Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-07-11
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.


Hurrah for the News editor Spank
us good 1t will be the making of us
I've been knocking around in newspa
pers ever so long and been observing
things pro and con and the person who
gets mad at an editor for wanting to
keep a decent house won't be missed.
Make me toe the mark or throw rue in
the waste basket and stick match to
me and let me sizzle / have written
Just any amount of stuff and sent it off
that if l could have recalled it no edi-
tor would have ever seen. Write your
letters and lay them aside for two days
before sending them in and ten chanc-
es to one you Il not send them. How Of
ten we rush into print with things not
fit for decent people to see, although
they may not be vulgar. Still it ex-
poses our ignorance. There are great
many ignorant people who think it an
act of smartness to personally attack
somebody. How often have | blunder-
ed in etiquette along this very line, and
wished the editor would kick me out.
l always ask my editors to scan my
stuff and not publish Objectionable
matter Newspaper controversy is not
of much value anyway. 1t convinces
no one, I've long since learned, be it
ever so genteel and nice.
Now, correspondents, let us be care
full and not offend anyone and comply
with the EDITORS request. Offensive
language does no one any good and
hurts us more than it does the one we
hurl it at. The truth is, when | an
attacked by foul-mouthed opponent
l usually treat such with silent con
tempt which hurts them more than 6
bitter reply would. | write on SO many
things | don't expect to please all, bu
never personal. Keep out personality
and you II get along all right.
Let us encourage our many amateur
by giving them words of cheer. 4
compliment always does me good.
haven't got to that stage where an
soured against everybody, and whil'
my criticisms are often stinging, / a
void making them personal. A person
al criticism of some individual show
that we ourselves are guilty of ungen
tlemanly and unlady like conduct
Did you ever know gentleman or la
dy to criticise person in the press.
never did, nor you, either One tim
/ and Capt Bruton, of Murfreesboro
were out hunting together, and we be
came very hungry and wanted some
thing to eat. He asked me if | kne'
where we could get something. | tol
him there was lady living in about
quarter of a mile of us who Nigh
give us our dinner, but she was yer
poor but clever. We went to her HON
and told her what we wanted. Sh
said, yes if we would eat such as sh
had. We dismounted and went il
She gave us turnips, corn bread an
butter milk. tell you it was gooC
Capt. Burton was born with a silvt
spoon in his mouth and really e.
pected some criticism from him, bl
none came. All he said was ''Tho'
turnips, butter milk and corn bres
were fine, I" and they were. Fools tul
up their noses, but gentlemen don
Well raised people don't talk abo'
their neighbors, but the vulgar hal
> raised things do. It's mighty hard
E please such beings but it's no troub
e to get along with ladies and gentl
men, and discuss questions with the
= pro and con, but the ignorant you hi
: better let alone Just look at the pc
9 sonal insults thrown at me, your u
Gle Gid, or old Tom Carrick. Do W
7 suppose would notice such peopl
Not much just say my say al
v leave them out. That's my way.
e know I've been criticizing Socialis
Il because of its methods, but it's publ
property, and as such l dose out
/, own medicine to it. | know SOcif
: lists and their talk, public and pri
, ate. UNCLE GID.