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Show Simple Rules To Help the Editor For the benefit of the good people of Gunnison who want to help the editor and don't know how, we are submitting the following seven good rules, as compiled by the editor of the Brookville (Pa.) American: First of all, give him the news he wants It. Give it to him, even though sometimes it does not get into the paper. He hasn't time always al-ways to tell you why some pieces of news are not used; but ten to one he has a perfectly good and impersonal imper-sonal reason. Give him the news, even though you may not he especially espe-cially interested in it. Some folks never think to give the editor news except when they are concerned in It one way or another. Second, don't give him a piece of news and tell him you want it printed print-ed just as it is written. There's a right and a wrong way to do even such a simple thing as writing an article for a country paper. One printer had to leave town because he printed every piece of news just as it was handed in spelling, punctuation, punctua-tion, and all and printed it with (lie name of the person who gave it. to him. Third, don't try to play a joke through the paper unless you explain tn the editor. A thing in cold type looks a lot different and sounds different dif-ferent from a thing repeated; by word or when the voice, a facial expression ex-pression and a gesture, perhaps, help to show its meaning. Fourth, don't worry for fear the editor is making too much money; you should want him to be prosperous. prosper-ous. He can and will give you a better bet-ter paper. He will be less likely to have compromises with his conscience con-science over certain kinds of advertising. adver-tising. And, anyhow, he can't make a big fortune out of the paper he will be lucky if he keeps going. Fifth, be ready to tell your editor when something in the paper pleases you. Once in a while you tell your preacher he has a good sermon, so tell the editor something about his paper. Sixth, get your "copy" to him early. Take it to him for the next wsek the day after the previous publication, pub-lication, if you can. It takes time to set type and make a. paper. Did you ever wonder what the editor did all the time between publication days? You would know if you were publishing pub-lishing a newspaper yourself. Lastly, go in some day when the paper is being printed. Go in several times during the day, and you will have more'ot a realization of what a job it is to make a weekly paper. |