Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-06

Bob Small and Stan Reynolds were
seriously injured. And there are
old-timers among the Washington
correspondents who still have at
tacks of nerves when they remem-
Der a trip up Mount Rainier with
President Taft, or a wild dash
through the city of Pittsburgh at a
seventy-mile an hour clip in the
wake of an automobile that carried
the same important presidential load.
Going back a bit further there
may be recalled the New England
trolley accident in which one of the
secret service men guarding Presi-
dent Roosevelt was killed. No news
paper men were in that, but they
were hard on the heels of the
tragedy.
All In The Days Work
1t is all in the days work. Cur
tbs, Dawson and Allen we're killed,
and Craig was injured, in the line of
duty, and they were and are good
soldiers, all. They were not off on
a holiday. Enviable as such an as
signment may seem, and wonderful
as the opportunities it unfolds may
appear, it is a hard, grueling job,
calling for long ways of strenuous
activity under a nervous strain and
tension that is never relaxed, and
carrying with it inconvenience and
discomforts that are not offset by
beautiful scenery and lavish enter
tainments.
These tragedies serve to show that
the Washington correspondents life
/ MT oil hnA~ 80 -1r{NAlAz --a- -
indeed in the days when beer was
something more than a memory!
The associations, the experiences,
and the tasks that go to make up
the life of the Washington CORES
pondent are truly wonderful and
truly enviable-some of them, and,
in fact, most of them. 1t is a life
rich in opportunity to those who
would serve their fellowmen by
chronicling and interpreting the cur
rent happenings in governmental af-
fairs in this and other countries. 1t
has its thrills, it's triumphs, it's dis
appointments, its defects. 1t makes
w~hole-souled, CHEEKY optimists of
some; it makes cynical pessimists
of others. 1t keeps some men ever
young; it ages others quickly.
But always it takes heavy toll of
physical vitality and energy.
1t is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job.
The correspondent must never get
out of touch with his ofice-out of
reach of the message that may come
flashing over the wire any hour of
the day or night. He can never go
30 sleep serene in the consciousness
that he has covered his beat, and
he never knows when or where a
story will break that has a Washing
ton end that he must handle. Come
great occasions such as national con-
v%entions, international conferences,
and the like, and the correspondents
are strangers to sleep and enjoy
only a fleeing acquaintance with
food until the affairs are over.
Your Washington correspondent
must have an omnibus mind that
takes in and holds a little of every
thing. He must have integrity, poise,
~discernment, imagination, tact, pa
thence and perseverance. He must
know how to make friends and hold
them; he must know how to use
them and not to be used by them
He must be in love with his work
and find his reward primarily in the
satisfaction of doing 1t we'll or &C
ceptably, for he will get little else
out Of it.
And he should cultivate the graces
of humility! consider the classic tale
of the correspondent compelled by
stern necessity to get a statement
late one night from a crotchety
old Admiral of the Navy. He found
the Admirars residence ~enshrouded
In darkness and silence, but he rams
the bell, and when that availed not
he pounded on the door, and Their
used his foot, encased in a heavy
brogan. Presently there was a win
dow raised above, n grizzled head
was thrust forth, and a quarterback
voice bellowed:
What blankety-blank idiot is
raising all that hell down there al
this hour of the night?"
Mr.. Jones of the Sublimated
Press, sir!"