Meet the Past: What would you ask William Allen White?
Add a new comment to pose a question to William Allen White, the famous newspaper editor who gained political priminence with an 1896 editorial titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?". If your question is chosen, Library Director Crosby Kemper III will ask it on your behalf.
Question to William Allen White
In 1931, you wrote the following:
From an April 21, 1931 letter to Lyman "Beech" Kellogg, a newspaper reporter friend in Palo Alto, CA.
"Of course as long as man lives someone will have to fill the herald's place. Someone will have to do the bellringer's work. Someone will have to tell the story of the day's news and the year's happenings. A reporter is perennial under many names and will persist with humanity. But whether the reporter's story will be printed in types upon a press, I don't know. I seriously doubt it. I think most of the machinery now employed in printing the day's, the week's, or the month's doings will be junked by the end of this century and will be as archaic as the bellringer's bell, or the herald's trumpet. New methods of communication I think will supersede the old."
Were you a visionary or what?
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