Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1906-12-11
A LESSON IN REVIEW
ART OF JOURNALISM
A Recurrence of the Injunction Against
the Premature Use of "PiekIed" or
"EmbaImed" Telegraph"

| This lesson No. v of the Primary
Course in Journalism will be brief and
/ will be IN the nature of review OF the
earlier lessons. / fear my dear chill =
dren that we have perhaps gone too
fast and that you have not all retained
what has been given you.
! / was quite explicit IL you will re
member. in my Instructions concerning
the use of "pet-ified." "embalmed" or
"decomposed" Telegraph" 1t is with
regret that l observe that some of you.
notably the Evening Outcast. still
persist in your faults in this direction
l can not take the time to repeat my
instructions on this point. but must
content myself with calling your atten-
ton TO such errors of omission or of
commission as may see from time to
time. These frequent reminders
trust will eventually cure you of these
faults.
The Evening Outcast yesterday dis
played an embalmed Telegram" in
which it was stated that an old miner.
one Louis Shulty of Linton, Ind. shot
and killed a merchant OF the same
place. and after compelling a female
relation to give him IS. he. armed with
a shot gun, took refuge in the Tower
Hill, an abandoned mine nearby; tina.
the peace loving citizens of that COM
munity had surrounded the entrances
and exits of the mine with the pur-
pose Of capturing the aged murderer
tonight" All these events are rep
resented TO have occurred yesterday,
December 10.
have several criticisms to offer
The first one is that the Evening Out
cast has been premature in the use OF
this telegraph" since the reading public
OF this vicinity has not forgotten that
the story was printed by The Arizona
Republican less than two weeks ago
My children that is not long enough
Telegraph" can not be properly en-
balmed in two weeks.
But even If the embalming process
had been completed. the telegram"
should have been subjected to slight
revision for an afternoon journal for
as II now stands. the phrase "a party
guarding the mine tonight" is necessa.
rily confusing TO afternoon readers
who will naturally inquire What
night? Tonight or tomorrow night ,"
The use Of this dispatch" by the
Evening Outcast betrays a cruel dis
position which grieves me- Here is ar
aged man who is driven perhaps ID
murder and compelled to take refuge
in an abandoned coal mine. We have
II as ] have shown on good authority
that this occurred two weeks since. To
the tortures of the old mans
conscience the Evening Outcast
ADDS the terrors of neces-
sarily slow and painful death OF
starvation. II is-true that the old man
had money. that is 80. That sum
is insufficient to preserve life a great (
while even i'm an abandoned coal min.
where living may be presumed to be
inexpensive. where there are few lux
uries obtainable and where there i
no temptation to the frittering away
of ones substance in riotous living.
But even in an abandoned coal mine (
one must eat to live. The old man I
plainly had no other means OF living /
for the mine having been abandoned. |
he could entertain little hope of So
curing remunerative employment. The 4
use Of this Telegram" by the Evening (
Optcast was not only in advised but I.
cruel was about to employ the I
stronger word "barbarous." I hope m ? 4
children that you will avoid suen I
faults as this.
There is another error into which n
some OF you. more particularly the Il
evening Outcast have fallen. that of
imitation You should all of course
select some reputable journal, like The
ARIZONA Republican as a model to be-
approached In a general way. but
mere should be no imitation. No one /
nan can successfully initiate another.
he may follow him along the same
general lines but when he attempts TO
'opy him. his serviIity becomes Iudi-
'rously noticeable and people entertain
or him only the contempt which al
Ways attaches to the flatterer. For
Is only the simplest and sim
'erest form Of flattery or adulation.