The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-20
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1929
ON MAKING A NEWSPAPER

ON MAKING NEWSPAPER
~ ETTING out good newspaper is fasci-
mating task, but it is also difficult one.
No other job that comes to mind is quite
so taxing, quite so hurried or demands greater
pains. From the moment newspaper is started,
be it either daily or weekly the work is carried
on under pressure, against time. Put
yourself in an EDITORS postion-could you do it :?
Could you, for example, spell correctly, off
hand, the names of a large percentage of the
residents of this town? If you could do that,
could you write their initials correctly without
resorting to the telephone directory or other
authority? Could you write down, offhand, your
county officials, your leading state and national
officials, getting all of the names, initials and
offices correct? Could you gather the threads
of story from half dozen persons and weave
them into an intelligent, readable account the
first writing? Could you write seven columns of
material of 200 to 1, 400 words each in two or
three days. week after week, year after year,
and when you had finished those seven, pound
out two or three columns more before press
time? In writing headline, could you call to
mind in moment enough synonyms so that you
would not repeat the main thought in the same
words Could you judge in minimum of time
what size headlines, and what position in the
paper, should be given to each of seventy-five,
hundred more, stories that might go into
your paper? Could you decide in moment, or
exercise "snap" judgment, the dozens of ques-
tions newspaper man must face daily and get
majority of them correct.
We won't tire you-but if you could do these
few simple things and thousand and one more
difficult ones, you should be newspaper editor.
The point we wish to make is, that one can
produce good newspaper only after continual,
diligent study and years of practical experience
You have heard dozens of persons remark that
they could turn out a newspaper, and good one
too, lot better, in fact, than the one they are
getting. That is not true, unless they have gone
through the years and study that good news
paper demands of its makers
Were it not for the peculiar fascination as
ISOLATED with newspaper work, there would be
newspapers, for their is no greater taskmaster
and money alone would be far too scant COM
pensation.-Marshall News Messenger.
N*H
PITY THE STARVING
XVIITH deep covering every foot of
w ground, and all natural food supplies of
the wild life native to this section in the
winter, much suffering must inevitably result
among the birds, pheasants, prairie Chickens
crows, SQUIRRELS rabbits and other animals.
This suffering from hunger cannot entirely
be overcome by human agency but it can be
greatly lessened if every home owner will take
such steps are possible to provide the needed
food If places in the yard are cleared of snow
and scraps from the table, pieces of meat, grain
and seeds scattered there, the lives of many
thousands of birds and small animals may be
saved
1t is certain that unless some concerted
action is taken by those of kind heart, the bird
and small animal life of this section will be
practically extinct by spring. Food is not only
necessary to prevent death by starvation, but
by freezing, for food furnishes the heat so neces-
sary to withstand the severe cold.
At small cost and but little effort, all this
suffering can be greatly reduced No one would
think of deliberately permitting dog, horse
to starve or freeze to death, yet this
would be no worse insofar as the suffering goes
than to permit the birds and small wild animals
to so suffer.
Let's feed them to the best of our ability
Mabe Moreaux in Luverne Herald
Minnesota's own DR.. Folwell, whose ninety
Slxtn Dlrtnday found him hard at work on his
History of Minnesota, will go down in history
among the famous men who accomplished much
late in life. Here are some of them:
At 80, Noah Webster began his study of
seventeen languages.
At 81 Voltaire did his greatest thinking.
After 20, Vanderbilt developed the rail-
roads of America.
At 80, Gladstone made his way to the
head of the government for the fourth time.
At sc, Tom Scott began his study of
Hebrew.
At 90, Titan finished famous paint
ing.