Show Being an Editor and Molding Public Opinion Hundreds have learned that molding mold-ing public opinion is a mighty poor business Molding etove lida much better and dont cause half the wear and tear on the molders system A good many people think newspaper work is just aa easy aa falling down on ice or finding a girls lips in the dark We used to think eo ouraelf but that was when we were a bigger fool than we are now Wo knew a young man ono out west who for two years longed ior a place on B newspaper aa a reporterand at last he got it The first day he was required to write up a borseracea temperance meeting and a fire seven miles out of town After he had done all this the managing editor told him he might write a Washington letter giving giv-ing Q summary of the political situation situa-tion at the national capitaland then he could go eut and get some points on the pork market for the next days paper He wanted to know how in the dread future he could write a Washington letter at a point 714 miles from the national capital and when he had never been there in his life The managing editor coolly replied re-plied tbat if he couldnt write a letter I let-ter from any point in the known world on fifteen minutes noticebed better quit the newspaper business before he disgraced it He resigned that same evening and went back to his old counting house stool and his old time independent ten dollaraa week air and never asked to be a journalist again Some men seem to be born to do newspaper work and they will do it if they have to live on cold hash and button their coat fo their ohm while their only shirt is in the wash And they will be just as happy too as the sOD inlaw of a monopolist witha bad oough They would never be connected with any other calling even if it paid them 10000 a year and fire wood All others should keep out of the journalistic journal-istic fieldMiddletown New York Transcript |