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Show All That Is Needed in Newspaper Game A young man asked us our opinion about entering the newr.paper field. We answered this wise: "If he can listen with a smile to tiresome things he's heard ofttiraes before; If he can refuse to do what three or four people ask him to do without making them mad; if he can write In a way to make people laugh when he feels like cussln', or In a way to make them weep when he feels like cracking his heels together and laughing out loud; If he can remain re-main silent when he feels like he'll burst wide open If he does not talk; if he can argue without getting mad or making the other fellow mad ; If he can refuse a woman's request for free publication without making all the members of her set mad at the paper; if he can react to the loss of a good news story and catch a better one on the rebound; if he can explain a typographical error without using np more than thirty minutes' time; if he can concentrate and write intelligent intelli-gent copy while three different conversations con-versations are going on around him. several typewriters clicking away and the telephone ringing and the subdued hum of the presses in the next room drumming on his ears; If he can explain ex-plain why Mrs. Jones' poem on 'The Sylvan Depth of October Woods' did not appear In the paper without her husband stopping his advertising; if he can take a four-line story and spread It to a half column, or take a two-column story and condense it to two paragraphs; If he can read proofs-without overlooking an error and write headlines without murdering murder-ing the king's English; if he has a nose for news, an itch for writing and an Inclination to work fifteen hours a day, then we'd advise him to get into tha game." Mineral Wells Index. |
