Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-06-24
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THOUGH without designing to do So our
Nebraska editors certainly picked a strenu-
GUS week for their get-together meeting in
| Omaha so far as enforcing their claim to the I'M
divided attention of their host is concerned. But
| newspaper people understand the exigencies of
unforeseeable events and the regular program
| arranged for them was so full of good things
| that | know they did not feel the lack of any
extras. am sure they would rather be in Omaha
and hnd everything here moving so fast that they
have to speed up to keep abreast OF the process
sion than to see us loahng on the job with time
hanging heavy on our hands. Nebraska editors,
like other Nebraska people, enjoy coming to
Omaha for meetings of this kind because they
know their entertainment will be fully provided
for and at the same time will not be overdone,
and as consequence of such visits the reciprocal
feeling between the metropolis and the folks out
in the state is today much more cordial and SYM
pathetic than it has ever been heretofore.
The special treat of the meeting disclosed it.
self in the presence and participation of two head
liners invited as guests from abroad-Herman
Black publisher of the Chicago American, and
Walter Williams, dean of the pioneer successful
attached to the University of Missouri at Co.
lumba, Of which, by the way, the president, Dr.
A. Ross Hill is an old Nebraska man. Mt was
the personality of these men and association with
them, even for so brief period, as much as
their talks, that must have offered inspiration to
and weeklies and uplifting the standards of the
fourth estate in the cities and towns, throughout
Nebraska, and in this way enabled to keep in
touch with the deeper currents of journalism
While here, Herman Black looked up a num-
Der Of old friends whose acquaintance dates back
to the days when he was our fellow townsman,
for, be it known, he was resident of Omaha in
the middle SOS and Travelled all through this
section of the country as a dealer in butchers
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in when he first located in Milwaukee His rise
in the newspaper world reads like romance, be-
cause it was but chance turn that put him in
charge of the Milwaukee Journal with which
he made good right from the start. He has
never had any experience with the editorial side
OF the paper, but on the subject of advertising,
which was the topic he talked about, no one
is better versed. 1t was his success in producing"
in the Milwaukee field that convinced Hearst that
Herman Black was the man cut out for the Chi
cago job and he was so sure he wanted him that
a hve-year engagement at magnificent salary,
as newspaper salaries run, was the outcome and
it is understood that the results have satisfied
both with the bargain.
In Walter Williams is presented the type of
trained journalist student of affairs, the ana
lytcal mind coupled with the power of quick re-
partee the driving force of the daily battle of
the composing room. softened by the tincture of
university culture have myself been down to
Columbia and have seen how the Williams plan
of teaching journalism works and it is eminently
practical as we'll as theoretical Dean Williams
found the connecting link to couple up his school
with the newspapers of Missouri for whose bene-
fit it is supposed to be principally maintained by
holding. field week" once year in the nature
OF an institute of journalism. This makes the
university the clearing house for all that is going
on among the newspapers of that state. Dean
Williams also bumped into od-time friends here
former comrades in journalism in Missouri, such
as Mr.. Reeves of The Bee and Mr.. Parrish of the
publicity bureau. The newspaper profession is
touches elbows with practically every othet pro-
fession or line Of work.
This afternoon I am to serve as pallbearer for
the funeral of Mrs Harry P Deuel., who has died
after lingering Illness I wish could pay fit
whose kindness, unselhsh devotion to others pa
tient disposition and radiating cheerfulness could
scarcely have counterpart--From my infancy
Mrs. Deuel. has been almost second mother, an
across-the- street neighbor for years and then
only two blocks off, When she lived in the cottage
where the court house now stands she used to
keep. jar of cookies constantly accessible for
us children to help ourselves, and afterwards,
being much closer to the school building, we
could stop in at her house in stormy weather to
get something. to- eat instead of going all the
way home. Her little benefactions were count
less and never exploited No trouble was too
great for her to go to to help relieve distress or
comfort sorrow and I do not believe she ever
knowingly offended anyone. She always kept ex-
ceptionally we'll posted on what was doins and
was mine of information about people and
events OF the early days in Omaha. / remember
that when wanted an article written year or
two ago about the famous Omaha operetta, "Mr.
Sampson of Omaha" she unearthed the lbretto
for me from her collection and insisted the effort
was but a pleasure.