The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-04-01
Columbia Record.

subject Of a column Of interesting
comment and information from the
graceful pen Of DR.. George Melen,
puhlished in the Knoxville Sentinel
and the Chattanooga News.
From a. discussion Of the depart
ments Of Journalism" now main
tainea in several of the institutions
of higher learning, including Co.
lumbia university and the State uni
versities Of Virginia, Missouri and
Kansas-the value Of which he seems
to think at best dubious, editors be-
ing born rather than made-Dr.
Mellen passes on to the increasing
number of college-bred men to be
found in newspaper work nowadays.
Casually surveying the field, he finds
most Of the editors now engaged IN
moulding public opinion in the
South to be holders Of college d.
plonas or at least to have been for
a time in college.
At the head Of the Mobile Regis
ter is Erwin Craighead, who was
graduated from the University OF
Nashville and thereafter from Lelp-
sic. Major J. C, Hemphill, who has
recently left the Charleston News
and Courier, after thirty years, to
become the editor Of the Richmond
Times-Dispatch, is graduate OF
Erskine college, Due West. Frank
P. Glass, long Of the Montgomery.
Advertiser, who few weeks ago
broadened his field by taking over
an interest in the Birmingham News
and assuming its editorship, names
Princeton as his alma mater. James
R. Gray of the Atlanta Journal
Clark Howell Of the Constitution
and Pleasant A. Stoval Of the Sa-
vannah Press are all graduates OF
Georgia institutions. Gideon b.
Baskette of the Nashville Banner
and Josephus Daniels Of the Raleigh
News and Observer We're among
those whose college courses were cut
short by the War Between the Sec
tious. The list, as DR.. Mellen says,
is capable Of extension.
DR.. Msllen mentions some OF the
editors and other newspaper workers
of his own State who have enjoyed
college advantages, and a moments
thought, suggested by his words,
brings up the idea that probably In
no Southern State would one find
larger proportion of the newspa-
per workers to be college-bred men
than in South Carolina This leads
airectly to some attempt at confirm
ing the hypothesis 50 raised. As one
tells the men, off at random, even IN
the depiorable absence Of any writ
ten data on the subject, the IDEA
STRENGTHENS into conviction. A few
minutes of memory-searchlng suthces
for the compilation Of a list which,
with all the minor inaccuracies 1t
may exhibit, is at the least entirely
adequate to show that the day has
passed in this State when an eduea-
ton "at the ease" was considered
ALTOGETHER sufficient for a newspa-
per career, in either the weekly field
or that Of the dailies.
Starting at :Caarleston-and 1t IS
to be remembered no effort has been
made to do more than list men OF
whom the writer happened to know
something-one finds Robert Latham,
newly promoted to the editorship OF
the News and Courier, a former STU
dent but not a graduate Of Ershne,
Will, several Of his assistants are
also college men, State News Bdntor
S. E. Boney being a graduate OF
Furman, as is also one Of the report
ers, Nell Glenn; Telegraph Editor
L. II. Wannamaher, Jr., holding
diploma from Clemson and Mr.. Da'
vid II. Baum of the city staff being
a former student Of the University
Of South Carolina and the University
Of Virginia. City Editor Herbert b.
Sass is a first honor graduate Of
Charleston college. Editor War1ng
of the Evening Post was graduated
at the North, his bachelors degree
coming from Hobart college, Geneva,
n. Y.
At Columbia practically all the
newspaper men are college-bred. The
editor in chief Of the State, William
E. Gonzales, was educated at the
Kings Mountain Military school
and the South Carolina Military
academy, and James A. Hoyt, edl-
+o,, ond oro,, nr-a1 oana Ger OF the Rac-