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Show Moses First Great Editor . i Oean of Missouri University Ssys That Biblical Scribe Went In for News of Crime. Kansns City. Mo Addressing the I Mlnlrttera' alliance nf Knnsun City on ! the "Knlth of Journalist," Walter I Wllttnma. dean of the 8, hool of Jour-I Jour-I nnllm at Missouri university, spoke of II, e similarity or the lllbl to the modern newspapers I "The best Journalist with whose i work I am acquainted," anld Mr. Wll-I Wll-I llama, "wna Mnsea. He waa lb first I gn at editor You plead for the publication pub-lication of the good only nnd the beau-i beau-i tltul In your fuvnrlte dally Journal. II j waa an earlier people, not a wlaerone. who cried, 'prophesy unto us smooth ! things' I "In a single slight book of th five which Moses edited, a bonk, the con tents of which would not occupy a ' hnlf page In today's newspaper. Mnsea. I the first great editor, gave more rrlullniil news and that more graphic ally Ihnn loday'a newspaper! would : dura report Iho disobedience of Adam: the drunkenness of Noah; tho lalsehooils of Abraham: the Iniquity I of Iho whole city of Hoilom: Iho vile- 1 ness nf Hehecliein, t Im son of llnmorl; lbs wickedness of Juduh, with Tamnr, the woman In black, who sat by Hit roadside. "Tho besl reporter with whnse work I am acquainted waa l.ukn. Ills story haa the characteristics of the best re p-irtlng cli ariiesa. vlvldm-aa, triiihlul neaa. facta In due proportion, huuiiii: Interest. Ills Christmas story ha Just now been rend thu world around "The whole lllhle Is Indeed a mod", of good Journalism. It Interprets Hit fnrlB of everyday life. How full II It of the details of biography, Iho per snnal gossip. If you please I contest lo a fascination for the details of bl ogruphy. the news about people" |