The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-29
AS The Editor Sees it.

VIC NRuiU llNc " nave OI SET, bul
there are few which We might men
tion as being pertinent and To the
point whatever the point may be.
We would like for instance. to see
4 little more life and hustle and bus
tie in this town. We would like to
see more farmers teams hitched d.
round town, and we'd like to see
more Of the farmers and their wives
Iand sons and daughters and hired
:, men mingling with our tOwnspcople
and getting better acquainted and on
more Intimate and friendly terms.
| This is Il big world but our communi-
ty is only dot on the surface, and
because we are only dot we ought
to know each other better and stick
to each other more than we do A
single twig can be broken by any
child, but young sapling is mighty
hard thing to even bend. We don't
want to remain even twig or a sap
ling, but we do want TO be a full
grown tree, and that we will never be
as long as we are only collection of
human twigs. Let's get together and
stick together and grow with the
| world.
We know Of little kid in this town
who exhibits every symptom Of an
intense longing for a friendly word
when YOU meet him in the street.
We have met him-we have seen him
we know. Give 1t to him. But in
order that you may not overlook this
particular kid we have in mind, and
| FOR their own sake as well, we would
like to see you give a friendly word
and cheerful pat to everyone you
meet. instead of allowing them to
slide by you like the dog that fears a
kick. Even the regard of a kid has
its value.
we. too, would like swell car, and
a private yacht at the seashore, and
mansion to live in, and a dozen ser
wants 0eminine gender, good lookers)
and big sounding title. and lots of
friends and million year for pin
money. but well be eyerlastingly and
eternally hoo-hooed if we want to go
sky-larking around in one Of those
human bird affairs. We'd like to
make d dent in the world, to be sure,
but burned if we want to make one
in the ground. The old town and'
our family look mighty good TO us,
after all.
| There's another thing we'd like to
see--to haye-to feet. We would like
TO have tile spirit Of brotherly love
exemplited in this town. We woul d
| like to see it in evidence wherever
people congregate. We would like to
feel that it is the dominating intlueN-
ce in our private and commercial life.
We would like to see it dwarf all 9th
er things and all other considerations
We really would.
There comes time in the life Of
every editor when it is genuine re-
| lief to be able to confess his sins Of
omission-heavy on the "omission.'
Right now you are preparing TO
read things "As the Editor Sees Them
But you won't. And therein comes
our sin Of ommission, for hy the rule
Of IAN eye for an eye and tooth for
a tooth" we should publish as we see.
Foriastance-
We might mention byname strong
| hearty. robust man who is we'll po-
Sc: cd Of Jhis worlds goods, whose
every personal want appears to be
! satisfied, who seeks the pleasures of
the world and enjoys them himself.
Then we might mention the frail lit
tie wife who patiently tolls at home
! day by day. throughout the daylight
hours and far into the night. We
might tell tie story Of how she sell
dom has an hour TO cali her own. OF
how the grinding burdens Of life are
crushing her into u premature grave,
Of how the joys OF living have degen-
Grated into the bitterness Of mere ex-
istaHce.
We might tell the story 'As The
Editor Sees It," and humanity would
have but Slight sylnplthy for the
man 1t would serve rs a choice NOR
sal Of gossip, and might pcrc,iance
bring u flush to the masculine check
that seems never to have known con-
sideration or shame.
But through consideration OF the
little tired and oyerburdened woman
whose life is being Whitfield away we
commit the editorial sin Of "ommi $
sion lie was once dear 10 her. and,
wumanlike, her heart may still cling
e. the brute who basks in the sun
shine Of life while she wYithes in the
misery Of negiece
To publish the story in all of its
4 cruel rhoughtlessneSs and criminal
indifference would he but an act oi
tinstire and retcibutiOn. Eut. then
il would bring shame and degrade
tion to Il waning life whose burdens