Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-09-10
We Stand Pat on our Statement.

To THE EDITOR: It is my wish tt
have you clear up statement which
feel is an injustice to the Cresco Higl
School. In the September 3rd issue o.
the Plain Dealer, you gave utterance t.
the following ."Any printer in Cresct
will corroborate the statement thai
copy turned into the Cresco printshops
by high school students is in many cases
simply atrocious-no idea of construc
ton or punctuation, full of errors ir
photography, and written so poorly thai
in some instances whole sentences, anc
even page, were omitted because toe
much time was required to decipher the
writing" Then in the following para
graph you state that this copy" leaves
the school with the stamp of approval.
AS this article is somewhat of q
criticism of the present head of the
school, why did you make the statement
referred to-? At no time during the
last two years has copy" been sent
either to your paper or to the Times
with the approval of the school that
was not typewriter. And at no time
according to the Times Office which has
invariably printed the high school notes
first, has the structure of the sentences
or the paragraphs been changed. No
errors in spelling have been noted, nor
has there been any disagreement in
punctuation. Only twice in two years
has the Times received copy" that
was not typewriter, and that copy did
not 60 through the hands of any one
connected with the school, and of course
did not receive the stamp of approval.
/ know that much of the copy handed
in to be typewriter, was gone over two
or three times by the writer as he was
the editor. Even then, before this
matter reached the Times Office, much
had been omitted, and IN some cases
the structure of sentences and para
graphs had been changed by the school
faculty. But the point is this, both
papers for two years have printed the
high school notes just as they have
received them.
It may interest you to know that the
company which printed the high school
>nnual last spring in complimentary
letter stated that the material received
from the Cresco High School excelled
that received from any other high
school. And they printed it just as the
material was received.
Would you kindly publish this COM
uunication CECIL JOHNSON.
We wish to call the attention of the
readers to the following from Mr.. John
sons article: 81 know that much of
the copy handed in to be typewriter
was gone over two or three times by
the writer as he was the editor" If
the students are well grounded in the
elementary branches, why was it neces-
sary to have it rewritten two or three
times and why was it necessary to have
it typewriter evil tell you. Mr..
Tiss, in conversation with the Plain
Dealer editor previous to the publica-
ton of the article. of September 3rd,
stated that during the past two years,
1--WE" presumably the teachers) had
sent copy back for revision two or three
times, and admitted that the work of
the students had been unsatisfactory.
The copy was afterwards revised and
typewriter by teacher in the schools.
The typewriting was done probably to
prevent complaint because the copy was
illegible. Who is entitled to credit for
the compliments of the foreign book
publishing house, the editors of the
book or the teacher who did the
tipping?
Just one more statement that proves
our contention. Mr.. johnson writes
E ''Only twice in two years has the
Times received copy that was moi
typewriter, and that copy did not g
through the hands of anyone connected
with the school" In one of these
instances, the linotype operator on the
Times still has two pages of copy
which he laid aside because it was tot
much of a task to read; the othel
instance was whole batch of schoo
notes which he declined to bother will
and turned over to the Plain Deale
and was by its editor dumped into tn
waste basket as not worth the effor
to decipher. In both instances the ait
of the faculty typewriter shoult
certainly have been invoked.
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senior partner Of the firm OF p. ]. eheneJ
do. County and State Aforesaid, and thai
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