White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-08-12
CAPITOL CEREMONY
AND UNKNOWN SOLDIER STAR
WRITER rs NEVADA PAPER MAN

that when Branson was working
der pressure he simply could not
compare with him, for, as he put 1t,
that was when Branson turned on:
real copy.
What seemed at the time Simpsons
strongest point was his absolute
trustworthiness to be left in charge
of the editorial end of the paper dur
ing the owners absence. Once Bran
son toured the east for seven weeks
with Simpson in charge, seldom see
ing the paper, and it vas run as care
fully as if he had been at home.
Simpson was city editor during
Branson's famous 1. w. w. fight, in
which the wobblies of Tonopah an6
Goldfeld were driven out of the
state. Except as to the inevitably
conspicuous position held by the pub
Usher in that fight, which was per-
sonal and with guns and not a mere
matter of typewriting, an opposing
newspaper mans life not being worth
two cents, Cartoonist A V. Buel, by
his utter eearlessness, stood next to
jllo cLlplOySl, Dul tuouSh souIEVl III
years and not a gunman, young Simp
son never showed a symptom of fear
in the year that the battle was on.
When the panic of 1907 came Mr..
Branson regretted to have TO reduce
his force within his means. Simpson
soon went over to the Associated
Press. But the Associated Press Is
not a trainer of writer's. Much of it's
stuff is thrown together and anything
but we'll written. To this il pays
slight attention. It's main hold is to
have men who are able to recognize
a news item when they see it, and at
that Simpson was good. Thus his
achievements are due to his Tonopah
Sun training and that he had it in
him.
Il do not take all the credit for
what Simpson is," a y Mr.. Branson.
II did edit his copy, give him assign
merts and instruct hm in the rudi-
ments to a greater or less extent, but
I do take credit for one thing, which
is that of teaching him that a news
papers duty is to print the news. The
Tonopah Sun was run on those lines.
and outside of the fact of having i.
in him that is what made Simpson
what he is.
When the unknown soldier master
piece appeared Simpson vas written
UP as a prodigy from end Of the
country to the other. The stories
that appeared said he got his train
ing on the San Francisco Chronicle.
This was not the fact.
A few years after he left Tonopah
he was sent across the continent with
Colonel Roosevelt by the Associated
Press and got his name broadcasted
then in Roosevelt's press agency
stuff.
Simpsons name does not appear
over the Harding news story. But
the style Of the master is unmistaka-
Die. Read that Associated Press dis
patch ON page I, column 4, of the
Salt Lake Tribune of Thursday, Aug
ust 9, under the pictures of the white
house and the troops cscorting the
dead president to the San Francisco
station, and you have it. The head.
line is "~Sorrowing Multitudes Pay
Last Tribute etc. The headlines are
home written. This is the opening
paragraph of some 1000 words that
Simpson wrote:
Warren G. Harding LEFT Washing
ton tonight. His short, eventful
moment of power and heavy care
was ended; his eternity of rest be-
gun
Again, descriptive of the ace o.
the departed as seen in the casket
in the capitol he said:
1t was a peaceful face. untouched
by the ravages of his brief illness.
The broad brow was tranquil, and.
save for the slight pallor death al
ways brings, he might have been
asleep there for 4 moment of rest,
to u again when duty called.
1t hardly seemed that the spirit
could have fled; that the lids would
not lift presently to show the kind
~, thoughtful eyes beneath. There
was very little of death abont him
and much OF peace and rest.
Throughout the article the marvel
Gus descriptive powers of the writer
may be noted in abundance. They
show attention to details not possi-
BILE through taking notes with pencil
and pad. but spontaneity in its pure
and native form. II they may not
compare with General Lew Wallace's
descriptions OF chariot steeds and
races and the many sparks of genius
hat made ben Hur" the descriptive
masterpiece of all ages. they at least
are a reminder Of them. These de-
tails are put in and placed perfectly,
with simple and anything but over
descriptive words. because Simpson
observed them and they come to him
in their order and all realism as he
writes.
Yet in Sin,ncon'c oor,;no RI Nyora5o