West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-05-21
ThE EpITOR.
Neat satire ON the Prevailing Miscon-
ccptionS About Editorial Work


ccptionS About Editorial Work.
Does an editor write every thing in
The papcr9
Oh. yes He writes the love story on
the outside i'm the morning. then five
OF six editorials. and double as many
paragraphs, then he theator notices
and advertising pulls. In the afternoon
he helps the compoSitors. or goes down
stairs and works the press, or assists
the boys TO fold the papers
should a ncwSpaper-man always bc
printer?
oh, yes; always You must learn TO
set type before YOU can write at all.
Shakespeare, Byron. Lord Bacon. Ten
nNson and all the rest were printers.
on can not expect To bc good com
poser unless YOU are a printer
w hat does the managing editor dop
lie Keeps the pen, and inkStandS
clean, and manages 10 mark great
deal of writing with blue pencil.
What he marks goc~ into thc-papcr
basket, and is often auNiouslv looked
for, for several weeks after bv the CORE
spondcnt He is the man who loves TO
! talk with You when YOU have an hour
or two TO spare and can talk TO him.
and takes il very hard If YOU don't stay
at least half an hour after YOU have
finished your business with him-to
say II all over again.
What is the business of the proof
reader?
Oh, he is simply hired TO prove the
truth of whatever the editor wrote.
;,MBs.gGa1 " @h9t dd2G.falhg eNg,.hqyngp-roader 4. q
on 'imply exchanges news with
other pdpcrs
And what docs the night editor dop
oh, he simply watches the tompos-
itors at night 60 see that they do not
shlrk their work or steal any typc.
Is IT really necessary to go abroad to
bq a,good foreign correspondent?
oh, no. You can be Just as bad
foreign correspondent al home as. any
where else.
What kind of writers do editors pre-
fer?
oh, people who have great command
OF language, or rather .thoSa who are
greatly commanded by language. and
who can say the same thing over three
or four times in the same sentence; also
young ladies three months ont of the
high school with poetry on spring.
If spring i the season. Also,men with
but one idea i'm their heads. who have
been studying it all their lives, and who
have got II all down on three or four
reams Of paper
Can anybody write for a newspaper?
oh, yes; they can if they want to-
There is nothing to stop anybody from
writing for a newspaper.
And get paid for it2
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anybody from being paid for writing
for newspaper.
What is the best subject TO write
about for a newspaper?
Oh, any thing which happens to in
tercst you. If il interest, YOU il is a
sure sign twill interest every body else.
slow does an editor like TO have an
article commence?
Commonly i'm this way. Having "A
few moments to spare, have dashed
of these few line. i'm the hope that
what have ground out may interest
your readers. j have not said on this
subject all | could or all can; but if it
should prove interesting, as ! hope IL
will, i trust ] shall be able TO say more
on this and other topcs.h etc. etc
The longer YOU can keep on this strain
the more will the editor be delighted
with your article
In what style docs he like TO bave it
written?
+ lie likes 10 have it written in very
fine, obscure hand, with lots of inter
Hneabons gnd letter, sprawlcd against
eaQh other and, if possible, on both
sides of the paper; aud then YOU can
call for proof Of your article, aud
when you get IL conclude TO strike out
every tlGrd sentence and put another
I AR Its place, and when You g6t ..re-
Yise, you might rNYfls%iho lentirc ar
(1li.s1Vap'8esing siLl..tnake the
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