The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1911-06-10
JouRNALIsM-A FUNNY BUSINESS

days, viii Long, Of the Ster :,
ling, kas, Bulletin, has occasional =,
deep insights into the real philosophy >,
Ut things, and In a recent address on :
journalism he outlined many truths. >,
However, he might have said more, for !,
journalism while the greatest profess .
sion Ia the world, is n funny business. ,
There are none like 1t. 4
Lawyers, doctors, merchants, me-. ,
rhanics aud unskilled labOrers all have
their holes, but there Is not place for
the editor to lay his head. When he
Is IN trouble he has no hole. After the
-mokc Of battle has cleared away after
the spring election Is over, the doctor
goes back to his pins and no one seems
10 bother him again; the lawyer slips
luto court aud what he said IL forgot
len; the other Glasses aud conditions OF
men fade into the background aud be
,unc part OF the landscape. But the
cditor sticks up like a sore toe in a
nigh wind. What he said aud what
hey Thought he said and what he
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'"'"'' "uN' '"'l ahd "h"t ne migh'
ave s"'"' "ht ''dh T. assume historic
Importance aud men lay awake nj night
"'''"H Ms '''''""' arrangements
n he stands Lv the tickle, he is nc.
used Of bvsslng The town; IL he takes
- the brush he Is called n coward who
is playing BOTH SIDES ~ he clearly ihd''
Gates 'ha' he doesn't care a thinkers
"hs'tn'ti"n whether school keeps or
not h"'h SIDES claim he Is secretly help
'hs Va" "'he' ''d"'
rs a funny business. In times Of
great public stress over the election of
q member Of the school board or the
choosing by n sovereign people of a.
candidate for the council, the editor,
whose real business is TO furnish u
reliable medium for the purveyor OF
pruucs aud farm implements, drugs,
paints and spiral cor,rts Ia advertise"
his wares, the editor becomes a storm
%reutcr. Nay, more. he Is u woormai.
u ki"kinR post, u red flag aud " rasu'
h'li MI wrapped ~ a neat package and
Il sofa ~ q d"I'hr hnd u h"Ii q year IL"
mas N" rlRht' tiiIe or interest," I" nus own
Il opinion MS soul II m"rtgag"d' and he
can ! hi"'the "l'h"nt " meier or thlhk
without having ms motives set upon
10y the coroner ana Snhjrcting ms AZ
''i'houRht 10
.o In such times ~ these some man whom
he has lived with ~ neighbor aud friend
Tor thirty years takes the street like a
mad dog, vclping and kiodling 10 rage.
m tie carries the paper folded 10 show Tia.
infamous item; he points the finger II
Scorn at it and yclls like a circus CALI
"a opc AT the wrong and iniustices Of his
Of miserable lot. lie digs up some old
mn three .by.nine item printed In the hig ap.
u pie year Of stcen and holds II up
T., though lost 10 sight, to memory dear,
~ aud you'd think that fellow and th'
NJ, editor had been bitter, burning enemies
e., for long hateful generations instead OI
old friends.
What though he walks his feet on
- wears his myers out, wells his lung
~ lnn,e for his home town. does IL MAX,
W. any difference when nm old friend take
~ the street, No, "A bit. His prievanc
he breeds Others. Smouldering cmbers o
to other differences are uncovered, the dca,
ny mast ,Nbumes itself. and he walks dow
ed the street a human pariah. lie Il. IN
social and moral lcpcr. he il the lantern
inwed disturhcr Of the public peac.. n
rm 1, the fountain of all the troubles. IN
do m~i.fortunes. all the trihulations I
ne which IA, town has been heir for ,hir,
ne wears.
'ul T,ryo,ten In . inv is all the 300
III" that he has done. II counts for no,hin
IN ,hpr he educated the ,irh,wads nm,
~ they tnrned Loose 10 secure the =. u. {
'er' n r.. Tint In every movement for tow
huildinu there never WAS any douI
vb,re he would lac found. tina, m.asu
~" cd nv its advertising space value /
had yiyen ten dollars for his tow
"t where opv other business man had Of
en- one, that forever advertising his pa
INV al, and his section. making il great
wy .uite of it.eI, and n 10, of old mos
T'' bncks who in their hearts hated propre
and wnut.d to keen thing, M thnt IN,