Image 6 of The Helena independent (Helena, Mont.), November 10, 1893, (Morning)
DANA ON JOURNALISM the Countrys Greatest Editor Dis ousses the rrainlng of News paper Makers Abstraot of His Recent Leoture on the Bubjeot at Union 0o1 legea Desas thiak Clleges Very Suesesotal Ia Makilg Jourmaliste What Greeley Bald on the blJbjeot In a lecture delivered at Union college on the education needed in preparation for journalism Chariea A Dana said The number of intellectual young men who are looking at this new profession which for the want of a better name we call the profession of journalism is very great I suppose that I receive myself ev ery day taking one day with another half a dozen letters from men many of them college graduates asking for employment and an opportunity of showing what is in them Of coarse they cannot all get it in the same paper Now and then one obtains a place but generally the rule that is ob served in all well organized newspaper of fices is that the boys who began at the Ie ginning aretakenup stepby step in accord ance with their faculties and their merits The boys w1o begin at the bottom come out at the top At the same time these boys