The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-06-28
What Some Editors Might Say.
to Some Subscribers.

What Some Editors Might Say
to Some Subscribers.
Southern Pines Tourist.
If anything has happened to
you or about your home; if you
have been somewhere, or some
one is visiting you, or has been.
do not give the information to
the editor of the local paper, but |
watch out and see if he gets it.
If not, kick.
Don't pay your subscription in
advance. True, the law says you
shall, or the paper must be
stopped, but never mind that
the publisher will not stop it.
If you get a bill toss it into the
waste basket, or pigeon hole it.
You are accustomed to pay when
d job is done, and this job will
b: completed only when the year
Is up. To be sure the printer
will have to spend the money
you haven't paid him long be-
fore the last number of the pa
per reaches you. Never mind.
If he sends the bill second time
and adds a hint at the bottom,
get mad and tell him to discon-
tinue.
The paper prints some things
in which you are not particular
ly interested, and which you do
not care to read. Others are
interested in those things
or they would not be printed.
Well, what of that? Make a
fuss. You don't have to read
what you don't care to? No,
but what does anybody suppose
you take a paper for, anyway,
/ if not to read-every last word
of it? The publishers must
cater to all tastes and interests?
What is that to you? 1t takes all
kinds of people to make a sub
scription list? Maybe, but why
should you pay for other peoples
reading? What you want is a
paper of your own. Then you
could have what you wish in it
and nothing else. Wouldn't
pay? Probably not, but what
do you care that's not your look
out.
If some day you run across ar
editorial which you more or less
violently do not like; which you
think is wrong in fact, principle
or tendency, drop the paper arc
hunt up the editor. You have
not sought him out and told hin
. when you liked his editorials ant
agreed with him? Why, of course
not. If you didn't kick he shoult
know that you were pleased th'
same as your wife does. Yes
indeed, hunt him up, and atonce
, too; do not give your wrath ;
chance to cool, and your bette
nature to assert itself. Go t.
the Office and have it out will
him; tell him just how you feel
. give him the full particulars
Do not ask to see him in hi
private room, but take him Jus
where you find him. Neve
mind if he is surrounded by hi
office force and three or fou
business callers, a situation
which may seriously embaras
him; what do you care whethe
he is Inundated or not? Aren'
you a subscriber to the paper
and haven't you a right to sd
what you please, when 20
choose, and where you wish?
Do not shake him kindly b
the hand and tell him that 20
regard him as an able editoris
writer, and that usually you fin
yourself in agreement with hin
in essentials at least, but tina
this week you are sure that h
has struck a false note, and thu
you feel that it is so seriousl
wrong that it is your duty to e1
press to him your dissent, and
. give him the reasons for yor
attitude, in the hope that a recol
sideration may lead him to SC
= that he has made a mistake. N,
indeed; just throw it at him; tt
harder it hits him the better
for you. His intentions al
good? Of course, but a famou
winter resort is said to be pave
with good resolutions. Doctor
make mistakes? Maybe they d.
? but the undertakers cover the
! up. Preachers blunder som
times? The next world will d.
eide that. Lawyers slip vi
You can't prove it-they tai
care of that; but editors CO
offer no excuse that anybody
pound to listen to.
DO not suppose, gentle reade
that any of these sketches
meant to be your likeness, u
less you are sure it was MAJ
- from your negative. They a
30 to be taken humorously, n
cynically. The Tourist has
= fine a class of subscribers as al
n paper can boast, but every o
per has the specimens outlin,
in the snapshots developed abov
so that while these squibs a
humorous they have real sid
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