Show C ideas from other editors thousands of readers of weekly newspapers have wondered irom from time to time why their local publications cat ions editorial page sometimes becomes a vapid page of words richard A swank editor of the Dunca nuon record duncannon cuncannon Dun cannon pa gives his explanation in an editorial entitled you gotta starve a little writes editor swank several self appointed t task a s k masters have called our attention to an increasing lack of editorials from the publisher of this paper they have assumed and they are partly right that he has become an idler a neer do well a slacker and a several great events have stirred the community the state of the nation tin with no outburst from him has he gone to sleep for the past several weeks more and more of the editorial chores have been delegated to younger and more spirited members of the staff the grist from their mill has been exceedingly fine ground the publisher has no complaint but readers are never content unless they can be assured the machine is plunging along with all cylinders moving even the boss should be working it has come to the place where even the hired help Is wondering why the typewriter clack in in a more laxa tivious manner so an explanation to write editorials you gotta starve a little we dont mean you must wither away from lack of lood food nor dry up from thirst but rather that you can never be con tent lent with everything that is fed you by the great public organizations that assume the responsibility of telling you how each and every part of your daily life should and must be lived in other words any person who crosses you or who teus tells you what you must do with him you must be mad cussing bussing mad good editorials at least the kind wed like to write must gush forth from wells buried deep and only tapped lapped when irritated by the ge general aeral and collective cussedness cuss edless of the rest of the human race until you can be touched just there and bitterly hard you ou might as well anil and take lake things as they come and enjoy the passing of the season and the quiet nights and the vapid i vapors that arise from light not els lighter movies and radio television that promises to become a bisp of nothing why we been writing stirring messages of contempt sentences of destruction and paragraphs ot of poop were waiting until we starve a little just a little more our mistakes from the pen of an unidentified western country editor if you find any mistakes in this paper consider them put there for your benefit we know that some peoples only tun fun comes from looking for them and always try to include a few to make them happy |