“ The best way to get news correct is to go to the persons chiefly concerned. Rightly approached and assured of a correct publication , most persons will gladly give all the information they Now and then a contrary person may be met with. The information wanted can almost always be easily obtained from someone else. But never make a promise to withhold news, just because someone who likes to seem peculiar asks you to do so. here an apparently plausible reason for not publishing an item is given, submit the facts to the editor and let him assume the responsibility for publishing or withholding. ”

“ Newspaper editors in the smaller towns and state editors in the larger towns and cities have come to frequent grief over the stories sent by their country correspondents—the impossibility of the copy caused by a lack of proper sense of news values perhaps, or by ignorance of the paper's particular style. ”

“ So much business needed to be talked over, so many matters to be determined, so many tangles to be smoothed out, and so many really good fellows were gathered together to attend to their own affairs that every editor was patting the other on the Tack with such keenness that the time slipped into nothing long before the numerous matters had been thoroughly thrashed out. ”

“ Reports of births, marriages and deaths are always important as news. In inquiring for news, the correspondent should always ask if the person inquired of knows of any recent births in the neighborhood or else where. No comment should be made upon birth announcements excepting, if the event occurred in some other place, to state that the parents formerly lived in your vicinity, or that the mother was formerly Miss---, or some thing similar, for identification by old friends. ”

“ The Institutes at the University each winter are not only enjoyable, but instructive as well, and those who do not attend certainly miss great opportunities for practical help in their everyday tasks. None of us are so old or experienced that we cannot new ideas. The industrial world is moving fast, and if we do not keep pace with it in our sphere, we are simply left behind. ”

“ Community work has always been a chief interest of Mr. Ellington. At present he is chairman of the publicity bureau of The Chehalis Citizen's Club, the commercial organization of Chehalis, and a member of the board of directors. He is also interested in music as a hobby and has helped organize and maintain the Chehalis Choral society.
As to his newspaper work Mr. Ellington says: " I take a keen delight in the newspaper work and feel that its ideals should be second to no other calling. ”

“ Getting Facts for an Emergency Sketches of people advanced in age or hopelessly ill should be prepared in advance and sent to the office . This will enable prompt publication where cleaths occur but a short time before the hour of going to press. Whatever needs to be added may be telephoned at the last moment. Advance copy may also be prepared Telephone important news that you lear of too late to write . ”

“ Resist the temptation to say the unkind one. Send no item that, printed, would make an enemy for yourself or the paper. This is not because the paper is afraid to make enemies, but be cause it is not a correspondent's duty to act as censor. If abuses exist that you think ought to be corrected, send full particulars to the editor, with names of responsible persons possessed of the fullest information concerning them , then leave the responsibility for using or not using the matter with him .
Most honest people like to see their names in print . ”

“ If John Drummer is a traveling man , who spends all his Sundays at home, it is not news to remark that “ John Drummer spent Sunday with his family." But if John Drummer's trips are of long and irregular duration, then his home-coming is a matter of importance as a news item . ”

“ In one family there may be a girl who is showing an especial aptitude for music, or a boy whose mind runs wholly to botany or geology, and who in consequence is constantly finding things about the farm that no one dreamed existed there. ”

“ The weakness of most correspondents is that of missing many people. They fall into the habit of depending, in their news-getting efforts, on old friends and fail to cultivate new ones. As a consequence they travel too much , to use that expression , in a circle . ”

“ Who's Who in Washington Journalism
Clarence Ellington, new president of The State Press Association, was born in Missouri in the year—well, you can guess. His father died when Mr. Ellington was eleven and his mother when he was thirteen, leaving him and his younger brother. After his mother's death, he went to southern California where he lived seven years until he came to Chehalis about twenty years' ago. ”

“ The Mount Vernon Argus, quoting the Commercial Club Bulletin , tells how many persons registered to vote at the primaries, how many pupils are enrolled in the schools, what the bank de posits are, how many fire-proof buildings have been erected in the past year, how many members the Commercial club has. Do your own citizens know all the possibilities of their own town ? ”

“ Think of the persons in your neighborhood con cerning whom you have never, or not for a long time, had an item of news, and see what you can find out about them or their affairs. In this way you will discover new storehouses of items.
Untold Stories of the People
There is scarcely a person in your neighborhood about whom an interest ing story cannot be told. Such stories help brighten up a local news column. ”

“ And tell , of course, about the recep tion, if there was one, and about the guests from out of town and about 233 particularly unique presents. And, finally, tell where the couple are to live and when they will be at home.
A gracefully woven -in compliment is always appreciated in a marriage notice; flowery language, never. ”

“ And there are, of course , the old people with bright minds and good recollections. Their birthdays should be noted as events . Sometimes they are interestingly reminiscent. 'The school teacher ought to be able to sug gest many interesting things about the youngsters. ”

“ First call for the Wenatchee meeting was sounded by N. Russell Hill, secretary of the State Press Association, and early Friday morning, September 24, O. H. Woody, editor of The Okanogan Independent surveyed the hotels in Wenatchee for twenty editors representing every paper in Chelan, Grant, Douglas and Okanogan counties, which comprise the fourth district. Besides Mr. Woody and his twenty editors, N. Russell Hill and Prof. ”

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