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33d). 33 ‘3'),35 —-—-—-————-—-—-——-- more worthy of the national advertls.
i 3 5.: 11.312153 Will- Oﬂieial Publication of the Kentucky Press Association er’s consideration ‘17 .
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33'33, 3 133 3‘3 VICTOR. ‘_ fonmANN, Editor-in-Chie! million inhabitants must in some way be
‘3 33- ‘ :-.,~3‘1‘3333i FRANCES L. BOLLIDAY, Assistant be made aqquéinted With the goods 5., :2
l‘ 3.333), ‘53 ‘33 “3‘33 _____._________——_— nationally distributed.
3.1333, 3 {)3 .33 ‘ Published by the Department of Journalism, University at Kentucky, Lexington h“H°W ,3? riachnthese millions plus ; :"y‘
3 3.3., 3, 3 .3333 3 Printed by The Kernel Press , t e addi iona mi ions on the farms we
3. .3., 1,. 3 3 5,3333 3:110}; areoﬁzgvgd by the country towns 2 Er
133333 3 1:313 ‘3 3.3,33 3 Application Pending for Entry 3.: Second Class Matter S'slr‘hgranswer is the country news- 53:3
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- 35 3333 3.3 ,3}; 331 JOE T- LOVETT: Murray c 5'3" mes’ _ "5‘ “'3 country newspaper is the preferred if.“ an
1‘ .333 ., ; 3-1-3333 31 JAMES T. NORRIS, Ashlaml Independent, vice-President source of news and the entertainment. , I l
,3 5 33 33 3 1)“ 3 LAWRENCE HAGER, Owensboro Messenger. Chm. Ech- Committee which comes of reading; it is the only 5°"
23 3.33 3 1 3 .i. CURTIS ALCOCK, Darlville Messenger, Secretary—Treasurer information medium treating lnti- ,5
'3 332 ,’ 33 ‘33“, WW: mately and more or less exclusively 2' ‘
'3; ‘333‘3 33 3.33 ‘33 ,3. ,1 3 3 __.____...___—_._ of the local folk and the local scene— 0°
233 33‘3‘311333'V'333 ' ER ,e—s country town and farm both. , :3:
33 3333313 ,,33 33‘ MEMB 153,“ , “If for no other reason except its
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3.3 133331 3 ,3 3 ,,3 3,3 ‘33 W of any tadvertiserk interested in the , 3‘2:
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3333 3 3E 3,3,1) ,1 3 , some IMPORTANT LITTLE rosr- partments which are most popular. “Butythere are other reasons, There 3 R.
33) 3,31 3 ,3 l5. ‘, AL RULES 35. It falls to give specific informa- is the important consideration of cov- 13 We
33 333-33 33 3:3- ,). .3 ,333 3. , __ tion about the uses of the merchan- erage. To be sure, other mediums 3 '1
15.3313; 31‘: ‘3 ‘~.. , The Washington Newspaper. Fred dise- have circulation in country towns. But no!
33: 33 3513‘ i, ,3 3‘- ‘.j Kennedy’s newsy organ 0f the W335}? 6' It carries a preponderance of what does this stray circulation, for 013‘
51,3 3 3.3;, 3.) ,g‘ , ington Press association. printed, in a dry. techmcal- 033923108“?- descnptl‘m- that is what really is, amount to? A 1- An)
:~;..3 . :i 3 3‘. recent issue of the following list of 7- It “mks the human interest aP- mere dribble. too scattered to be edec- we:
3,3,3" 33 3 ,, 333 little known D0331 1111553 3 peal. , tive. By comparison wth the circula- 3513113
3,3, 3,3- 331) ; .31 '33- 3 Use or dark-colored stationery in ,3: In ,aPPeaTancev ,it 15 man messy, tion dwindles down to an insigniﬁcant is 1
, 32333-33 .13: 1331 33‘. 33 33‘, window envelopes is prohibited. disorganized and diﬁlcult to read. ﬁgure, can
333‘ ‘3, 331‘333-3‘ 3.‘ , Post cards cannot be used to collect 9. It wastes space by both under- “Because it covers country towns per
,3 .3,“ ‘133 .33 ,1, g overdue accounts. 3 3 emghaSls and over empliiasis. , and farms far more adequately and P90
33.3 3333.1 ,3 2,‘ 7333‘ ~1 Price lists with hand-written 1 .3 It does “013 CODV me 35 “0 135 with inﬁnitely more thoroughnessthan - 13301P
)‘ 2133.3, ‘13 5f‘ ,1‘: 1’ f changes 0f lndiVldua-l items must go fashl‘m authority. any other medium, the country news- Wer
3 3 33 5‘13 ﬁrst-class 11' It frequently attempts ‘79 cover paper is the preferred medium for 3 80 '
33 3 3333 333 33 3.3 3,3 3 3 Envelopes, cards or folders less than 803 many departments that it is phy- small town and farm coverage of hun- T
3313, 33 3:35 ;331'3.3. 2%}:4 inches are highly objectionable. solally impossible for the advertising dreds of national advertisers. By ex- , tab]
5‘ 5 3" .3 2‘, 3 ,3 I" ‘ Sender’s address should be placed in writers to do Justice to any of them. perience and investigation. they have hav
3 3 :3 3 3 33 3 3 333., 33 3 3 the upper left-hand corner of the en- 12. It is not backed by promotional come to know it as the only direct whc
3:113. 3‘ 3’ ;-.'“1,3' 1 velope, not on the reverse Side. effort in the Windows and in the and effective means to exploit the 2. g m
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‘: ‘3‘}, 3 3 3‘ 3 space should be left at the right Side 13. Salespeople fail to know or 3be- To this we may add that the local .3 Con
3 33 333. 33 331,333.), 33 333 of envelopes. cards. and 3foiders for comehenthuSlastichab$t the advertised retailer can proﬁt thru the use of 3 Du
,~.‘33.-31:, 3 3-3 “133 address. * . merc andise. ‘T e isconsm Press the same media in reaching his 130- ‘3.- Jan
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; 3 3331' 3'1". ' u 3‘ WHY ADS FAIL COUNTRY TOWN MARKET vertiser can use proﬁtably. '2 Har:
3 33 33, 3l 3 3 _ INCREASES * , a j one,
3 t, 333,3. ’,, 3. 3 3 A Pennsylvania department store 3 3—— NUMBER OF NEWSPAPERS IN . 0’31
3 3‘3 ,, 33,; .g 2‘ 3-3 merchandising specialist has recently A compilation by the American KENTUCKY DECREASING ‘ ,- Can:
3. 2 ‘3'. 3 35:51.13, 3 333‘ given an explanation of the ineﬂec- Press association, as recorded in the N. W. Ayers & Sons, publishers of 91‘ cial.
'3 .3 2‘ ‘ ‘2 ‘ ‘3 tiveness of much newspaper advertis— new Country Newspaper Directory. the largest newspaper directory in the a stat!
., 1133-132. _3 3,33 ing. Have the retailers of your town taken from the complete 1930 census, United States, has just, issued a mid-. 3‘ latel
5 ‘3‘ .E 12:. 1', 3‘)‘ ever been made to see how frequent« shows that country towns in the year supplement. 2%“ Ken:
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1 ‘3‘ ',3 3... 3,3 .33 fault? Let them see these: gained 1,935,250 inhabitants between solidations and suspensions of neWS- ‘ Loui
,3. 33333-3 33 31,3 333,3 1,, 1. It too often is inspired with the years 1920 and 1930- papers in Kentucky and ﬁve news- the,
3 ,33‘3331-333 3333,; 3133 3 ,3, the idea of pushing over stocks, tag- This organization asks, “What is papers set going. crea
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3 1 2‘ 33' 33',‘ éj‘; 333‘ 2. It falls to concentrate upon the stated above?" It then gives the fol- State. But when it is known that less cept
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3 , 3 3' 33 3-, 3 ~33 :3 )3 ‘ cause it does not feature what is new. to place before his retailers. 3 pects are good for even a much greater
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3m 1 (Continued from July Issue) was when he was on the Bowling Green noted author and diplomat; Cleve-i 1 1 1 1 1
is 'r It was certainly a great treat to me éﬁgélxigggzei xﬁgede by, 00; John 0' chf'id’ playwright, Whose “Common ‘ i , 1 11
1.4 1 in my youth to go to Louisville and Lo an F n; J mp oye E'T‘melt Flay was “1 01’3““le success, “1‘1 1' . l1 ‘1 11
: be taken around to Rufer’s on Fifth g ' o ohnson, and Dan OSulli- Keats Speed, now managing Editor 0f 1 1' 1‘ 11 1' 11
my street, or Rassiniers's on Market, by van all at one time on_the .staff of the New York Sun. 1 :11: i 1 :1
m 1 Mr. Watterson, where I enjoyed his lthat faiper. You can imagine how . The Times 1 11' 11 ‘1 1 11
lus 1 wonderful conversations and the dain— ong l “flail: 1m so much talent. And this brings me back to the 11 1, 1 1 1 11
1i ty dishes he would order. When I s nd Meeting Courier-Journal again. I should hay: 1 :1 1‘ i 1 , ’1
ms , went out for midnight lunch with Dan and I went together to the Ken- said that the afteran edition the .1 11 1 1 1 11
ms 3 , , tucky Press Absociation meeting at Times, was establi hed ’ ’ ‘11 11 I I. 1
1 Emmett Logan and others of the Ashland in 1880 At th s m 1884 by the i :i 1, :1
ws- 11 Courier staff, we would drop into a C & 0 l‘ailro d h d lat time .the ”'38 .Walter N’ Haldeman, With some 11 1 1 1 1 1
uwn 1 joint on Fifth and Green where we ed as far at 3. Hon y_ been ﬁnish- misgivings. As I recall it was for 1 , . 1 11
the . could get three big fat, fried oysters m, .- _ erst as untington, West some time only an 8-column , 41mg: 1 : 1 11
red 1 and a schooner of beer for 15 cents. ouigfl: N e, new??? had to. go on paper, but It grew rapidly in popular- ‘ 11 1 '1 1 11
out I deteste d beer so Emmett got the two then .w M; 1:38:38 arisd t: :exmgltont; ityrrl. Its ﬁrst editor was Emmett Logan, 1 1 1 1 .
nly 1 schooners, but I only got three oysters. from Ma svisllle on th 0:. e f‘ 0:. w 0 went to It from the Courier ~Jour- 1 1 1
lti- Newspaper Wheelhorses A‘hl d y” e 10.1“” 0 Hal. Its ﬁrst managing editor was ‘1'. 1 . 1
'er : Among the managing editors of the 19:1 dar; 9.3 was :1, great itrﬁaeting. Ash- Polk Johnson, who was succeeded by 1,1 " 11
£- Courier— Journal I have known were _ a grea own en: It has Robert S. Brown, after Mr. Brown’s 11 _. ,1
Ballard Smith, who afterwards made a become in the last few years a big death, Arthur Krock, then Brainard 1, 1, ‘ 11
its great reputation on the New York ltown, and has a wonderful newspaper hiatt, and now A. Y. Aronson, became ‘1 1 1 1 1
ers 1 World in the pre-Pulitzer days; Don- nFthe 151111113112 Independent. ‘ 1t managing editors. The present editor 151111 1;
en: ‘1 a1 d Pa dm an, Polk Johnson, Dan to gaze SS 18111] W: were maimed to go of the Times, Tom Wallace, has occu- . ; 1 -‘. ‘1 1 1
can . O‘Sullivan, Bruce Hal deman, A. Y. w h d t t:u 11: or tﬁrmgs’t .. a., but pied that post for ten years, but has 1 1 E ,1
the Ford, Graham Freeland, Harrison le‘ a o a eano er oa fiom that been on Louisvule papers for thirty i 1 1 1 11
the Robertson, Arthur Krock, C. E. Heber— p ace to Huntington, and there we be- years. He conducts a most interesting 1 , 1 , : 1
nice 1,» hart, A. B. Ransdell, and Neal Dal— came tine gliliestsvof the new C. & O: and readable editorial page, and has 1 1 1 ,1
the ton. Other members of the Courier- 15:12: . .T, at Visit to White Sulphuz done constructive work of great value 1‘ .1 ‘ 1. 1 1
Journal staff in the early days were s e great 'event of our young lives. to the Times and to Kentucky. 1,‘ , 111 , 11
me R. W. Knott, James W. Hopper and Ti L . 'lfhe Post . Probably the oldest man employed in ‘, i i1 ,1 a
w... Emerson 13%. waitresses is? .. rewar- 0mm- ~~ - is» 1
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1811111: ; narfhiji r231 fgéggrgfttthgggﬁeinJo‘gy sold. it to Col. Charles E. Sears, an able exchange editor. He went t: that 1 '1 11,- 1 1 1
for 1 opinion. has been Harrison l’iobertson. Vim? 11c writer, once on the Courier- paper m 1892' ‘1 11 111 11
? A ’ And such a worker! Seven days in the Journal Staff. Sears had a 101: or fun Times Saves Courier-Journal 1 1 l:1 1 1
fec- 1 week, fifty-two weeks in the year, his poking fqn at 4M1". Watterson, who After the b°l.t 0f the Courier-Jour- 1.11 1‘11 1
ula- : stuff adorns the editorial page. and it gever nouced him. 13' Du Font and 9.] am? Tumfs m. 1896 Of Bryan, they 111 1 111 1 ‘1
:ant ' is logical, substantial, consistent, well- .enne“. H' Young were Sears back— ' 1°51” circulation immensely, especially 11' 1 1111
E considered and in perfected rounded em- Still later, .Knott, who had’after the CourierTJournal, which had the -i I 1
wns periods. For years some thoughtless $11.13] g the POSt Jomed Wattersons ed- statewrde circulation, both for the 11 1 1‘1 ‘ 1 1
and people attributed Robertson's great ed- itoual Staff on the Courier-Journal, daily and weekly. The weekly Courier- '1 1 1‘1 1 1
. bought back the Post and edited 1t Journal’s circulation was not cm 1,, ,‘1 . .111. 1 1
him itorials to Watterson. Bosh! There - -- . - y 11 ~ w
aws- i were never two men whose styles were thh marked ability until he died about Kentucky but all over the South as 11 1 1111 1
for 1 so utterly different. ten years ago. Gnl B0371}? and LEWIS tar as Texas at one time was about i , , j 1
mn- . The Louisville Commerical was es- Humphrey were Ills-38890184565.- 290’000‘. The Daily Courier-Journal's ‘1 1 111 11
ex- ‘ tablished in 1850 exactly by whom I The POSt grew m circulation and Circulation was reduced from 30’000’ I 1 11 111
lave 1. have no information Its ﬁrst editor character under ML KnOt-‘ts aidmm— was told, .t'0 12’000' The weekly was ' ‘11 111
irect 1 whom I knew was (£01 R M Kelle istration, but I do not believe it any Virtually killed, could never be revived. 1. 1 11111:
the l a most lovable man His associate we}; time made much money. Mr. Knott My recollection is that Mr. Walter 11 i 111 111
001. L. S Howleﬁ Others on the told me at one time he had lost on the Haldeman. (father of W. B. Haldeinan 1 ‘ 1 1 11 ,1 :
local Commerical which 1”“ owned b D Post an average of $10,000 a year for and Bruce Haldeman), told me that . 1. 1 ,
3 of Du Pont wh en I ﬁrst knew it :81; ten years an could not have continued but for .the Times and the money it , 1.1 [11 l,11
D0" James Keeley afterwards man in8 It but for a farm weekly he printed m was making, the Daily Courier -Journal 1' 1 1 ‘1 1
ad- edit f th , _ ' 3'3 g ll'le Post plant WhICh 118th him some- would probably have to go into bank- j'“ . 1 13111
H 'or 0 , e Chicago Tribune, and \times as much as $30,000 8» year. ruptcy. His venture with the Times = 1 ‘1 11
, 03$ tiglgzzg-béitgzﬂ’igzung :1: among the oldest employes of the was what saved the day for him. . - 1i: 1 1 1 ,
IN 1 O’sullivan like Allison also 16-“ the Post are George Newman, managing When the bolt by the Courier-Jour- ',1 .j 1
. 1 Courier-Journal to go to the Commer editor and Walter Stauffer, business nail and Times was announced, Mr. , ; 3131 1 ,
‘s of 1, cial. Later he was on the editorial manager, who still serve in these Watterson was in Europe. Old MI, 1 1 111 1 1 1
i the 3 staff of the New York World and still capacities on the Herald-Post; Bl“ Haldeman did that bolting. It show- ‘ I 111 11 1 1
mid- g later on the staff for two cars of Emmy in the composing room, (once ed rare courage on his part, but he 3 .,:,
», Hearst’s New York Journaly under tnhy ffrsesmal‘i’), and John Bowman in did not realize what it was going to 1 1 1 111 1 ‘
con- . Arthur Brisbane. He returned to :p e ro m. 00% him. 1 ' 1 1
ews- ‘ Louisville and for seven years edited mong “105.8 empolyed 0." .the Post Louisville Dispatch 1 1 1 ‘ 11 1
ews- , the Sunday Critics, a paper of his own at different times were William Fin- There was established in 1897 8 new ‘ 1 1 11 1 11 1
creation which aroused a great deal of ley, managing edlmr’ who afterwards “5“” paper in Louisville, called the 1 ' 1 1
the r_ interest and amusement for all ex- Iwent to‘ New York, and Charles F. Dispatch, as a result of the Gender '1 : 1111 11 1
,less 1 cept those who became impaled on hiice, city and telegraph editor, who Journal bolt. It was really run on a 3 1‘ 1111 1 h
we” :1 Dan’s vitriolic pen. this been nowior many years one of shoestring. It had no capital and I 1 I 5 , ,
31.05- 2 My ﬁrst acquaintance 1th 0' ul . e presiding JUdgeS 0f the American ‘ very small plant. There was never as ,1 1 , ' 7' ‘1
eater . w S livan I'urf association; Charles N. Buck, much as 830,000 in money put into the 1 , 3, 1;, 1
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11 1 1 1 paper by its original owners, but it after a few weeks sent for him on his for $18.” 1
11,1 1 1 1 1 soon built, up a circulation of over own terms. In less than three months He was lonesome and homesick. He ’1
111 111111; 1 1_ 35,000 in the state. However, it could his former employer who let him go wanted to see his wife and baby, still I 1‘
:11 :111 1 ' 11 get little advertising from Louisville rather than give him more than $18 a in Paducah. 3“
1-1111121-1-1‘ 11121.1 merchants. The Courier-Journal and week, offered him $24 a week to come I insisted, however, this was the 1
=1 11-111 1 .111“. the Louisville banks saw tothat.Never~ back to the Post. He showed me the starting point and he would soon be 11
111111 1 * theless this paper existed for nearly letter and I said: doing better. A few later months I 1-
111 1 11 four years, Its editor was B. A, En- "You stay here for $24.” was in Washington and met Sam Bly- 1
1 1 1. ‘ - 1.. .1 11 1 toe, who came up from Tennessee, Its In a few months he received an offer the then Washington correspondent 1
15 111111 - 1 =’ 1 managing editor, Charles L. Stewart, of $26 a week from the same source. I for the New York World. afterward 1
1111 1 1 ‘ who came from Virginia. Among its said: 2 noted as a great writer on the Satur- 1
111 principal backers were Allen Carter "Stay here for $26." day Evening Post. He said:

’ 1 1’11 ‘11 1 1.f‘1and W. A. Baird, Main street mer- A little while later at a time when “You will ﬁnd your Paducah boy 1
E 1 1 chants in Louisville who were devoted I was in New York on some very im- over on the World when you get to 1
11111111111 1'11 to Bryan and the free silver cause. portant mission, he wired me he had New York." - 11
11111 . 1' ’ When the Dispatch ﬁnally kicked been offered by Mr. Knott $28 a week How He Got on The World 1'

1 11111 . 11 11 the bucket, I went up to Louisville and and of course he knew I would not I replied: “ How did he get over 11
11111 111 ._ bought practically all the plant at pay that and he was therefore plan- there? Van Ham would not listen to 1
11‘1111'1'11111 . public auction, having few bidders to hing to go back to the Post. I wired me.” 1
111 ‘ » contest with, for practically a. song. I him: Blythe said: “He induced the Even—
11 . 1 1 1‘ 1 think I paid only $6,000 for it. “I am going to give you $30 a week, ing Sun to let him go up to Ports-
11 1 11 1 1 The Paducah Field 1 1 but 11f Dick Knott or anybody else mouth, N. H., to get the peace confer- 1
1111131111111 .1112 1 About that time, in the spring of ofleis you $30.25 a week, prepare to ence between the Japs and Russians. 1
1111114111 ‘ 111 :11» . 1 1901. I dropped into Paducah one day, get out of that town.” “All of us Washington correspondents 11
1111 11'" 11 1.1 1' 11 and found that while there were three However, that $30 silenced old Dick rushed up there but we could not find
111 ‘1 1 1 - daily papers here, none of them was and this boy worked for me for four an earthly thing to write about, but
11‘ i f carrying any telegraphic news. Only years. Finally he came to me saying that made no diﬁerence to your
1111 1111* j 1 1.. one of them had a linotype. All were he felt I had been very good to him; Paducah boy. He wrote it anyway. He
1111113111‘:1 1 1 printed on flat bed presses, which did had paid him more than I could afford scooped the life out of all of 113. A8

2 111 11111 1 1 1 not turn out over 1,500 copies per hour. and more than he was worth to me; I returned, I went to see Van Ham V
11111111111 1 11 1 It seemed to me Paducah, with more that he did not want to ask me for in New York and told him about this 2,
11111111112 1 11 than 20.000 population, (now much more money but he wanted to go to wonderful genius from Kentucky we 11
11111111111111 1 1 1 2 j j nearer 40,000), and a wonderful ﬁeld, New York and get a job there. I ask- had developed at Portsmouth. He '1
111111 1 1 1 ‘1 deserved a more modern newspaper. ed him if he had a job in sight. He said: I wonder if that is not the same 1
11.111 1121 1 1 g I tried to buy the Paducah News but said he had not, but wanted to go and fellow Woodson was talking to me 21
112111151 1; 11 1 1 could not come to terms with the own- try. I ﬁxed him up with a pass from about? ,11
11111: 1 1 1 ers, who were then the Flournoy fam- Paducah to New York and got him Blythe said: “Surely. He worked for 1
111111113111 1 ily and Campbell H. Flournoy was the a Pullman pass too. A few weeks after Woodson four years and he says he
1i 1 11 . editor. But I had this Louisville plant that I was in New York and looked is the most wondeful man he ever em- .1 2
11 11111.1 ‘1 :1 . 1 on my hands so I started a new paper him up. He had no job. He was sore ployecL Van Ham said to me,” said
111 11111111 ‘ 1 1 here called the Democrat, though still and disconsolate. He said he did not Blythe, ‘What do you suppose he is '

1 11161 1 11 1 j maintaining my home and newspaper believe he would ever get a job in New making over on the Sun?" And 1 re-

'1,- 111211 1 1 - 1 . 1 in Owensboro, and after four months York because so many bOys were hang- plied: Now you know the Evening 1

1111-11 1| 1 1 bought the News on my own terms, ing around the newspaper offices Sun does not pay much and this man 1

111 :11-1.. 1 1. 111- and thereby was created the News- hunting for Jobs and he saw no pros. is no common reporter. He is agreat ‘

I1 11. 2 1 1 Democrat. With the ﬁrst stereotype pect. He regretted he had left Padu— genius as Woodson told you. You »

11 111111 , : perfecting press ever in this town. a can. write him a note and hire him on the .

‘ 111 1 1 1 battery of linotypes, the Associated In insisted that he should remain best terms you can get.” 1.

i; 1 . 1 ' 1 Press dispatches, a state wire news and try a little longer. I offered to go “So Van Ham wrote him a note and

121 1:1 : :1 1 , service, a supberb editorial staﬁ, in- down next morning and try to helphim offered him $30 a week to come over

‘ 21111-1 1 1 cluding a corking local cartoon service, get a job. I went to Caleb Van Ham, on the World.”

111111;?111'11‘ f‘ 3 1 “Med 0“ in grand style- But managing editor of the World. I de— When 1 reached New York I tele- 1-.

1 111111111, 111 1 Paducah at that time was not up to scribed this young man to him and phoned down to the World for the 1

1; 1111112113: 1 supporting such a- newspaper. I lost told him that I wanted him to give paducah boy to come up to the Hoff-

_1 111311111; 1 1 3 In average of $1,000 a month for quite him a trial and assured him he was man house far dinner with me. As

111151112 1 ‘ 1 1 a time and kept a constant and erW- no ordinary reporter; that he had we sat down at the cafe table, I said: ’

1111111 . 1 1 ins overdraft. at the City National Worked for me four years and I bad “When you got that note from Van 1

1 1: 1 ,1 1 bank. ‘11::de :hJigiomy Uttergack? found him to be a wonderful genius; Ham offering you $80 a week, What 1

1-21.11 . z .. “C y Asks a 011 that if he would only read some of his did you do?" 1

1'1»; 111:1: 1 1 When I was about to start this copy he would be convinced of all I “What did 1 do? I didn’t wait to

1- 11111 f; 11 11 1 1 paper, I received a letter from a former said. Van Ham said he had no vacan- go down stairs. I just jumped through 1

1 1 _ 1 1 Paducah boy who was on the Louis- cies, had a long waiting list, and could the fourth story window of the Sun, 1

$511111 1 1 2 2 2» 1 ville1Post. It saidz1 do nothing for this chap at that time. taking the window sash on by neck 1*

1111 1 1 : “Since you are gomg to run a mod- I warned him as I left that he would and landed over in the World.” '2

1.111 1111 1 1 . r1 1 cm daily newspaper in my old home some day hear from this young fellow 1 should have said that at that time '11

11 111115 1 1 town, I would like to come back and in the newspaper or literary ﬁeld and we Sun was in a little four story 11

111111 1 1 1 1 1 work for you. I am only getting $18 a would regret that he did not listen to brick. across a narrow street, not over ‘1

11211111 11 1 1 week here and that is all I Will ever me. 151mm, wide, from the great World

11 111 111, 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 get in Loursvrlle. If you Will give me In a day or two afterward, the boy bulldihg,

1111111211 1:1 1 11‘1 $22 a week, (and you ought to be- got a job on the Evening Sun as a re- Some months later, (it was at the f

1; 111 :11 1 : ~ .1; cause YOU are gomg to run a 7-day write man at $35 a week, He said 30 Democratic national convention in 1

1113111151 ‘11 L ‘; paper. Whereas I am working on a me: 1903) ~ I met Sam Blythe again at 1 1

1111 w. 11 1 1 1 6-day paper here), I will be glad to “Thirty-ﬁve dollars a week in New Denver. He said: “Your man has got 1

111 111111 11 1 1 come back to Paducah." York! What is that? I would better a new contract with the World for 1 1

1111 11-1 _1 I did not employ him at once, but be: working for you in Paducah three years at $7,500 a year and is 11

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3 August, 1931 THE KENTUCKY PRESS Page Five 3‘ 1 :3 1 1 1
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1 ‘, going to be permitted to sell his stories not keep’em. Likewise a number of 45,000 to 100,000, and the Sunday ;, 1 ' 1 1
‘ a that he may write that the World those I employed on my Owensboro more than 100 per cent increase from , ‘ ‘ 1 1
" can" “5"" 1° “hers" Papers have gone up into higher DOSi- Courier from 60,000 to 160,000. This is ' ‘ . 1 1 11
1 About three years later, I got off a tions. One of these was Charles Daily, the Daily and 166 per cent for the 3 . ‘1 f
13 car about midnight at 32nd and Broad- once managing editor of the Owens- Sunday. Ido not believe this recordhas ‘ 3 T 1
1 way, New York and on the corner I boro Messenger, and also a Courier- been approached by another news- . 11 1
3 met four Paducah people, Judge Bill Journal man, who has been for years paper in America, but it shows that a 1 1 1‘3
1 Reed, Campbell Flournoy, Hal Corbett chief correspondent of the Chicago Judge Bingham, who had no previous 1 1‘- ‘_ 1' 1 1 1‘
1 and this Paducah chap I have been Tribune in China. newspaper experience, has not only 3 1 1‘1 ‘ 11
1 talking to you about. After a few A pressman I once employed in mastered the business himself but has 2 11‘1 1
1 minutes the Paducah boy took me to Paducah, I met in New York a few been a good “picker" in choosing i1 3 ‘ ‘ 11
1 one side and said: weeks ago. He is now one of the chief Emanuel Levi his general manager, 11 1 1 1 1 11
,' “I've got something to tell you. Iam salesmen of the Goss Printing Press and H. G. Stodghill as business and . 1 1 13 1 1 1
just leaving the World.” Company. circulation manager, as well as re- 11 1'31 ‘1
,1 “What for?” I asked. But I can’t prolong this story. All taining Brainard Platt in the various ‘ 1 ; 1 )3 1
1 “The Saturday Evening Post has that is necessary, young man, to get capacities in which he has acted 31 ‘ 1 ‘3 11
l offered me $20,000 a year to write ex- a good job is to ﬁrst work for Wood— under the new ownership. But there is .3 i 1 1 1 1
, clusively for them and with. permission son and then they will take you on up. nothing more sensational or fragile ‘1 . 1
1' to print my stories in book form, and Paducah Sun-Democrat than newspaper circulation. Mr. 1 ‘ 1
, I get the royalties.” The Paducah Sun was established in Haldeman found that out. 31 1 ‘3 1 i
1 I said: “God bless you boy. Your 1896 by F. M. Fisher. A little later I am not here as an advocate or 1 1 11
‘ fortune is now made.” And we parted. Edwin J. Paxton became associated champion of the Courier-Journal. I '11 ‘ ‘ .
. Since then he has written many with him. That boy was and is a could tell you a lot of mean things 1' 1 : 1
1; books which have had wide sale. One live wire. Elliot Mitchell, who had about the Courier-Journal if I want- 1 1 ‘, 1
little book it would not take ﬁve min- been the managing editor of the Sun ed to—but this is not the place for 1‘ 1 1‘3
. utes to read. “Speaking 0f Opera— since 1914, is in full charge of The that. I have no gun with me, and 111 131 33 1
tions," which was sold at Brentano’s Sun-Democrat, and is now by far the I see Platt already glowering at me. 111 1 .
for 60 cents a CODY. netted him. I am best newspaper Paducah ever had. Flatt has been with the Courier- 111 ; 1 11 1 11
1 told, nearly $30,000 his royalty being Herald-Post Journal and Times since 1894 and he 11 . 1 ‘ ‘ 1 1
'13 10 cents a copy. Coming down to more modern times, believes they can do no wrong. ‘ 1'1. 1 ‘
, I“ I do not know if I have mentioned the Louisville Herald and Post had I must say, however, that if Mr. Wal- 1 1 . 11
‘, 1 the name of this young Paducah chap, fail-1y good plants, abundant for their ter N. Haldeman and Mr. Henry Wat- 1333: , 1331 .3 3 i
L but you have no doubt anticipated me. business at the time they were bought terson could come back to life and see 1331 " ‘3 I 1
', 1 I think I may say it is he for whom in 1925 and consolidated by James B. what has been accomplished with that ,1 1; 1
' i this beautiful hotel is named—Irvin Brown, for about $1,200,000. Today the old property of theirs, they could not . ‘1 f 1 1
. . Cobb. Herald-Post has one of the most com- really believe it. ‘1 ' 1111
_ 1 Successors to Cobb- plete equipments. In spite of its re- But I must hasten to a close. I 1 3 1‘1 1
Z 1: Succeding 001313 On the News-Demo— cent adversity, this paper still retains know I have worn you all out, but it 1 1 111 : ‘ 1 1
1 3 brat was Louis Brownlow, who has a paid circulation of 60,000. A press is hard to crowd my recollections of 3.1.3 5‘ .1
3 11 been city editor of the Louisville Times was bought about ﬁve years ago for a half century into a small space of 31 3. 1, 1,3 3 3
_ l and Washington corresp