most exciting adventure that has befallen any person
whom you personally know well enough to interview on the
subject.

3. If you can obtain material in neither of the foregoing ways, get
a story from the movies, after the manner suggested in the
following dispatch:

TEACH REPORTING BY "MOVIES"

_Journalism Instructors at Columbia Use Films to Develop
Students' Faculty of Observation._

Reporters' "copy" telling in graphic style of the Balkan War
poured into the "city room" of the newspaper plant at the
Columbia University School of Journalism yesterday. The reason
was that moving pictures had been adopted as a means of giving
to the students an opportunity to exercise their powers of
observation and description in such a fashion as would be
required of them in real newspaper work.

The idea of using a moving picture machine to train future
newspaper reporters in accuracy of observation was originated by
Professor Walter B. Pitkin, and was approved immediately by Dr.
Talcott Williams, director of the school. Dr. C. E. Lower,
instructor in English, is the official operator, but this work
will probably be given later to a student.

4. A last resort is literature. In Stevenson, Poe, or Conan Doyle,
you can probably find a story that can be translated into a
sufficiently thrilling newspaper dispatch.

II. Models

I

Colonel Folque, commander of a division of artillery at the
front, recently needed a few men for a perilous mission, and
called for volunteers. "Those who undertake this mission will
perhaps never come back," he said, "and he who commands will be
one of the first sons of France to die for his country in this
war."

Volunteers were numerous. A young graduate of a polytechnic
school asked for the honor of leading those who would undertake
the mission. It was the son of Colonel Folque. The latter paled,
but did not flinch.

His son did not come back.--_Boston Herald_.

II

Villagers in fear of death were scuttling out of little homes
like rats driven from holes by flood.

One person in the village remained at her accustomed post and
from time to time recorded into the mouth of a telephone
receiver the progress of the conflict, while a French general at
the other end of the wire listened. Presently her communications
were int