St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-06
"WOW, THIS is AWFUL"
A Bulbous- Headed Student ROasts
the Western Press.

The editor of the University Ariel put
On his best bib and tucker last month,
and wrote for the April number scath-
ing Indictment that deserves to go down
the echoing cycles of time on rollers.
He leaves the puny daily editor not a
leg to stand on and as for the reporters,
they are reduced, like Dagon,t to stump
by this Hercules of the pen. His open
ing sentence shows that he knows his
business is to work the 1--WE" box. He
says:
I'VE have often speculated upon the
miserable condition of Western journal
ism, and have often wondered why we
conclude our perusal Of the paper with
feeling of disgust"
An inferior man might, in such a
dilemma. have concluded his feeling of
disgust was due to an overloaded stOm
ach or an absence OF brain capacity, but
tor college editor who is capable OF
''Often specializing" such an eXplana-
ton has no charms. He finds that the
cause of his nonsense is objective in
stead Of subjective. A solution OF the
problem suggests itself, which seems
at all events, in part satisfactory. The
newspaper editor has lost sight of his
mission; he has forgotten that his duty
is to collect and comment upon views
and seems to consider that he must
necessarily and continually he funny"
Then this young Dana without the cat
proceeds to explain in what respects the
editors mission has become involved in
the stew and eXclaims piouSly, "When
will this rbaldry cease? 1t becomes
nauseating. 1t is utterly demoralizing
and tends to levity. superficial thought
and callousness. another objection
able feature in our journals" Mr.,
Dana il. continues, lis the want
OF respect for persons in places
of dignity" and he protests
vehemently against the imprudence of
Halford 'iige." This is indeed a
serious matter, for if Gen. Harrison's
name is not Ben it is high time news
papers stopped calling him by that
name. The college editor has struck,
no doubt, the keynote to the cause of
the decentralization of Western Journal
ism. Society suffered positive loss
when the gifted writer permittedsthe
weight of his own speculation to over
burden and knock him out in
the flower of his argument. How
ever, he partly atones for his
abrupt closing by a quotation Cela
suffit." ''Cela Suttit' is a cOrker. 1t is a
French expression. and means some
thing like ''Down in 'front.'" Its use
suggests another weakness Of Western
journalism-its deficiency in the use of
French phrases. One seldom sees a
sounding French word in a daily paper,
and cultured people are compelled to
depend almost entirely on melodramas
ana college journals for practice in their
favorite language.
The Ariel does not propose to lend
itself to the low, vulgar policy that gov
ems the editors of daily papers. Its
advertising columns are devoted to puff
cry of Richmond straight-cut cigarettes,
and its reading pages to nuggets OF
thought like the following:
Bon jour.
'Rah for the Interstate.
Is it slang, professor? He was jay; she
was lily.
Freshman Girl-"Ich drehte den weiter-
hohn.' II turned the weather chicken.
We hear that the back steps OF the agricult
urai building are in demand these moonlight
nights.
This was told to the seniors, and hence is
to be relied upon: A certain man, being in
swimming, had his clothing stolen by an
Indian. With no friends near, he was in a
dilemma, and would rather have been in his
clothes.
Did yon see the Manchester neckties?
Orange and blue.
When the editor-in-chief and his male
colleagues had seen this number safely
on the press 10 doubt they went out
upon the campus, and while the glad
winds played Yankee Doodle through
their incipient WhiSkers, shouted with
all their might:
Rah-rah-rah,
Ski-u-mah.