Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-29


again to the wallpaper newspaper?
IN. c.
Yes, there was a wallpaper news
paper. one copy thereof has turn
ed upsrecently in California, where
lives a sister OF the printer who
printed an edition of the Nicls-
burg Citizen On that kind Of news
print.
N. c.
George Schofield was the original
wan paper newspaper publisher
Very early in July, 1868, George,
who had been printer back home
in Minnesota, walked INTO Nicks-
burg, Miss, looking for a job. He
was not a tramp printer, however
For a couple of months, more or
less, George had been in the EN-
ploy of an Illinoisan named Grant,
who was engaged, together with
several thousand other employees,
in trying TO make IL safe for George
to walk into Vicksburg without be
ing shot down by a Confederate
shell or bullet.
N. G.
There was another reason why
Mr.. Grant wanted to make Nicks-
burg safe for democracy and other
things. In charge of affairs in
Nicksburg was a gallant southerneT
named Pemberton. Years before
Messrs. Grant and Pemherton had
been fellow cadets at West Point.
Later they had met in San Fran
cisco, where Mr.. Pemherton loaned
MIR. Grant money enough to take
him home To his wife and children
and his wife's folks near 81. Louis.
Mr.. Grant probably wanted to get
into Vicksburg So that he could
say to Mr.. PembertOn, "Well, Jack,
maybe if you hadn't been so unwise
as to lend me that money back in
Frisco | wouldn't have butted in
here to pay you--to pay you my
respects"
N. c.
Anyhow, Mr.. Grant butted into
Nicksburg, and George Schofield
was with him. The editor Of the
Vicksburg Citizen had been setting
type to print his regular edition.
Let George do it, said Mr.. Grant.
So Printer Schofield took charge,
finished the typesetting. and looked
arounrr for news print. The print
paper shortage in Vicksburg was
even more serious than some of us
editors find the present shortage.
Transportation facilities, at the
time and place, were entirely in
adequate.
N c.
But it was the Fourth o July,
and George simply had to get out
paper, so he found a roll of wall
paper and printed The Citizen on
that
N c.
And I am here to warn you that
unless the print-paper shortage
eases up soon. the californian may
come around to your house and
snatch the paper from your four
walls and print his newspaper on
that stock. Some newspapers
the yellow kind-ought to be print
ed on wallpaper Of the most flam-
boyant kind, anyhow, as regular
thing.
N. c.
And some magazines. How
would you like to read The Ladies'
Home Journal, for instance, print
ed on pale pinky-blue wallpaper
with faint-hued figures of angels
in the background? Or The Satur-
dav Evening Post on good honest
thick wallpaper that would make
each copy weight ten pounds in
stead of two?
N c.
But all that has nothing to do
with the touch" which General
Grant, when he was but a retiring
captain, made on General Pember-
ton at Frisco. History has not told
us whether Grant paid Pemberton
back in real money. Very likely
he did. But maybe he handed the
sum over in Confederate money
when General Pemberton surren-
dered Vicksburg to him-and
called it a closed incident.
N. c.
Present companys chief fear is
that unless Uncle sam can provide
more print-paper for general use
and provide for its fair-and- square
distribution, said l.. s. may find it
necessary to print his paper money
on wallpaper. And how would l
look, for instance. walking around
town with my pockets bullying
with thousand-dolla bills so thick
and stiff that you couldn't fold
EN-?
N. c.
However, even wallpaper money
would be worth more than COnfed-
crate cash noWadays-so what's
the difference?
Downright, 1920, by Bert Love-