The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-01-16
The Country Editors Work.

graphs, alternating with sneers
ridicule and depreciations, long hav'
been the lot of the country editor
Pictured in the comic papers as al
egotistic clown, exalted by politicians
as a mighty "moulder of public
opinion" occasionally chastised by
angry patrons, and sometimes re-
membered by delighted patrons, he
has put his errors where they could
be read by all and has modestly
sought a fair credit for all mis-
merits.
At times he has rebellec-not at
treatment from his constituency, but
at patronizing remarks of the city
journalist who sits at a mahogany
desk and dictates able articles fer
the eighteen-page daily, instead of
writing local items at a pine table in
the office of a four-page weekly.
Thus did one voice the protest:
when you consider that the country
weekly is owned by its editor and
that the man who writes the funny
things about the country papers in
the city journals is owned by a cor
poration for which he writes, it
dosen't seem so sad. When you
see an item in the city paper poking
fun at the country editor for printing
news about John Jones new barn
you laugh and laughter yor know
on n of the pages of that same city
daily is a two-column story in regard
to the trimmings on the gown of the
Duchess of Wheel-barrow. And it
is all the more amusing because you
know that the duchess does not even
know of the aforesaid city paper,
while John Jones and many of his
take and pay for the paper
which mentioned his new barn. Don'f
waste your pity On the country news
paper worker. He will get aloRg." {
After all, no one inthe community {
has so large an opportunity to assist
he town in advancement as the ed
tor. It is not because he is smarter a
han others. not because he is veal c
by but because he is the spokesman v
D the outer world. The country y
ditor leaves out certain good things T
nd certain bad things for the simple "
Jason that the persons interested fc
re close at hand and can find the
dividual responsible for the state
He becomes wise in his gen. to
alton and avoids chastisements VIC
Id libel suits. He finds that there N,
no lasting regard in a sheer, no hi
In gratifyingthe impulse H
say things that bring tears 10 wo- ste
eyes, nothing to gloat over in
mans heart. II ne does not learn
is as he grows older in the service 90
is poor country editor. Politics as
E only a part of a country editors OF
e. The proud father who brings Pis
a cigar with a notice of the seventh
by's arrival (why cigars and
bies should be associated in mems the
nds / never understood the fruit hel
who presents some fine Ben Ne
wis apples in the expectations Tn
he will get a notice, are but sha
'es. The editor may have some to
concerning the needs of a S
zenith child in the family of the F
'ud father, and be nav not be S
ticularly fond of Ben Davis pup
lies, but he gives generous notices R
ause he knows that the gifts were S
mpted by kind hearts and that :.
givers are his friends. When pap,
comes to the household it is but L.
working Of the hearts best i'm +"
es to desire that all should share CouI
The news that the princess of the
amiIy has, after many years of W. !
ing, welded a prosperous mer- Miss
/ of the neighboring county, as