The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-31

where. pray tell me, do we find more
patience than in printing office? I
believe that Job would have made a.
mighty good editor
Were it not for the fact that print
ing was invented less than five CEN
turtles ago. I would be tempted to be-
lieve that King David was subscriber
to the Bethlehem Bazoo and that after
he moved down to Jerusalem to be-
come ruler over the people of Israel
he watched for the coming of the old
village paper with keen delight, for
in one of his psalms he exclaims: las
cold waters to the thirsty soul, so is
good news from far country What
could better express our feelings of an
exile when he receives the old home
paper?
ministers and editors have many
things in common. Both have to con-
tend with the world. the flesh and the
devil. Both the minister and the edi-
their influence for good is bounded
only by the extent which they meas
ure up to their responsibilities The
duty of both Is to instruct, educate
and entertain; to arouse in their audi
ence a desire for the higher and nobier
| things of life.
| "While the minister tells us about
the new Jerusalem and its streets of
gold, with no holes in the pavement,
and it's walls of jasper. and awakens
within us a desire to be there. the
editor rudely awakens us to the COM
mon, practical things of life and in
structs us along the line of market
reports, commercial transactions the
world over and proposes a rem edy for
existing evils.
"a great deal of concern has been
expressed because of the falling off
! in church attendance, especially
among men, but the rush and hurry
| of modern life is more responsible
| than the preacher or people. After
! a hard weeks work in a stuffy office
4 in August, with the thermometer how
| ering around 100, man hardly feels
| disposed to go to a hot church Sun
day morning and hear sizzling SER
mon on the everlasting fires He
turns rather to the Sunday newspaper
and its comic supplement. l venture
| to say that not one person in a hum
dred can name three of the most
prominent divines in America today,
where, pray, is the man or woman
who has not heard of Buster Brown
| Happy Hooligan' and the 'Katzen-
TANNER KidS?'
THE minister's wife accompanies
| event of the year to which she looks
forward with delight for weeks. The
editors wife also accompanies him to
| the editorial convention. This is no
new order of things. Is it not record
ed that when Annias went up to
| also?
IF the minister and the editor
could be brought closer together what
| good might not be accomplished? Now
! they seem to act very much like the
| two branches of the legislature where
! the house believes that it ought to be
/ the check rein of the senate and the
senate believe that it ought to be the
safety valve of the house.
zone time the wife of member of
IL IL 1T n, ~
are robbers in the house. but he, only
half awake, replied: You must be mis-
taken, my dear. there may be a few
in the senate, but there are none in
the house.
Mr.. Markham's Talk.
Ed Markham. editor of the Baldwin
Ledger, in his paper on Running a
/ Weekly Paper in a Country Town."
described the ideal country editor as
! innocent as a dove, but as wise as a
serpent. He told how that while the
| editors chair didn't rest on a gold
mine, yet he should strive to elevate
| the home, to know little of every
thing and not too much of any thing"
/ But the sentiment among his hearers
was that while Brother Markham
| spoke goodly words, it should be re-
membered that he lived in good old
Baldwin. This town often called
Saints Rest is the seat of Baker
university, described by Tom Mcneil
in speech before the Baldwin high
school graduating class in the spring
of 1901, as "the greatest Methodist
preacher factory west of the Missis-
sippi.'' No one was ever known to
have been arrested in Baldwin, so 1t
is said, for there thieves do not break
in and steal''
J. D. Hickman, superintendent of
the X S. A. C. printing department at
Manhattan, read a short paper in
which he described the difficulty of an
apprentice learning the trade thor