Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — CRADLES OF GREAT EDITORS [ARTICLE]

CRADLES OF GREAT EDITORS

Many Editorial Giants Got Their Early Training on Village Newspapers , of New England. The old New England village newspapers nourished a race of journalistic giants. It was from a little Connecticut office, that of the Connecticut Mirror, that a keen Yankee, named George D. Prentice, went forth to prepare the way for that great light of Southern journalism, Henry Watterson. The dingy little printing shops of Vermont trained in the service of the types many men who afterward became eminent in metropolitan and western journalism. But the case of Greeley was an epic in itself. -No more uncouth and miserable little wretch ever sought employment. But he brightened up the Northern Spectator with his youthful writings, which were then, as ever after, his very own, and not mere imitation Addisonianisms. From the shop in East Poultney he went forth to an illustrious career; and, whether it liked him or not, the country had to listen to him. His brain not infrequently —sp his countrymen would now express it —slipped a cog. There were strange lapses in his intellectual and moral achievement, but none in his honesty or his good will toward his fellow countrymen.