Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-11-21
MEANDERING EDITORS.

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The meandering editor is not
entirely anew invention; only a
new name assigned to the de-
lightful practices which prevail
among the country editors of
southwest Virginia. Some weeks
ago the editor of the Clinch
Valley News announced in adj
vance that the approach of
Indian summer was working on
his spirit and that he was bound
to answer the call.
We, in this neck Of the woods
had Evolutionary belief that
Tazewell was wild enough for
any editor in captivity, but
Brother Leslie hied himself to
some deeper glen, where the
buttermilk was fresher and TIE
shrills Of the locomotive not so
obtrusive, and spent his days in
communion with nature.
Now comes Colonel A. B.
Williams, of the Roanoke Times,
an editor in whom, in his
earlier days, was imbued with
all the traditions of Eeastern
Virginia that men must work
and keep everlastingly at it,
falls in with the generous South
west editorial fashion Of letting
their readers go hang, while
they work off the wander lust in
some vale in whose bosom bright
waters meet, and at the first call
disappeared into the wilds.
The elections were over" he
explained, land things went
about as we wanted and asked.
except in three or four Virginia
counties, which need some re-
monstrances and admonitions.
Therefore, the editor of the
Times, lured by some special at
tracive invitations and oppor-
tunities and seeing slack in
terval, simply went off and
meandered aroung Richmond
and Atlantic City and Russell
county, enjoyed relaxation and
fun he needed after several
years of hard and trying work
and also gave his some thousands
of faithful readers Il holiday
which, doubtless, was apprcciat-
ed and enjoyed"
The latter statement being
authoritative we will, of course,
not undertake TO gainsay it, but
we favor the Southwest county
editors plan of taking holiday
whenever he feels the irksome
burden of the editorial chair.
Now there's Brother Bill Ea s.
of the Wise county News, who
is understood at one time to have
had standing agreement with
his subscribers and advertisers,
which may still be in force, that
he might suspend an issue when
ever he felt like going fishing,
and that description of his
trip in the next issue was the
only apology needed.
Colonel Williams only followed
a long-standing precedent among
Southwest Virginia country edi-
tors, where privilege is more
valued than honor from kings.
Evening Journal.
One of these days it will dawn
upon the bumptious editors of
Richmond that there is such a
haven of rest as Tazewell and
Southwest Virginia, and when
this time comes their dark, damp.
dingy, musty, dusty and cramped
crannies known as newspaper
offices, will be periodically de-
serted and silent, save for the
riot and revel of rats, and tired
editors will HE themselves to
this land of the sky, where the
ozone is purest, the mountains
tie bluest, the grass the green
est, the shade the deepest, the
breezes the coolest, the butter
the yeIlowest, the cream the
thickest, the girls the prettiest
and the men the ugliest and the
homes the hospitabIeest, of the
earth, and here renew their
youth. An invitation is cordially
extended. Come away occasion
ally from the land of sand and
sassafras bushes and breeze
that stiile and change your diet
from old field rabbits and cold
bread to luscious steak, chicken,
sausage, buckwheat cakes and
biscuits. Come, there's room for