Semi-weekly herald., 1914-05-11
smith said, "I will"


Down at Lyons Progressive had
an apoplectic seizure after reading
the Lyons Republican. Hastily the
doctor was summoned. He fixed up
the patient, who, regaining conscious
ness, said, DOC, while you are here
you'll give Tommy his school exami-
nation without extra charge, won't
your" And the doctor said, 81 will. "
At Canandaigua, which is gener-
GUS town, as one would judge from
the portly presence of our friend Mil
liken, grocer selling pound of
tea was asked to throw in enough
sugar for sweetening. He did it.
And at Hamburg, just now deep
smitten with the social center fever
1--WE hope it is catching), lawyer
drew deed for client and upon re-
quest drew a will also without extra
charge.
You don't believe these things ever
happened? Neither do l. You don't
believe that they ought to happen ?
Neither do l.
Not a New Thing.
But at any old town which boasts
a newspaper last week, this week and
weeks without number, these things
have happened:
A farmer comes into a printing Of
flee and offers the poorly scrawled
copy for the only job of printing he
will ever buy-an auction bill. The
printed fixes it up and names price
which gives him only decent profit
on the work. And the farmer says,
you'll give me free notice in the
paper, won't you?" He gets it, for
the printer is good fellow.
Next comes the merchant with the
copy for his display ad Give me
three or four readers, won't your
he says as he turns away from the
desk. He gets the readers, for the
published is a good fellow.
The chairman of dance commit
tee in a neighboring town drops in
to even to leave an order fro print.
ing-but to request a free notice Of
the dance. He gets it for, as | told
you, the publisher is a good fellow.
Comes committee with scheme
for the uplift of the community. Now
the editor is good citizen and earn
estly desires that his town shall be a
better place in which to live. But he
has an idea that he knows about how
much space he can afford to give to
the exploitation of the committee !
hobby. You see there are many com.
mittees and space is the biggest item
in the publishers stock of merchant
disc. But the committee thinks moth,
ing less than q column will do and
gets it, for the newspaper man is,
above sil else, good fellow.
After these come other men who
demand free space in the paper, the
use of which will bring money to their
own pockets or to the treasures of
the cause, organization or church
which they represent. Careless are
they of the fact that it costs money
to set type, that space is the publish.
er's best asset. Careless, too, appar-
emily, is the publisher, for he gives,
gives, gives. All the week long he
is good fellow, until Saturday night,
when, it may be, he stands off the
help for a part of their pay. They
don't call him good fellow. But he
is, and his failure to keep the ghost
walking is perfectly characteristic
exhibition of what good fellow
amounts to in real business.
The third-third degree good fellow
in the newspaper fraternity has no
credit with his banker, his wife or
his help.
An Awful Contrast.
A statistican sharp who has been
browsing around in the United States
census reports told me the other day
that the printing business stands
sixth among industries in the value
Of its production and eighty-fifth in
the scale Of credit. I hate to believe
that he told the truth. but careful
review Of my own financial condi-
tion, after eighteen years of hard
work, makes me hesitate about ap-
plying the short and ugly epithet to
him. Granting that the figures are
correct, upon what shall be placed
the blame for the extremely deplora-
BILE condition? To my mind, upon
good fellowship and ignorance.
The Century dictionary says that
a newspaper is paper giving reports
OF current or passing events. It'll
does not say that newspaper shall
without remuneration advertise his