Show I ME- ME Eye Ants View BY MAC MAG This Is National New Newspaper aper Week Last wc week k was Dog DOR Week Somebody went want to tomake tomake tomake make of Jt St 1 We Ve had promotion plumed for the week but thy they didn't work out The flu fin bug bur has bin bc seen been ln snapping right and left around her here bere hybo we WP can use Ule some next ned week Time will Mill tell Newspaper people used to ba ba b a breed apart They were supposed supposed sup posed to b be odd and md eccentric ar and d a violent and mud much lacking I in restraint Girls were ere yarned named n not l to marry n a n-iwa n taper raper man If you ou know what i mean n But w was was s a couple o ot of enu ago ngo Such people al ait aie E now the plon rather than thon the till rule Nw newspaper p people ople ire Irl pretty much accepted ns as nor nor- mal They do work under greater tension than most ether Nh- Nh vr tr trad trades s or professions how- how ever eter lr 1 Amid Ami 1110 most t of 01 them who ulio work hard play equally hunt hId Ulcers are re fairly common in newspaper circles The tension In the wf weekly field begins Monday morning am and builds up steadily until Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day with the fight against time time and unforeseen d 1 I f III f I c cuI u tic e s I mounting In intensity each day It is not so Intense in the dallies dailies lf It If you dont don't make It t today day i it usually isn't too late to use usa to to to- morrow The trend Is toward centralization tion of 01 newspapers newspapers-a a trend made necessary because of ol the high cost of labor and and materials More and more more big dailies are consolidating ng afore More and more smelt small k weeklies are re centralizing Writing has always been easy for me jUst me-jUst Just as easy as anything mathematical has been difficult I wr wrote te themes for lor high when I I was in th the sixth grade It took me two years to get through algebra but 1 got JJ UJ in Eng sh rhea I 1 finally graduated I wrote th the class iS history will prophecy and und pol m poem because the honorees promised to help me pass the finals In chemistry Spun Spanish Ish aid geometry and came naturally anything thing else had to be pounded pound pound- ed td In Short college was teas mostly mostly most most- I ly athletic It was foreordained that I would go Into newspaper work Certainly I wasn't going to get getup getup getup up at 4 every morning to bring in the horses and then milk six cows before beCore breakfast The hometown newspaper gave me I some groundwork and then I hit the road The rolling stone gathers gathers gath gath- ers no moss but it picks up a l little polish I learned at least a little about every phase of all sizes of pu publications In the back brock shop Im I'm half hall a printer a n good operator In th the s front office I 1 do everything e At home I write an occasional short story which usually comes back because it Isn't polished l' l started a book of course which Im I'm too lazy to finish Im I'm al always always al- al ways aS going to work on it next week Hardest work about writIng writing writ- writ Ing after you learn to put down one word after another In pro proper roper ro- ro per sequence Is keeping the seat of your lour pants on a chair In front of at a typewriter Nicest job l In Iii any 11 newspaper ne 1 U that of columnist like Van Dan Valentine or John Mooney Trouble is ill they pile u a lot ot or other ether work urk onto the columnist he h he doesn't just JUlit lilt It there with bU his feet tNt up and Wl wait t for tor the Mu Muse UiO e to bite him then go 0 home And on the Iho w weekly II- II you jou OU squeeze the column olumn In i whether jouve youve got ot time or not not even rn though It turns turn out ou outto outto to 10 have hare the greatest readership of or any department of the news u paper It Its It's a 11 good Ute lire albeit a bardone hard bard one My Lady Fair and I Ione Is I s waited hed and searched for tor tour tour four years year before we found the open open- lag ing at Morg Morgan n. n For us us from now on we hope every ery week will be Newspaper Week Week Mae Mac |