Show Some Innocent Fun In a Newspaper Parody A couple of weeks ago was Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News paper Week when editors all over the coun country ry dislocated a shoulder in I patting themselves on the back The writer Jitters of the Idaho Evening Times at Twin Falls made some innocent in innocent in- in fun out of it as follows A Broadcast in Parody Explaining to Visitors Good morning ladies and gentle gentle- men This Is Jitters substituting for forthe forthe forthe the regular announcers who are busy chewing Smith Brothers cough drops trying to regain their voices The machine before which you are arenow arenow arenow now is a type setting machine one of the most intricate pieces of mechanism mechanism mechanism ism found in a newspaper plant It contains more than parts of which approximately are in constant constant constant con con- stant revolution It does the work of six editors a flock of high school trained rained reporters and causes its operator operator operator op op- op- op to run a temperature of F F. Its cost is 7 thousand kopeks or a facsimile of same It is highly tem- tem and in addition to an operator operator operator op op- op- op requires the services of a foreman foreman foreman fore fore- man a with a monkey wrench two apprentices and three and a half proof readers From its invention down through the tho list of all who associate with it I Ithe the tho machine has left a string of ma- ma lacs sacs sacs- operators AND readers Years ago one fairly intelligent printer print print- I I er was capable of producing enough I errors to keep one person busy findIng findIng finding find- find Ing them The machine though will produce lines of error an hour I I provid providing ng g people things to rave raver bout out All the errors It can make makein makei in ii a J nys ny's run fill a roll of paper of or i W you pou F sand and if stretched out like a Saturday night would reach from Twin Falls to Hazelton When a linotype operator gets careless careless care care- less leGs with the tho oil can and has reached maturity and is well seasoned his overalls will stand alone like liko the armor armor armor ar ar- ar- ar mor of a Chicago gangster A newspaper is extremely fortunate if among Its staff most of them can catch a fair sprinkling of some of the errors on pounds of sometimes leave a few to help pass Joy Into an otherwise dull Saturday night Jitters Evening Times |