Show the late dewitt talmage in one of 0 his famous sermons said one of the greatest trials of the newspaper profession Is that its members are compelled to see more of the shams of the world than any other profession through every newspaper office day after day or week after week go all the weaknesses of the world all the vanities that want to be puffed all the revenges that want to be helped all the mistakes that want to be corrected all the dull speakers that want to be thought eloquent all the meanness that wants to get its wares noticed gratis on the editorial columns in order to save the tax of the adjei I 1 using columns all the men who want to be set right all stories as long as their heir hair and as gloomy as their finger nalla in the cracked brain of philosophers mourning because bereft of soap colip all the bores who come to stay five minutes tes flud stay slay five hours through the editorial and reportorial port orial rooms all the follies and shams of the world are seen day after day and the temptation Is to believe in n neither god man nor woman it Is s no surprise that in this profession there here are some skeptical men I 1 only wonder evonder that journalists be believe aeve an anything Y ex |