The Press: At the Waldorf

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The smaller fry saw another sign forming in their minds: Blatancy pays if used at the right moment. Well does the Tribune know this. When it sets out to fight a roughneck, its editorial writers use the language of the street. When it built a tabloid in New York City for more than a million readers, it gave the subway eyes what they wanted but did not overstep the bounds of decency as did Bernarr Macfadden's pornoGraphic. When it founded the weekly, Liberty, it knew that it would have to be louder than the Saturday Evening Post.*

Few men know their public better than Col. McCormick & Capt. Patterson. Of the two, Capt. Patterson is the better newshawk, the more imaginative. He is credited with suggesting the characters of Andy & Min Gump to Cartoonist Sidney Smith. Capt. Patterson has hatched many of his startling schemes while contemplating the fine cattle and hogs which he breeds on his farm at Libertyville, Ill. Col. McCormick does much of his thinking while taking long walks.

Edward Hubert Butler, 44, who went to Yale a few years after McCormick & Patterson, was elected president of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. His paper is the Buffalo News, biggest in a city where the competition is so great that the highways for 200 miles around are punctuated every mile with newspaper signboards. He has a big, handsome jaw, banking interests, and is a director of the Associated Press.

Frank Brett Noyes, 64, who knows politicians, likes the sun, travels widely, was re-elected president of the Associated Press. His paper is the Washington Star.

Maj. Edward Bushrod Stahlman, 84^, was the oldest active newspaper publisher at the convention. Born in Mecklenburg, Germany, he came to the U. S. to build railroads before purchasing the Nashville Banner. His never lukewarm rival, Luke Lea of the Nashville Tenneseean, was also present.

Adolph S. Ochs, 70, publisher of the New York Times, was honored by the Associated Press at a dinner at Sherry's to commemorate his 50th anniversary as a newspaper publisher.

Walter Ansel Strong, 44, tall, hefty, was congratulated on the new plant his Chicago Daily News, famed home paper, is building on the Chicago River. This plant will have a public piazza and fountains in its front yard.

Samuel P. Weston, newspaper doctor, had a busy time being consulted by publishers yearning to know what was wrong with their papers. Canny, he refused to divulge the names of any of his clients. However, it is known that, as an engineer, he helped design the plants of the New York Herald Tribune and the Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal.

Col. S. L. Slover, publisher of the Norfolk, Va., Ledger-Dispatch, packed up his new kit bag with zipper fastening; it was his prize for winning the annual golf tournament of the A. N. P. A. at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club.

John C. Martin, suave vice president of the Philadelphia Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post, was pointed out as the most heavily insured man in the U. S. He carries $6,500,000 worth of life insurance in 23 companies.

James Wright Brown, publisher of Editor & Publisher, famed for his greeting of "How," distributed to friends many a package of Lucky Strike cigarets with his name on them.