The Making of a Successful Wife: Letters of a Father to His Daughter (Classic Reprint)
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The Carpenter of Nazareth: A Study of Jesus in the Light of His Environment and Background
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Casper Salathiel Yost was the longtime editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He was the chief founder of the "American Society of Newspaper Editors" in 1922, and was its first president.
Background
Yost was born on July 1, 1864 in Sedalia, Missouri, to George Casper Yost, a saddler and native of Gallatin County, Illinois, and Sarah Elizabeth (Morris) Yost of Saugerties, New York. He was the seventh of their eight children and fourth among five sons. His mother's family came from Wales. The paternal line went back to Germany, its early emigrants, who arrived about 1725, having become farmers in eastern Pennsylvania. Casper's grandfather, Henry Yost, was a Maryland tanner who developed scruples against slaveholding, freed his bondsmen, and moved to Franklin County, Illinois.
Education
Schooled in Lebanon and Richland in rural Missouri, Casper Yost early became a printer's devil and while still a boy was put to setting type at the Laclede County Leader in Lebanon.
Career
In 1881, at seventeen, Yost worked briefly as a reporter on the St. Louis Chronicle. Intending to become a railroad man, he returned to Richland and learned telegraphy. Yost returned to St. Louis and journalism in 1885 as a reporter for the Missouri Republican. Four years later he joined the staff of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and thus began an association of more than a half century. After news and feature assignments for the daily and Sunday issues, including an assistantship under Joseph B. McCullagh, Yost became editor of the editorial page in 1915. His front-page editorials for Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving were models of their kind, and his 1938 series, "The American Way, " was widely distributed in booklet form.
A pioneer in concern for professional standards among newspapermen, Yost led in founding the American Society of Newspaper Editors. An article by Moorfield Storey in the January 1922 Atlantic Monthly that was highly critical of the daily press stirred him to carry out an idea he had already entertained. Yost drew up a constitution and then, on April 25 of that year, assembled a nucleus of metropolitan editors to whom he presented the case for a national organization "for the consideration of their common problems and the promotion of their professional ideals. " Agreeing readily, his colleagues elected him the society's first president.
He was reelected annually until 1926, when he called for a new president, but remained a director. He presided over the drafting of the A. S. N. E. 's first "Code of Ethics" and sought further to develop the professional status of editors by writing The Principles of Journalism (1924). A historian of the press described Yost's book as a "constructive discussion" that "counter-balanced" the press exposé of the day. The new organization in 1924 became involved in a bitter dispute over whether to expel Frederick G. Bonfils, editor of the Denver Post, for evident blackmail in connection with the Teapot Dome oil scandals. Although Willis J. Abbot and others favored expulsion, Yost took a strong stand against turning the society into an enforcement agency. On another matter, he anticipated a need as well as a later development when he appeared before the American Bar Association in 1924 to ask for cooperation between the press and the courts in the administration of justice.
A prolific writer, Yost produced several books that reflected his varied interests: The Making of a Successful Husband (1907), The World War (1919), The Quest of God: A Journalist's View of the Bases of Religious Faith (1929), The Religious Motive in the Colonization of America (1935), and The Carpenter of Nazareth: A Study of Jesus in the Light of His Environment and Background (1938). In Patience Worth: A Psychic Mystery (1916) Yost gave his support to Mrs. John H. (Pearl Lenore Pollard) Curran of St. Louis, who had issued a stream of novels, plays, poems, and allegories which she said came to her by spirit communication via the Ouija board from a seventeenth-century English girl named Patience Worth. Undisturbed by a long controversy as to authenticity, Yost helped prepare Patience Worth materials for publication and, to verify the transmitted description, even visited the English town in which Mrs. Curran claimed the girl had lived. William Marion Reedy, editor of the St. Louis weekly Reedy's Mirror, though at first denunciatory, joined Yost in sympathetic attention. Sixty years later the riddle was still unsolved. He was active in civic and literary groups and served in state and national offices of the Sons of the American Revolution. Survived by his wife and two sons, he died of a coronary thrombosis in St. Louis and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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Religion
A member of the Christian (Disciples) Church, Yost was, like his mother before him, deeply religious, a characteristic reflected in his editorship to such an extent that for a time the Globe-Democrat called itself "the great religious daily. "
Politics
Yost's Republican principles were staunchly conservative, and he generally opposed innovative programs such as the New Deal. Yet he could rise above partisanship, as in supporting Wilson's international policies and Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposals to aid Great Britain early in World War II. He viewed liberty as responsibility, not as license.
Membership
Yost was a member of the St. Louis Civitan Club as well as the chief founder of the "American Society of Newspaper Editors" in 1922, and its first president.
Personality
Yost was slight, slender, soft-spoken, and scholarly looking, with a close-clipped moustache that grew white. As others took up the typewriter, he continued his flow of copy in pen-and-ink longhand.
Interests
Sport & Clubs
Golf was Yost's recreational sport.
Connections
On May 2, 1883, Yost married Anna Augusta Parrott; the couple had eight children.