South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-03-09
TheMeHingPot
Filled by the Editorial stan.

Bet you VIII be tickled pink
when you open this and see who
its frum and know that you don't
have TO write no melt in pot be-
cause Of this here letter which is
much better that any you or your
STATS ever did turn out.
But I amt doin this because
I like 10 see my stuff in print.
but cause 1 kinda like 20 see you
do well and If I write a letter
and you print Il ever now and
then and don't tell the pubhk
when its goin TO come out in the
paper the publik will be lookin
after my stuff and if they don't
know when its goin to be in the
paper they will read the paper
ever day so they wont miss none
Of my stuff and then Of course
they will have TO look in your melt
in pot for If they didn't they might
miss it when my stuff was in the
melt in pot
But l Amt so young as I wus
once and i Amt SO blame unedu-
catid as some people have been
10 also state or insinyouate.
have been a member of these
elecshon night sessions where you
sit on the reterns and / want to
say IL amt no sunday school pic
mix fer the reporters 1 knowed
you and the boys wus up there
last night and so / thought id just
help you out
In the first place and secOndley
reporters always gotta be on lob
and the editor generly sends over
a couple of men and wants one
to run back to the Office with bull
tins.
And reporters are always on
the job excepting early in the
morning about Z thirty. and al
ways git around the cort house
about as soon as the poles close
shut Then they hang around the
clerks Office and Amt got nothin
to do atall but telephone what
ever gossip they can dig up about
truble at the poles. once in a
while somebody comes in and tells
that some guy is leadin by more
votes than wus cast for Roose-
welt on the muse tiket.
But generly there aint nothing
TO do atall. but cross the streets.
no matter how hard the sno is
snoin, but you gotta be handi i'm
case a report world happin TO
come in before midnight Course
1t wusnt so bad i'm them old DAYS
before these second choices things
was taxed on, but now you amt
never sure your certain they are
ever gOin to git in.
About 9 them reporters say
they'll go on up stares and see
what's gOin on and find about ten
guys up there raisenholyhelI be-
cause they have TO do about half
the work of too reporters. The
inspectors set around for another
half hour and then hold a vote TO
see whose gOin TO git to sleep fer
few hours. Amt long till about
eight of them 10 is maxim music
in the jury room upstirs.
N@A ~ ROA Nfi = amt SUPPOSED
to sleep and they don't do much
of it as long as these returns are
still being reterned About II or
twelve o'clock or halfway between.
the cOlOred boy from the Oliver
comes over and wakes Sp the
jurers and tells them super am
served. Then whole ten set around
and etc and smoke while the re-
pOrters go out and hit the dry
launch for an eg between and
some hot COTE.
Finally some inspector makes
mistake and brings in a return
and imedyately the inspectors be
gin talkin about work. But il
looks like to much work for ten
men so they send eight back to
sleep while the others fool around
with the figures jist 10 keep them
out Of the newspaper. About
o'clock the cheat inspector who
didn't no they had beds on the 3rd
floor gifts all excited and finds
somebodyelse has done brung in
a report. Outside of the facx
that the votes amt counted rite
and they amt put down in the rite
kolums the report is all wright.
So the inspector hasta send them
back about seven and p miles i'm
the country. TO git them counted
again even though il Amt no
march lam like day.
Then about o'clock things
kinda liven up a bit cause a gang
hits the clerks Office TO tell the
inspectirs. them that couldn't sleep
longer cause of the snorin how
the votes wus east. Alot a speach
es are made and somebody in
sists on his being OF the holt pop
uloy. but finally the gang goes
home all in bunch one by / and
the reporters are left with there
watching waitin and an earfun of
different keys in snorins from the
3rd for.
About bellies, the reporters
have all the figurs they can git
down and begin thinkin about
goin home and hittin the hav.
when the editer sends word over
hes soin TO git out eXtry and they
gotta stay on the job till noon
and then at noon its time TO start
working for tomorrow.
Them inspectors in the mean
time keep a workin. too at a time
and sleepin in shifts. but always