Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-02-26

times like voices and faces from the
dead. Better indeed, to let the young
sters do it in those future years when
We likewise shall be but Il memory to
this community and this office.
From this apparently Systcmics;
and cluttercd place there is Il door
opening into IL long, low-S;udded
apartment in the rear In a more
rrctcntious plant il would bo
DESIGNATED as the llcchaHica!
/ department. TO u il is only
the Darkroom. Here arc laid out
/ the Clipped and battered mnoSinp
stones AMI rack Of typc-ca e"
even more abused than the business
furniture out in front The floor Is
worn and uneven out here. The knots
in the boards are in evidence. Floor
cracks are pressed full of dirt acd
tiny types, swept there by carclcss
boys through all the years thAt have
slipped away-hoys who have long
long since become husbands; and fatl,-
e"s in their turn and taken their dc:'-
tined places in tho life Of our town,
our state and or na,ioN. Over in he
southwest corner is cur oil linotypn
machine. 1t il Whc2;N and rhrumatic,
sure to lie down on III at the wroaw
time and somcd&T 10 GO 20 pieces Ike
, the wonderful ono.hor,'c shay. "
na'lE. in the "po tie corner, HI"-
rounded by vicious ink-barrcls VIII,
COLBY sides and rolls Of ncwSprint, j.
the old Cox-i>uplcv rr2.s that has
stood by u4 thr0u~h ;I'n year; likc =
faithful oil nniHal. Il has often
been starved for oil. it j. Lousy fo"
want Of caro. bat It has doNr if
duty somehow, on tn" whole more
sinncd AGAINST than @inninG. and W"
could no more hIjn,' ourselves to di@-
pose Of it and nut in .;tcrrontyin:~
machinery than vc could brin" our
selves to dispose of ono Of our
children.
I'hi5 is the home OF our little coun-
try paper. 1t Is iui from beng Il pct
ty pace. Yet we love tive who nave
laborcd in 1t for oycr Il quarter cen
!
little ways reminders Of the change.
time has wrouyht--to ourselves, our
profession, our town, our nation. v c |
love ii most however, for the ;ljSocl !
tons it has meant to Us in the daily !
routine of getting out our paper.
The career of the Telegraph began !
in the eighties. The paper was born Of |
the union of two STRUGGLING Wc"k!ic.I /
whose names, editors and financial |
vicis@itudcs have long-Sincc passed in
to small-town history and been for
gotten. 1t is an cight-pagc, Scven-c2!
umn little paper, often poorly printed
in the cold Vermont winters when the
ink will not flow freely in the ioun-
tains of the press or in the warm Now !
England summers when tho same ma
terlal spreads far too copiouSly to
suit the connoisscur good printing or
Il pressman with vocabulary SUI
passing any Grass imitation in type.
Its front page is given over to world
news, teloglaphcd around each noon
time from Boston. It,; inside PAGES
chronicle from day to day, month TO
month and year to year, the poorly
written stcrcotypod advertisement of
our local merchants, bordering the
daily summary Of the artivitin; OF o..
hon,efolk-birth, and marriages and
deaths, little stories of social glory
which from time to time descend on
homes about our community; the
Meeting and parting of friends: bus
ness success or failure; illness and '
'ccidcnt, petty felony and unSpcHh-
lblc tlagcdy-all the sad gamut of v
human affairs from the bathotic to
he sacred, with which the country :
does business.
If You arc one CT those rare souls
,ho find delight in thc study OF your
cloWmcn. come ard live and work
while in tine office Of u little coun-
~ papcr. For in the office OF Il little =,
ountry paper in an American small -
own you will get down to the hard -.
Al and the bedrock of human ma
arc closer han you have ever reach y
Il before. M dav long through thn
ront office will filtcr The pathoS and .,
athoS of the live; Of your kind IN q
he form of now for your columns; -
ir' n and marriages and deaths: IN D.,
bring s;orir4 Of #ucrrss. hcaltrcnd- '
~ @'ot'ic.; Of failure; cheap snob- -
rr" masnurl"din% ~ quality, noble !
fpiration:, i.nrrGuitcd sacrifice, kind
: rctuir o. good for evil And in =,
,r back room YOU viii find the print :,
= foli;, ;'""hHpa not - picturesque ~ '''
10y were vc-;.r'Yrar, hut still very ="
UmAnlN Interesting and each man
ri each woman with y story worth -,
lr telling. =,
IL hi. intensely Interesting an! -
'ry human task of Publishing tl;s r.
tile country newspaper, there comes -;
time in each week when we Wow 81
ur work is perspective. 1t Is IN" -.
our on Saturday afternoons when h.
ribntion of the pay envelopes r..
II made ard the labor, of an f.,
seven days arc ended. The
ri girls Of The back room have l.,
The Whilrin" OF ihr shaftng ~
ms the bic press l.; silent; thc T.,
on the linotype have been -,
IF and the front office is no ~,
conscious Of the faint clicking i,
;"ixcs falling into endless lines "a
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