The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-10-11
wANTED-NewsPAPER WORKERS

WAN TED-.NEWSPAPER WORKERS
The subject Of this appeal has been
very carefully thought out. 1t would
not do to use the term journalist"
for that word is too professional and
is not sufficiently inclusive. 1t would
not do to use the term newspaper
men, for the field is also open to
women. The opportunity is not for a
dreamer or a shirker, but the time is
here, and NOW, and the Recruiting
acknowledgements Offices-are open
for enlistments of able bodied, ener-
getic, optimistic, intelligent NEWSPA-
PER WORKERS.
In the field Of newspaper and mag
azine work among US, opportunities
were never so glittering and inviting.
The amazing business success of
scores of our periodicals in the last
five years has lifted the calling from
the realm Of uncertainty, hard luck
and labor of love to a plane of dignity,
prosperity and fortune. There is at
least one newspaper publisher whose
gross income is more than $4,000 per
week, and there are dozens whose
gross income is far in excess of S10,-
900 per year, and the field is getting
wider every day.
The Newspapers of Our Group Have at
Last Come Unto Their own.
No line Of business, and certainly
no other Of the professions, holds out
a more promising future at this time.
There is not a newspaper publisher in
the country who could not use one or
more additional people of the right
kind. The right kind must be those
who are willing to start at the bottom,
go through all of the grilling, grinding
experience, be honest, and work to the
top. The game is more than worth
the candle. There is absolutely no
limit to the possibilities Of success
success measured only by the capac-
ity of the individual.
Through the National Negro Press
Association a plan has been mapped
out by which those who desire to ac-
quaint themselves with the mechanical
side of the business may be appren-
ticed in the National Baptist Publish
ing House at Nashville. DR.. r. r.
Wright, editor of the Christian Re
corder, Philadelphia, has expressed a
willingness to take five young people
into his offices to learn The profess
sional side of the same. IT'S a great
game if you don't weaken ANY
newspaper editor will take on" any
Young man or young mi who has
insight and willingness, and whose
consuming fire is not to sit at the
big desk" and write editorials ii
is a singular fact that nine-Jenths Of
the young people with newspaper am
billions wish to begin by writing edl-
t~orials, and that, undoubtedly, is the
last thing they should chIrk about. 1t
is like a violinist who wishes to begin
by playing the classics in music; or a
doctor who desires to perform a major
operation before finishing his medical
course, or an aviator who wishes to
make his first flight a trip across the
ocean. There is con at the top but
you must work up from the bottom.
Circulation in all our newspapers,
practically, has jumped from 100 to
800 per cent in the last five FEARS.
During the same period advertising
patronage has jumped from 50 to 200
per cent. It is a known fact that most
or tLt iTcrease in Calculation and ad-
vErtising aas come 10 tie periodicals
without any ole of them, including the
best, having managers at the heads
of these two impor,I departments
equipped in the highest measure Of eff
~ficiency, as compared with other lines
of business. What might have been
done, or what will be done, when our
men and women have fitted themselves
by careful and the most modern train
ing for this work. is too startling to
describe.
The Race is alive to the mighty
needs and power and influence of
capably edited newspapers. The PEG,
pie are buying and reading everything
that's published, even though in some
cases, as worthy as may be the eff
forts, cts a shame to take the
money"
Youns Men, Young Women, those Of
you with High School, Business Col
lege, or University Training, who are
now trying to decide on a life work
get in touch with the Editor, and tall
the subject over with him. Lister
carefully to his words or advice anc
wisdom, and then decide to become {
newspaper worker" "The harvest i,
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