The Wilmington morning star., 1940-03-24
|u,ny Compliments Paid
kidding Writers In New
Hanover Schools

.oms time, T., as editor Of
FOR scbooI page, have wanted to
l0NE tho editorial 1--WE" and it's
drop anonmity, and address you
p~rrorsly' ~ ,n+oa
ua something of the way your
70 A * edited and prepared for
nsNs o+ion. For another, I want
p''s oil TO know II It it has been
you .5nca+ion to me, as we'll as to
" " mr. srown-up readers.
nprson. no matter how indif-
10 the work you are doing,
s,1 read your writings and fail
sY's an,erge a better informed man.
md no person could read the
...,. stories you write and fail to
sinrs of talent, of deep thought,
ahoye everything else, an en-
e .srsiasm for your school work and
life.
Almost every story carried on
nv maze. when it relates to club,
sa,l, athletic, chapel or yard activi-
-. ends up I'VE had a good time"
=, i p continuous thrill to me to
,.,1 YOUR poetry, prose and the re-
s,Its of your school week.
"a many of the serves are bet
.,r than those written by adults.
1 countless number Of biographies
ghich have appeared here are good
.nongh for exclusion in encyclope-
Has, they are brief, curt, clear. A
upr disn't wasted.
s, let's watch how the page is
out togther. e.
Each Monday morning the news
is collected and that night it is
,vped, As the case so often occurs,
alas. We find more news than there
space allotted for it.
In such cases, l try to type out
the best and trust that I can get
the remaining pieces in another
Three pages, in long hand, is
all We can squeeze into the space
available for one school.
In order to get in as many stories
as possible, it is necessary to change
a word occasionally, or to delete
a paragraph or two in the longer
Even then, as so many of
you realize, much of the news is
tabled for future use.
But after the news is ready, it is
TO Mr., John Marshall, a mem
Der of the board Of education and
Managing Editor of The Star-News.
He checks it for inaccuracies,
marks it up, with appropriate signs,
or the printers, and then writes
he heads. Afte. that it goes
so many treatments that
t would take columns to describe
hem.
There is little about the school
age, as it rests before you, fresh
md lean, to suggest the romance
its birth; no hint of the great
fell by the acre and ground
MO pulp to form the imprinted
nor the marvellous press
Which print and fold it; nor yet of
trucks and newsboys who make
delivery possible.
1t would surprise all children,
our teachers and principals, at the
readers we have. While l
an understand that parents would
Interested in what their children
'Flte' 1t is a constant source of
lnazernent to me to run into hun
OF people a week who have
IL children in school, but are "cov-
readers. They can quote
our poems from memory and dis
us Your activities as we'll as you.
Ihen there are hundreds of other
eaders who are more interested
"hat the children of New Han
'er county are being taught. Until
4s page was created it was vague
to them.
ANA all up and down the high
'ss' as far as The Star-News cir
1all0h goes, this page has it's
readers. Not long ago,
=, Idtner of three children in White
Inc told me it was the first place
- cAIaren turned. So there! Your
.%ies' your news, your sweets,
lu sours, are literally covering
'u,Heastern North Carolina each