VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK
BY L. L. STEVENSON
The publicity seeker—and his
name Is the well-known legion—Is
one of the banes of the life of a
New York newspaper man. Hardly
a liner arrives but that an Indivi­
dual, or some one representing some
one else, comes to the ship news re­
porters with the suggestion of a
"good story." Experts In tlielr line,
the ship news men are quick to
weed out the phonies. Occasionally
one slips through and that encour­
ages others. Ship news photograph­
ers are equally besieged. Reporters
assigned to City Hall get their full
share of the publicity hounds, pho­
nies visiting there daily in the hope
of wangling a line or two of print.
All big trials, of course, attract
them in numbers. Last year, many
made the Journey to Flemington, N.
J., and obtained tickets to the
Hauptmann trial not only because
of Interest in the proceedings but In
the hope of mention.
• • •
Many of those whose earnest de­
sire Is publicity are meal tickets for
press agents. They don't care much
what Is said about them so long ns
they get Into the papers. So the
press agents dig up ancient gags
and attach names of their clients.
Or they manufacture bright stuff
and accredit to some one who never
had an Idea—save seeing bls name
In type. Many actors, fortunate
enough to have engagements, do not
depend on the press agent of the
show but employ press agents of
tlielr own. Radio performers do the
same. With them, however. It Is
strictly business. But they have
stern competition with a lot of ama­
teurs.
• • •
That yearning for publicity has
been capitalized by others than
press agents. Night clubs frequent­
ed by columnists, other scribblers
and photographers play to such a
clientele. All sorts of courtesies are
extended to the Indies and gentle-
ment of the press because their
presence draws a class of trade
willing to spend money, and that
balances up whatever may be con­
sumed "on the house."
• • •
Down In Miami recently, George
Ade, Bruce Barton, John N. Wheel­
er and Grantland Rice called on
Carl Fisher, who developed Miami
Beach and who lost his fortune In
the development of Montauk Point.
In the course of reminiscences, Mr.
Fisher told a story of Barney Old­
field with whom be was closely as­
sociated in the old days. Oldfield
was racing on a small track on a
bad day with not more than a thou­
sand persons present. The greasy
track nnd a blowout caused him to
crnsh through the fence and kill or
severely Injure two spectators. Lat­
er Oldfield informed Fisher that If
every man, woman and child, who
had shaken hnnds with him since
that accident and told him they
were present when It happened, had
been truthfully there there would
have been such a large nnd lucra­
tive crowd he never would have had
to drive again.
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Another press agent yarn Just
bobbed up. It seems that the pub­
licity man of a well known night
club was eager to get In touch with
one of the editors of a weekly mag-
nzlne in the hope of landing a radio
spot for one of his clients. For
three weeks he haunted the editor’s
office with no success. Worn out
and In despair, he went to the club
that employed him one evening and
began to soak up his boss* liquor.
Willie so doing, he met a pleasant
companion nnd they drank together
until 3 a. m. As they were parting,
they exchanged names. You've
guessed it—the drinking pnl was
the editor and not once nad the
client's name been mentioned I
C U.I1 Siudlc»!«.—W.NU SorvIM.
PERHAPS RETIRED
Life Is a Business
Ancient Treasures
of China Beckon
Research Experts
Buried Cities May
Reveal Early History
HAT part of the ancient
next capture
W world will
popular fancy?
Opening King Tut’s wonder­
ful tomb made the world “Egypt
conscious” a few years back.
Then the archaeological spot­
light flared on Babylonia. Royal
graves at Ur of the Chaldees were
unearthed, and the world was
awed to learn how much beauty, and
how much callous barbarism there
was in a state funeral over 5,000
years ago.
“What next?” is the question that
archeologists are being asked.
Those who are watching the Far
East answer—“China.” For China
is at last venturing to look under
the blanket that hides her buried
history. And already surprising ob­
jects are being discovered.
Contents of buried cities and
tombs are now clearing up points
in Chinese history, replacing vague
traditions with substantial facts,
according to C. Martin Wilbur,
young student of Chinese civiliza­
tion.
Life is a business we are all apt
to mismanage: either living reck-
I lessly from day to day, or suffering
ourselves to be gulled out of our mo­
ment by the Inanities of custom.
Today is the tomorrow you worried
about yesterday—and all is well.
But can you, offhand, name any­
body benefited by 80-mlles-an-hour
except undertakers?
Man who doesn't vote thinks it
excuses him If he says “I would vote
If they'd make everybody' vote.”
“I'd like to see that office boy
of ours thirty years from now.”
“Why so?”
"He ought to make a wonder as
a tired business man."
Reap a Destiny
!
Sow an action and reap a habit
sow a habit and reap a character,
sow a character and reap a destiny.
All men consider their rights with
a great deal of solicitude. How
many consider their duty?
Try to be nice to other people not
officiously, but easily nnd comfort­
ably In the run of the day.
Sooner or later the clock stops for
the man who goes on the theory that
there Is a sucker born every minute.
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Clews From Skeletons.
For Instance, Mr. Wilbur explains,
ft is significant when Chinese arch­
eologists dig at the old ruined cap­
ital An Yang, and find ten headless
skeletons and, burled quite apart
from them, ten heads. These ten
hapless Chinese were beheaded
some time between 1400 nnd 1100 B.
C. in tlie Sliang dynasty to make
a royal funeral, very much as roy­
alties of Ur of the Chaldees and
early Egyptian kings had courtiers
sacrificed and buried with them.
The ten skeletons have been
found with hands in position, indi­
cating that the hands were tied
behind the backs. Thongs that held
them have, of course, decayed. The
tomb in which they were burled
that of a king or ruler. Judging by
other evidences of a stately funeral.
How this discovery upsets Chinese
tradition is explained by Mr. Wil­
bur:
Human Sacrifices.
“It was known previously that
the Chinese practiced human sac­
rifice occasionally to provide attend­
ants for rulers after death. An
emperor, for example, might take
his concubines with him to the
grave. But tradition has always held
that the Chinese merely copied the
custom from barbarian neighbors.
Now, tradition is discounted, for the
evidence shows that China nlready
had the custom in quite early times.”
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