Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1905-02-11
What's the Use Of Butting-in?

What's the use OF butt1ng-1n!
Nearly every one of our exchanges is
wasting an immense lot of time and valuable
advertising space in airing their views on the
various weighty political questions that are just
now calling in to action the professional political
pugsts.
Of course, the editor who has high poll
teal aspirations aud wishes to make himself
solid with his constituents, has the chance of his
life Eve use the word his" after mature DELFT
erations) to announce his position on these ques-
tons.
To the legions Of common folks the column
long dissertations arc actually tiresome and the
same space devoted to extracts from the letters
about which the editorials written would be
more appreciated by the very large circle who
are outside the reach of the great daes.
The little editor of the puny country week
ly may pose before his neighbours as very
learned and as,ute man when he faunts before
their admiring gaze a double column editorial
glittering with what might be regarded gems
of oratory we're they not so obviously paste.
The rustic element observes him with open
mouthed admiration, but the men who are on
the inside of the thing just smile plying smile
at his poor little ddoes
The people who depend on bunting their
way through the world by dint of insolence and
self-assertion, and an, 'pm-as-g ood-as-you-are"
attitude, invariably find themselves defeated
early in life.
We wonder if other newspaper people have
a dread of their own paper after it is printed.
We always find so many ridiculous errors in
aftn have UOr cd dec "a
have it right that we can't bear to look closely
at a copy for several days. But perhaps it is
different with people who were raised around
printing office. We hope so -Fitzgerad Citi-
zen.
We've always considered that the Citizen
was very nice r-typhographicay
Since the Courier Dispatch put in it's Mer-
genthaler typesetting machine, linotypes have
been installed at Albany, Brunswick, Valdosta,
Thomasve, Rome, Athens, Blakely, CordAle
and Hawkinsville. We enjoy the distinction of
having set the pace-Dubn Courier-Dispatch.
The Dispatch sets the pace in a great
many particulars besides it mechanical depart
ment. 1t is a clean, straightforward news
paper, above petty chickering's, and little strifes,
and is good example for its contemporaries.
The city's showing for the first month of
the new Year was decidedly favorable
The meter system is giving general satisfaction
to the users of electric light there being very
little complaint and only from patrons who have
been in habit of burning number of lights all
night. The past month has been one in which
the lights we're burned longer each day than in
probably any other month 10 the year, thus
raising the rent in proportion. There will be
several months during the year when the aver
age subscriber will burn his lights very little,
and the decrease in rent will bring the years
aggregate to a smaller than he would pay
at the flat rate. The flat rate was based on
calculation of the amount of light the average
subscriber would use, and it was found neces-
sary to install meters to protect the city against
unscrupuous subscribers who were in the
habit of burning lights much than was
necessary, and ii is believed that in the long run
the meter system will be the most profitable aud
satisfactory.
We present the following clipping for our
readers i'm par tial consideration, some who know
its source may agree with it from prejudice