The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-02-12
ADVICE FROM CARNEGIE
rronmaster Discusses Home For
INDECENT Journalists.

latter to Henry Watterson and
A. X. Mcclure He Claims 1t would
wiser to Relieve Newspaper
Tn Their Home Cities-Fine
,,,nta Paid to the Makers of Pa
pers.
THO New York Herald recently pub
,ahod +be following letter from An
s-ov Carnegie to Henry Watterson,
,i+or Of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
oo1 and A. X. Mcclure Of Philadel-
mia in which he says:
cirs-I have read in The Herald and
noon charmed by the poetic appeal
made bv the master Of our tongue who
oadrosses me in behalf of an INDECENT
journalists home" l venture to quote
paragraph from my remarks at the
luncheon given in honor of one of the
noblest of journals. Addressing the
staff of The Evening Post, said:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of The
evening Post-The pen is not only might
ior than the sword and destined to super
~ If hut the one is modest in the ex-
$50 while the other is ever vainglorious.
rtis toallof your admirers here, am sure,
ovtranoe pleasure to have an opportu-
i+,, face to face to express their grateful
thanks TO you unheralded and unsung and
rblclv unknown soldiers of the pen who
So completely merge your individuality IN
the great campaign you courageously lead
ogainst all that debaseS and in support OF
oil that eevates human society," 10 Whom
onoonr YOU and in what measure we who
hove read The Evening Post from youth
~ aqa are indebted for the good fruits OF
,+s 1arious fields we can never know, for
while YOU are always willing and even
onvious TO advertise the works OF others
the staff never advertises itself-so differ
ont this from the military spirit eXempli-
fed by Hotspur, who could pluck bright
honor from the pale faced moon only III
ho MIGHT without co-rival wear all it's dig
mites" You care not for these baubles.
nut find your noble reward in the knowl-
edge o. useful work performed.
know Of no calling. not even the high
oct more truly sancl,fied by the supreme
virtue of self abnegation or where there is
more of the spirit of the devotee-
whether I stand or crownless fall,
It matters not, so good work be done -
than that of the staff of a newspaper like
The Evening Post
produce this that the veteran jour-
nalistic couple may know that l am
not behind them in appreciation of the
"unheralded soldiers" of the pen. Per
haps | rate them higher than either of
nv friends, my dislike of the profess
sional soldier of the sword" being SO
intense. l rejoice that my friends
who have shown themselves for half a
century and more possessed of bril-
liant literary qualities, have also each
more than q modicum of the business
sense with which Mr.. Watterson cred
its me. To that business sense, there
fore, let me appeal.
In the first place, homes for the in
digent in general work well or badly
chiefly as they are managed. Some.
times they have done great good; some
times they have been great failures.
1t will be remembered that Bulwer
founded home for "decayed authors"
Il have been on the spot), and expert
ence proved that decayed authors, at
tached as they were to each other,
evinced no great liking for being herd
ed together; quite the reverse. Able
men have strong characteristics. What
suits one does not suit another.
ask my friends whether, instead Of
trying to establish general homes in
various places for the unfortunate
journalists in old age, much greater
good might not be done and the lives
OF such rendered much happier were
fund created and administered by a
committee Of the wisest journalists in
active service, each worthy object
needing relief receiving such pecuniary
assistance in his own domicile as to
this committee seemed advisable. If
such fund were created and such an
almoner obtained as we have in the
81. Andrews society of New York, my
thought is that it might be far better
IMAM a general home, which requires