Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-01-23
RUNNlne ApApes uNosa DIFFICULTY
The Trouble. OF an Editor who wa


The Troubles Of an Editor who Was
Controlled BY Board Of Directors
A certain newspaper not over a thou
sand miles from Detroit was once owned
and operated by a syndicate Of lawyers,
business men and politicians. About
half Of the board of directors at first
! wanted the fun and honor of running
I the paper SO whenever one Of them
fancied he had an idea in bis head he
would run up TO the Office and inter
view the managing editor.
Director No. is idea was that the
editor and reporters were loaling most
Of the time. because they were not in
the building every minute Of the day
like bis own mill hands.
do You give your whole time to the
paperT' he asked one day Of the man
aging editor.
"Oh, no. said the editor II take
seven or eight hours for sleep. and an
hour or more for meals, a quarter Of an
hour for dressing in the morning, five
minutes undressing at night. don't
shave, so there's five or ten minutes
saved there. but black my own boots;
that takes time. Then there's the time
going TO and coming from tie Office.
Sometimes ! lie awake an hour OF two
at night thinking out some scheme for
the paper That ought to Offset the
time take for meals. It seems TO me,
though, as if gave all the rest of the
time to the paper"
"Humphl You ought to write more
for It'll Three columns a day, ut least. "
81 saw the gas burning here as late
as 12 O'Clock one night. The gas bills
are something frightful." said Director
No 2 when he called.
''Yes; well, you see this is a morning
paper, and it gets pretty dark by mid
night, ard along until the paper goes
to press the compositors-those are the
men that set the types, you know
they can't read everybody's copy in the
dark, and so whenever they come
across a piece of copy they are not IA
miliar with we have to light the gas for
them. Probably when you came 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 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 many years and there's
lot of interesting reading matter in
that When | get through with it
hadn't better send the paper down to
you and you can copy things out of iti
have kept file of it for years, SO I
wouldn't like to have you cut it,"
"Oh, yes, send it along, won't cut
anything out of It,.
Another director came in one day
and remarked:
THAT'S a fine article you've got on
the editorial page this morningl Gets
me in nice mess Why, the mans
one of my best friends and hell lay for
me. Who wrote it2'
''Mr. jackson.
"Well, Jackson is fool. He's no
more Judgment than sheep. We
ought to get rid of him."
In order to appease Mr.. Director, the
editor few days afterward had another
article prepared carefully, taking back
what had been said and making a veiFed
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 bot
tom of a resignation. -- Exchange.