Douglas Island news., 1920-04-30

 expressed in aone but aome mon oH- roriuc. he "prone' moro ro- oucuuy and realistically hm oth- cu 10 depends ou Che bumcH he puuues
 Reading 0nc day recently thot au
 doakon newspaper had boon sued .ar largo sum ot money much more ta1 .ac average newspaper man makes in Q Ifclmc for dcim auou of cbamctor caused Che. stroller to mto a retrospective ennco back along tho pathway ho| haa uoddou tor moro years thm hc' .arcs to admit rc.u I'm which by ha onorts at newspaper making and nubhbme hs one and solitary aim was Che uplifting Of uudono and
 oidm humanity che be,terment Of. mankind Nou while Che Stroller firmly believe. thut newspaper mon ro loss prone to wander thau arc
 ho.o ol other prole .ona lawyers. burglars Du-reou of eoh hricm and others Inc could mention he.
 nou from personal experience chat eron membcu O. tho fourth estate lip a cor onnl.y hence such brass mUnsa as damage suits
 
 There vasr umc whom the Stroller
 uteruu.d Ono dc'udod notion chat thc iasue or hIs paper which did not prompt some gentle reader to lay aside his emuuy and yIsIt tho office vih a avcf-oI shotgun was faii-. urc But chat was when ho was in
 Tho san.rnne period Of yoHue man- hood and be.ore to quote from Che
 late Jamu Wmromh Ruoy thc
 arc was on hs pumpkin and his fodder I'm hc shoek nut ai.cr thc .,roI. avoEo Go Hc n.t that he was degoUue too much valuable time To picking bulshot put ol hf
 system vh One ol.ac tNouers. Incl wrote v.h Ic.s v.ruu and oyon re- sorted .ou.lly DO the use ol the hIue pencil Tho blue pencil woa gone orally uol he morning after lt vas a aot tat thing. usually looked uIweni hc mex, morning from what hoy bad ou ttc previous even ne uud a0cr few v.au Go Che Du.chmora on thc corner In those da,s mon who did not resort To thc use Of artillery 10 re, even with thc Stroller for some anc.cd cor roaI grievance end ncy were generally ren would hic thcm o'vos to o temple of Justice and enter suit against hIm from ,u thousand to
 several million dollars Iu nct Che Stroller became .o accustomed to having warrants served 1n hm chat when a deputy shenG would enter his office wIth a IoraI-arpoarIue doc- mcnt m hI hand Che Stroller would Invariably o.s "la ths an- other criminal libel or merely a breach d. promise aasos'
 Bu. Time s iho ercatc.t mclowor ol udor known. and with hc moi- lowing %. b.e ardor Che Stroller has realized nat more halo and glory hover o.cr roaco chan var that be. me sho, al "bcat up manhau- Uod and haIei before courts ore muehf un moro or less ucon- venimco and. prolrme by what experience has taught him Inc has boon sho. at less thm dozen times m tne ra.t tvcny veau benton up bu. nine umc. and sued for ubei but four times iu thc same period. Thus harc mIduo.. of utloranco and dcIber.tor or oNnro Ion 1een lhcIr own reuari.
 One thue che Stroller has always noticed. and It Is credit to thc uousnp. profession. Is tbs When a newspaper man s convicted of libel or any other oHmae hs de- pertinent around his place of cone duomcut H umauy such chat his guards mo bound to have confidence m him and before many months that confidence H manifested bE making him what Is known around iaIIs add ncui.uUar.es as a "uu.y' That means ha. he h porw.tted to go out and shovel snow from ,he s.dc- walks cmDy s'om and otherwise make himself useful f not orna- mental And Che Stroller points with pride Ube expression points with prIde' borrowed from ban Sutherland for ,hs oc.us.oul to Che nc. that n an b.s experience and observation he has mover known Of a newspaper man bcrayue lhc con- flcucc rcro.cI Tn blm by his iaIIora by running away ond selling the shovel when permitted Co remove "the beautiful" from Che waiks.
 Really whw one considers Che vciai.udo. ua'a and r.hulauons of thc newspaper profession. he or sbc docs not wonder chat Benjamin Franklin and Horace Greedy are both