The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-07-27
Qualifications Of Able Editors.


There is to be vacancy on the staff
of one of the city dailies for an assist
ant editor, and as we have got hold of
some of the qualification required, we
print them for the benefit of young men
from the country who may be intend
ing to become connected with the press.
We can assure all such that it is a most
fascinating employment, does not re-
qulre any previous education or prep
aration, and pays enormously.
The principal occupation of leading
editors is to receive enormous brides
for leading articles; to attend theaters,
concerts and other places of public re-
sort, occupying the best places, of
course, and to inform political leaders
how they should regulate affairs.
Assistant editors and reporters, who
are scarce at 1865 week, generally
work four hours a day when they are
not away on vacations, have free
passes everywhere, and the pleasure of
their company is contended for by the
elite of the city.
Among the leading requirements are
the following:
He must be able to cook up leading
articles from the previous days New
York papers into special tele9raphic
dispatches.
He must be familiar with the use of
| encyclopedias and guide books, in
order to write special correspondence
from London, Paris and Berlin.
He must be able to expand ten-line
accident into q half-cOlumn disaster,
with headings to match.
He must be sharp enough, if the
paper gets a little dry, in his descrip-
ton of public men and their doings to
elk" his reports of them 50 as to tempt
the said p. m. into print, and afford
spicy editorial comment on their COM
munications.
He must be shrewd enough to credit
especially bright things which he has
to copy, En-" or "a contemporary"
or daily paper" instead of the real
title of the sheet selected from.
He must be on hand for paragraphs
about Clara Morris, Barnum's cara
vans, and Kate Field; ready to reduce
half-column putfs of dry goods and
clothing advertisements to two stick
fuls, and write out interviews with men
who refuse to be pumped.
He must be patient under the request
of a So advertiser for so puff of Il
sparring exhibition, travelling lecturer
or new invention. He is expected to
be up all night, and wide awake all day
to catch people at meal times and,
therefore, give up his own; be thor
oughly posted in fires, theatricals, city
and Congressional affairs, mechanics,
physics, astronomy, algebra, politics,
geography, Latin, the classics, dancing,
French, patter the flash, science, zoolo-
gy, the Beecher trial, the Tilton confes-
sions and election frauds.
He must be ready at all times to sing
song with Moody and Sankey, accept
an invitation to step in and see man
with political candidate at Parker's s.
make a speech at the Papyrus, crack q
joke with circus clown, discuss divin
ity with divine or acting with an act
or, criticise with a Councilman, argue
with an Alderman, rant with a Repre-.
sentative, maneuver with the Mayor
and gossip Nth the Governor.
No man who denominates an estab-
lishment ga store" carnival of crime
ga fight in a bar-room, terrific con-
fagration " serious fire. an eloquent
orator a "stump speaker distin,
guished member of the bar ga lawyer
an eminent artist "a stock actor" an
auction sale of works of art ga sale OF
oil paintings" a cantatrice "an opera
singer or tonsorial artist ga bar
ber," will stand any chance of obtain.
ing the place.
Our brethren of the press will observe
that we have only indicated few OF
the requisites for the position referred
to; the great bulk of the others will
readily suggest themselves to every
thinking mind.-BoStom Commercial
BaLtetin