The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-17
Staff Stuff
Upon this column the members Of
The Ardmoreite's editorial staff un-
load their superfluities)
MRS. BARRETT OF IDABEL
COMING TO ARDMOREITE
READERS ROUND TABLE

Maybe you don't know Mrs. Barrett
Of Idabel. but you will know her after
Thursday night II you gather at the
Ardmoreite Readers Round Table in
Convention Hall-ADATISSION FREE!
Mrs. Barrett OF Idabel IL coming
TO the Round Table-just got word to
that effect; also Mrs. Stuart OF the
Idabel Daily News staff. (Gee-aint
1t fine to have two women on your staff
If you run q newspaper-oue to do So
ciety and the other. may BE-, 10 DO sob
stuffD
Mrs. Barrett of Idabel ia MIRA. w r.
Barrett. whose husband thinks he runs
the paper. We have O letter from W.
r., who says he'd like almighty well
TO come. but rs he just received = new
linotype he can't. He is trying to get
the linotype installed. so that he can
make the ldabel Daily News come out
the same day it Is dated. A linotype,
o Gentle Ardmorelte Reader. is the
machine which, with the aid of an op.
orator. sets the type to print the news
OF the day, the editorials, most of the
advertising. and the feature matter.
The Ardmoreite has three linotypes.
The Ardmoreitc also has q monotype,
which casts separate types for use in
headlines and in the display advertis.
ing.
But--as to those three lnotypes For
several days the editor has been con
fronted with the sorrowful information
that machines down" Which means
that this or that machine is out OF com.
mission Just now it is because the
natural gas supply is insufficient to
mclt the metal which the marvellous
machine casts in slugs. or lincs-lino-o+
type, hGncc the name linotype, you un-
lerstanl
II The Ardmorete shows certain
links in It's makeup, accuse the limo
typc-or rather the natural gas. And
right here let US congratulate Mr.. Bar
rett Of the 1dabel Daily News. He is
il we mistake not, outside the natural
gas " GD area, and therefore he must
depend upon some other and more re
liable method of melting his linotype
metal. The Ardmoreite, following lines
of preparedness, some time ago ordered
three gasoline heaters to be attached
to the linotypes. They arrived. They
we're attached. They leaked! That was
yesterday or the day before. We tried
TO get plumbers to repair the leaks
Plumbers too busy
A-lmoroitc readers, If yor c1rrc tc
the Round Table you may learn some
thing about the inner workings (and
non. workings of q daily newspaper
plant. The only reason the Ardmoreite
staff hasn't gone into nervous pros
tration is that all OF us here are AZ
centimeter optinists. Some few of us
also are Christian Scientists and Others
are New Thoughtsts. c. S, and n. T..
as you may know, teach one not &c
worry--what's the use?
We should worry-but we don't.
Just come around to Convention Hall
Thursday evening at o'clock and
meet bunch of optimists who are de
termined to give the very best paper
they possibly can produce every day and
Sunday Except Saturday,, and who
know the shortcomings Of the paper
perhaps better than do you. They hold
that mechanical difficulties, perhaps
eyen more than mental difficulties, are
responsible for much Of the imperfec
ton.
But-as to Mrs Barrett Of ldabel
who is really the subject of this sketch
Mrs. Barrett of Idabel is an idealist
But she Is a practical ideallst She
knows that every child in Oklahoma
should be privileged TO get an educa
ton that will make said child q gooo
and happy and therefore useful citl
zen, and she is going about the bust
ness Of demanding that such privileges
be granted. Arc you with her?
II. l..