The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-25
THE COUNTRY EDITOR HAS
HIS INNINGS NOW AND THEN

From the Newman Herald.
The poor country editor-hacked
and banged on every side by arrogant
creatures who set themselves up as
critics, and bamboozled and swindled
by every dead beat in the country who
can succeed in getting his name on
the papers subscription list-gets
his innings now and then, and when
he does the deft way in which he
strips the critic of his cOnceit, bares
the hypocrisy of the pharisee, and
takes the hide off the dead beat is as
good as a circus.
Every country publisher is famil-
lar with the bumptious character
who, because of some fancied slight,
and laboring under the delusion that
he is inficting irreparable disaster,
"stops his paper. An experience
with an old fossil of this type is thus
related by a South Georgia exchange;
"A couple Of years ago a cranky
sort of an old man came into this
office and stopped his paper be-
cause something had been put in 1t
that did not suit his fancy. We
have frequently met him on the
street since that time, and 1t is
amusing to note the look of sur
prise on the old mans face that
we are still in existence, regardless
of the fact that he stopped his pa
per- Some day-and it won't De
long, either-that old gentleman
will turn up his toes. His heart
will be stilled forever. Neighbors
and friends will follow his lifeIess
clay to the silent city and lay it to
rest among the daisies. An oblt-
uary will be published in these col
umns telling what a kind father,
good neighbor and a beloved citi-
zen he was-which the recording
angel will overlook, for charity's
sake-and in very short time he
will be forgotten. AS he lies out
there in the cold, cold graveyard,
wrapped in the silent slumber OF
death. he will never know that the
last kind word spoken of him was
by the editor of that same paper
whose life he so spitefully 'stopp-
ed Did you ever pause just
moment and think that your edi-
tor, whoever he may be, will write
your obituary some day?'
But while the man who stops his
paper is simply a gump who can
hurt no one EXCEPT himself the dead
beat does hurt, because he repudi-
ates his honest debts and, in so doing,
resorts to the most contemplate
form of swindIing. A North Georgia
editor deals with one of this class
as follows:
Refuse Notice every editor
has received them. The postmas-
ter sends them to the editor. For
instance, there is a man by the
name of. Wen say John Brine, who
refused to take his paper out of the
postOffice. He did not want it any
longer, and we wondered what was
the matter. Upon investigation
of our subscription book we found
that John was short $50. He
had stopped the paper as matter
of economy to us. A few evenings
later We went to church and Johns
melodious voice rang out clear and
loud in that soul-stirring song:
Jesus Paid 1t All We might
have been mistaken, but his earn
estness impressed US. The next
day We sent him a receipt In full,
begging his pardon for not know
ing he had made arrangements for
; his liabilities in that manner"
Better tote fair with the countr.
editor. He'll get you in the long
run, if you don't watch out!
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