Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-10
SOME ONE WANTS TO
TAKE JOY FROM LIFE
Writer is Criticized for His
Daily illusions on Front
Page Of The Bee.
BUT SOME OTHERS LIKE IT
By A. R. GROH.

Dear Sir: | have been reading you,
dope and / have decided that yot
are plain nuts Now cut it out ant
give that perfectly good space tc
some one else.-A Reader"
This, dear friends, is a cruel, crue
letter that came to me the other day
Oh, how often we great men are I'm.
appreciated.
Just when l felt that my name wa:
established among the great, when
people were writing in to me
from as far away as Fremont and
Plattsmouth, and even from Lincoln
then comes this cruel letter. Wher
I felt my greatness was a-blossoming
along comes frost. killing frost, in
the person OF "A Reader" and "nips
the root" leaving me withered, for.
lorn, unknown.
Alas! Woe is me! Alas! Alas!
But let US cease repining. Perhaps
we can make our failures stepping
stones to higher things. as McGuf.
fey's Fourth Reader puts it. Behind
the clouds the sun is still shining"
Behind Clouds-Sunshine.
See, here is the sun in the shape oil
a letter from NJ. A. Pillsbury, 242e
Fontenelle boulevard. From what he
writes, ! am sure he is a gentleman
of splendid literary taste. Listen:
Dear Sir: Your special articles
have been much enjoyed by myself
and family. Sometimes the paper is
not very carefully read, but it is very
seldom that we miss your valuable
and entertaining articles"
q am almost overcome with bushes
feel T. cannot quote the rest of it
But, yes! Yes. must. ! will. Write
reluctant hand. Write the rest Of
Mr.. Pillsbury's Words:
"The quiet humor sometimes makes
me think you are entitled to the title
The Mark Twain of the West OF
something OF that sort"
Aoh, INV iuilOuSly UluSHl)
l bow to you, Mr.. Pillsbrry, and
thank you thousand times. | think
that is surely Pillsbury's best.
Mark Twain, unfortunately, is not
alive today to. rejoice in this new
honor connected with his name. What
do you think about it, "a Reader?
Stuff is Rotten.
Emil Nusbaum, the talented young
advertising man, tells me there are
plenty Of people who think my stuff
is "rotten,"g THAT is the inelegant
word used by the young man, He
admits, however, that some can be
found who pronounce it great stuff. "
(You have no idea, friends, how it
tears my soul, tortures my spirit and
outrages my natural and native mod
esty to write all this about myself.
But it is necessary. And shall it ever
be said that the courageous soul OF
A. R. -Groh shrank from performing
distasteful task? NeverD ~,
D'you know. "A Reader" I am
sorry YOU think I'm nuts" I would
like to write to please you. But, you
see, don't know even who you are,
as you modestly refrained from sign
ing your name. So I'm rather in the
dark as to just. what to write for you.
!, In writing you can please some of
the people all of the time, and all
of the people some of the time, but
you cannot please all of the people
all OF the time" Some people like
Robert w. Chambers and some like
Henry James.
would gladly follow your sugges-
ton and ".cut it out" but don't feel
that would be just to Mr.. Pillsbury
and, perhaps, some others.
So try to bear with me a little
longer, ill you?