
„[chaff] Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.“
— Elbert Hubbard American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul 1856 - 1915
The Philistine http://books.google.com/books?id=MaVHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22editor+a+person+employed+on+a+newspaper%22+%22whose+business+it+is+to+separate+the+wheat+from+the+chaff+and+to+see+that+the+chaff+is+printed%22&pg=PA810#v=onepage (May 1913)
The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days http://books.google.com/books?id=ZQLpQ2SAIeQC&q=%22Editor+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%22&pg=PA46#v=onepage (1914).
Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations https://books.google.com/books?id=MtciwlIG3sMC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=adlai+chaff+elbert#v=onepage&q=adlai%20chaff%20elbert&f=false (1997), see Adlai Stevenson for a later variation