Practical English Composition: Book II. / For the Second Year of the High School

l manager, who may be one of its owners. Directly responsible to him are the busine

act that each occupies only a line or two, are called "liners"; the management of a corps of solicitors; and the maintenance of amicable relations with the business men of the community. The circulation department in

he foreman of the composing-room, the foreman of the pressroom, and the foreman of

is in his keeping. Not infrequently he has serious differences of opinion with the business manager, especially when he publishes news which does not please important advertisers. Among his chief occupations are devising methods of getting news and avoiding libel suits. The

blame for everything that goes wrong. Under him are: (1) A telegraph editor, whose business it is to handle news from outside the State; (2) a State editor, who directs as best he may a horde of local correspondents who represent the paper in the rur

news that goes into its columns. To be able to do this he must have a wide and exact knowledge of the people and the history of th

is perhaps the biggest and certainly the most elusive game which the world produces. Their lives are sometimes, their liberty oftener, and their jobs always,

warrior, famo

and victories

ook of honour

t forgot for wh

police station yields the largest number of good stories, because it is there that tales of human folly, crime, and tragedy are most prom

ly typical, though by no means universal. The

resentation

is work, a man or a woman must be able to gather news and to write. T

r an impossibility is only an opportunity in disguise. In his lexicon there is no such word as "fail." He must know how to make and keep friends. He must have that kind of original

ce with good books. These qualities are not usually found in company with those which make a successful news-gatherer. A person who has both is therefore worth his weight in gold to a newspaper. T

, because it speaks for itself. Editorials are designed to mould public opinion. Unless they are characterized by extreme good sense or brilliancy, nobody heeds them, though, if