The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-02
TOPOGRAPHIC ERRORS.

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the above caption Ivy the editor of the
Educational Column. We arc sorry tina,
the editor If the Educational Column
should have occasion to write such an ar
ticle for publication. But as he has writ
ten, il and in it refers to the powers that
be-" we feel under obligations not only tn
publish but TO Ike editorial notice of il.
We knew nothing Of the errors to which
the editor refers, nor Of the article he
wrote for the TELEGRAPH last week, nor
his present article, until we read the lat
ter in proof s., If we have sinne,i
against the ed ltorin any way, it has been
by the sin Of omission And the expla
nation we give Of The SIN of omission, is,
that we are unable to do everything our
self that has to be done in this ufficp.
Something must be trusted to others.
F. r some t,ne past proof reading has
been trusted, 10 some extent, to hers,
unused TO the business IL requires
some experience to make aD accurate
proof-rcadcr And there is something
more, which the editor does not seem 10
realize. The pioof r,ader may make y
q rtect correction and yet the correction
fail to be male in the met ! or type, and
appear in print. And there is still one
thing more whichIwe will men ton. The
EDITOR, like o0rself sonnet ines makes
mistakes in writing, which he IS no'
aware of. We have sometimes noticed such
mistakes in reading The proof and com
pairing it with the copy, and have som,-
times corrected them Aud sometim Q
WE have foil 'we,i the copy when we
knew the copy WAS erroneous. for the ref :
son that we did not know whether it was
q mistake or an ldion of the writer. In
all cases We have tried to express wha,
we thought the writer desired to express.
And # We have erred IN this respect, we
have erred in jldg nent, aud we trust our
erring will be con,tnncd
The editor of the Educational Column
has Jared no worse then we have ourselt
In proof % this we refer to an article Of
our with the caption" Topographic Er
rorS,' which appeared III the TELEGRAPH
OF the 18th nit. Inan editorial of the
previous week, in spea king of The future
and better life, we said: = Better because
it's surroundings are less material, higher
aud more SPIRITUAL" AS it appeared IN
the TELEGRAPH, we were made I'D say,
'because the surro findings are less ma
ternti" Thinking that our readers
might not see thai the word nadterAdi
should be M tterjM we attempted to cor
rect this as W II as ether errors But, un
fnrtu uate y, where we wrote the words
less maternal, the words more material APP
peared In their place In print.
The edi or of the Educational Column
beng County Super nfendent as well as
editor, it would be natural to. suppose
that his writing should be models OF
in the printing, we do not blame him for
! feeling somewhat sensitive in relation to
it. We will promise to d hereafter, as
we have done heretofore, the best We
can to have bis editorials appear correct in
print And, if there. should atany time
hereafter, appear any verbal, adjective,
or any other mistakes in any Of his edi-
litorlals, or IN any part of the Education.
al Department of the TELEGRAPH, we
will in advance take the blaln. on our.
self And we would respectfully ask
all hls readers and ours, whenever the v
see anything in the Educational Depart
ment of the TELEGRAPH, which they
think to be erroneous, to attribute the
error, or seeming error to US, and Rot to
the editor of that department.
] It is our desire to have all parts of the
and, ii there should he failure any place,
it is upon Us the blame has ultimately -
rest. That he TELEGRAPH is not perfect
we know But, with all Its Imperfectons
we have the assurance Of our readers that
it is constantly improving in their esti,na
ton. And as long as we have the control
of it, We shall constantly labor to keep it
improving, and hope to give general salts
| action to our readers
i SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.