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Show la n . PERSONAL JOURNALISM i The retirement of Henry Watferson from the active editorship of -the Louisville Louis-ville Courier-Journal take away one of the old giasta whose personal force was so dominating a figure in the American Press. We have plenty of big men in the newspaper business still. As a,, whole, the average of intellectual ability is high er than it used to be, "But today the work is more-faniersonal The big'newspapers are great machines,, where few of the 'reader, know or care" who write what they read -in Jiaate. In the smaller newspapers the editor is of-' .ten a personal force. But running a newspaper news-paper is a more difficult ' business pro-Mem pro-Mem than it used to be. . A. great many editors find their best thought absorbed (by the business office. -" The old tiiae editor, spent hja, whole, me in ; his office; buried deep in dusty papers and books. , He' thought deeply, read much and 'his writing was shrewd , mature and pertinent. The modern editor mingles more with daily life. .He does not spend so much time in' the world of books, but he spends more in the world of men. He is less brilliant a writer, but is a more active practical worker for community progress. pro-gress. " The career of a man like Watterson -may well be an inspiration to every youi who aspires to ' 'newspaper success, no did not make as much money as some, but he rendered' more service -and attained at-tained greater respect.' The way for the young journalist to 'follow along the same path is to,study the masters of English Eng-lish style, be ashamed to turn out slovenly slov-enly writing, read deeply of history and politics, converse much with men of many points of view, and always speak what he thinks. It is a career full of rewards superior to money. |
