Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2014
EDITING A NEWSPAPER IS AS HARD AS EVER IT WAS, IT STILL CALLS FOR total dedication. Indeed the responsibilities grow, and as they grow they change, and have to be exercised in a society which is itself changing with disconcerting rapidity. It is, for instance, only in recent years that the dedicated life has ceased to be admirable and heroic and has come to be regarded as a neurotic distortion. Those in all trades and professions whose jobs compel them to work long and unsocial hours expect a high financial bonus.