Show RUNNING THE PAPER t everybody very body thinks lie can run a newspaper bel be ter than the benighted soula who lauve by provide providence been placed in that tha unenviable viable position maybe its because the editors faults are glaring ones onea out in tho the open in black and white or possibly it IN in just a queer quirt of human nature and the jobs so easy anyway thinning running the ohp paper is a sort of a side line with lots of people they fliey offer advice in their spare with alio same spirit wi as they play golf or pinochle one would have the editor a militant another demands demanda that lie ho rail against women voting the prohibitionists cant see how any decent per son can be for the regulated saloons and accuse liim lihn of selling out to the liquor interests if lie he takes that side while the wets say lie ho is being intimidated by the churches and ruled by ohp drys if lie is opposed to the saloon the democrats say abe paper is a dirty rag if the editor is republican in liis his sympathies and tho the republicans stop their subscriptions if lie comes out for it a democrat if the editor is for anything tb the e antis con condemn denin hirn him all and vice versa if ile he takes a stand lie is trying to dictate to the em community it if lie talie take a stand lie ile is a mollycoddle and a jolly nih lift he is a crank a re reformer forine r a fanatic a four a crook a disturber of the peace or just a plain idiot according as lie meets with wit the alie desires desire of his and there you are the average nian man never thinks of the hours of right soul sweating toll toil it takei take tu get out ft a paper ile he never thinks of the worries the trials the tribulations every editor must undergo some of them thein are so BO precia i tivo of his efforts to boost their town antl and make money for them that they wont even contribute the price of a subscription just ren remember ieni this tle editor apart from froin the berf perfectly estly laudable desire to wake make a decent living for lihn himself self and liis his family has only the good jf if the community at heart if lie disagrees with you on any aub eject political moral or educational you and not lio lie may bo be wrong OLD GENERAL prosperity with apologies to james whitcomb riley old 0 d general Prosper itys come to our town to stay atay the local merchants all are glad now trade has liaa conic onic way there was a time when money vanished froin us aiho a fog enclose find check for which lucli please send as per your cata logue 11 we had the saine earne goob goods right at home our prices too were right but somehow no one understood and tin no one saw the light out of town concerns had ineth methods that we know about the mail order binnall lin nall git you of ef you dont out once wo we had a citizen who very wise lie he kept the general store but was too proud to advertise his iro groceries ceries and dry goods an his eggs and butter tor too his hardware tin an his boots in an shoes wore were good but no one knew and so wo we I 1 spent our money abere it help a bit to make the town a better one to make us tie proud of it the big city got the profit and we what were we about the mail order firm sll git you ef you dont out this citizen at last folco wolco up and advertised his goods an all the others followed suit and came caine out of tho woods an they helped their home town paper which hall ullus allua dono done its share to boost the town and help to put it on oil the map sollie somewhere where an ali the alie paper it helped them thein in turn an people came to buy attil an found that money spent at lionie homo makes old depression ily and unless this mutual spirit kinda hovers all about the mail order git YOU of cf you dont watch out |