Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1918 — DO WORK AT HIGH PRESSURE [ARTICLE]

DO WORK AT HIGH PRESSURE

Duties of War Correspondents at the Front Are In the Highest Degree Exacting. Here are the conditions under which a war correspondent has to work: A great attack is pending and In the black night the war correspondent journeys forth from S. H. Q. by car to some vantage point, from which he sees what he can of the action and, even were visibility perfect, under conditions of modern war he could only hope to witness a tiny corner of the battle—picks up what facts he can at brigade, divisional, corps or army headquarters, and from the “walking wounded,” who begin to stream down from the front within ,an hour of “zero,” studies his maps, and makes his notes. Morning papers go to press early these days. So in the early afternoon he is whirled homeward, maybe through shell fire, fifty, sixty or seventy miles, and then only, at the end of a long, exhausting day,'his work proper begins. He must sit down and write promptly a dear and comprehensive account of the day’s. doings, graphic, if possible, as complete as may be, yet containing nothing that infringes on censorship rules. It is a t ww ic demanding the utmost concentration from a mind and body already fatigued. _