xt7c2f7jsx03 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7c2f7jsx03/data/mets.xml Kentucky Kentucky Press Association Kentucky Press Service University of Kentucky. School of Journalism 1932 Call Number: PN4700.K37 Issues not published 1935 Aug - 1937 Oct, 1937 Jul - 1937 Aug, 1939 Oct - Dec, 1940 Jan - Mar, 1951 Aug - 1956 Sep. Includes Supplementary Material:  2005/2006, Kentucky High School Journalism Association contest 2004-2005, Advertising excellence in Kentucky newspapers 2003-2005, Excellence in Kentucky newspapers newsletters  English Lexington, KY.: School of Journalism, University of Kentucky Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. The Kentucky Press Press -- Kentucky -- Periodicals The Kentucky Press, April 1932 Vol.4 No.3 text The Kentucky Press, April 1932 Vol.4 No.3 1932 2019 true xt7c2f7jsx03 section xt7c2f7jsx03 , E 31 i: EE’E "is; E r
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By ADRIAN A. DAUGHERTY which James Marrs was editor. Most of that day, according to Mr. Sommers. E E f E E
Col. H. A. Sommers, dean of journal- of the papers then barely made ex— 113661 Washington hand presses, which E EE " E '1
ism in Kentucky, Thursday, April 7,. penses. A number of them were run theretofore had been the best presses i E :- E is
E observed his gold-en aniversai‘y as editor as sidelines by lawyeis, and not a few known, being of such excellence and - E E ’ E
of The Elizabethtown News, probably were out-and-out political subsidies. dCing such perfect work that they were E ' ‘E E E F
l the best known community newspaper In response to advertising induce— then used by the government bureau ' ‘3 'I E E
E published in Kentucky. ments from merchants of Horse Cave, of engraving for printing all the pa- ' . ME 7 E EE
E Since 1882, when he and W. W. An— - the Democrat was moved to that latter per urrency. Only three or four Ken— E E E E EZEE
derson bought The News, then already town in 1880. and Mr. Sommers re- tucky papers had better presses. E ; -' " EE
13 years a weekly, from Col. H. M. Mc- moved to Elizabethtown, to which place Other equipment at the outset of the , 3 , E F ‘ ;'
Carty, Mr. Summers has edited it, and came Anderson with whom he bought Sommers regime included a hand press "v . E . "it
E during that entire half—century. he ex- The News in 1882. for large bills and a smaller Gordon ‘EE 7 '7;
. claims with pride. not a single issue Mr. Sommel-s and Mr. Anderson had Price and Chandler job press. (The V 5'.» EE r I E
E has missed the mail. despite the usual been classmates at Rockville, Md, and NEWS tOday uses two Price and Chand— ,4 ix E E. EE
4 run of mechanical break-downs and for several years after that had worked 161“ 10b presses in its jOb department.) . E EE l
. the general undependability of the together as civil engineers with the All the type Was handset in those ., I .. E E
nineteenth century equipment long us— Baltimore and Ohio railroad. days, a disadvantage that many editors ‘ . E E E :2’"
ed by The News. _ . When they bought The News, it was partly overcame by having patent in- ‘ E! E . E E 15
i The News was established August 5, published weekly and had a 01“:qu Side or outside pages, on the opposite .. E E E E ‘EE
E 1869, (during the week. of the total tion of approximately 1,100 The is- Sides of which locally handset news E 1. E fig
. eclipse of the sun, reminisces Mr. Som- sues were four-page folio, nine col- was printed. The News, however. Mr. , I 3 ' ” E E éE
E. mers) by Capt. W. A. Bell. a Confed- umns wide—" ....the same size as Sommcrs complacently informed the E. I sE
i erate soldier, and Judge Wesley Mat— the Woodford Sun is today,” observed writer, has never run a stick of copy 2 EEE ' EErf
this. The paper was published up— Mr. Sommers, referring to the Wood- but what was set in its own office. 2, : 3E, vE EEE
stairs in a building. at the corner of fotd county weekly published by his To set Ithe‘type by hand Mr. Som— 1" ‘ E j» iE'E
l‘tace street and Dune avenue. now the long—time friends, the Bowmar broth- mers maintained _a corps of .31 fore- 6,5. 'E t E E ti
Site of a modern garage. PreVlous Lu ers. The Sun is today the only blank- man and four girl compositors, the E E : ‘ .
E the war between the states there had et—size newspaper printed in Kentucky. latter members of_ which corps picked '1‘, ft _ E ' 1
E been several newspapers in Ellzabeth- The major item Of The News' me— up the disconcerting habit of getting E'E gE -. E
. town. but they suspended publication chanical equipment in 1882 was a married and quitting their jobs, ”So,” E13,; I ‘5',
E 50 that during the W31" and “filmyzae country Campbell press. with a re- he says, ”1 1301131“. a. liDOtYDe. WhiCh E - ‘E
- establishment Of The NEW§',t efl e volving cylinder. which was capable does not get married. . iE E f; E
E town W35,W1t1{911t the famlmes 0 any of making 1,000 impressions an hour. . Advertising. for the most part dis- 3:;
10013311 puthMpltltlelt- M t t R, h 'd ‘It was the best press of that day, play. was not unknown to The News , ,E E EE
L :81 ang .a' E5 53 t1?“ 0 fa m costing around $1.100. Motivating pow— in its earlv days. The paper frequent- ‘ 7 g. ' ' E E
'aiue, W O implove edpape: C13?— er for the press was provided by a ly carried full page advertisemEents, ' E E ‘1
:{derabl}? in? Whto' ac?” “if E) 1‘ large wheel. turned by hand. Steam and more often half-page displays ap- . , 1 i 5 liE
. T “Wu “3” (“11:31.11 1111130151“ man power was available. but impracticable, peared. An interesting“ fact. neverthe- . 7 E ; iE
mfg“??- Affler 31;“? éan te 11:31pm; because it was not slow enough. and [655, iS that there W21? practically no “ 1 l E
a ; 10:. ‘me’ e 5“ ‘ile .ta 5 m {91.0. facilities for gearing the press down legal advertising carried; it did not i 3 . ‘ lE
pa..a.y_sls and had to give 1 up, se mg were not adequate. exceed 50 dollars’ worth in the course ,, ‘ .
t0 Wickliffe Chapman. of Lebanon. M S _ t th t h of a whole year _, 1 E E .Lj.
Cha man in turn sold out to Col. H. r. ommers COHJEC ures a e ' ‘ . i, ,E {l
p . . has used virtually every kind of power In 1885 MI" Sommels assumed full :v ; l :‘E E
M. McCalty, who conducted the paper . control and ownershi of Th N s ., E .E , E.
. a. . ever employed to run a press during ‘ p e ew, 1V , l ‘ ;
until MBSJS. Sommers and Andelson . . bu m. out the interest of And r‘o , t ,. ,1
formed a partnership and bought it in the time that he has been arbiter 0f whyo geturned t W sh' to Sbél’ 1 3 E E E3
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1882‘ The .NEWSE' dHe begiantwiith tfilggeir whence he had come thrge years be— .: E E E E
° Mr. Sommers had come to Kentucky 130W“ apple as m 1C3 ‘3 m e 1316' fore and where he now lives «.3». 1 f I ; 3E.
., . . . .- . ceding paragraph, and graduated to an . ' - ‘ ‘:
fiom Maiyland foul years mm. to that, . . . . _ In 1902 Mr Sommers bou ht and .. E V.
- - - _ 011 engine, which was fairly effiCient, j . g ' _ ii‘ -. it
in 1878, With two letters of introduc ' m d h‘ 0m int th b 'ldln , s
' _ . 9.: but which backfired occaSlonally and eye is ce ‘0' e 1“ g , 3 E .7,
tion, one to 001‘ Henry watt“1”0n’ - . - which it now occu les at the corner ~' ' ' iv ' “'4
. ~ . - . 1 violently, causmg some little discom- . . p 3 E 'E:
\ epochal editor of the Courlei Journa. . of Dine avenue and Mulber street , E E .;
~ . . _ ~ at fiture to the staff members by eJect— ry , . . .. E‘ ,l . E.
Seemingly thele is no relation bc ween . . aross from the post ofiijce building ’ E t,
the letters and the fact that Mr. Som— ing them forelbly from the office by bein erected _ EEE; .' E "
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Kentucky, established the Hart Coun— draullc motor, run by water .from the In the mean ime, e 8W5 a EEE ‘ ‘1 E
E ty Democrat, at Munfordsville’, He municipal water system, furnished th? changed from a four-page nine-col: EE; I g
had had no newspaper experience prior driving power of the press. When umn paper to an. eight-page of 81x .l, , H E
to that time, and the first line that he the level of the water in the stand- columns. .It continued as a weekly :EE ‘i
ever wrote was his salutatory in his pipe was low and the pressure too paper until 1906 when it was changed it} . E’E
own paper in 1878. At that time, Mr. weak to use. a gasoline engine.” con~ to'a seml‘weeklyv Wlth TUESdaYS find . , 1 iii ,
Summers recalls, there were only two vulsive and fickle as a woman" was Fridays as the days Of publication. { EEE' E
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( was not diminished in the least. it established the Leader, making a suc— he was acquainted with so many oc— 131 3 1
1 remaining eight-page and sixcolumn. cess of it financially and in the infiu— cupants of the press gallery, and with 1 1 11
1 column. ence which he wielded through its somany statesmen); he managed Wil— 1 11 f' .1,
1., W. H. Marriot, nephew to Mr. Som— columns} and Urey Woodson, of Owens— liam Jennings Bryan’s first-campaign ,; . 1 1 1 i151
mers, in 1907, at the age of 16, became boro, who converted the Messenger in Kentucky, being state chairman of 1 ‘1 11 1: 1 £23 1
a member of The News staff. He has from a semi-weekly to a daily; he de— his organization. But during all his ' 11 1
been with The News ever since, now served success because he was one of activities he did not neglect The News. -' , 1 - ' s1 1
being associate editor and general the best newspaper men in Kentucky.” Even when traveling abroad for four 1 1 1 1 1 i 1'1
' manager. Mr. Sommers himself has “The Louisville Times and Post,” he months on one occasion he wrote let- 1 1 11 f3 1511‘ 1‘
not worked very much in the plant of digresses still further from the subject ters back regularly and by that meth- ‘ ' , 1 -‘ ! 1
The NeWS for several years; he main- of himself, “both were established 0d guided its course. 1 1‘ 1 .1 ' 1‘11
tains an office in a down town hotel since I came to Kentucky. Both were Because of impaired vision, Mr. Sorn- ‘1 ‘1 11 " 1 1;~.:l‘
1 where he‘ does his work and (from) started with good editors. Emmett mers has not read a newspaper or ; ‘v 1“ 1 1.1;;
1 where, as editor, directs the policy of Logan, of the Times, was the brightest magazine during the past seven years. 1 . 1 1 E
. the paper. paragrapher the state ever knew. Rich— Yet, he has kept up with everything 1 1 , :1
1 During the present editor‘s connec— ard T. Knott, of the Post, next to Wat- that is going on by having news and , 1 " 111 ,f" 1
_, tion with Elizabethtown he has seen terson, was the best editorial writer other matter lead ,to him by his secre— ‘ ‘ 11
1 the arrival, life, and departure of four in the state.” tary. Aided by an uncannily precise ‘ 9 . 11 1
,‘ other papers. The Democrat, Messen- The Elizabethtown News, he "has memory, he is better and more accur— 1‘? 1 f '3’ 1. 1
1 ger, and the Independent all failed, been told” and everyone else knows“ ately informed on current events and 1 1' 13 ‘11 fit
and the fourth, the Mirror, was bought has the distinction that its editorial matters than is the most persistent ‘1 1 11 ;‘ 123111
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. with it. By the succession of papers are quoted from more than any other “As you know,” he said for the only - 3 r ,3 1‘1
1 . there has been nearly always during paper’s in the state. time that he betrayed to the writer _1 1 11 1?
i The News’ existence at least one rival The writer, apropos of this fact, in- any semblance of possessive gratifica- .‘ 11 ‘11 1",
“ paper; the present one is the Hardin terposed that it was not at all unusual tion in his success, “I am dean of Ken- . :11 ‘1 . ‘1 1111
County Enterprise. for his (Mr. Sommers’) friends, Dan tucky journalism, and my 54 years as ' ' 1111 11 1"“
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3 faster than the Campbell, its prede— ials, not because we’re good friends.” is more appositely expressed in the .‘;‘1 51 1,
1' cessor. The Babcock served until two he rejoined confidently. conclusion of his April 3 editorial, re- 1'1 1 ’ 1 :11
, years ago when it was replaced by a The name, Harry A. Sommers, truly marking his golden jubilee as editor: . :11 ‘1 :1
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it must be geared'down to be conson- 't'crials. Yet, neWs to chronicle, Harry anthem of rejoicing that the editor, ”=1 11'1” ' 11 1. 1
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feeders. “Henry Augustine is my name.” he the indulgence of the public, has lived ‘1' , 31 1
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1 about three times what it was when only a nickname. My mother used to anhiyegsaiy as the editor of The Eliza- .1 ., ‘11 7 . 1
, Mr. Sommers first became editor. The call me that after my father at home bethtown News." , 1‘ 1 j, l;
1 advertising. ei'lclusive of legal. is about and my brother picked it up. and call- Notwithstanding all that service, Mr. » 1 1: 1 31
five times as much, running regularly ing me that here while associated with Sommers still does not consider his 1 11 : 1 , t1
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note that during the week of the edi- onel Harry. But Henry’s my name.” three columns for each issue. He is ~ . 1 1 ‘1‘ 1‘1
. orial ,golden jubilee ‘the paper was Colonel Harry Sommers, then, as he not a disciple of retrospection and 1 ‘ :1111'
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the corresponding period of last year ily and eternally a journalist. He was “I don’t believe in looking back," he 1 1 f 11
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its present low level. Press Association, meeting at Paducah ways looking ahead, no matter how 1 1 1; ,1 1
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paucity 0f profitable newspapers in he attended the meeting in Paducah going to keep on working_ I suppose 1 ‘11 1 1:1
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_ Mr. Sommers remarked that now near— elation banquet. write!” ' -‘ j , ‘ 1
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‘ make expenses, and that 30 or 40 are of the Federal Land Bank in Louis- The annual Clean Up, Paint Up and 1, ‘1 11“
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