The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1914-04-03

delivered Al address TUESDAY at Hen
dirk College on The Newspaper Bust
hess as a Career
VI. Heiskeu had said in pEsvious
talks on Journalism that the man
whose chief an : the acc11llat Ion
Of dollars should turn 20 some bust
less other than tn newspaper bust
ness. bu- The man zLo wants % live
IN the boiling midst o. things and
wants TO 30 things can DO 70 better
than % choose the newspaper game as
his life work
Pursuing .urIa=r his lie OF ta5ugat
Mr.. HeiskeIl said
u do not want % give ne impress
sion that The newspaper business Is :
business OF Baupers for i IS not. The
hackneyed jokes about the poverty
OF newspaper workers should not be
taken as fact There IS good liz.
ing IN the newspaper business for the
man who has talent for it and who
will study i as ne should study any
other profess ion and there are some
very large salaries. ! suppose I an
safe II saying that the average re-
turn OF newspaper work Is about equal
to that the average man receives in
other lines bu. / an inclined to think
that the same amount Of energy and
intelligence put into some other pro-
tession would bring better monetary
returns than when put into the news
paper business.
One reason so many men fail in
the newspaper business-that is in
the editorial end OF the newspaper
business--is that they do not study
az they 20 along The newspaper
game has left more than its share o.
wrecks along the shore but the wrecks
and no, the game should be blamed
A young man possessed Of a good
mind and good education enters a
newspaper Office as cub reporter
The work interests him and he gets on
for time and then the freedom which
is inherent in the work OF The news
paper reporter slips Up on him and
without knowing it he goes back
ward or stands still He does his daily
stint and does 1t reasonably we'll but
unless some big story breaks to spur
him on he puts too little thought and
too little originality into his work
Almost before he knows it his best
days are gone and ne spends his life
as reporter and as a rot very good
remained a reporter too long has not
the energy and the grit necess ~ to
the makeup Of q good reporter. These
are the men who rail against he
newspaper business but the business
should not be blamed. That there are
possibilities in the newspaper business
IS shown by the statement made by
Mr.. Seitz Of the New York World in
recent lecture before the Pulitzer
School Of Journalism. He said there
are Il men employed on the New York
World alone who get more than $4,000
a year each Arthur Brisbane. editor
Of Hearsts New York Journal gets
more than $4,000 a year but his sal
airy is the largest I believe that is re-
ceiyed by any newspaper man.
Not Hard 20 Break Into Business.
breaking into the newspaper bust.
nes is not hard and getting on in it
is not hard if you have a talent for
it but If you lack that talent you will
save money and time by going into
some other business. | have known
some very brilliant men to fail en-.
tirely in the newspaper business and
TO be most successful in other lines.
have in mind now a prize scholar Of
the University OF Virginia who was a
notable failure as a newspaper man
He tried for more than year % he a
/ reporter and then. realizing that his
talents were not in hat line. he turn
ed to the law. He is now one OF the
leading young lawyers OF one of the
/ largest Southern cities.
ITO learn the newspaper business
4 one must go where the newspaper
I business is taught and that place is
/ a newspaper Office. | should advise
/ the Young man or Young woman who
/ decides on newspaper work as a ca
/ reer 70 start as a reporter on a daily
in a city Of a hundred thousand Da0-
| pie or less. | say this because the
! reporter in a city Of this size gets q
more varied experience than the re-
! porter in the larger cities. start in
as cub and don't expect TO draw 4
salary a. first any moro than you
would expect to collect fees on the
/ day You began studying law or medi-
cine. Learn as you 90 along each
day. Ask questions and remember
what you have been told Put the
test of common sense to what you
learn and eliminate that which is not
good but do what you are told If the
city editor gives You an assignment
or if he tells you how TO write a story,
! cover the assignment or write the
/ story as he tells you If Won know the
city editor is wrong tell him SO and
| If he still insists, write the story his
way. Then YOUR skirts are clear and
| the citv editor must do tho evplafrin,r