The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-02-20

editors are prone to forget many duties.
/ One is that we do not kee9 in mind
enough the thought that anything that
is worth doing is worth doing wei, ana
hence We should never permit any put
hands.
have amounted to much in this world
have bean born and reared in the coun-
try. Wen, country people read their
newspapers much more thoroughly than
city people, and keeping that in mind,
the country editor should be careful 10
never write anything that would make
an earnest boy reader doubt the innate
character of the editor. or cause pure
minded girl to blush if it fell under her
eyes.
Then there cannot be too much care
bestowed upon the diction of a news
paper. If the editor does not write as
good English as is found in the average
book, he is likely TO encourage a careless
style on the part of his readers when they
essay TO write. The thought comes to me
daily that my work is a trust. and that
it requires absolute frankness on my part
and the best work l can do.
There are some boys in this place who
run barefooted in the summer, and who
do not always have shoes in the winter.
but l am afraid of them, for, because of
certain flashes in their eyes, l have a
thought that. maybe, a glorified angel
bent down and stamped the signet of i'm
mortality on their brows when they were
beir- rocked in rude cradles. and that a
shock them.
There is another feature of country
journalism. In no place does hard work
and patient study count for so much.
Yesterday l wrote a long article over
the second time because some Of its
sentences seemed stilted. some careless
We're arranged. they did not carry their
full power. The result was that l vastly
improved it, for reduced its length one
half.
We all become diffrse in our work
unless we keep a perpetual watch on
ourselves. When we get rushed, or
when we feel out of sorts, we all use
many more words than are needed
TAX ON MENTAL RESOURCES.
There IS another thing: There is no
other such a tax upon mental resources
as that which comes through editing
newspaper. \ man knows in a week
whether his head is reservoir or
spring. With the best of men it is neceS-
sary that the mind be reinforced daily by
reading and study, and my belief IS that
when the matter is fully understood. the
preparation deemed essential for an
editor will be more exacting than that
required in any other profession.
There are many hundreds of editors
in the United States, but, barring the
ever known or mentioned beyond their
own narrow surroundings.
l could spend the night in this way,
but neither time nor your constitutions
w
GU cannot escape your responsibility
AS editors you are bound to reveal your
inner selves, al least in flashes. Gradu-
ally from the type the reflection Of your
characters will be revealed The type
and the perfecting press are honest pic
ture-makers, and so certainly as the sun
light on the plate reveals the wrinkles IN
your face, so in the same way the type
and the press will if you fool with them.
show every wrinkle in your souls II
you know anything mean about your
selves. get out of the paper, or all the
world will know it.
But do not forget that. as editors, you
have made an implied contract with the
public to give it your best work; to be
always truthful; to shield no friend; TO
punish no enemy against the right; to
see TO it that you hold your columns on
q high moral plane; to never say aught
that you would not say to your own
mothers: and more, never forget that all
around you are earnest men and women.
youths and maidens. who Will trust your
opinions If you give them chance 10,
and that it Is your duty TO so conduct
Your journals, that the people who read
them will be better and wiser this year
than they were last; better next year
than they are this.
Editor Isaac Diehl of the Sandy In
dependent made a few remarks on the
visit of the members of the Utah Press
association with the Western Fedora
ton of Editors to New Orleans last
summer, and informed the association
that it had been invited as part of the
Federation of Editors to visit Omaha
during the exposition, and the date for
the trip was now under consideration.
EDITOR METEER.
'The Mission of the Press" was
spoken to by John Meter OF the Rlcn-
feId Advocate. who told humorously
and well of the trials and troubles OF a
country editor, and concluded by re
marking that the mission of the press
was the mission of men, the press was
composed of men, and their MISSION
was to be true men.
y b. Dresser sang a song very ac-
President James responded TO the
toast of THE Ladies" in glowing
terms. expressed his admiration for the
fair sex. and felt sure that his senti-
ments were shared by all the mem
beers and concluded by calling on the
guess to drink to the ladies, which was
done with enthusiasm.
In speaking TO the toast OF me Ut
binary Newspaper Man, FRED Nelson
said he thought he was not the only
ordinary newspaper man present; they
were all ordinary newspaper men. he
was proud of his profession, and all
men should be so. 1t stood
as high as any other profession, and
the ordinary newspaper man had just
cause to be proud that he was an or
binary newspaper man.
President James sang THE Summer
Days Are Fled which was applauded-
GOOD OF THE ORDER.
Under the head of Good of the Or
der" E. G. Rognon spoke of the as
ISOLATION. what it had accomplished |
and what it hoped to do in the future
IN elevating the press of Utah and pro-
noting fraternal feelings among the |
members of the profession. The honest |
and earnest work of newspaper men
vas not appreciated as it should be.
In dignity and Importance the news
paper profession stood in the front
-anks. The newspapers ought to be
better patronized than they are, for
hey are the force which pushes along
he development of the country, and
Ill the community gained, either di
'ectly or indirectly, from the work done
1y them. The Utah Press association
lad a great future of usefulness in
his state.
julius f. Taylor made few felicitous
and n. b. Dresser spoke of
he law of libel as it now existed and
hought the clause requiring a retrac-
ion to be run for three days in the
orm of a continued story, as it were,
vas pretty tough on the newspapers.
Major Littlefeld proposed a vote of
hanks to The Herald, Tribune, News
md Landlord Holmes for the hospi-
atty extended to the members of the
association, which was carried with en-
husiasm.
\ number of amusing anecdotes were
old by POSTMASTER Mcdaniel and