The record-union., 1891-11-27
TROUBLES OF AN EDITOR.
Whose Paper Was Controlled by
Board of Directors.

A certain newspaper not over thou
sand miles from Detroit was once owned
and operated by a syndicate Of lawyers,
business men and politicians, says an ex-
change. About half OF the Board of Di-
rectors at first wanted the fun and honor
OF running the paper. So, whenever one
of them fancied he had an idea in his
head he would run up to the Office and
interview the managing editor.
Director No. rs idea was that the editor
and reporters were loating most OF the
time, because they were not in the build
ing every minute of the day like his own
mill hands.
do you give your whole time to the
paper?" he asked one day OF the manag-
ing editor
''Oh, no." said the editor. 81 take seven
or eight hours for sleep. and an hour or
more for meals, a quarter of an hour or
more for dressing in the morning, five
minutes undressing at night. l don't
shave, so there's five orten minutes saved
there; but / black my own boots. and
that takes time. Then there's the time
going to and coming from the Office.
sometimes / lie awake an hour or two at
night thinking out some scheme for the
paper. That ought to offset the time
take for meals. 1t seems to me, though,
as if L gave all the rest of my time to the
paper"
''Humph! You ought TO write more
for 1t! Three columns a day, at least
"You ought to put barrel of water
into every gallon of whisly-you'd get
more for the money-until people found
| it out"
II saw the gas burning here as late as
II o'clock one night. The Gas bills are
something frightful, !" said Director No.
when he called.
Yes; well, you can see this is a morn
ing paper. and it gets pretty dark by
midnight, and along until the paper goes
to press the compositors those are the
men that set the types, you know-they
can't read eyerybOdy's copy in the dark;
piece of copy they are not familiar With
we have 10 light the gas for them. Prob
ably when you called by the Office that
night they had just struck a piece Of that
kind OF copy
"Oh. of course, if it's necessary, we
can't object. But don't burn any more
than you actually need"
Director No. 3 remarked:
Il don't altogether like what you copy
from other papers. / don't think it's very
interesting. Now, I've taken the Observer
for several years, and there's lot OF in
teresting reading matter in that. When
| get through with it hadn't / better send
the paper down to yoU, and you can copy
things oat of il? [ have kept a file of it
lOi ySdlS, 81 HOOiNilI 4ihC W nuNG Oll
cut it''
''Oh, yes, send it along. I won't cut
anything out Of IT,"
Another director came in one day and
remarked:
That's q fine article you've got on the
editorial page this morning! Gets me in
a nice messi Why, the mans one OF my
best friends, and he'll lay for me. Who
wrote it?'
CIR JaclSson.u
"Well, Jackson is a - fool He's nc
moro judgment than a sheep. We ought
to get rid OF him.
In order to appease Mr.. Director, the
editor a few days afterward had another
article prepared carefully, taking back
what had been said, and making yelled
apology for it.
In came Director No 5.
you've made an awful mistake; you
ought to stick to what you said last week.
That was just right. 1t hit the nail on
the head, went right to the spot. Now
you've gone and taken water on it. You
ought to consult Jackson about these
! things. His judgment on such matters is
excellent"
By this time the editor began to think
how his name would look at the bottom
of resignation.