Connecticut western news., 1922-09-14
NORFORK DAILY PRUNE
 STATES NEWEST PAPER
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~"Mr. Street said I, "I have come to get story of your newspaper for the News at Canaan. We feel that such an imposing array of literary talent as you have gathered to write the news for the various departments of your paper is worthy of more than passing notice. Suppose you tell me about them" z..ase
 e. 'Oh, our staff is pretty fair, said MT. Street. The stuff they write in the form of fiction is sometimes ac- cepted by publisher and printed in book form,- but you know in getting out real newspaper, it's ditferent,i That requires real ability together with years of experience. Now take Phil Curtiss, for instnace. He used to romp around the state with a lot of other cubs who called themselves journalists for the Hartford Courant. We'll Phil has done pretty good, as you can see for yourself if you read his latest book which is now due to come out, called Mummers in Multi. Tn fact Pm pleased with Curtiss' work and if /he wants. to stay I'll make him manager of the classified advertising department
 But why" asked "if Curtiss is such bright literary light, do you put him in charge of such com mercial department as the classified advertising? N-I.... s'a},)
 "'Ah, you don't know the value of such a department, or you wouldn't ask that question said MT. Street. Just listen to this advertisement, then you'll see that real ability is required. Lost-All faith in Norfolk weather. Anyone recovering same may keep it. Mrs. G. B. McC. Such advertising will soon swell our coffers to point where the only alternative will be to bury it.
 "How about salaries, MT. Street. What do you have to pay such tal- ented writers for services?
 " Well, I'll tell you. In the first place you wouldn't believe me if I named the exact sum. When asked George Barr McCutcheon to work for me, told him money was mo object and he said he felt the same way about it, so he was engaged on the spot
 ''I next asked when the next edi- tion would be out, to which MT. Street replied that he didn't know. He said that the fact that money was no object in employing men of Me Cutcheon's and Curtiss' type, seemed to be a handicap in the present in- cfo foI~ 0f 4Lo Ia- l shown up since the last paper was printed.
 You see, the trouble is this said MT. Street. McCutcheon brides i himself on the fact that he once edi- ted a paper. out in Lafayette, Ind. Then the darn chump didn't know any better than write "Graustark" which has made him so wealthy and famous that he is getting lazy and fat as result. Therefore he does not do much except write a novel now and : then. Why. all he has done all this summer, aside from writing the opening chapter of a new serial for the Prune, which 1 can't get him to finish, is write another book which the, publishers, claim. will make him even more famous than did "Graus- stark" called "Viola Gwyn" which was issued last week If he had as much pep as his brother John, who is the famous cartoonist on the Chicago i Tribune, I'd get out a real paper here.'
 Talking about writing novels," said l 'what have you been doing up here in the hills all summer? And before you answer that, let me ask what the meaning of the crooked, winding road to your, habitat, is? l " I'll answer your last question