The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-09

fortune by syndicating the column all through the
sticks.
AT last" he said. "a little cooperation! What
did you say to them?"
L said that good deal of the talk by newspaper
owners about the freedom of the press was sheer
bunk and that the Guild would defend by every
means in its power the legal right of reporters to
organize for the purpose of collective bargaining.
Didn't you promise me-" said the syndicate man
severely that you weren't going out on this trip just
to talk Guild? Wasn't that the way you got me to
agree to pay half on the gasoline?"
That's right But this wasn't part of the trip
That doesn't start until Thursday. went to Allen
town for the fun Of it."
The syndicate smiled sardoncally.
Who's being parochal now?" 1 asked. you see,
installing the Lehigh Valley chapter Would
it interest you know that Allentown is 100 per cent
organized?"
1T would not" he replied. Il had hoped that
possibly you had contacted the trade on your trip
and taken a few sample columns along. Some of
the better ones, might add"
Sheer Logic Triumphs
II WAS Just getting around to that, boss. We had
il a long dscusson-amost debate-about the
column The city editor of of the papers told
there had been some vague talk around his shop
about taking it. I advised him against it. pointed
out that the stuff already was appearing in New
York and Philadelphia, which pretty close to his
city, and I said that anyhow, didn't think the
column would be much good for Allentown. We had
quite argument, but in the end think 1 con-
WINGED him"
Now, what on earth was the sense of doing
that?"
We'll you see. boss it wasn't exactly my fault. It
account of a strange native custom they have
in Allentown. They don't put seltzer in your gin
rckeys. They fill the rest of it up with Jersey apple
jack After three four of those, somehow you
begin to feel dedicated to free speech and the
integrity of the news. Yo get righteous glow. You
get sort of compusion to clean and tell the
whole world about the cherry tree"
That reminds me-" said the syndicate man, I'm
going to ask you to make another promise now that
i
to quit writing columns about drinking and going
to dives You know and know that it's just pose.
You get perverse thrill out of trying to shock
people tell by the springineSs of your step and
the clear look in your eye that you practice clean
living But if you keep on writing about liquor
people will eventually to believe that you drink
and that would hurt your syndication great deal
BY the way how did you like Aentown?"
Mornings in Allentown
WELL up to about in the morning it's fine
w Somebody's always at your elbow saying
What will it be this time-the sarsaparia or the
lemon soda?' But, boy! Do you feel terrible when
you get up out of your nice bed in the Americas
hotel at in the morning to catch the 9:12 on the
Jersey Central for the Twenty-thrd street ferry!
How's that for local color Who says don't know
my America? Under this new promise I've just
made suppose there's only one way to account for
those Allentown filters. I shouldn't have tried to
mix that sarsaparilla and the lemon soda"
But did you get any ideas about how
ever induce anybody to buy the coumn?"
L certainly did, boss. This beats the life out of
the idea of my taking automobile trip across the
country won't have to work. You won't have to
work except to receive the orders need never stir
outside the checker room of the west side Y M c. A.
and 1 can write any old stuff l please. It's just a
Slight change in the promotion. You haven't been
doing it right"
Why not?"
We'll, you see, what you ought to do boss is to
run of an advertisement in the trade papers with
1t Seems to Me- in small letters And then under
meath that in great big type you put by Charles
Dickens"
lCopvright 1894 BY The TimesN