Putnam patriot., 1917-04-20
From the Editors Desk

Many strange things come to the editors desk spd many strange things come from IL. or course the readers of this column don'ti know the nature snd pufpoft Of sll these things because We don't see fit to tell them. The ia or are the editors feet. We have sat for. the past half hour with our pedals above our head and resting on our desk aforesaid with our editorial pipe filled with cheap editorial tobacco be tween our editorial teeth trying to persuade or cHjole the editorial muse 10 drop few thoughts into our editor isl think tank so that we could do our editorial duty by our dear readers and say something in this column that they may, or may not, read AS suits their choice.
 Every writer Is obliged 10 have muse. If they took visible shape some Of them might be in forms m ost as touishing We often wonder how our swn would look. Perhaps like A Bill iiken, s jinx or a one eyed Harlem goal; or, being so loath to work, pos- aoly like Huckleberry Finn. But, dear readers, we have to write some thing or lose our joe and then where would our weekly five cent package of nigger head 10 i'll our Kentucky meer shaun come froms
 That is why, after s half hours tor ture, we sit down and one finger the typewriter keys reckless and aban doned as to where our digits strike so long as words result regardless Of meaning. II takes Us bHek To boyhood days when fond parents insisted that we write two page letter and we had nothing 10 write about. On such oe- casions we would write. In our bold est hand, getting ss few words 10 the line and page AS possible. But ~s can't fool you, readers Of this eolun in any such stealthy manner because tne lines require just so many leaden letters and the columns just so many lines. Isn't that enough to bring The badness of worry hsstening to the top of our editorisl dome? But here we are, almost 10 the bottom of one type~ntten sheet, and isn't II a glorious feeling when you had begun 10 think you couldn't do IL 10 find you have, or almost have, done IL. Only . few more pages to tiIl up as we ram ele on. We won't sttempt 10 apologize for she junk that has gone before for perhaps you won't have read as fsr down ss this and then our spology will be wasted and we were brought Dp not 10 be ~ssiefui
 Of course we might write you some thing profound, discuss theology, bi- ology tryoiogy or any goldarnOiegy, politics, ihe Psnsma Canal or the latest scandal in the Figi Islands. Bnt ve leave such subjects to the special Isis You Ali know these biz news pspers in the cities hsVe specialists for most every subject For instance ii Q8ern Lii should have s birthday they eoald produce sn article from some editors desk in their print fac tory that xOald Ieli you just how old she Is. what her fsSorite games were . shen she sore short skirts and her fssorise brand Of chocolates, if they have ehocolstes in Hawaii. They eoald do ii night of their finger tips. uf course ~e could do it too but II ~oald o~ So much bother 10 study up 0a the sa Jees that ~e had rather let Eaese speet slisss do it, That's why we stick to the new motor fire truck, The increased poli,e torce ct cetrs that We know about right here in Putnam. This is 8 pretty confidential tess up from the editors desk. But pr0osby y y9u have noticed 1t. thsi is if you read thts column. How many do read is we don | know. Some one did last week We know beesnse they sent us 10 the Annanias club because we said we shoveled snow i've years SEQ on EssG- CT morning. If they knew how much easier it Is to shovel snow thsn 10 fill this column--sometimes they would not question our yerssi1y in such 6 bold snd assured manner.
 We'll here we are, ss ~e said before, some time back, almost 10 The bottom Of page two. You see we are trying to write something (Aecent on some thing, plesse.l II you don't read this column you will al least see st s glance thai il is full. If you do read it yoo may accuse us of being full, but we ain't, unless you call one cup of coffee and a doughnut being full We certainly are trying 10 do our duly
 i've would put trying in itllics bat we haven't snyl, snd They say that is sii ihsi anyone csn do,-to try --so please give us due credit.
 Sometimes we think we will go out on The street snd ssk the first person we meet 10 give us subject for the weeks editorial. We hsven't done il because we are afraid ot tne result. II Is easy enough 10 enlist for the war but It Is not easy 10 enlist friend $ interest in your editorial troubles. We would doubtless be told 10 best II back to our sanctum and tell the boss that our job was too big for us or that we were loo small for The job. If there