Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-09-24

"HCic d CuauSc " E6dTt anu q PAIN
leaf fan is al! they need.
Fewer people are robbing the editor
nowadays, too, l notice with much
| pleasure. Only a short time ago
noticed that burglar succeeded il,
breaking into the residence of Dakota
Journalist, and after long, hard strug-
gle,' the editor succeeded in robbins
him.
After the primary course, mapped out
already. an intermediate course of ten
years should be given to learning the
typographical art so that when visitors
come in and ask the editor all about
the Office he can tell them of the mys-
teries of making paper, and how de-
linquent subscribers have frequently
been killed by well-directed blow
with a printers towel.
Five years should be devoted to a
study of the art of proof-reading. In
that time the young journalist can per-
feet himself TO such degree that it
will take another five years for the
printer to understand his corrections
and marginal notes.
Fifteen years should then be devoted
to the study of American politics, es-
pecially. CiFil-Service reform, looking at
1t from non-partisan standpoint. If
possible, the last five years should Re
spent abroad. London is the place to
60 if you wish to get Gear, concise
view OF American politics, and Chicago
or Milwaukee would be good place
for the Young English journalist to 90
and study the politica! outlook of
England.
The student should then take a medi-
cal and surgical course, so that he may
be able to attend to Commissions, tract
ures and SO fourth which may occur to
himself or to the party who may come
to his office for retract;on and by mis-
take get his spinal column double-lead-
ed
Ten years should then be given to the
study of Law. No thorough, metropol-
ltan editor wants to enter upon the
duties OF his profession without know
ing the difference between writ of
na"'1danms and other styles of profan-
ltty. He should thoroughly understand
the entire system of American juris-
prudence SO that in case certiOrari
Should break Oft in his neighborhood
he would know just what to do for it.
Tie student will, by this time, begin
to see what is required of him, and en-
ter with great zeal upon the further
study Of his profession.
He will now enter upon theological
course of ten years and fit himself thor
oughly to speak intclligently of the va
rious creeds and religions of the world.
Ignorance on the part of an editor is
almost a crime, and when he closes a
powerful editorial with the familiar
quotation: at is the early bird that
catches the worm,'' and attributes it to
st. Paul instead of Deuteronomy, it
makes rs blush for the profession.
The last ten years may be profitably
devoted to the acquisition of a prac-
teal knowledge of cutting cordwood,
baking beans, n1king shirts, lecturing,
turning double hand-springs, being
shot out of a catapult at circus, learn
ing how to make good adhesive
paste that will not sour in hot weather,
grinding scizzors, punctuating, capital
izatiOn, condemnation, syntaz, plain
sewing, music and dancing, sculping,
etiquette, prosody, how to win the atfec
tons of the opposite sex and evadc a
malignant case of breach of promise,
the ten commandments, every man his
own tooter on the flute, croquet, rules
of the prize ring, rhetoric, parlor
mage, calisthenics, penmanship, how
to run Il jack from the bottom of the
pack without getting shot, civil en-
gineering, decorative art, casOmining.
bicycling, baseball, hydraulics, botany.
poker, international law. hgh-low
Jack. drawing and painting. faro,
vocal muse, driving, breaking team,
pool, how to remove grease
spots from last years 'pantaloons,
horsemanship, coupling freight cars,
riding on rail, riding on pass, feed
ing threshing machines, how to wean a
calf from the parent stem, teaching
school, bull-whacking, plastering,
Waiting, vaccination, autopsy, how to
win the affections of your wite's
every man his own washer
woman, or how to wash underclothes
so that they viii not shrink, ETC., etc.
But time forbids anything like a
thorough list of what a young man
should study in order to fully under
stand all that he may be called upon to
express an opinion about in his actual
experience as journalist. There are |
a thousand little matters which every |
editor should know, such, for instance,
as the construction of roller compost |
ton. Many newspaper men can write
a good editorial on Asiatic cholera, but |
their roller composition IS not fit to eat.
With the course of study that have
mapped out, the young student would
from the college of journalism
at the age of ninety-tive or nlnety-six,
ready to take off his coat and write an
article on almost any subject. He |
would be a little giddy at first, and the
office boy would have to see that he
went TO bed at a proper time each night.
out aside from that, he would be a good
man to feed a waste paper basket.
Actual experience is the best teacher
n this peculiarly trying profession.
hope some day to attend press con-
Tention where the order of exercises
will consist of tive-minute expert
ences from each one present. 1t would
De worth listening to.
My own experience was little pecu-
lar. 1t was my intention at first to
practice law, when l went to the Rocky
although l had been warned
" the authorities not to do so. Still, l
lid practice in a surreptitious kind of
| way, and might have been practicing
yet if my client hadn't died. When you
lave become attached to a client and
aspect and like him, and then when
without warning, like bolt Of electric
ty from clear sky. he suddenly dies
md takes the bread right out of your