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PAGE TWELVE OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1922 S-- I RULES FOR PREPARATION OF COPY A Knowledge of The Rules of The Editorial Room May Sime plify Work For Secretaries, So many people have asked just how to write reports of meetings for the newspaper, and others have wondered no doubt just why the not worth reporting, but if he failed to take off his hat, that is unusual and therefore of news value, or if his hat was a Turkish Fez by all | 14--Convent, Brock and Simcoe Sts. {18 -Ontario Malleable Iron Co, | 16--High School, | 17=-Hospital, | 18--Bishop Bethune College, 7 RAILWAY TIME TABLES G.T.R-O,N.R,, Oshawa Junction | aia Going east: 8,23 a.m, daily; 10,24 a.m. daily; 1,00 p.m, daily except Sunday; 2.60 p.m. daily except Sun- day; 7.01 p.m, daily except Sunday; Montreal and beyond; 12,16 a.m. 9,40 p.m, daily; 11,60 p.m, daily, stops only to take on passengers for © Mr. and Mrs, Bert Gay, and child- ren of Oshawa, spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs, Leo Courtice, Miss Mabel Vinson, Oshawa, visit- led with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bragg Shaws, visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B, Werry , Mr. Balson, Toronto, is spending a week with his brother, Mr, H. Bal- son. Miss Ruberta Penfound, Toronto, fs the guest of Miss Hstella: Pen- tound. Miss Lizzie Whiffen, is spending ; | evening service in charge of the Ep worth League, which will be in the form of a Song Service, Come and help sing. FINE HUNTING "Where to Hunt, Fish and Paddle in the New North" is the title of a new publication dealing with terri- tory along the Transcontinental Line of the Canadian National Railways in Northern Ontario and Quehe Full information is contained there- | in relative to where game may be found, guides, camps, equipment, ete, and in addition a series of com THE LAST DANDY, Orsay seventy years ago, marked the | end of a social epoch, He was the | dandies. | who was born in and | who in the early Twenties gained a footing in London society under the |sponger, but contrived to maintain {himself by pertrait painting, His |sketehes, chiefly of well-known so- ciety folk, constitute an interesting {collecton, by no means void of merit, land he alone of the many artists to {whom the Duke of Wellington sat, | gained the soldier's approval, D"- {Orsay, said the Duke, was the only [artist who ever painted hip like a gington." was no mere drone or gentleman, wording of their carefully prepared | means that is to be reported. By. daily. a few days with Miss Annie Parsons. prehensive maps. 1 his virgin coun- | work has been changed with no ap- [the same token, it is an unnecessary | Going west: 4.44 am, daily; 6,011 yp and Mrs, Lorne Trull and y offers ideal sport for the hunter. | parent improvement, that it seems |detail to state that a patriotic meet-|a8.m, daily; 6,24 a.m, daily; 9.08 1; Gwen of Toronto, are spend- [APD to any Agent of the Canadian | as if an article on how reports are [ing closes with singing the Na. a.m. daily except Sunday; 222 p.m. |i. 4 couple of days with Mr, and | Nitional-Grand Prunk Railways for written in the editorial room would tional Anthem or that a church [daily except Sunday; 4.41 pm. daily | yo KK. Courtice, free copy, or write C.K. Howard, | be the simplest way of answering ali | meeting closes w:h a benediction 7:29 p.m. daily except Sunday; 845° yi" ang Mps. Will Armour and |"eneral Tourist Agent, Toronto, igaveftes 3 questions at once, Many secretaries of women's so- cieties say that preparing reports of the meetings for the newspaper is the most onerous part of the work of their office in the society and although they realize the import- ance of a press reporter on the ex- ecutive, they would far rather not be it. The knowledge of a few rules which guide the daily reporter and simplify his work, should also help the press-secretary to accomplish her work more easily and to send it in with confidence. Here are a few of the points about preparing copy that the daily repor- ter is Aug at the very outset and the observance of which makes his work of maximum value to the read- ing public; first from the point of view of news value and second, being correctly prepared; it saves time for the editor and the linotype cperator and thus puts the paper into the hands of the public that much earlier. Technical Rules 1. An inch or more of space is left at the top of the first nage of each article. This is for the editor's notes, in which he incorporates the headlines, the size of type that is to be used and other necessary infor- mation for the printer. If the re- porter forgets to leave this space, the article must be pasted on a larger sheet of paper, leaving room for the title, 2. The reporter may write on only one side of the copy paper, a very fixed rule which has a very definite reason. The linotype oper- ator, (who puts the copy into type), in one swift motion can take one about either. If the National An- them were that of Germany, then it would be worth several columns, 3. The reporter is not permitted to use the personal pronoun in gen- eral articles, This is strictly con- fined to the editorial column. Let- ters to the editor and articles which appear in the paper under the signa- ture of the author, in other words known as "signed stuff," 4. If the reporter can get his article ready for the paper on the day the event takes place it is most valuable, but every day that elapses between the event and the printing of the report makes it that much comes history, not news, and it be- comes of secondary importance to the news of that day or the day bhe- fore, 5. Reports for different pages are due at different times. These de- line," beyond which the reporter dare not step with anything that is not tremendously important. 6. If the new reporter writes a head-line for his article and finds ,it all changed, he is not hurt after {he learns the reason. Those casual | easy-looking head-lines can only {have a certain number of letters lin a line. If a line has one letter { too much, the editor has to think of | shorter words to use instead. | Press reporting is a difficult job, [but if these few rules, which are | the daily reporter's guide, are any | assistance in making the work of | the press secretary lighter, the work {of recording them here will have {been most worth while. less valuable, until finally it 'bhe- | finite times are called "the dead-! unless there is something unusual [P-m. daily, C.N.R.,, North Oshawa Station Sunday, Going east: 7,156 p.m, daily except Sunday, Canadian Pacific Railway Going east: 10,01 daily; 1.47 p.m. daily except Sunday; 8.48 p.m. daily except Sunday; 12,03 a.m. daily. | Going west: 6,06 a.m. daily; 8.40 |a.m. daily except Sunday; 5.26 p.m. ldaily; 7.18 p.m. daily except Sunday '|| Railway News | Winnipeg.--Claiming "this year's record for r1 early shipment of grain, the Lake of the Woods Mill- | ing Company on August 3rd moved the first car of new wheat to the bead of the lakes. The grain, which came from the farms of John Sie- mens and M. Wodlinger, of Rosen- feld, Man,, graded No. 1 northern of fine quality, It was shipped from the Lake of the Woods elevator at Rosenfeld over the Canadian Pacific Railway to the -Lake of the Woods mill at Keewatin. August 3 is considered the earliest date in a number of years that grain has been moved east. Carelessness by automobile drivers at railway crossings is still pre- valent, On every occasion the motorists come off second best. The railways are doing all in their power to prevent accidents. If they were only met half way many fatalities would be avoided and many auto- mobiles and limbs saved from the Going west: 8,356 a.m, daily except | family, Oshawa attended our Sunday School Rally. Mr. George Cook, of Newtonville, | formerly a resident of Courtice, is spending a couple of weeks with Mr. 8. G. Pickell, Mr. Ira Trull and other friends, Miss l.. Hillier, spent the week- end at her home in Cohourg, Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Trull, Toronto, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Trull Mrs. Bunker, California, visited with her daughter, Mrs. Will Vin- | son, Miss Gertie Lymer and Mr. Art Lymer, of Bowmanville, visited with her aunt, Mrs, W, H. Nickle, Miss Dorothy Boyce was at home {tor the week-end at the Parsonage Rally Day services, were well at tended with Rev. Frank Langford, of Toronto, in charge. His addresses were highly appreciated by all, es pecially the stories for the children at the afternoon session. Next Sunday in the absence of our | pastor, Rev. Mr. Boyce, who is at- tending the general Conference in Toronto, the morning session will he in charge of the W:M.S. and the Catarrh ence do its work. All _Druggists. Circulars free, » J, Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, Catarrh is a local disease greatly influ. d y constitutional conditions. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is a Tonic and Blood Purifier, By cleansing the blood and building up the System, HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE restores normal conditions and allows Nature te | DOUGHNUTS 100', Clean--100', Pure Downyflake Doughnuts Wholesale--Retail, at Olympia Candy Wks. King St. E, * for |Jf sheet of copy off his rack and go | on working on the one beneath with | scarcely a stop, but if this sheet has to be turned over and put back on | the rack, it frequently necessitates| 2--Four Corners. him taking hoth hands from his ma- | 3--McLaughlin's. chine and thus losing time, which is! 4--Pedlar's. J 6 7 operating theatre. A few days ago at Ayr, Ontario, a man named W. Zehr was driving south in a Grant automobile across Northumberland Street. He ran into the side of a train, striking it behind the locomotive. As a result of the impact Mr. Zehr's automobile was badly broken, but the injury tc FIRE ALARM BOXES LAST DAY! -- SATURDAY == OF OUR SENSATIONAL BLUE SUIT OFFER a very precious commodity when it --Canning Factory. comes to getting a newspaper out Schofield Woollen Company. on the minute. Worse still. how- Fittings, Ltd. the train was slight. The train was ever, it sometimes doesn't occur to! 8--Division and King Streets. switching at the time of the occur- him to turn the page over, an over- 12--Albert Street School. rence. sight, which, however pardonable, makes rather a muddle of the arti- Ml -------- | INDIGO DYED, ALL WOOL, ENGLISH SERGE 1. The first rule in actually com- o Made-to-Measure,--E xtreme : Jazz Styles or two Button Sac posing an interesting report and one which reads well is that the most Any Style You Desire, either English or American important bit of news in the article should go in the very firdt sentence, | the opening paragraph of the article being devoted to the details of that | bit of news put in as concise and readable a form as possible. For this reason, a fixed form is rarely used to report the meetings of any organizations, for sometimes the most important news may be that a Buest was present and spoke on some subject, and another time the most important thing is merely that the organization held its meeting at a certain place. But whichever it | is, the rule of the editorial room is always to put that in the first sentence of the article. | 2. The second rule of composi- tion put before the daily reporter is | never to cumber an article with un- | necessary or obvious details. 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