The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-17
lust Airing Our Troubles

beings are to magnify their own trou-
bles and minimize their neighbor's7
There is food for reflection in that sem
tence, and here goes.
How many of the patrons of this pa
per believe the editors life is a con-
tinual round of pleasure, that he sleeps
on double deck springs every night
and fares sumptuously three times each
day, he does not know. Certain it is,
though, that some of the patrons of
this paper have an idea that he is hav-
ing altogether too easy time Of it, and
proceed to stir him up, much as the
cage tender in a menagerie prods the
wild animals to make them get up and
growl.
A few weeks ago one of our much
valued lady patrons wrote the editor a
note saying she had been everywhere
but in Jail and no mention was made
OF the circumstance in The Echo. She
said she paid her subscription, she
supposed, like every other patron, and
why should she not be treated like
those whose names were mentioned
almost every week?
She was certainly entitled to the
same treatment, but the editor not be-
ing a mind reader, nor endowed with
omnipresence, simply knew nothing of
her perigrinations, and cherishes the
hope that she is not heartless enough
to believe that he glories in human
misery and family trouble.
In a recent issue of this paper the
editor made use of the word corpora
ton" in speaking Of the approaching
town election, quite innocent of the
possibility that supersensitive person
might attach an invidious meaning to
word which referred only to the munic-
ipality OF Leavenworth. Long before
the hurtful doings OF the sugar trust
were laid bare the word corporation"
had become a sort of rhetorical red
bull rag to a lot OF people. Why some
men should get it into their heads that
the editor Of this paper is too timid to
talk plain, but must veil his meaning
in doubtful language, he does not
know. He never consciously did any
thing to deserve such reputation.
When Shakespeare said, Mad as a
March hare" he accurately described
the condition OF one of our highly es-
teemed female patrons who entered
the editorial sanctuary Monday morn
ing and told the editor he was two
kinds of a fool for taking another
woman's word about where her daugh-
ter fell last week and dislocated her
arm.
It is the fixed purpose of the editor
of this paper to treat all his patrons,
and, indeed, all others, with absolute
fairness and impartiality. To give a
reliable and truthful account of such
happenings as may be considered of
enough importance to print; not to
misrepresent anyone or print anything
about a man or woman that would
prove hurtful. In short, he believes
it is wrong to do those things to others
that he would not that others should
do unto him, and sticks as close to that
text as the average human usually does
to any good resolve. But errors will
get into newspapers, into the best and
most carefully edited. Misleading and
even hurtful statements will be made
without either malice or intention TO
wrong. Sometimes errors Will grow
out of misleading but apparently relia-
bic information. Sometimes, too, it
may occur that there is neither time
nor opportunity to weigh and digest
the import Of every item Of news that
gets into the paper. Then, again,
some people inject meaning into Ian
guage which the editor had no inten-
ton of conveying.
From the above you will get the
idea that the editor has his troubles as
well as other people, and you'll be
just about right.