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Show So you want to be editor of a paper?! small cavern. It worked well for me, but you'll have to come up with your own spot. Keep duking it out for southern Utah. As a native northern Utahn, it didn't take me long to see that this end of the state has been given the short end of the stick-and for a long time. With your southern Utah roots, your battle to give people down here the rights and representation they deserve will have more credibility than mine would have. But you are committed to it, and I know you'll do a good job. Know that you'll have a former editor, though, now behind "enemy" lines acting as a "spy", and doing every thing he can to battle for southern Utah . up north. Let's see what we can do. Plan on expending the endurance of Keenan Hart, the patience and longsuffering of an Iron County Democrat, the obstinance and persistence per-sistence of the power Federation, the frustration of Georg Hartlmaier and the diplomacy of Joe Melling. You'll need it all. , Newsweek magatlne has developed the tradition of allowing outgoing presidential press secretaries to give their predecessors advice in a special column in that medium. Jpjfr WARNICK I've read two, and found that the leaving press secretary offered some extremely interesting, and often comical, advice to the person filling his shoes. In that this is my last week as editor of The Record, I'd like to offer a few i tips to my replacement, Bruce Lee: Don't let the complalners get you down. The only people who let you know how you're doing are those not happy with you. Don't wait for gratitude when ; you've done well or done a favor for someone-it's expected of you. But you can sure count on the arrows to fly when you goof. A flak jacket comes in handy then. There really is a satisfied silent majority out there. Savor those few times one of them speaks up and thanks you for something. The people who like what you're doing are always "meaning to write you a letter." . Don't sit down from taking stands. If you're not making some people mad, you're not doing your job. Editorial opinions are just that-opinions. They're not always right, but they are worth voicing to your public. Be grateful for the people who will write and tell you (rationally) they feel your opinion is wrong. That's the dialog that allows people to make up their minds on important issues. I regard my political adversaries as among my most valued Jpblationships. ..' Remember, the worth of a story Is great ... To a PTA officer, her little story, insignificant as it may seem, is every bit as important to her as the latest development with MX. , That's the reality of community journalism, and a lesson very difficult for me to learn. Besides, as you well know, PTA presidents can get every bit as irate as the person who feels you botched his MX story. Be flexible, but don't break. Many an idealistic journalist has left college, only to see that idealism shatter when entering community journalism. You can't always print all you know . . . and survive. Because of the unique relationships in smaller communities,' sometimes you need to back down. When to back down and when not to is a question I've grappled with since coming here. I wish you luck in taking it on. Be aggresive, though, but remember you can always expose "everything" you know in a book after you retire. Wait 'till mine comes out this fall! (Any city or county officers worried about their roles in my book can forward their checks to my new Salt Lake address.) Find yourself a good hiding place. Sometimes the best way to keep some of your critics from saying something they'll really regret later is to give them a day or so to think about it. Find as secluded a spot as possible on Thursday morning, and allow the worst of the storm clouds to pass over. Now that I'm leaving, I can reveal that my spot was 12 miles up Cedar Canyon, then 800 yards to the south up a secluded dirt road. From there I went a quarter-mile on foot to a large, hollow, rotted-out log. That hid the opening to a |