Emery County Progress | 1907-01-12 | Page 4 | Not Swayed by Sentiment

NOT SWAYED BY SENTIMENT humble proofreader saw ency in glitter ng rhetoric the waterbury american give the following amusing illustration of clever and alert proofreading and of tact in making call down alons to learned speakers or editors absorbed in sentiment and eloquence the young lady referred to is now proofreader for the press of gaines amos wilder s speech at the yale alumni dinner in bew york was so good that the alumni weekly pub lashed it in full and everybody chused over it A certain yale edito ati another part of the country found in the speech one sentence which be thought just the thing to quote in an editorial he was writing on the need of care in framing insurance legisla tion this was the sentence the in aurance agent who sees in placing a policy not only the premium for his own needs and desires but protection for a sobbing widow and frightened children as tor the first time they see their father helpless in death and t lips once so rich in endearments now set in the terrible marble of great mystery that agent looks his man in the eye and speaks in the language of another world the editor was mas by the sentiment and the rhet one but not so the humble proof reader who had no college diploma and never attended an alumni ban bet she quietly drew a line around abe words for the first time put a question mark on the margin and sent the picot up to the editor