A NEWSPAPER ON NEWSPAPER-MEN.

New Zealand Tablet, 22 May 1919, Page 23

A NEWSPAPER ON NEWSPAPER-MEN.

Writing in a recent issue on the death of one of the contributing staff, the Pilot, Boston, U.S.A., commented on the subject as follows:—“So the Pilot takes this occasion to give its meed of praise to the memory of, an old and valued collaborator who died a few days ago. Of all sorts and conditions of men and women who labor for the public in one capacity or another, firemen, policemen, employees in city departments, and public servants in general, the average’newspaperman is perhaps the one who renders.the greatest services, renders them anonymously in the main and when his work is done, is passed over and forgotten soonest. Almost everything in the world is raw material for the .newspaper-man except himself. He glorifies, praises, and excoriates others, as the case may be, but he himself remains in the background. When he has gone, in the very measure of his unselfish and faithful, service, he is dismissed by the reading public with scant regard. He dies in the harness and haste is made .to adjust that harness to one of the scores of applicants for the 1 vacant place. The Pilot is a paper that does not forget its friends and is far from wishing to sink into the ranks of the ungrateful and unthinking who have no use for a man once his best usefulness is exhausted. / : ' -