The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-10-21
Policy Describes Strange Char
acters In Vermont
Journalism

Family do Without Eggs" And so
on, up to and including Our Philip
pine Policy" and "Was Dewey JUS
titled il Entering Manila Bay" Can
you imagine that sorr Of thing going
out over the Associated Press leased
wires to startlc The country? |
couldc.'5 and as gently as possible |
told him so,
He then went on with a tale Of
woe about his old army trouble and
the doctors bills his wife had been
responsible for, and couldn't do any
thing for him to help him get living
by his pen, especially as | had gained
( a tuppcrce-worth of notoriety in
certain quarters because of OCCASION
al newspaper stories published in the
national magazines. told him that if
he could confinc himself to some of
the farmers problems, say, the pos
sibilities for drop in the price of
Boston milk shipped from our coun-
try, or how to keep dogs from run
ming sheep, | might offer him dol
lar column and feature them in the
weekly edition fo- the country Glen
tele.
If I'll hit the old man with an axe
couldn't have wounded him more. A
dollar a column! He understood any
one who could write, especially "on
general subjects" made three or four
thousand a year With a stub pen
Gil he began to figure out how many
columns-at one dollar per-hc
would have to fill "on general sub
jects" to earn that princely rcmun-
GRAFTON. finally compromised on a
dollar and half a column until we
learned how the material took with
the agricultural population. Not that
| cared boot about getting the ar
ticles, but | just felt it was my hui
man duty to give the poor man a lift
if | could.
After he had departed | made in
quiries about him, and the elderly
| lady who had worked for me. for sew
eral months collecting subscriptions
snorted vehemently: Him! Huh!
That's old Pastor Chase. He owns
three farms, seven blooded trotting
horses, and cleaned up fortune 20
years ago with patent COW cure!'
Curtain
Then there is the man who is for
ever wanting "piece put in the
] paper" lambasting somebody around
/, town, but who is never willing to
1 write letter in formal complaint
and sign his name; there's the town
"bum", who comes in once ever so
often to borrow two bits, under pro-
digious promises of paying it back
some day when he can find work, but
who is always ailing somewhere
when we offer him the weeks ac-
emulation of waste paper in the
press-room to bale up; there's the
lady who is always getting up sub
scription paper for something, and
the advertiser whose ad is never set
up properly. There is the party who's
got in for the overseer. of the poor
and who wakes low in spirit and
lean in flesh over the fragrant use of
the taxpayers money. There's the
bank director who won't sanction a
dollars worth of accommodation
made to a newspaper enterprise, all
publishers being, in his opinion, one
door from the poorhouse anyhow
But he bursts in like house afrc
whenever there's breath of scandal
abroad about the banks affairs that
may start run on the institution
AMI demands that we run Il long
winded statement of the banks con-
dition-which no one will read and
still less understand if they do-and
who threatens a libel suit when you
are unkind enough to remind him of
his refusal on our last request for a
loan. There's the town poetess who
talks to US over the telephone like a
/ paying advertiser when we get a line
inverted in one Of her illusions; and
there's the young minister who bawls
us out on Saturday afternoon be-