Daily Republican., 1881-07-08
FRIDAY. saLY 8. 1851
Some Things some People Don't
learn.

some Things some People Don't
Iearn.
Amongst many things which are e'
,tremely annoying to publishers and &c
itors of newspapers is tire persisten
habit correspondents have Of writing O
hptb sides Of their maur script. CoM
municaticns as a genera thing are read
able articles especially when they or
upon topiss which intesest consider
able number of people. but comment
cations, no matter how good they are
upon choice subjects, plainly written
with punctuation. erthography and
eyerything else complete, are a Heiser
able nuisance and bore to editors
when they are written upon both sides
of the paper. Such communi.
cations unless there may be chance
one uyon some choice popular subject,
are invariably thrown into the waste
basket, as the handiest receptacle of de-
posit. It is no t-itiing matter these
days, with the thermometer cGvorting
arouri amongst the nineties to sit down
and copy off a lengthy communication
to prepare it for the comprehension
that is exactly what has to be done be-
fore a communication written on both
sides of the paper can be used
OF Ofceurse all communications upon or
binary subjects, 80 written are given
the go-by, whilecther communications
upon perhaps hess interesting topics,
but well written snd on one side alone
of the paper are accepted and pub
lished. These double sided articles are
ofteE handed care lessly and with feeble
recommendations to reporters to " fix |
up" for the papers, and as . general |
thing they " fix them, as they appear
in fearfully emasculateS condi-
tion in the paper probably or IN an en-
haskell when it is emptied out. Report
ers abominate copying articles and it is
only when nothiSg else can be found of
interest to fill up a paper, shat they
will fly to a comaEunication written on
both sides as a LAST resort. We have
eeuently referred in our columns to
this matter, but still there are people
who think we art not in earnest and
still keep up the habit of writing on
both sides and if their articles do not
appear in due time they feel as if they
were trifed with and send the editor
word that they will write 10 more for a i
paper that won't publish their articles.
Very often this is followed witS re-
quest to send back 5he copy vixen per-
haps it has long ago been empti3d into
the waste paper bag and sent to the f
paper mill.
Anoohcr thing that some peop'e who 4
are noS regular advertisers do no, learn a
is to pay for small advertise nen.s Is !,
amounting to twelIty five or fifty cents .
at the time they order their card il. sert- j.,
ed. Publishers as general thing ,
would rather not be bothered with such q
work as it usually in, Olives more labor 4
than it is worth. 1t is very convenient =
for a person to step iuto publisher :,
Office with three or four line adger- :
tisement, order it Inserted and then !,
finish theorder with the words "ssad !,
bill, but it is not so convenient for a /,
publisher to charge the iEem in the day ,
book, possibly transfer ii to the ledgec, :
in due time spend probably three or
fonr minutes in hunting up the account a
and making bill, and ther have a COL q
lector TO spend an hour, pethaps two or ,
three hours, in calling two or three 7
times at some distant palt ~ the city l
before the debtor can be found at home,
and then perhaps he ''hasn'4 just got 4
the money now, but will call and pay l.
OF course the Cell and pay part of
the transaction is,one of the tkiags that
with many lie in the far distant future
and rather than tk@ow away moue USE
full time in hunting up such bills, pub
fishers give it up fer a bad job, and u
transfer the account 80 the "protit and -
loss" page.
While we are dwelling upon the
troubles OF publishers, there is one
other thing we might us well refer to ''
and then drop the subject for the pres VI
ent. This one thing refers again to =
and it is the habit of "
sending communications to a paper for II
publication without the signature of the Il
persons who wrote them. 1t is a stand u
ing rule that although fictitious sigma VI
cures TO articles are allowable publish :,
ers must know the real author of u
No correspondent -
should ask publisher to assume a re- 81
sponsibility he would not himself Az st
sumo. The name Of an author sbon]d o.
al ways accompany a communication to
insure publication, except from repu. IL
larly employed staff correspondents 81
Often correspondents wonder why their II
articles do not appear. If they will take II
the trouble to think, they will perhaps "
rememb Der that they did not send their
name along with the communication.
Al publishers do not charge for pub f
fishing welwrittcn COMMUNICATIONS "
upon interesting topics they at least ii
want To knnM 1uLn L. mn L; nn 11ua nc .u