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Show SHOULD BE AT THE FRONT Newspaper Men With Warring Armies Would Accelerate the Course of History in Europe. A conscientious news editor of our acquaintance is much embarrassed and annoyed by the fact that the meager news from the seat of war in Europe supplies very unsatisfactory material for emphatic, clear-cut head lines. He boldly couples the dearth of decisive developments in the field with the rigid exclusion of newspaper correspondents corre-spondents from the immediate area of hostilities, and cites as precedent and authority the following anecdote related re-lated as happening in the office of a certain newspaper in Berlin: A member mem-ber of the staff had been directed by the chief to go to Dinkelsbuhl and act as correspondent there. He objected stoutly to the assignment on the ground that nothing ever happened in Dinkelsbuhl. The chief rebuked him sharply. "Are you not aware, my young friend," he said, "that nothing ever does happen anywhere unless there is a newspaper man on the ground?" The editor urgently submits that the course of history in Europe would be greatly accelerated and the world notably nota-bly advantaged if the ban on correspondents corre-spondents at the front were lifted. |
