Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-03-28
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

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A friend the other day asked me who
l thought was the best writer in the
News columns. The best writer in
the News columns Why, are you a
fool. Go long and hang yourself it's
your Uncle Gid, Such fool question, |
when everybody from Maine to Cali
fornia and from the great lakes in the
North to the everglades in the South !
know he is. Put that in your pipe,
sonny, and get home as quick as posi-
BILE, and don't let COW see you for
she might mistake you for bunch of
greens and eat you up.
Now, your Uncle Gid, uses different
kinds of favors to season his letters,
but he rarely ever uses vinegar and
pepper, and of course, he kinder looks
over the congregation he is to address
and sizes up their capacity to digest
the food he aims to give them, for he
is always careful of those people who
have weak stomachs. Some folks can
eat anything that is set before them.
Such have good digestive organs, while
others are fastidious and need pie and
puddings This kind is little sensi-
tive and kinder dyspeptic, but then
there are class of people that have
fine organs that know a real good
healthy dish when set before them
They want solid food; they are liberal
and will allow their cook to give trashy
dishes to those who love such and are
big enough to not kick over variety.
So, your Uncle Gid, my friend, cooks
a variety of dishes SO he can suit all
tastes of his guests Now, imagine
you are seated at a very long table
where there are hundreds of guests,
and notice the dishes of food before
them, which consist of every dish
! known to the culinary art. How many
do you suppose would, in that large
number, call for bacon and corn bread.
Not very many guess. So newspaper
writers have to prepare as many dish
es, almost, as he has readers and pre-
pare them in way that will invite
perusal,
Some folks think editors have an
easy time Well, they don't. If a
, first class, neat housekeeper has an
easy time then an editor does Let
3 me sayia slovenly editor can no more
get up a nice, neat paper than a SLOW
; emily woman can keep neat house. He
is the jury and judge of the whole con-
Germ. He must scrutinize~ the stuff
! correspondents send in and often has
to spend hours over a badly written
and badly spelled communication.
Correspondents as a general rule, do
' not take the pains they ought to in
writing their letters, and often mis-
spell half their words.
My observation in the newspaper
line is that well-conducted newspa-
a per is the peer of the public school in
a a county.
There is nothing so elevating to a
community as well-edited paper and
: correspondents ought to always be
/ careful of the stuff they send in. My
rule is to ask the editor to scrutinizt
9 my communications and reject thost
not passible. Your Uncle Gid takes
! pleasure in saying that all the news
papers he writes for have treated hin
g respectfully and kindly. AS regular
u writer for the News have never beer
|, snubbed by the editor in the least, no
/ even scolded Neither has the Cour
ier, Sunny South, Mrs Grundy no.
:. the Banner. My style of writing il
n plain old backwoods language and it''
habit contracted years ago and my
= advice to all correspondents is to b.
= their own self in writing and neve
50 pose to what they are not If uniol
man, write as union man; if a citi
zen, write as citizen. Don't be
fraud, as fear some are. Don't i'm
G pose ON your editor. Don't disguis
your hand. Write true I'write un
der nom-de-plumes, but my real an
legal name the editor knows and h
knows my hand writing. am awar
a a some are practicing fraud on the ed
W S itor or the public. Now, don't do S
d any more lest your Uncle Gid knock
all the filing out of you. That is dir
:. ty, low and mean and no gentleman O
T. lady would stoop so low, but tn
- = News is not imposed on any more tina
le other paper. After all let our New
n- household be clean as possible. LIE
t, me say I've enjoyed the News famil
rS splendid and want to continue t
70 shed as much sunshine among the fam
lily as possible My notion is that T.
continue a reader a long while We
should live, but I'll change my non