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Show The Interview. To the newspaper interview we are indebted for a vast amount of enlightenment, enlight-enment, learning and wisdom that tho interviewer has got from men who, without with-out his suggestion, would never have given it to tuo world. The principle of interviewing, going right to tlio source cT information, gives us accuracy also. And tako it all in all, tho American newspaper contains the most truthful history that has ever been written. A fine interviewer is one of the most valuable men on a great journal, lie must be a man of education, acquainted with affairs, skilled in the use of words; iilajve all, he must possess an instinctivo understanding of humau nature. A fine man who is being interviewed is like a fme fish that you have hooked. You will fail if you attempt to "yank him." You must humor him ft little; play out and reel in; lot him have his own way, and then ho is lost and you land hiin. I'hiladelphia Ledger. |