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Show H REPORTING AS A H TRAINING SCHOOL. BJ Some people look at the position of BJ a newspaper reportor ns a lowly one. BJ' I ' 'Jinny plays satirize reporters as In- BJ, tni!ilp, aggressive, and rather offen- m hIvc persons. There nre people who i feel that n young man of culture and H education lowers himself by chasing BJ. This fooling formerly existed moro Bl tlnin now. Thf newspaper profession K lias so many gifted men nowadays, BJ ro many of them college trained, that l B Hio dignity of the work Is obvious. BJ' A suggestion of the scrvlco offered i BJ. tiy experience In this function, Is of- B, forcd by the career of Richard Hard-! BJ Jng Davis, who has just died. Bf , ITavls. ono of the most popular . BJV rstory writers of the present time, I BT Tjcgnn with tho plain everyday work Bjjt uf reporting fires nnd nccldcnts, Just K llko any other "cub." It developed BJti nnil trained his powers, and gave him BJ' Ids chance to display his Rift. A BJ surprising number of men promln- 1 ont la business and public life start-. HJi cd In ns reporters. BJ) Many young men who are not clear I BJjl j.1 i -wlrat they want to do in life, begin IU -work In this position. Even If they Bv ' llt after a few years, tho time Is BJ not wasted. Thoj' acquire Invalu- BJ I able Rifts of clear, terse, logical ox-1 H presslon of thought, accurate doscrlp- HB tlnn, mid precise statement. They , BJ liecomo very observant, nnd seu tlio , BJ Hlgnlllcant details where others gain , BJ , only vagito Impressions. j BJ Many arc the men who have grndu- BJ' nted from this school to the ranks Bflt of Uteraturo, Their reporteriol exper- HH lenco gave them the gift of vhlfl do- BJ serlptlon without v-Mcli no writer BJ gets very fur. Some young men on- BJ' 'tcrtnln tho Indolent wish that they BB ! could attain tho higher positions In Bm tho newspaper world, without going Bfl through tho mill of a reporter's ox- BM perlencc. It is like wanting to go to BH'i ' college without going to school, Ono HH must be ablo to report a lire occur- Hflj ntely beforo ho can discuss the wat BM Jn Europe. BJ |