Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 81, 8 February 1912 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1912.

EDUCATORS ARE TO HOLD DIG . MEETING jv,; - . . f School Problems Will Be ' Discussed by Prominent School Experts. (National Nmw Association) ' 8T. LOUI8, Feb. 8.-8t. Louis is preparing to entertain a large gather ' lag of distinguished educators the last three days of this month, when the department of superintence of the National Educational association will bold its annual meeting in this city. The local committee in charge of arrangements Is In receipt of advices indicating that the meeting will be unusually well attended. More than a core of college presidents are expected together with many well known professors and superintendents of schools from all parts of the country. At the coming meeting, for the first time in the history of the association.

the several departments will meet;

jointly. The' divisions are: National Council of Education, Department of Normal SChoels, National Society of College Teachers' Education, National Committee on Agricultural Education and the Educational Press association of America. Among the noted educators who will address the gathering are P. P. (Maxton, United States commissioner of education; Superintendent Carrol G. Pcarse, of Milwaukee, president of the National .Educational association; A. O. Thomas, , president of the State Normal School, Kearney, Neb.; Homer II. Seerley, president of Iowa State Teachers' college. Cedar Falls, la.; David B. Johnson, president of Winthrop Norman and Industrial college. Rock Hill, 8. C; Prof. Bird T. Baldwin, of the University of Texas; Prof. V. A? C. Ilenmon, of the University of Wisconsin; Prof. William H. Heck, of the University of Virginia; Prof. Elmer E. Jones, of the University of Indiana; Prof. George F. James, of the University of Minnesota; Prof. Charles DeOarmo, of Cornell university; Prof. Edward F. Bucbner of Johns Hopkins university: Joseph H. Hill, president of the State Normal School, Emporia, Kan.; Charles McKenny, president of the State Normal School, Milwaukee, Wis.; Julian A.' Burruss, president of BUte Normal School, Ilarrlsonvllle, Va.; Ernest O. Holland, superintendent of schools of Louisville; A. Ross Hill, president of the University ot Missouri; . W. L. Stephens, superintendent of schools of Lincoln, Neb.; Calvin N." Kendall, commissioner of education of New Jersey; and Owen R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee.

A TALE OF A REPORTER'S STORY

It Filters Through Many Different Mediums Before It Reaches the Public The Latter Cross If Paper Isn't on Time.

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BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. "There's nothing in the paper today," says a member of the family tossing it on4be floor. And yet there are the same eight to fifteen pages which appeared the day before and a week ago and this time last year. Whether or not there Is anything in the paper according to tho taste of the person reading it, just the same amount ot mechanical and mental and physical effort is expended on its daily issue. No one, who has never been connected or associated with a newspaper office, oven ihe most modest printing menage, has any possible conception of the trouble it frequently takes to run down and impale the most harmless and Innocent "Item of news."

In Instance, the account ot tne monthly meeting of Borne missionary society. Who reads the accounts of missionary meetings, is contemptuously asked by the man who peruses the sporting page to the exclusion of everything else. Every member, possibly, of that society, and a lot more. If a name is spelled wrong you will And out the next day Just how closely that particular account is scanned. And you go about it something like this. You call up the hostess of the affair.

After reoeated rings, she answers

the telephone. You ask her in your

most dulcet tone if she will give you a Bynopsis of the proceedings. She says she would be glad to but that she was out superintending the preparation of the lunch and so lost out on the program. She tells you to call up some one else. You do so. This lady, although an offcial, has only a vague memory of what occurred. "We had a perfectly splendid meeting," she avows. "One of the best we have ever had." "What was the subject of discussion?" you ask. "Well. I don't exactly remember-

but it was very interesting. Mrs. Blank

and Mrs. Blanky Blank had perrectiy splendid papers. Mrs. Blank's was sim

ply fine.

You diplomatically lead up to tne subject of those papers. She can't remember their exact titles but they were simply fine. And don't forget to mention the lunch, she adds It was perfectly splendid. The best chicken patties I ever put into my mouth. Oh, yes, well you might call up the secretary. She can probably give you the subjects. The secretary stated that she was so busy with her notes that she didn't have time to pay much attention to the subject of the papers. The titles? Why they're in the year book. Didn't I send you a year book? I didn't? Well I'll mall you one tomorrow. Too late then to find out the titles of the papers? Oh, I see. Well, call up the president. She'll know. She presided. The president says that it is the secretary's place to give out Information to the papers. You say the secretary 'told you to call her up. Oh, is that so,

says the president. Well the fact is I

was so taken up with other duties that I didn't pay much attention to the titles call up Mrs. Blank, chairman of the program committee. Mrs. Blank says she didn't get there

on account of company coming in but, j

wait, she will get the year book. Prolonged wait. Return of Mrs. Blank who says she can't Imagine what she has done with her year book. Can't find it any place. In desperation you call up Sarah. You ask Sarah to ask her mother to

tell you who read the papers at the missionary society. Say mother, you hear Sal say, with her hand over the mouthpiece, the Dispatch wants to know who read the papers at the missionary society. "Tell her to call up the president," says mother. "I can't be bothered with these newspaper people calling me up every whipstitch. Besides I didn't get there until after the program was over. Tell her I don't know." "Mother says," Baid Sal sweetly, "that she didn't go today and so can't tell. She'd be awfully glad to do so if she could." "Thank you very much," you say. Then you write something like this: "An unusually interesting meeting of the women's home and foreign missionary society oi the Sixth Unitarian church was held this afternoon with

Mrs. Blankum in her charming home in Suburbaton, the fine day taking out a larger representation of the membership than usual, not only on account of the interest of the occasion and the merits of the program, but because of

the well known cordial hospitality of the hostess. Mrs. Blankum had the house simply decorated with the emblems of the season, a large red bell being hung over the president's chair. The program comprised a number of papers on various phases of the line of study being this year pursued by the society and

were presented in a thoroughly exhaustive and intensely interesting manner. "Later a lunch was served and there was an informal musical program." Next day you come down and the city editor glowers at you. "I wish," he said, "that you'd attend to your business better. Here I am deviled to death with inquiries as to why you didn't give a better account of that missionary society out at Blankurns. They had an important meeting, I'm told, appropriated one hundred dollars for the Y. M. C. A. and Indorsed Hanly for president." "Why I I" "Oh you you. The president herself called me up and lodged a complaint Said you never got anything right." And so It goes. A "news item," of eight or ten lines may have taken several hours to formulate In the tracking down of the absolute facts and the nailing down of the "evidence." The truth is that many mistakes are not the fault of the scribes but the fault of the sources of information. As has been said here before, the lack of accuracy on the part of the average human, both in observation and statement of fact, is one of the first

eye-openers of the newspaper novice. A statement that goes rippingly off the tongue and sounds to the person making it all right, may have quite a different appearance in print. Neither does the average scanner of the columns of the daily paper have any conception of how many different mediums a "story" as everything Is called in a newspaper office goes through before it reaches the public. The reporter goes out to look up facts pertaining to some local happening. Returns with his notes, often hastily taken, of necessity, and in a handicap

ping position. After deciphering them and writing out his account he goes over it and "fixes it up," and hands it to the city editor. The city editor "edits" it that Is, eliminates all superfluities of statement and style, prunes down the sentences, cuts out any "fine writing? attempted by the reporter, pastes the remnants together and sends it out to

the "board," whereon reposes all the "copy," to be turned into reading matter for the paper's public. The man at the lynotype machine "sets it up," and empties it "on the dump" the big table from which the galleys are made up for the taking of proofs. The' "man on the dump," arranges It in the galley, with other "stories," if your own isn't, a long one, inks the whole and takes the proof into the proof reader. The proof-reader is not the person who wrote the story, nor the city editor. He or she goes over It, corrects all errors of construction and sends it out for correction by the man on the machine. He makes the corrections. And here is the point in the evolution of the reporter's story which is crucial. Very few people understand that, with a linotype machine a whole line has to be re-set if but one letter in one

word is wrong. In the old method of hand construction, the letter alone had to be changed.

Hence the lynotype operator may

make a worse mistake in some word

in the line, originally correct, than

was corrected in the first place.

If a revise of the proof is not taken, the mistake goes through to the pub

lic.

i If a revise is taken, this mistake

will be seen by the proof-reader and a

correction made.

The reporter's story then goes to the

makeup man who places it in the form

By "form" is meant the mechanical

production of one page of a newspaper.

This is then wheeled to the stereotyping room where the process of taking an impression of the made up page is gone through with several different people taking a hand at this making of the "mat" for the paper is printed, not from the types, but from a metal

impression taken from the latter

through the medium of a paper mat. This circular metal plate is finally

placed on the press and the process of

running off the paper is commenced. So the reporter's story, whether important or not, has been put through the mill and he, himself, never knows what it is going to look like until he seizes a paper and hastily scans it later on. And it is because of these mechanical processes that it is often impossible to get something in the paper that

is brought in late, to the mystification j

and irritation, sometimes, ot the one wishing it inserted. Consider, always, the haste with which all this has to be done. The material secured, the story written, set up. rail-roaded through all in time to get to the reader at the usual hour to avoid the "kick" which invariably comes if the paper is not delivered on schedule time.

The truth is the making of a daily

newspaper is one of the most compli

cated and absorbing of processes.

That more mistakes, in "makeup,"

are not made is the surprising thing.

And this refers not to the substance of

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the article itself, but its mechanical reproduction. On the other hand, very few mistakes of other character are maliciously made. The haste, the necessarily concentrated statement, the effort to present the whole in readable and at

tractive form is not entirely

work. ' The majority ot newspapers are am-; lable and well meaning and, in the end, do a greater public service than almost any other Institution of a community.

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