Show ox s i 0 y 1 j MARY 0 1 1 0 A A 0 1 1 SU SUCCEEDS DS 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 ON 0 IS I 1 M J 0 MAIN STREET 1 0 1 i i i 9 0 9 by LAURA MILLER i 1 if 0 m 0 0 by baura miller ON BEING A COUNTRY journalist the university of missouri recently discussed journalism as a career for women active newspaper women told what they knew of city wor work k of necessity an employee of a big paper spoke country J journalism held tile tho top of the ladder with an own owner er and publisher mra airs annu anna ewing bot bet ter known as mrs IV V of t he odessa mo lodger ledger she la Is no grind with tier her head burled buried in tier her inky presses sho she tins lias interesting sideline occupations ns its housekeeper and mother she enjoys tho distinction among others of being state chairman of the democratic women of missouri and an d for tier her job heres part of tier her address to the university 1 I urn am speaking of country journal 1 ism country country where people nilso when the lark Is wing awing a where we eat our dinners boiled dinners largely in tile the middle of tile tha daiy diy where the prices of poultry butter 3 fat corn hogs and hides are vital statistics where the highest minded ten kenderest derest hearted most sympathetic most belp helpful ful most moat lo lovable ruble people most do congregate and the homans womans field in this journalism it la IF as some one 01 aptly aly said of her sphere it has no limit in this womans comans field there Is no ito such phrase ns as 11 1 I dont know 1 you cant say thi that it it done 1 I n am m not touching on the financial qu question eslon my method Is stumped stamped on on most of our coins and my success Is always in tile the forefront of my mind when I 1 sing the doxology nor fini am I 1 going to say eny much on oli the subject of news when your field Is a small country community where everybody knows everybody else of tile the third and fourth generations all their uprisings and down sittings as it were you get to feel hs if it were all a 0 part of yourself every time you write an item you think who will enjoy I 1 it t I 1 know a world renowned jour nalls analise said what god lias has allowed to to happen I 1 urn am not ashamed to publish neither am I 1 bif if it happened in new hampshire HaWlish lre or california nut but when fathers have talked heart to heart to you about their hopes their fears their disappointments for their children when women have hae confided in you when lovers have cume come to you for advice and comfort when people have bave laid their hands on your shoulders de ra and said will you pray for rite me oh 1 11 tell you news has a 0 new meaning so hu him 9 lloil I 1 to me the thing aliat liat peculiarly differentiates ferenti ferent ates lates tile the woman comans 9 lold field Is the matter of service why truly there Is not a life or death or birth or anything a pennys dennys weight of worth but what n newspaper alsin Is in it to be a newspaper woman takes a vast amount of co courage brage love tact bluff a deep abiding sense or of bomor and an unshakable falth faith in prayer |