Show c I r 4 Troubles of an Editor Hello Is this the editor Yes Yea Well VeIl I have been trying to get get you for four foul days on n the telephone telephone tele tele- phone and every time I called your line was b busy or r you were in s. s some nie other part o of the building Yes madam What is it you wanted I have been wanting to tell you to stop sending a paper up to tomy tomy tomy my neighbors neighbor's house as she is out of the city This is a sample of telephone conversation that often comes to the editor of a paper In the old days clays the editor of a newspaper collected collected collected col col- the items on the street and wrote them got out the plate matter mat mat- ter set the type ran the press and folded and addressed the papers for the mail In fact he was everything on the paper and had only one assistant the printers printer's devil It seems impossible to get the public to understand that the MODERN newspaper is like any other big commercial institution If a man wants to give the details of or a funeral notice he will call callin callin callin in the office and be ready to fight to the last ditch to see the editor If he v vints to subscribe for the paper he thinks nobody but the editor can start it for him Even Want Vant Ads are telephoned direct to the editor edito The person wanting to insert them will see that nobody else takes them It all ll grows out of the old custom when the editor was was was' the whole organization Ve We wish sometimes that all our readers could see a daily paper from the ground floor on up starting in at the business department go go through the editorial department the composing room and stereotyping stereotyping stereotyping ster ster- department and down through the and back to the mailing room We do not believe that the average reader has any conception of the organization necessary to issue a modern newspaper nor of the tremendous expense involved in p printing inting a daily city paper Every department is like a separate organization In the business business business busi busi- ness the separate organizations are arc linked together under the control of the business manager There is the advertising circulation and bookkeeping departments The editorial department is entirely separate from the business office In a modern honest newspaper whose news columns are arc free and fair the newspapers newspaper's right hand does not know what the left hand handholds holds in holds in other words the editorial department is not supposed to have ave any direct connection with wih the business department except that it gets so much allowance for its expenses from rom that department But still there are scores of people who insist on running the editor down to give him an announcement of a birth or a want ad or oran oran oran an order to either stop or start the paper to his home The poor editor usually has plenty of troubles without out attending to these details I II I |