Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
Many Fields Offered
to Students Who
Choose Today.
Learning to Think :
Is Cited as Benefit
of College Course.

too. In the news columns, as distin-
guished from the special departments,
you will find today more Of information
and less Of propaganda. The success
full newspaper editor of this generation
is more likely to be a great teacher than
a great preacher.
All Of these things should be taken
into account by the young man who is
looking forward to newspaper career
because all Of them are bound to mean
a great deal In the working out of his
dreams and his ambitions.
For one thing, the present widening
scope Of the daily press means that a
newspaper career Is more certain than
ever before to provide that variety of
experinece which is the spice of life. AS
the world advances and society becomes
more complex, just so expands the field
OF human activity which comes within
the purview OF the newspaper man. To-
day he may write of a political CAM
paign, tomorrow Of congress of mothers
and the next day of great feat of avn
alton. Certainly no reporter who pos
sesses an ounce of human understand
ing need complain of the boredom of
existence on this terrestrial globe.
1t never should be forgotten, however,
that responsibility goes hand in hand
with these opportunities to look on life
In its many phases, and to know IL
abundantly. The day is long since past
when TO be a newspaper man It is
necessary only to call ones self news
paper man. Newspaper work has be
come serious business, and the irrespon-
sible, dissolute and incompetent reporter
who in the old days could tumble into
new job the morning after he was
discharged from the old one has about
passed from the picture.
Experience Is Necessary.
No young man should deceive himself
about this. Hard work, long hours, and
constant Affirmative striving for i'm
provenlent are essential elements of
newspaper training today, just as they
are the stepping-stones to success in
every other worthwhile calling. Con-
trary to widely held notion, the in
experienced reporter, given major as
signment. is hardly more likely to sue
coed at 1t than an inexperienced sur
geon at major operation.
II experience Is the real foundation
OF a newspaper mans eventual value,
1t is education which will make expert
ence easier to acquire and easier to
turn TO full account. Every editor and
reporter, standing as he does daily in
the presence Of so wide variety of
human endeavors. must reflect humbly
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niflganee of the many things which
come within his range of vision. Natu-
rally he cannot hope to be versed in all
Of the arts and the professions. but he
does benefft In greater or lesser degree
from every nugget of information, on
whatever subject, which he has slowed
away in his mental treasury. 1t Is al
most literally true that every single
thing he ever has learned In his whole
life Is likely at some time or another
to be Of assistance to him in the rou-
tine Of his daily life. Probably there
is no other profession of which this
statement could be made in the same
sweeping sense.
Aside from the information it imparts,
education sets up mental processes as val
liable to the newspaper man as in any
other walk of life. He needs very much
to know how to study, how to concen-
trate. how to solve difficult problems
logically, how to store up in his memory
the things of real worth. It is quite
true that many men have attained
measurable success in the newspaper
world without spending much time in
school, but their experience can only
leave US wondering how much greater
their attainment might have been had
their opportunities been greater in their
earlier years.
A newspaper career holds out a fas-
cinating and warmly human prospect to
the young man who is willing to work.
There Is no better way for him to begin
to work than by working his way
through school,.