THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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H. G. STEEL
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1920
INSIDE AND OUT
There is no other profession than
journalism and newspaper making
about which persons outside of it
know' so little. The man who has at
one time or another sent “a piece”
to the papers or owned a share of
stock in a newspaper, is to be met
on every corner, and ninety-nine per
sons out of a hundred are quite sure
they know better how to edit, to write
for, to prepare generally, and to pub
lish a newspaper than any editor, or
journalist or publisher who ever lived.
And so they do, each of them, know'
how to put out just the right sort of
newspaper—for them. It w'ould not
be for anyone else. If they were will
ing to pay the price they could, any
of them, publish a newspaper that J
would exactly please each one of
them, individually. The perfection of
tbeir product would not be apparent
to another mortal soul on earth. To
the rest of the world, their news
papers would be uninteresting, silly,
useless botches, Newspapers deal in
ideas and the ideas of no two persons
in the wmrld are identical.
Not all, by any means, of those en
gaged in journalism or newspaper
making understand what might be
called the science of it. Those who
have dabbled in it know' little about
it, and those outside of it know' noth
ing at all. Its shades and facets, its
psychology, and its relations to poli
tical, sociological and commercial con
ditions comprise a world into w'hich
men outside the profession have never
peeked, though most of them are
quite convinced that they have seen
it all. They are quite sure, at least,
that common rules, applicable else
where, with w'hich they are more or
less familiar, may be applied here as
well.
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man realizes he does not know it all,
and that is a great part of his wis
dom. He is no quidnunc. That is
one of the dynamic forces behind the
real journalist that impels ever on
ward, to learn and to do. He does
know that those, outside know noth
ing of it. He knows that just as cer
tainly as he apprehends that while
some fathers may not know the true
and really finer sense of fatherhood,
no childless man can understand any1
thing of what fatherhood means.
There are degrees in the qualifica
tion even of men in the profession,
of course. Nearly every one of them
has limitations that are obvious
enough, though he be talented within
a certain scope.
The story is told, and it is quite
true, of a newspaper man, well up on
the staff of the paper on which he is
employed, who approached the editor
and owner of the paper in some im
patience one day, and putting aside
conventional decorum, proceeded to
lecture the responsible- head for not
doing and saying certain things
through the paper. He reminded the
editor and owner of his radical per
sonal convictions upon certain public
questions, and the complete indepen
dence of his position, and urged him
to certain departures.
The chief took the scolding good
humoredly, and then said: “Now,
don’t anwer this question for three
minutes. Think the matter over care
fully, then tell me this: how long
do you think this newspaper would
last if I followed your advice?”
At the end of the first minute, the
critic, himself a capable man, said
with a crestfallen air, “Probably six
months.”
“You have put it at least five
rfionths too long,” replied the editor,
w^ho knows what he is doing, knows
the intricacies and the pitfalls, and
knows he Is dealing with all sorts of
■people, of every shade of idea and
personal viewpoint, and with complex
social, political and business condi
tions that constitute a veritabie Chin
ese puzzle to the man outside, or
even part way outside.
When the officers of the publicity
bureau of the British government re
cently ordered that bright star of the
newspaper world, Louis Tracy, to
send clippings showing what he had
done and was intending to do, and so
on, Tracy cabled them in reply: “Go
and boil your blooming heads.” They'
knew nothing' about the actual prob
lems Tracy had to contend with,
nothing of local conditions and spe
cial requirements. They knew about
as much of the physical side, of what
they were inquiring into as a Hotten
tot knows of Sanskrit. >
Tracy’s advice to his “superiors”
was neither elegant nor deferential,
but it was tremendously apt. And
the same reply might well be given by
the average newspaper man to the av
erage fireside critic who is attempting
to say how his paper shall be run.
CHURCHES
Episcopal
St. George’s church. First Sunday
after Easter. Sermon and Holy Com
munion at 11 a. m. Church school
at 12 m. REV. E. P. ZEIGLER
Priest-in-charge
Christian Science
Services will be held at 11 a. m. in
Masonic hall; subject, “Are Sin, Dis
ease and Death Real?” Wednesday
evening service at 8 o’clock. The read
ing room is open on Wednesday from
2 to 8 o’clock. Sunday school at 12
m. All are cordially invited.
Presbyterian
Preaching services, 11 a. m., “Daily
Strength for Daily Needs”; Sunday
school, 12:15, “Deborah and Barak”;
Junior C. E., 3:30; preaching services,
8 p. m., “Rationalism.” We cordially
invite Strangers and friends to our
services. A. G. SHRIVER, Pastor.
Scarborough pictures that please at
prices that art right. Over Cordova
drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stignxatic lenses replaced. See Os
borne,
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Job printing at Dally Times office.
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GEORGE
ANDERSON
PIANO EXPERT
And Factory Representative
High-Grade Pianos
Will be in ordova in the near
future
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You a Cigar We Can
Guess the Answer!
Think of the number of lab
tore t& the name of yoar favorite
tobncon or cigar.
Double this number.
Add eight
Divide by two.
Subtract the number you
started with.
Multiply by three.
Add one.
Subtract six.
Come into the Horseshoe, and
if the man at the counter can
not tell you the correct answer
he will treat you to a cigar.
We are as certain of the su- !
perior quality 6f our cigars and
tobacco as we are of solving
this problem.
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CORDOVA
SHEET METAL
WORKS
'Goods Manufactured to Order, of
Sheet Iron, Galvanized Iron, Tin
and Zinc
Phone 143
Second St., Next to Hospital
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
We Sell Goods on Commission
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Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
THOROUGHLY MODERN. NEAREST TO EVERYTHING
POPULAR PRICES
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Corner First Ave. and- Pino SL
SEATTLE, WASH.
J. A. Farnham and E. Taylor,
Proprietors »
Headquarters for Alaskans. Ted
Taylor, formerly chief steward
S. S. Alaska
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