you say about people, but don't let |
'em put anything over on you"
Long on Gall.
The crowning attribute of the po- |
lice reporter Is his gall, the buttons !
on the police gergent's coat could not |
have a greater percentage of brass /
in their composition. He is the /
shell-fish Of the office. To whom 1t |
may concern; Don't try to insult the |
police reporter. If his feelings could |
be hurt he couldn't hold his job. If |
ever at any time he had any feelings /
or fine sensbilitles he Is thoughtful
enough to wrap them up in some
thing soft and leave them in his table .
drawer before he goes to work. He
has nothing you can appeal to but
Il nose for news. Give him what he
wants If you expect to get rid of him.
He Is insensible to stinging remarks,
and az for open slander, IL amuses
him. To kick him bodily out of the
house inconvinces him but little, so
long as he Is able to come back in
again, for he knows that 1t is woe
unto him If he gets not the dope"
"Stand In With Officials.
II the reporter stands IN. with the
police force and the firemen he has
some leverage nobody else can get
Some people do not believe 1t but
The police reporter does not tell all
he knows by any means. He must
know what to write a long time be-
Tore the time comes to write It.
good police reporter is frequently n
friend of the high Of
'icials of the executive detectives He
must not do anything that will hinder
he work of the officers. Sometimes
| news story is two weeks old to
him and he knows every detail of IL !
before the Chief says "All right, we
nave raveled out that John Doe
MYSTERY, you may cut loose on 1t
low." Then the reporter goes to his
Machine and startles the public with
he horrors of some deep-laid crime.
n newspaper lingo, the reporter must
lot only know story but he must
Inow when 1t ought to break"
Aid to the Police.
Reporters like this help the police {
md their services are appreciated. He {
,oes with the detectives to look up [
mysteries and knows just where every
live, every dangerous individual is s
sometimes he knows things too bad S
o make story. Any police reporter I
ould tell stories about things he has !
cen and heard that would break up !
antilles, cause church quarrels or c
erhaps put a raging mob on the 7
treet. He must be the judge OF what I
, best to let people know. The po-
Ice reporter has some real responsi- s
ility Of his own. AS a rule II is safe
0 expose the guilty, but when there u
re innocent people who would suffer 9
ornament injury from such a scan
al. the scandal must not be laid
pen. The reporter himself must be
he judge. IL he is undecided about =
nything, there Is someone to ask.
hat Is what city editor is made
or
Succors the Dying.