Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-11-19

Inference? If sensitive" means having
sense: then surely mot sensitive" means
not having sense. Are we together?
.
So let US be sensitive. But not too SEN
sitive. II you have a sensitive spot on
your physical body, remember the in
junction Don't rub it," II you rub 1t,
the constituencies will soon develop into
soreness, and soreness is to be avoided
at all costs
For many years the musical editor of
The Bee has been writing and reviewing
musical events and has seen much of the
sensitiveness OF the musical people. Some
OF 1t has developed into really sore spots,
which have caused the owners much
trouble and perhaps annoyance.
Many people have thought that because
their programs did not get in the paper
that the musical editor, that cruel tyrant,
had Il in for them" as they say, what
ever that may mean. Now that is too
bad, and too absurd. But It is a case Of
sensitiveness (Which is good being de-
veloped into oversensitivencss (Which is
bad and from that into soreness (Which
Is worse). Had the aggrieved persons
placidly and quietly investigated they
would probably have asCertained that at
the last minute of making up the paper
(Which is done you know in the com
posing" room a batch of advertisements
which had to be attended to, needed
space, and as the advertisements are the
bread-and- butter-getters of the paper,
and are paid for in hard cash, while the
programs are merely given space by cour-
tesy,-in a case like this, the programs are
g-E..
is where the selfishness of the musician
comes in. Instead of being grateful to
The Bee for the free space which they
receive, when that program is left out
there goes up a vigorous wall and the
musical critic has it in for us" whereas
the musical critic has no more TO do with
It than has the Sultan of Sulu, or the
Ahkound of Swat.
But he is a bad one, that music critic!
.
Sensitive people, who get to be over
sensitive, again get themselves hurt by
attributing false motives to musical
editors. And here again selfishness steps
in. Miss Churchly sends a program into
the office of the music editor and wants
it printed in the musical column. Miss
C's choir has been working overtime get
given in the church on Sunday night.
Now Miss c. and her co-workers, splen-
did faithful people all, are more interested
in that church concert than in anything
else the world happens to be doing, That
il the one big event Right, it should be
They are sensitive to it. But now, the
trouble is that too often they get to be
over-senstive about IT. that IS, they
think that It should not only interest them
but every one else in town; they feel thai
the readers OF The Bee should be advised
OF the success OF this concert; they dc
not realize that there are a hundred
other churches attending to regular bust
ness, and thousands Of other people in
terested in no church at all and that az
The Bee aims to do the greatest good t
the greatest number there is no musica
editor present and no report, and the
congregation OF Miss C.'s church ~ hur
lover sensitive) and perhaps there ar
some sore spots rubbed into activity
Perhaps the paper is stopped" by some
But listen! The average circulation o
The Bee during October was jO7O3 copic
day! And so there were possibly tiff
thousand five hundred and some peopl
who did not care a rap about Miss c.
concert or church service. Tough, yes
but True, nevertheless
No reason for over-sensitiveness. No
bit. Just a realization Of the fact tina
there were over fifty thousand readers O
The Bee who were not interested. An
that's no reflection on you. as YOU ar
doubtless not bit interested IN them, o
N how they spent the evening.
o
But to return TO The Bee. We have
column for church notices. II is printe
IN the Saturday evening paper. That
the only space where church notices ar
printed. We have stated that over an
over again In this column until We hav
grown tired. And yet TO this day peopl
send IN church notices to this music d.
partment. We used To send them to IN
sunday editor. We send them now
the waste basket, because we feel that
the people are not interested enough :
-esd The Bee and observe where Nh
church notices appear and observe the