Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-10
MAINE PRESS ASSOCIATION
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ner WOnld make RoOu eultoIs tuhtodu VI
| lazy ones. and besides it would be such
an Inspiration TO fellow when aG work,
| thinking how he could rest his tired head
after the forms went down-tfau | believe
it would Pay in more brilliant editorials
and better paper.
wv hen it cones to mechanical equip
ments, | would draw the line az the type.
writ@r The progressive publisher believes
! that in the next decade the pen or pencil
AID typewriter, even, will no longer be
MEDIUMS between editors, reporters and
the galley Of type-but that they will cast
| their own articles from their own brains
into type ready for the forms. Far be the
| day Editors can get accustomed 10 al
most anything, but deliver us from the
everlasting click clack, and the sitting.
sickening fumes Of boiling metal from tho
| lightning linotype. The MefgrnthnlcT
machine should never invade the holy Of
hoIies' Of the newspaper plant. Editor;
are said To be genluses and believe
geninses to be impatient 0f such bounds
as casting tgpe from the brain
Oh, yes, / have forgotten one thing
the waste basket That equipment of the
sanctum which has more 10 Dc with MAX
| ing brilliant newspaper than any other
one article Of editorial furpitara IL
read rs side the sunctum could only see
the rubbish which editors put INFO the
spacious NAV ol the waste haskot--tAe
poems, the personals, tbs "let;cis 10 tht
editor, the avg, the local news. the
this, that and the other, to save the mfr.
ton of which on the public constitutions a
large and important element IN tbs edi-
torlal function, they would rcaiiIa its
value aud Importance in making good
truthful and bright newspaper
MIR Baardman then gave o liSt ~ the
books which should never Ec MS nt from
an editors library
However excessive the eQuil ment may
SO along the line just indicated. no SANG
tum can be regarded es complete in its
outfit unless there Is ia regular and SyS
temutic attention giviug To- the fling of
newspaper cuttinga aud the indexlng Of
whatever il has upon its shelves ana in its
pigeon holes An the directories ana an
mails and cyclopaedias. and biograthi teal
dictionaries and gazeteer@ are supplements
Ell every day by the elaborate aud far.
reaching Information by the daily press
" hat book l. there which gives The &C
cursre aud up to-date facts about Ven
,zuola. The Armenian question. the latest
phases Of The Institution a. church. the
discoveries in Egypt, the political aud in
dustrial statistics IF tie new states. the
output OF the Colorado mines, the dis
c0vtres along the line Of preventing al
curing infectious and germ diseases, the
work Of the civil referendum. the problems
relating to labor and capital the many
branches IF yrrq4pyr1 afEntrI.. al
the lives of the great men who are so IA
pidly coming Il the front in every civil
tied country in all department of human
activity, ana making history faster than
ever it has been recorded in any previous
period of the worlds progress. record
which would be impossible without the
aid OF the Lightning presses Of today.
There Is none. One consults the latest
books in the best il libraries for these things
with disappointment. 1t is only in the
great newspapers that one can find fresh
foil and trustworthy Information upon
the subjects, oniy in many instances the
papers containing them are read and
thrown away. Bus in tho Well equipped
sanctum all this Information is preserved
and made available fer daily reference
and future service
Tho first thing which should he done
in every sanctum. when the days work
begins Is Ia index the leading subjects
aud important articles IN the daily Issue
OF that morning or the previous evening
This system OF fling clippings and the
inGCSinE of whatever relates to the most
important subjects which the Sanctun
contains, are the two chief time-snving
ana hrain-Fc 3nomi2ing agencies for daily
work. without these in coed discipline
ana constant use no editorial room can be
called well equipped, | can think ct no
help more necf ssary. or all important
What is Indispensable in the sane!tiut
Of the great daily il equally necessary in
thai Of the rvprese0tive country weekly.
But there is an equipment back # the
equipment. the lights may be brilliant
but they wood go out were il not fGt the
force nf the water AZ the dam, miles away
turning the ponderouS wheels which gen
crate the electric flash The s;snctuln NAV
have its equipment in books, flies, type.
writer's. indices pgeonholc information
and all that, bat back of these ate the
teamed writers, the unwearyng uatient
pl0dding men, who, like the mighty flow
Of water, Keep the light shining. ana
supply the glow of intelligence informa
gion. news, opinion and fact which 90 to
enrich the columns OF the Gp-to-date daily
newspaper
The well equipped sancttm makes thu
well equipped editors, who make news
papers that are bright, readable. enter
tanning and instructive Thtrc * not n
single daily issue which may not b.
brighter, more readable, have greater in
tiuence, be more welcome to it's sinh
scribers from having been put together hv
workers who have had the bsst tools with
which to work, that will not III the end
bring greater profit to its publishers.
How much weedcd date, a fact. an ant
quotation, an appropriate extract from,
some great politician or statesman or
scientist adds to, strengthens, polishes
aud improves the hasgy work Of the eai
t9rlai sanctim. 1t is the sanctlIn, which
holds all these aids made use of i)y az
pericnced men in editorial and rerortoriaI
positions that is the power behind the
power that takes equal if not superior
rank with the best mechanical epniument
which science has devised, as a factor in
successful Journalism.
6 In that extract just quoted from Mrs.
Cbapman's memorials Of Harriet MartI
nelu, are few words worth rcpeatine
Mrs. CHAPMAN saws that Mics Nnrtinon,,