The Washington times., 1923-04-28
Gives
EDITORS
PRAISE
Finds That En- Masse at Con-
vention Here They Look Like
Prosperous Bankers.
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at Balaklava, or a kid in a room
full of quizzical elders. One OF the
talks was upon accuracy in pursuit
of news. Suppose the reporter in
this crucial assignment should get
an initial wrong, or a linotyper
put quotes around q PARAGRAPH
meant to be a paraphrase, and the
reporter got called on lit. Kin
dred uncomfortable thoughts fitted
through his mind.
But soon came the reaction.
Here he was in position to study
the formidable species of the
journalistic genus in the open, far
from it's native haunts of mahogany.
green plush, the Unabridged and
the World Almanac. The reporter
perceived that he had a distinct
advantage He commenced to OBJ
serve and sum up, and his thoughts
were temporarily diverted from the
speaker.
Editors, en- masses, he noted land
it may be of interest to you to
know are not bent, nervous indi-
yidual, careless in personal appear
ance and irascibIe in manner. This
group might very well have passed
doctors, except for two things:
/. The chins were, practically
without exception. Of notably strong
mold.
2 .AII save two or three were
clean-shaven. There was to he
seen but one beard, a Ia Bernard
Shaw property of Willis j. Abbott,
OF the Christian Science Monitorl,
and one mustache, grey, dating
apparently from the era of Marse
Henry Watterson's widest sway.
Horn Rims Decorations.
It is true that most of the
editors wore glasses. The reporter
knew that the Big Guns hardly
ever read proofs or subject their
eyes to the strains commonly sup.
posed to produce profound myopia,
atrophy of the optic nerve or iritis.
He concluded a good many Of the
editors knew they looked well in
horn-rims.
Few Of the editors were smoking,
though the management had care
fully provided brass receptacles at
AZ short intervals as obtain in the
cloak rooms of the house. One
was smoking a pipe He looked
as editorial as you please. but the
pipe kept going out.
When the editors spoke, it was
in a well.modulated voice and their
strophes and antistrophes were
little distinguished by the use of
the perpendicular pronoun and not
at all by the editorial We. Were
these the men who on occasion
hurled bitter invective at the COM
petition-strangling trust or the
malfeasing mayor?
The editors were well set-up.
They had flat backs, rudy faces,
and in a good many cases wore
rough tweeds and profusely punched
DroganS.
They have all taken up golf.'
murmured the reporter. Red
blooded Americanism is simply
rampant"
In fact, the majority of the
editors were men to whom middle
age had brought only a fulfilment
of the physical promise of youth
instead Of natures little hints that
decline lay but few years ahead.
They were vigorous, and their
thoughts were vigorous.
Hereat, the reporter perceived
the truth that these men had kept
young by their manifold contacts
with the world. They had not only
exercised their brains for many
years but along many diverse
lines, and the spice OF continuous
variety had guarded against the
mental hardening or stiffening that
comes to professional men of a |
single devotion.
Proves Old Game Good.
, All in all, everything about the
editors seemed to assure the re-
porter that the old newspaper game
isn't a bad one to stick to.
A fair amount of intelligence, |
close application, and the gift of |
making friends should lift any man |
to the editorial chair early enough |
in life for him to enjoy it's returns |
and perquisites.
You may paste 1t in your hat"
he inwardly remarked, that the |
ones who go around soaring young |
fellows away fom the game with |
stories about it's heartlessness and |
small prospects never were intended |
to be in it in any way"
BY this time a speaker had fin- |
ished, to be rewarded with a sincere