The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-06-02
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Wednesday Morning, June 2, 1875.

wednesday morning, June q, 1910.
JOURNALISM Richmond EnquireY
has good idea of modern journalism.
It declares that the popular notion that
olmost any man with fair share of
brains and a good English education can
make himself an editor after q little
practice, is mistake that sometimes
mislsads an nnwary youth fresh from
academic groves" especially if he has
the reputation, among his fellows of being
so tina writer, 1t il one thing to indite
an essay at college, or, in later years, to
prepare an-article now and then on some
subject Of interest to the author, and it
is quite another thing to write regularly,
on all sorts of questions, in all sorts of
styles, for all sorts Of tastes, from day to
day, through the winter, and the spring,
and the summer, and the fall. And it is
not the writing only-it is judging what
to touch, and what to leave untouched,
with the editorial stylus that is so deli
cate q weapon to WELD; in judging what
to print and what not to print of the
Thousand. contributions that come; in
keeping Ehs' policy of the paper clear,
and consistent, and right, and true. A
man may write like Junius, or Gibbon,
or Macaulay, or Irving, and yet he may
be not only unfit for the editorship of a
daily paper, from the want of the proper
judgment and experience, but he may
not have that ever-recurring, ever-recu-
peratipg creative capacity so rigorously
requirsdi The editor of a daily paper
can sympathize with Sisyphus in rolling
that famous stone from the bottom of the
hill to the top, when it would always
come rolling back again. What we have
said waf suggested by an article in the
Philadslphia Prsss, referring to offers of
editorial assistance made by professors
and dd6nts;of colleges, with a view to
inte44 eStVal amusement and improvement
during the summer months. We make
the following extract from it:
''It Has often occurred to us that; were
the duties e4d the difficulties of journal
ism MORE 4dlly appreciated and under
stood, there would be fewer volunteers
mt the portals of the sa,,ctu,n, and did we
feel competent to the task, we should do
ouriccrreapondents real favor, by seek
ing 70 enlighten them as to the true
nature of the work they would under
take as a pleasant summer pastime. But
there are one or two points to which we
venture TO call the attention of our we'll
disposed friends, which they may not
have considered, and which may serve
TO SHOW them why their services are not
called, into requisition. It is not be.
cause EtAey ifsck scholarship or abilities,
or Qualities Of good sense, that they are
notIrwAnted in journalism, but because
they have no o'training for its duties. The
difference between q college man and the
prantaesd~ Journalist is the difference be-
tween the 1Aw recruit and the trained
sol4i 9ourqalism is now universally
recf8nized ~ a profession, and IL IL o
procession which requires long and
thofouehr training for the proper per-
forpance.pf iitS duties. It Is not merely
a pleasant occupation for asummerv vapa1
mo&t &sduous ShAsacter, for which yeatS
of study md pmctical training are prSS
reqtisitess We hardly think any of oui
correspondence Hho think they could be
OF 4sean Newspaper work, would tender
theF services for the summer to the sur
geot to help himsa off legs, or to help
thet lawyer along in his complex cases
OeISre the courts, yet the offer would
really be but little more presumptuous
In the one case than id the other" =,
Ihe mystery Of young Casper Hauser
at ohe time agitatsd Europe equally with
that Of the Iron Mask. The New York
Sun1ay Asrca,y claims that the boys
ids4tity has-at last been established, and
bases Its article, which we publish this
morning. upon the revelations of the
Frankfort Guiette, which have made IN