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"There is no profession that gives a man just starting work better training than does journalism," declared Mr. Edgar A. Guest in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, "and, even if I had a college diploma. I would not exchange it for the two and a half years I spent in the underworld as a crime reporter."
Mr. Guest, who has worked for 27 years on the Detroit Free Press, explained that there is nevertheless constant danger that a man may get into a rut in newspaper work, and cited his own experience as an example. "After I had been on a reporter's job for 15 years I found myself up against a brick wall, for I was getting nowhere," he declared. "That was why I began writing verse and why I am now enjoying what I have to do because it is creative. Although journalism affords the best training in the world for the man just beginning is career, he can never be truly successful unless be is engaged in original work."
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