In Training

Since Plato's day, the complaint has frequently been pronounced that we train physicians, musicians, educators and circus clowns, but we do not train men to be statesmen and leaders of the people. It is equally true that we do not train newspaper publishers who undertake to mould public opinion. Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst has his ideas on the subject.

Recently one of Mr. Hearst's Manhattan properties published a picture of a group of his press hands. They were seated on a staircase in their working clothes, with short sleeves, open collar? and the signs of toil upon them. In the middle of the front row, clad in overalls and looking no better and no worse than the rest was a lad singled out by a white arrow. Said the editorial 'beneath:

"This picture shows a group of men that work in one of W. R. Hearst's New York City pressrooms. The work is hard and noisy, and you can't keep 100% neat and clean among the ink rolls, handling freshly printed papers, etc.

"The young man, indicated by the arrow, put there so that you may identify him, is W. R. Hearst, Jr., learning something about his father's newspaper business in the pressroom and, as the rules require, working with a union card in his pocket.

"William R. Hearst, Jr., unusually tall for his age, is several years younger than the average pressroom worker.

"W. R. Hearst, who went to the public school when he was a boy, and took charge of the San Francisco Examiner, as owner, the moment he left college, believes that boys should work.

"That's why the two oldest of his five sons are now working in his newspaper plant. William, whom you see in this picture, will go back to his studies in the Fall.

"From the workmen's point of view it is an excellent thing for young William Randolph Hearst to have this season of work. He will realize, by actual experience, the truth of the statement made by his father, long ago, before a Congressional committee, that eight hours of hard work is as much as any man should be asked to do, and that the employer that can't make an eight-hour-day PAY is not fit to employ American labor."

The picture appearing on this page shows the same young man surrounded by another group of workers--a bevy of bathing beauties who "kidnapped" him and his younger brother in a Los Angeles cinema studio.