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Show it AS OTHERS TiilNK t NEWSPAPER MISTAKES. Mistakes :u'e made by all. In fact the capacity, for occasional blundering is not to be separated from the capacity to do things. And he who makes a mistake learns about it afterwards and it is often a lesson of wisdom. Particularly arc newspapers criticized crit-icized and their inaccuracies pointed out. While the average " newspaper man is not sensitive, a certian pride is with him and the information that a mistake has been made brings to him the resolution to do better in the future which is always in power. But the newspaper man considers consid-ers that there are about two thousand words or chances for mistakes in a column. He con-. con-. skiers that the item or story in which a mistake has been found is in ail probability the one which, has been chased all over town and in the end condensed to a few lines, an hour's work which is read in a few seconds. And he h not so sensitive- The Glen Eider Sentinel, a Kansas new .spu. -;-, made a mistake recently. re-cently. The matter is discusssed in the columns of that news-i'::pjr news-i'::pjr as follows: "We made a mistake in last week's isjue of the Sentinel. A good subscriber told us about it. ''The same day there was a letter in our post office box that didn't belong to us. We called for 93 over the telephone and got IDS. We asked for a spool of No. .0 thread and when we, got home we found it was No. GO. The train was reported 30 minutes late- We arrived at the depot 20 minutes after train time and the train had gone. We got our nilk bill and there was a mistake of 10 cents in our fa vol-. We felt sick and the doctor said v.e were eating too much meat. We hadn't tasted meat f.-r two months. The garage- man said the jitney was mi-sir, g because it needed a new timer. We cleaned a spark plug and it lias run fine ever since. Yes, v.e made a mistake in last whs i.vsuo oi me paper. Davis Co. (I.nva) Republican- o. |