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114, MAY! 7x 1979;'
b► MiI+�e Gibb.
er's nothing like an, 1907 pressguide to .point out
pw the world pf journalism, or for that matter, the world,
general, has changed in the last! 70 years.
MY elderly guidebook, succinctly titled For The Press, A
Manual. by Robert Luce, is e; gift .front my mother' who.
discovered the book in a pile:Of. discarded treasures, at ,a,
rummage sale.
Now while the' manual outlines everything from setting,
type to proper grammatical usa$e, 1 think I'll focus in on
some of the things we reporters don't have to worry about
any Mere-
HORSE TERMS
According to Mr. Luce, one of the major concerns of the
1907 era journalist seems to have been "horse terms,"" To
quote:; "Riding should be restricted to riding on a horses
back; driving, to locomotion• behind a horse. If you prefer
to use the term riding in reference to anybody in a carriage •
but not holding, the reins, put in the phrase "in a carriage"
as,, "White riding, in a carriage on Broadway, etc:" The
,infusion of the terms riding and driving is common!, bet
deplorable, like all usages that lessen the precision of the
language."
"Anther inaccuracy is prevalent in the use"of the word;.
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"team,'" which should never refer to the vehicle but the
animals (always more than on) attached to it. In place of
the doubly incorrect phrase, "'a horse andteam"". say "a
horse and wagon" or carriage or sleigh, as the case may
be."
• Then -there's the horse sense needed'to'talk about horse
racing. For example - "'Turf is the term used in connection
with running races; track, in connection with trotting
races. Standard -bred is the proper term for trotting
horses. A thoroughbred is a running horse descended from
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running horses of recorded pedigree and the term' should
not be g
oohed to. a trotting horse. The pacer lifts the legs on
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the same side together.'.."
But now if reporters in those days found the animal..
world a little bewildering, wait untilthey came to thetopic,of the health.' and fitness of human
Under a chapter titled "Some Matters. Medical" Mr.
Luce points out some of the robletns that lie in wait in,
pop 1?..
writing about the field of medicine,
MEDICAL ;MATTERS,
"TheP psychologist Could find an interesting study in the
attitude of the public toward the various diseases that .
beset the human body, .Some are pro+5laimed' almost with,
Pride. others, are so odious that they mustt not be
mentioned inpolite society and between are °a.11 shades'; o f
popularity."
Themanual writer goes on t0 say. ,"Nobody appears to
be ashamedof having one of the acute disease. unless it be
an adult afflicted with some disease most commonly
attacking children, such as the humps or measles. A
" i •ularizing in such..
reporter would better a,vtuitd panic. a i
instances, Influenza .night at. times .be called f sh on .na .
.ble.
' which does not justify terming every form of it "la.
grippe."" People speak freely of most of the diseases
affecting the stomachs or organs above it, 'but, draw the
line at the waist. The ancients thought the liver was the
seat of love, just as we locate it iii the heart, but discussion:
of the liven is hardly the proper .thing now in mixed
company, and as for the bladder. kidneys, intestines, etc. -
well. We are not supposed to have. them! In print." Inother
words, it was safer to stick, to describing the ailments of
our four -footed friends,
Now if thereare some .diseases which didn't bear
mentioning,. Mr. Luce also thought there were a number of.
words that should never appear on newspaper pages, He_s
be disappointed to ;find that today a number .of his.
"'obnoxious: words" regularly appear in print. The+words:
which, Mr. Luce disapproved of included: aborigine, ain't,
authoress, burglarize, cablegram, deputize. donate,
edibies, enthuse, eventuate (1 agree with this choice)k
firstly, gent, jeopardize, juxtapose, mayoral. naiveness..
overly, pants (He definitely wouldn't approve of the
popular ditty.. "Ma , You Made My Pants Too Long!"),.
poetess, rendition, ruination, suicided, systematize,,.
unbeknown and waikist,
Mr, Luce didn't only disapprove of certain words, but he
..
also felt the use of a number of words could. stand
improvement. For example, "The misuse of dress as a .:„
noun meaning, a specific kind of garment, is going out of
a `hion and thegood old` En lish words gown and frock.
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are now the proper things itt: society, as they have always
been, in literature."
Grand is another word Mr. Luce would: rather not se,e
' since it's "'used indiscriminately by careless newspaper
writers for everything from a hen -house ,to a thunder-
storm."•
But if the matters of life are:hard; to write about, wait
until, the 'rcporter in the early. part of the century had to
deal, with death,.
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DEATH
The reporter should remember. Mr. Luce points out.
that inlanguage as in everything else relating to death" the,
simplest is the wisest. For instance, "'let him avoid both;
noun and; verb "det:ease" and above all, not refer to the
"deceased" or "the defunct". Do not say, "he departed
thislife", "'he passedottof existence", "he paid his debt
of Nature",, "he was gathered to his fathers", ".his spirit;
quitted its, early habitation, winged its way to .eternity..
shook off its burden,"
"In, point of brevity, good taste and :Solemnity, "'he.
died" is' far preferable," is Mr, Luce"s Anal word On the
subject,
Mr. Luce also has, some More ,general words: of adylcei
for the practising journalist, First'., he quotes one editor
who jydged the standards of his paper by whether the
paper was suitable to be read at breakfast, by alt members,
of the family.
Reporters, Mr. Luce cautioned, must remember to
"never allow personal feeling to bias what you write."
(easier) said than done!) "Never write anything. the
authorship of which you would not be willingto own,
Never write anything that you would not like your mother,
Your, sister, or your child: to read," is the author's advice,
Finally. remember John Boyle O'Reilly's Motto;
"Never say as a journalist what yon wouldnot say as a
gentleman."'
JOURNALISTS?
Oh, and; about those people who like to consider
themselves journalists, rather than mere reporters, Mr.
Luce has one final parting shot. "''For some occult reason,
those "newspaper men".' who deserve to be called'
"jOurnalists" (if indeed there is merit in the name) never
speak of themselves or their associates as such, and scoff
at anybody who used the word."
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Language, like the world around us, changes: with the
times, The horse carria a days of :1907 are long behind
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us, when, reporters, were almost always men, when
photographs were unknown in daily or weekly newspapers
and when words like hernia, cirrohsis and kidny problems
were never discussed in mixed company, let alone in print.
But one thing. Robert Luce would undoubtedly approve
of in today's journalism .it still ain't, I mean isn't;
considered:; good form to use, four letter words like 'ain't:'' in
print-- even when you'requoting someone else.
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Neil Broadfoot is a
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Thirty of Neil's paintings
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