Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-10

| editor. without any feeling OF heart AZ all
| cuts down the Quarter-column 10 a para
| man Who makes IN the paper-who.e
duty il j. 10 make ten columns ut type ui
| eight columns Of spaC"-dumps the same
| paragraph into the basket marked left
| over
| Not All Of those people whom the yuung
| man is sent 10 see, however. welcome him
| 50 cordially NY the Young lady ANA the
| business firm II h. T. working on q
| morning paper. Tor example. he some
| times is called upon 70 interview the
| manager NJ The East and West Railway
| COrpO. AT An hour when railway
| managers are to bc found only in bed.
| Hesitatins AT first 10 disturb the gentle
! man. The cub-reporter soon IeleSateS his
personal feelings to the background and
| with firm resolution ~ do hi duty ~
gins ringing the front door bell. Even
| tuallY a window in the second story ~
| thrown open. and 4 tiSur" clad in white.
! leaning outside, calls. Hello. down
| MIR Manager begins tin young man
| BY WAY ~ Introduction. Inn from the
| Press. ana came 70 ask YOU If the rumor
is true that Won were discharged from
| The railway yesterdays
After short pause. in which The young
man takes out notebook and pencils, The
manager responds BY prop1unding 4 ques-
! zion himself. What do YOU mean BY
routing me OUT Of bed at this late hour"
Il was sen; here. apologies the new
Who sent you?.
The city editor
We'll, doesn't lie know any better
What does he mean by II? How long
have Won been on the paner ANYWAY?
Three weeks. sir. answers the report
err
~ new man. en- Wen. that IL some
excuse; but YOU 60 back "a the office. ana
tell Your employer The next time he wants
any information from me not TO rouse me
0ut OF q sound sleep. but 10 come around
AZ z respectable hour Of day" AT the ot
81 1,
reported these facts. finds his chief in no
hetter frame OF mind.
Vow and then. accordingly. the cub-re-
porter gets more comment for himself
than for his paper. And. because Of his
mistakes ana failingS. h. is apt To wade
step by step into the slough OF despond
unless he seeks 4 helping hand from his
chief. ANY day after press time that gen
tleman viii give him plenty Of mSplra
ton You must not taxi these things
too seriously, explains the city editor
I'VE all have to pass over the same road.
this road Of experience. Then, contiden-
TALLY. that gentleman recalls some of his
own trials all of which give the new re-
porter more courage ami determination
than ever before. His horizon is grow
ing broader now: he is making the past
a lesson for the future. Today he is al
police headquarters. watching the ma
chnery Of municipal government and
seeing the under side Of the social world
tomorrow he is on the great railway
strike, rubbing elbows first with the men
next day he is at the state political con
vention. listening 70 \ heated discussion
Of the problems and tinding ont how The
delegates choose their candidates.
What is, then, the destiny of the cub
reporter? Mr.. Dana once said. The boy
who begins at the bottom comes out at
the top Certainly many of those who
start on the first round do not stay at thu
top; they either fall from the middle OF
the ladder into some theatrical company
as press agent. or else get to the top,
and after holding on long enough 10
catch glimpse Of the outside world.
then come out in order 10 look for the
top round of another ladder. For. as Ju-
Illus Chambers says: The position of
managing editor is generally post of
duty under an uplfted axe. since one er-
ror will ruin any executive editor. II.
however our young man fills the position
Of cub-reporter satisfactorily TO the city
editor. to the public. and TO himself. he
is destined-at all events. | know he has
il within his power-to climb the ladder.
whether he choose the role OF editor poet,
or statesman.