"Not only has the day gone by when editors sat in easy chairs and majestically sifted wheat from chaff in the piles of stuff sent prayerfully to them, but gone, too, is the day when an editor could sit in his office and plan a good magazine out if his inner consciousness." — Clara E. Laughlin, a successful author and magazine writer of her day, 1904.
"Editor: 1. A person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." — Elbert Hubbard, founder and editor of The Philistine and The Fra magazines, in "The Roycroft Dictionary," 1914.
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