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Show A Line on the Situation Here is an original essay in which the hard lot of the editor is compared with the luxurious life of the doctor. The essay was written, it is said, by a small boy in an adjoining county, but anyway any-way it 'tells a mournfully true story. It runs this way: "Don't know how some newspapers news-papers came to be in , the world. 1 don't think God knows for he ain't got nothirig to say about them or an editor in the bible. I think the editor is one of them . ' missing links you read about and 'y stayed in the flood and came out and wrote the thingand has been here ever since. I don't think he eyerdied. , "I never saw a dead one oi heard of one being licked. Our paper is a mighty good one, but the -e.drtor goes all winter and doseti't wear any socks and paw ain't paid his subscription since the paper started. ' "If the editor makes a mistake the people say he ought to be hung, but if the doctor' makes any mistakes he buries them' and pedple dassen't say anything because be-cause the doctor can read latin. When the editor makes one there is a law suit and swearing and a .big fuss; but if a doctor makes one there is a funeral cut flowers and perfect silence. "A doctor can use a word a yard long without him or anyone else knowing what it means; but if the editor uses one he -has to spell it. If the doctor goes to see another man's wife, he charges for the visit, but if the editor goes he gets a nice little charge of buckshot. ' " When the doctor gets drunk it is a case of being overcome by the heat and if he dies it is from heart trouble, when an editor gets drunk it is a case of too much booze, and if he dies its the - jim jams. Any college can make a doctor, an editor has to be born. |