The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20

c. P. J. Mooney in the Memphis Commer-
 cial-Appeal.
 M FEW years ago Marmaduke Nor A\ ton. managing editor. writing to S = a friend, put in the postscript, 'Did you know I have been with the Banner 20 years today?"
 Probably not over 2oOo people in Tennes- see know NJ, B. Morton. Outside of his circle of friends, not many people in Nashville know MT. Morton. Yet there is not any man in the state who has been in touch with more people than has this same MT. Morton.
 On some papers the managing editor has charge of the news, local and t-le- graph, and al. other features of the paper except the editorial page. On other pa- pers the managing editor has charge of everything upstairs"
 On the great New York papers the orr ganization is divided and subdivided. There IS a publisher and business man. ager, a man in charge of the editorial page, managing editor, sometimes two. Sunday editors, art editors and what not
 Brisbane is one of the most unique of the set. He is publisher, managing editor and occasionally it delights him to write news story
 MT. Mortons duties as managing editor of the Banner have been heavy and his responsibilities have been great. He has done his work thoroughly and efficiently. The same amount of energy devoted to strict business or highly paid professions might have made Morton a rich man. But there is something in newspaper work that makes up for riches or the ac- cumulation O. money. In the newspaper office one is in the eternal present. The managing editor of newspaper has his hands on the lever of big machine which runs all the time, and every day that machine passes through untraveled realms.
 Those of us who have held these posi- tions do not know what the future holds, but we do know it will be interesting and different in appearance from all that is in the past.
 When the writer became managing edi. tor of the Commercial Appeal in 1896 the absorbing question before the American people was the free and unlimited com. age of silver.
 During the summer we told the stories of MT. Bryan's remarkable canvass and MT. MclSin.eys receiving delegations from all corners of the United States. The big names in the paper weer those of Mark Hanna and James K. Jones.
 Two years later we swung into the Spanish American war with all its aliur- ing features. and quickly afterward we went into the sickness in camps, em' balmed beef and the ship purchase scun- dal.
 In 1900 we fought out the issue of ex- pansion. Ten years before few of us had heard Of the Philippines, except to know that they were a group of islands some :. where in the Pacific.
 In 1900 we knew all about the Moros, Aguinaldo and Guam. Then we broke into the era of the great trusts and we thought in 1901 and 1902 that, before many years, four or five men would own all the railroads and that . dosen men would own all the money and that everypody else would be working on salary. Then we beg an trust busting" and for about two years even J. P. Morgan could nos sell a genuine gold brick at It's fuii vaiue' Alter a while we became used to the DIE combinations and they and Mir. Rocke feller. MT. Morgan and MT. Carnegie lost their terrors
 few years later the managing eds- tors directed the shaping of policies on the uplift and eugenics.
 Then, suddenly, we swept into fields of gorgeous interests with the war oi 1914. and it's possibilities in airplanes submarines and\ wireless. After fou' years this war has. in some aspects, be- come commonplace. But every day Mor' ton, and Krock of Louisville. Beck vi Chicago, IIeiskell of Little Rock. Stanic' of Birmingham, and Goodwin Of Blr mlngham Morris and Leach. the younA bucks of Memphis-they have not been 1T the game lorg-all hurry into our offic' every day, keenly interested in the nev thing the day will bring forth. And that is the essence of the attrac 1 tiveness of newspaper work. Every day in the year there Is some thing new. There has been sonAethfni new to ua svery day for q years. an
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