Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-05
FINDS FRISCO
LACKS PAPER
OF HOME KIND
Times Man Says News Sheets
Are 'Flashy and Frothy' Like
Rest of Country.
MUCH SEASONING USED
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT

| AT THE MANX, SAN FRANCISCO.
June so Thy maiD There are approx
| mateIy 100 Hoosiers stopping in this
hotel and the most thoroughly missed
article In the arrangements that have
been made for their care and amuse-
! ment is q daily newspaper >such s they
are accustomed to reading at home.
San Francisco does not boast Of
newspaper on the order Of any in In
| diana.
There is no shortage of print paper
| here and no intent on the part of
Frisco publishers to avoid the bizzare
| and the sensational
Nor is there any intention apparently
| to recite the news Of the day as it hap
pens without copious quantities Of
| dressing, seasoned to suit the interests
in which the various newspapers are
published.
Frisco papers are all republican IN
| their politics and rabid In their news
| columns.
The democats are "bourbons," their
convention foolish and their leaders the
subject OF much ridieule.
BUY EDITIONS
ONE AFTER ANOTHER.
| Indiana delegates buy one edition after
| the other hoping to find an unseasoned
story of the convention happenings and
the hotel management keeps couple Of
porters trailing about the lobby picking
up the said papers all the time.
The Manx will bale enough waste pa
per after this convention to print an
edition of any indianapolis paper and
leave some for the next day.
The usual procedure Is for delegate
to hand out his nickel, for which he
receives no change, glance at the red and
black 1ve-inch headlines and bury his
nose In the print until he reads some
such speculation as was set forth by one
writer who told the word that Indiana
was ''rarin" for "a chance to return to
the saloons and Tom Taggart was out
here to defeat the league of nations.
Blooie goes the paper!
"HELAYA PAPER"
Is VERDICT.
Then the delegate looks around with
disgusted expression and II he is not too
close 10 his lady eompatriots mutters
something about said newspaper being "a
helava paper" and goes of TO vent his
wrath on some luckless individual who
has just started an argument about the
sterling and enterprlslng qualities of
Senator Harding, who, oftener than not,
is being referred to as John Harding
OF Cincinnati. the capital Of Ohio
Just as a little experiment the writer
asked four Californians In succession for
the full name Of Gov Calvin Coolidge
the other day and not a single one could
give mis- first name
But every last one OF the four stopped
long enough TO start telling me what a
big man Hi Johnson Is and two of them
heSitatingly inquired If knew what
Johnson was going TO do about the nom
ination Of Harding.
NEITHER EDUCATIyE
NOR INFORMATIVE.
But, to return to the question of news
papers IN Frisco
They are neither educative nor are
they particularly informative
The are just like the rest of this
country-fashy and frothy, with very
little solid matter and no comprehensive
review of the news Of the day.
They do not sit well with Indiana
readers.
And out here the Indiana reader finds
that after all his favorite home news
paper tries pretty hard to give him what
he really wants in the way of news and
to serve it to him IN a manner that
makes 1t digestible.
1t has been source Of comment among
Tndianians out here that the papers are
not attempting to lead booms for any
candidate.
There is no newspaper accommodating
faith" for any aspirant.
There is no newspaper attempting to