So the Persian rugs and walnut7 panelling of his private suite8 in the huge Birdlip Building saw him rarely. He was supremely9 happy in the dingy10 sanctum at the back of the old Lens office, where the hum of the presses and the racket of the city room (which he still, by an innocent misunderstanding, called the “sitting room”) delighted his guileless heart. He would sit turning over the pages of each edition as it came upstairs (putting his second finger up to his tongue before he turned each leaf) and poring industriously12 over the market reports, the comics, and the Woman's Page. With his pink cheeks, his dapper little figure in a brown suit and cream-coloured waistcoat, and his eager, shy, chirping13 manner, he was very like a robin14. Although he was full of gigantic schemes, which he broached15 naively16 in the editorial council every now and then, he never wittingly interfered17 with his editor-in-chief, in whom he had full confidence. But his gentle and jejune18 mind had a disastrous19 effect on the paper no less. Almost unconsciously the Lens was written and edited down to his standard, as a roomful of adults will amiably20 prattle21 so as to carry along a child in the conversation.
Mr. Birdlip's amazing success in his original field had been due partly to his decent sagacity, honesty, and persistence22, and partly to his sheer fortune in finding (at the very outset of his enterprise) several men of rugged23 ability, who became the pearls in his simple oyster-shell. As a result of this, it had become his fixed24 mental habit to believe that somewhere, some day, he would encounter the man or men who would make the Lens the greatest newspaper in the country. This, indeed, was his candid25 ambition, and he never went anywhere without keeping his eyes open for the anticipated messiah.
He was greatly taken by broad primitive26 effects: when he noticed that a Chicago daily always called itself “The World's Greatest Newspaper” he was marvellously struck by the power of this slogan, and lamented27 that he had not thought of it first. The question as to whether the slogan were true or not never occurred to him. He liked to have the keynote sentences in the leading editorial emphasized in blackface type, so that there might be no danger of any one's missing the point. Desiring for his beloved sheet “this man's art and that man's scope,” as the sonnet28 puts it, every now and then he thought he had discovered the prodigy29, and some new feature would be added to the paper at outrageous30 expense, only to be quietly shovelled31 out six months or a year later. In the meantime, the auditor32 was growing very gray, and even Mr. Birdlip's quick blue eye was sometimes hazed33 with faint perplexity when he studied the circulation charts. Perhaps it would have been kinder if someone could have told him that a boyhood spent in splitting infinitives34 is not sufficient training for one to become an Abraham Lincoln of the newspaper business.
As he trotted35 in and out of the Lens office, with his rosy36 air of confidence and his disarming37 simplicity (which made his white hair seem a wanton cruelty on the part of Time, that would wither38 a man's cells while his mind was still on all fours), Mr. Birdlip was the object of furtive39 but very sharp study on the part of some cynical40 journalists whom he hired. It was a genuine amazement41 to Sanford, the dramatic critic, that the owner was so entirely42 unaware43 of his (Sanford's) abilities, which certainly (he thought) called for a salary of more than sixty dollars a week. Sanford often meditated44 about this, and not entirely in secret. In fact, it was generally admitted among the younger members of the staff, when they gathered at Ventriloquo's for lunch, that the Old Man was immaculately ignorant of all phases of the newspaper business. While the spaghetti and mushrooms cheered the embittered45 gossips, merry and quaint46 were the quips sped toward the unsuspecting target. Sanford's private grievance47 was that though for over a year he had been doing signed critiques of plays, which were really spirited and honest, not once had the Old Man condescended48 to mention them, or to show any sign of uttering an Ecce Homo in his direction. As far as he was concerned, he felt that the weekly battle of Manila Envelopes was a conspicuous50 rout51, and he frequently rehearsed the exact tone in which he would some day say to the managing editor: “You may fire when ready, Gridley.” Little did Sanford realize that the only time Mr. Birdlip had attempted to read the “Exits and Entrances” column he had met the name of ?schylus, had faltered52, and retreated upon the syndicated sermon by the Rev53. Frank Crane.
“I saw 'Ruddigore' the other evening,” said Sanford to his cronies, as they called for a second round of coffee. “There's a line in it that describes old Birdie fore11, aft, and amidships. Something like this: 'He is that particular variety of good old man to whom the truth is always a refreshing54 novelty'.”
They complauded. Rightly or wrongly, these high-spirited and sophisticated young men had decided55 that Mr. Birdlip's na?veté was so refreshingly56 complete that it gave them an aesthetic57 pleasure to contemplate58 it. It had the exquisite59 beauty of any absolute perfection. Their employer's latest venture, which had been to pay $200,000 for the exclusive right to publish and syndicate the mysterious formulae of a leading Memory Course, had shocked them very greatly.
It touched them in a tender spot to know that there had been all that money lying round the office, unused, which was now to be squandered60 (as they put it) on charlatanry61, when they felt that they might just as well have had some of it.
“The Old Man is always looking for some special stunt62, and trying to discover someone on the outside,” said one. “He can't see the material right under his nose.”
“It's really rather pathetic: he's crazy to get out a great newspaper, but he hasn't the faintest idea how to do it.”
“Circulation's easy enough, if that's what you're after. The three builders of circulation are Sordid64, Sensational65, and Sex—”
“And the greatest of these is Sex.”
“He panders67 to stupidity. He's fallen for this Memory bunk68. And when he finds that's a flivver, he'll try something else, equally fatuous69. He's making the old Lens ridiculous.”
They smoked awhile, meditatively70.
“What I would like to figure out,” said Sanford, “is some way of making an impression on the Old Man. I've got to get more money. The trouble—some part of it is, I feel instinctively71 that he and I live in different worlds. We hardly even talk the same language. Well, there's no chance of his learning my way of thinking; so I suppose I'll have to learn his.”
“As far as we are concerned, yes. But there's plenty of the stuff going round on Fridays for the kind of people he understands.”
“He seems to be an absent-minded old bird. When I talk to him, it's as though I were trying to speak through a fog.”
“It looks to me as though his mind had overstayed its leave of absence.”
“He likes the kind of men who, as he says, 'have both feet on the ground'.”
“Yes, but you've got to have at least one foot in the air if you're going to get anywhere.”
“See here,” said the literary editor, who was more tolerant than the others. “What's the use of panning the Old Man? He's trying to put the paper over, just as hard as we are. Maybe harder. But he doesn't know. And I believe he knows he doesn't know. I think the chief trouble is, they all knuckle72 down to him so. They're scared of him. They think the only way they can hold their jobs is by agreeing with him. If someone could only put him wise——”
“But how can you put him wise? He doesn't see anything unless it's laid out for him in a strip cartoon or a full-page ad. The kind of thing that interests him is the talk he hears in a Pullman smoker73 or club car.”
“That's a fact. You know he always says he likes to go travelling, because he picks up ideas from people on the train. 'Of course I place you! Mr. Mowbray Monk74 of Seattle. And is your Rotary75 Club still rotating?' That kind of talk.”
“I think you're right,” said Sanford. “He doesn't see us because we have too much protective colouring. We are only the patient drudges76. We don't talk that Pullman palaver77 about Big Business. We've got to learn to talk his language. What is that phrase of Bacon's—we've got to bring ourselves home to his business and bosom——”
“Let's get back to the office,” said the disillusioned78 literary editor. “That's the way to bring home the bacon.”
A few days later Sanford was at his desk, clipping and pasting press agents' flimsies for the Saturday Theatre Page. This was a task which he hated above all others, and he was meditating79 sourly on the scarcity80 of truth in human affairs. At this moment Mr. Birdlip happened to pass along the corridor outside the editorial rooms. Sanford heard him say:
“Miss Flaccus, will you get me a seat in the club car, ten o'clock train to-morrow? I've got to run over to New York to take lunch with Mr. Montaigne.”
Sanford put down his shears81, relit his pipe, and began to pursue a fugitive82 idea round the suburbs of his mind. Presently he drew out his check book from a drawer and did some calculating on a sheet of paper. “A hundred dollars,” he said to himself. “I guess it's worth it.”
The following morning, dressed in a new suit and with shoes freshly burnished83, Sanford was at the terminal twenty minutes before train time. With him was a young man carrying a leather portfolio84. To observe the respectful demeanour of this young man, no one would have suspected that he was Sanford's young brother-in-law, rejoicing in cutting his classes at college for a day's masquerading. Sanford bought some cigars (a form of smoking which he detested) and carefully removed the bands from all but one of them.
Presently Mr. Birdlip appeared, cheerfully trotting85 up the stairs. Sanford and his companion followed discreetly86. As Mr. Birdlip went through the gate, they were close behind. Entering the club car, Mr. Birdlip sat down and opened a morning paper. Sanford and his companion were prompt to take the two adjoining seats. Sanford began to look over System and Printers' Ink, and perhaps his interest in these vigorous journals was not wholly unfeigned, for it was the first time he had studied them. The young man beside him drew out a mass of papers from his leather bag, and in a moment of stillness just before the train started said in a clear voice:
“Pardon, sir, but there is some important dictation here that ought to be attended to.”
Sanford assumed the air of a man wearied with tremendous affairs. .
“Very well, what comes first?”
“The New York Budget has wired for an answer in regard to their proposition.”
Sanford blew a luxurious87 whiff of smoke. “Take this letter: My dear Mr. Ralston. Replying to your inquiries88 as to whether I would be willing to take charge of the editorial page of the Budget for a few months, to put the paper on its feet, I am willing to consider the matter, and would be pleased to discuss it with you if you will run over to see me. I am very busy just now, and could not possibly undertake the work for some weeks. I have been retained in an advisory89 capacity by a big Western syndicate which was badly in need of some circulation building; and until I can put their paper up to a half-million figure I have not much spare time. Their paper has gone up a couple of hundred thousand since I mapped out a campaign for them, but I would not feel justified90 in discontinuing my services to them until these gains are properly consolidated91. I will be in my office at ten o'clock next Tuesday morning if you care to see me. Very truly yours.”
Mr. Birdlip was hidden behind his paper, but something in the angle at which the sheets were held led Sanford to believe that the old gentleman was listening.
“Very well, Edwards,” he said. “What's next?”
“Here's this letter from Lord Southpeak of the London Gazette asking if he can see you when he comes over next month.”
“Cable Southpeak I shall be very happy to see him if he gets here before the fifteenth. I am going on my vacation then.”
“Just pick out the most urgent stuff,” said Sanford. “I don't care to bother with anything that isn't really pressing. I've got an important conference on in New York to-day, and I want to keep my mind clear. Blackwit of the Associated Press has asked me to say a few words to his directors on 'Journalism94 as a Function of Public Conscience'.”
“That long-distance call from the Chicago Vox,” he said. “You promised to give Mr. Groton some word this morning.”
“Call him up when we get to Penn. Station,” said Sanford. “Tell him I can't give him any decision yet awhile. Tell him that loyalty96 to my own city will keep me there for some time. You might tell him that I believe the Lens has great possibilities if properly handled. I should not care to build up the property of a Chicago paper while there is a chance of the Lens becoming the great evening paper of the East.”
The train was running smoothly99 through level green country, and Mr. Birdlip laid down his paper on his lap. Sanford was ready to catch his eye.
“Good morning,” said the owner of the Lens, whose bright gaze exhibited a lively tincture of interest.
“Here are the typed notes of your remarks on 'Newspaper Circulation as a Byproduct of the Multiplication101 Table',” said Edwards, in a loud voice.
“You can let those wait,” said Sanford, carelessly. “I don't want to be bothered with anything else this morning. Give me a memorandum102 of anything that needs to be attended to when we get to New York.” He turned to Mr. Birdlip. “I find that in these busy days one has to attend to some of one's work even on the train. It is about the only place where one is never interrupted.”
“Did I hear you say something about Circulation?” said Mr. Birdlip. “Are you specially103 interested in that problem?”
“I have given it a good deal of thought,” said Sanford. “But I would hardly dignify104 it by calling it a problem. It is perfectly105 simple. It is purely106 a matter of taking the right attitude toward it. So many newspaper proprietors107 regard it merely as a problem in addition. Now it should be considered rather as a matter of multiplication. Instead of trying to add ten to your figures, why not multiply by ten? The result is so much more satisfactory.”
“Will you have a cigar, sir?” asked Sanford, handing out the only one with a band on it. Mr. Birdlip accepted it, and looked as though he were about to ask a question. Sanford went on rapidly.
“Speaking of circulation,” he said, “when I am consulted I am always surprised to note that newspaper proprietors are so prone109 to view the matter merely as a question of distribution; of—well, of merchandising,” he added, as his eye fell upon that word in his copy of System. “Indeed it rests upon quite another basis. The essence of merchandising” (he repeated the word with relish110, noting its soothing111 effect on his employer) “is what?”
He made a dramatic pause, and Mr. Birdlip, carried away, wondered what indeed was the essence.
“The essence of merchandising,” said Sanford (he smote112 the arm of his chair, and leaned forward in emphasis), “and by merchandising I mean of course in the modern sense, merchandising on a big scale, is nothing but Confidence. Confidence, an impalpable thing, a state of mind. Now, sir, what is it that upbuilds circulation? It is Public Confidence. The assurance on the part of the public that the newspaper is reliable. It is a secret and inviolable conviction on the part of the reader that the integrity and enterprise of the paper are beyond cavil113, in other words, unimpeachable. In order to create the Will-to-Purchase on the part of the prospect114, in order to beget115 that desirable state of mind, there must be a state of mind in the paper itself. Note that word Mind. Now what is the Mind of the paper? I always ask every newspaper owner who consults me, what is the Mind of his paper?”
Without waiting for Mr. Birdlip to be embarrassed by his inability to answer this question, the ecstatic Sanford continued:
“The Mind of the paper is, of course, the Editorial Department. How subtle, how delicate, how momentous116, is that function of commenting on the great affairs of the world! As I said in an address to a Rotary club recently, of what use to have all the mechanical perfections ever invented unless your editors are the right men? Walter Whitman, the efficiency engineer, said: 'Produce great persons: the rest follows.' That is the kind of production that counts most. Get great personalities117 for your editors, and watch the circulation rise. Of course the right kind of editors must be very highly paid.”
This was a strange doctrine118 to Mr. Birdlip, who never read the editorial page of his own paper, and secretly wondered how the editors found so much to write about.
“The great error that so many newspaper owners make,” said Sanford, sonorously119, “is to think of their product as they would of any other article of commerce which is turned out day by day, in standardized120 units, from a factory. A newspaper is not standardized. It is born anew every issue. It is not a manufacturing routine that puts it together: it is a human organism, built up out of human brains. Every unit is different. It depends not primarily on machinery121 but on human personalities. I cannot understand why it is that newspaper owners yearn122 for the finest and most modern presses, and yet are often content to staff their journals with second-rate men.”
“I agree with you,” said Mr. Birdlip. “It is all a question of getting the right man. That is one reason why I am so fond of travelling; I always meet up with new ideas. Now, sir (I am sorry I do not know your name, for your face is rather familiar; I think I must have met you at some Rotary club), you seem to me a man of forceful and aggressive character. You are the kind of man I should like to have on the Lens, I heard you mention the paper to your secretary awhile back; you must be interested in it.”
Sanford was perfectly cool. “I might consider it,” he said.
“I think you would find the Lens a pleasant paper to work on,” said Mr. Birdlip. “I flatter myself that the staff is a capable one, for the most part.”
“I should insist on being given a free hand,” said Sanford. “Perhaps the position of circulation manager——?”
“Let me think a moment,” said Mr. Birdlip. “I suppose I ought to visit with my editor-in-chief before firing any one to make room for you. But I must say I like the way you talk, straight from the shoulder, like that Dr. Cranium, you know. That's the sort of stuff we need.”
“Right!” cried Sanford. “If you always talk straight from the shoulder, you'll never talk through your hat.”
Mr. Birdlip relished123 this impromptu124 aphorism125. “Well, now, let me see,” he said, pondering. “The editor-in-chief, the managing editor, the editorial writers—they're all pretty good men.”
“Of course I shouldn't care for a merely routine position,” said Sanford. “The only position I would consider would be one in which I could really build up circulation for you.” He was wondering inwardly whether to stand out for a ten thousand salary.
“Quite so,” said Mr. Birdlip. “I think I have it. How would you care to run a column? 'Straight From the Shoulder'—wouldn't that be a fine title?”
“Fine!” said Sanford, but not without a secret shudder126. Still, he thought, gold can assuage127 anything; and he reflected on the rich, sedentary, and care-free life of a syndicated philosopher.
“Very well,” said the owner. “I've been looking around for a man with both feet on the ground——”
(“Both feet on the pay envelope is my idea,” said Sanford to himself.)
“And I think you're just the man I want. There's only one place in the paper I can think of that really needs a change. There's a fellow on the staff called Sanford, runs a kind of column, terrible stuff. I don't think he amounts to much. Now why couldn't you take his job?”
Sanford has never forgiven his brother-in-law for that curious strangled sound he emitted.
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advisory
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