Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-12-11
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RUNNING APAPER UNDER DIFFICULT
Tho Troubles Of an Editor Who was
Controlled by q Hoard ~ Directors.
A certain newspaper not over % thou
sand miles from Detroit was once owned
and operated by q syndicate OF lawyers,
business men and politicians About
half Of the board Of directors at first
wanted the Fun and honor Of running
tho paper. SO whenever ono Of them
faucicd he had an idea In his head he
would run mp to the office and inter
view the managing editor.
Director No. is idea was that tho
editor and reporters woro loaHng most
Of the tune, because thcy were not in
tho building every minute Of tho day
like hia own min hands
30 You give your whole tune 20 Tho
paperr be- asked one day OF the man.
aging editor
"Oh. no. said the editor IL take
seven or eight hour. FOR sleep and an
hour or nior, for meals q quarter Of m
hour Tor dec suz Ia tho morning. Eve
u nutcs undressing it night don't
shave, 20 there's live or ton minutes
saved ihorc, but black my own boots
that takes tiine. Then th.rp's the time
going 10 and coiaing from the Office
Sometimes l he awake an hour or two
Mt night thinking ont ZONE scheme for
the paper Tint ought 10 Offset ting
time take Tor meals Il seems to me.
though, as II gave all tho rcst OF the
time TO the paper"
'llumphl You ought TO writo more
for itl Three columns a day, nt least.
81 saw the gas burning her, rs lato
as ~ o'clock one night. Tho gas bills
arc something frightiul,n said Director
No. when he called
yes well, you SEQ this is morning
paper, aud Il gets prctty dark by mid
night, and along until the paper goes
to press tho compositori-thosa arc tho
men that Get the types, you know
thoy can't read everybody copy in tho
dark, and 40 whenoyor they come
across a piece Of copy thcy arc not IA
miliar with we have 10 light the gas for
them. Probably when you came by
the Office that night they had Just
strucl, piece Of that kind Of copy"
"Oh, Of course, II It's necessary, we
can't object; but don't burn any more
than you actually need"
Director No. remarked:
II don't altogether like what you
COPY from Other papers don't think
l,'s very intera ting. Now, I've taken
The Obsorycrior many years, aud there's
n lot OF Interesting reading matter In
that Whom l e., through with It
hadn't better send the paper down to
You and you can copy things out OF To
have kept a Ne OF It for ycars. so
wouldn't like TO have you cut IT,"
"Oh, yes, send Il along won't cut
anything out Of IT,"
Another director cano In one day
and rcmarkc1i
That's line article you've got on
the editorial pags this morningl Gets
ne ina nice mess! Why. the mans
one o. my best friends and he'll lay for
me. Who wrote Ter
Mr.. Jackson"
'Wcll, jackson Is n fool He's no
more Judgment than a sheep. Wo
ought 10 get ril OF him."
In order TO appease Mr. Director tho
editor few days aftcrward had another
article prepared CAREFUL taklag back
what had been said and king yelled
apology for H.
In came Director No. 8.
you've made an awful mistake; you
ought to stick to what you said last
week. That was Just right. II hit tho
nail on tho 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 ut the bot.
tom OF a resignation. -Exchange.