Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-07

office. He is one of the biggest bores
known in all newspaperdom.
The man who demands an editorial
notice about something or other because
he had advertised, and that other dis
tinct type, the man who wants notice
because he had not advertised, are both
Of them bores whom newspaper men
will recognize.
The man with grievence who has no
business in newspaper at ali. is al
ways sure to show up there, and is one
of the most persistent bores. He has
suffered an overcharge from some
dealer, he has been swindled by street
fakir or injured in his dealings with
someone, and invokes the power of the
press to redress his wrong, entirely uR-
mindful of the fact that in ninety-nine
out of one hundred cases of this kind
the public has no interest whatever,
and no paper could touch them under
any circumstances.
livery well remember young man
who came to me once with a complaint
that he had been outwitted in dicker
by a man who was sharper than he was.
When intimated to him that it was a
private affair, and that ,the public
would not be interested in it, he fairly
boiled with Indignation. Such people
find it hard to believe that public news
papers are not published to redress
private grievances.
Another bore is a man connected
with some movement, and assumes that
because newspaper has looked upon
that movement with an editorial favor
he owns the newspaper. When such
men carry their feeling of ownership to
the point of sharply criticising the
newspaper because its views do not
tally with theirs in every respect, they
are entitled to high place i'll the ranks
of boredom.
A peculiar bore is man who always
gives you an item with the remark:
"There That will help fill up your pa
per-" To man who has been strug-
Cling for ten hours OH a stretch to get
twelve columns of news into four col
umns of space, this has an exceedingly
funny sound.
The man who assumes that because
you are a newspaper man you have the
free run of all the theatres and that
you are in duty bound to extend all
your privileges to him, becmes adouble
and twisted bore, especially when he
insists as "A man once did to me, that
should get a railroad pass that would
take US both to Chicago and return.
He became very indignant when l re-
fused point blank.
tried to explain why 1 could not do
as he asked, but he would not be ap-
peased, land went away an enemy be-
cause would not attempt the impossi-
Bile. The desire to enter theatre or
ride OH railroad free is almost uni
Yersal. Every newspaper man knows
that it is constantly cropping out, and
cropping out, too, i'll quarters where one
would least expect it. Men of ample
means will gladly accept theatre tick
ct or railroad pass, when they would
not more feel the cost of a pair OF
tickets than d business man would feel
the modest outlay for his fifteen cent
lunch.
am reminded of a chance acquaint-
ance who once did me a newspaper
favor and then came in-such men al
ways come in afterward-and asked
for his return letter-a pass to neigh
boring city, the regular fare being a
quarter of dollar. That man would
be ashamed to beg, and refused quar-
ter l rendered him.. not because he
didn't want it, but because it would not
bring him what he did want-a cOmpli-
mentary pass.-THe Writer q
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