The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-05-23
Gentlemen of the Press

certain dentist is responsible for this editorial
For the last two weeks not a day has gone by
without some friend saying. Did you Gentlemen
of the Press?' Often the inquiry is accompanied by
Ieer. sometimes by an audible smoker For Gentle
men of the Press" is movie depicting some of the
worst aspects of newspaper work and workers
Well, We have seen the movie. On the whole VIC
enjoyed it. finding racy farcc-cOmedy in the main.
with tragic or. at least, melo-tragic finish. It
didn't occur to us that other spectators would see in
it anything than tGat
But the succession OF leers ard smokers gradually
brought us to realize that perhaps to folks not in the
newspaper business Gentlemen of the Press repre-
sents fairly truthful presentation of the life live
We began to grow sensitive the subject but doubt
less never would have spoken out il it hadn't been
for the dentist
We are willing to stand lot from that dentist
willing to let him probe and probe until he finds
raw nerve, willing to let him rub that raw nerve
the wrong way long We can stand it; for he is
entitled take some pleasure from life and that is
the way a dentist takes his
We are willing even to be generous about it and
ooncede that he doesn't lab the just to if
we'll Jump. But when he pokes exploring nut-pick
into the inner recesses of our soul, rebel.
We want to tell him what couldn't tell him
with our mouth full of his fingers and whirring
machinery. And that is this: Gentlemen of the
Press is Just as faithful to life as another movie
saw recently, and no more so. This other movie
depicted scene in dentists Office. The dentist had
his forceps clamped on victims tooth and the two
struggled all over shop fairly wrecking the place
out of this melee the dentist finally emerged
triumphantly waving aoft-the wrong tooth It
an excruciatingly funny movie but it may be doubted
that dentists enjoyed it.
In the last few days we've been asked another
question rather frequently. It is this DO you know
Paul Anderson"
And We answer with modest pride that do.
Paul Anderson is gentleman of the press. The
inquiry is prompted by the news published last week
that he had been awarded the $1,000 Pulitzer prize
for his work as reporter during the year. Anderson
aside from nifty mustache. is an looking
Washington correspondent of average good habits and
manner of living and something more than average
ability.
Following the death of his father he worked his
way through school in Knoxville, Tenn, night copy
boy for newspaper. He became a reporter when he
was II. Getting job in ST. Louis he distinguished
himself by exposing vice and corruption.
One feat was sne obtaining of confession from
the leader of mob that had lynched a German coal
miner during the war hysteris. He has been
Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post
Dispatch for several years.
The prize awarded him the result of a per-
ssent series of interviews and articles concern
ing the disposition of the s2,77oOoO of Continental
Trading Company Liberty bonds that remained
after s23OOOO had been used to convince former
Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall
Anderson wrote these stories in an effort to move
President Coolidge Attorney General Sargent, or an
other responsible agency to clear up this important
question. The eventual result that senate in
quiry begun, and the mystery was solved.
Minor consequences include the ousting of Robert
IF from, the of Indiana
ard OIL the decision of H. NJ Blackmer and James E.
ONeill to remain indefinitely in France, and the in
voluntary ninety-day sojourn Of Harry F. Sinclair
in the district of Columbia Jail
: All that Anderson contributed to\this undertaking