Phoenix tribune., 1919-10-04
wANTED-NEwsPAPER WORKERS
(By Associated Negro Pressl

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-The subject of
this appeal has been very carefully
thought out. 1t would not do to use
the term journalists" for that word
is too professional and is not suffi-
ciently inclusive 1t would not do to
use the term newspaper men, for
the field is also open to women. The
opportunity is not for dreamer or
shirker, but the time is here and
NOW, and the recruiting stations
newspaper offices-are open for en-
listments of able bodied, energetic, op.
timistic, intelligent NEWSPAPER
WORKERS.
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 dig
nity prosperity and fortune. There is
at least one newspaper publisher
whose gross income is more than
$40 900 per week, and there are dozens
whose gross income is far in excess
of $4,000 per year, and the field is
getting wider every day.
| The newspapers or 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 experiences, be honest, and
work to the top. The game is more
than worth the candle. There Is alb
solutely no limit TO the possibilities of
success-success is measured only by
the capacity of the individual.
Through the National Negro Press
Association plan has been mapped
out by which those who desire to ac-
quaint themselves with the mechani
cal side of the business, may be ap-
prenticed in the National Baptist Pub
fishing House, at Nashville. DIR. r. R.
Wright, editor of the Christian Re-
corder, Philadelphia, has expressed q
willingness TO take five young people
into his office to learn the profession
al side of the game. ITS d great
game if you don't weaken" Amy news
paper editor will take on" any young
man or young woman who has insight
and willingness, and whose "consun-
ing fire" is not to sit at the big desk
and write editorials" 1t is singular
fact that nine-tenths of the young peo-
pie with newspaper ambitions wish to
begin by writing editorials, and that,
undoubtedly, is the last thing they
should think about 1t is like vio-
linist who wishes to begin by playing
the classics in music, or doctor who
desires to perform major operation
before finishing his medical course, or
an aviator who wishes TO make his
first flight trip across the ocean.
There is room at the top, but you must
work up from the bottom.
Circulation in all our newspapers.
practically, has jumped from 100 to
500 per cent in the last five years,
During the same period advertising
patronage has jumped from so to 200
per cent. II is a known fact that most
of this increase in circulation and ad-
vertising has come to the periodicals
without any one of them, including
1.-THE best, having managers at the heads
of these two important departmentS