The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-02-28
UST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA
WHAT THE AVERAGE EDITOR
HAS TO CONTEND WITH DAILY

ness man dies. Il would seem very
easy 20 get all the particulars Of
his career. But is it, Indeed not,
else there would not be so many
preposterous errors and half-truths
and distorted facts in the papers.
Ask anybody anything about some
thing which happened no longer
ago than day before yesterday, and
YOU will get widely different ver-
sions, and rarely the correct one.
A newspaper worker who has 90
ferret out facts soon begins 20 be-
lieve that the general run Of peo-
pie don't talk half as much as they
are supposed 10 do, OF II they do
talk nobody listens. Most persons
are apparently more interested in
themselves than anybody else, and
have wonderfully short memories.
Long experience as editor has
taught me that thrift and long
headedness are virtues not entirely
extinct. One Of our oldest sub
scribers comes 20 the office every
six months 10 pay for his subscrip-
ton. 81 don't pay long ahead he
carefully explains each time, FOR
at my age I'm liable 10 drop off
any time, and then ! wouldn't get
what I'd paid forw This individual
has been doing this for over fifteen
years, and is still going strong and
singing the same tune. Another
wealthy subscriber, as he grew old
er, paid only three months in adj
vance, and then actually timed his
decease so that he actually shuf-
fled off this mortal coil less than
a week before another payment was
due
One Of our readers who died left
heirs who were thrift personified
Shortly after his death the executor
of the estate ordered the Clarion
stopped. "No use sending II any
longer" he explained. "Of course
Mr. Blake is not interested in II
any more. | guess he don't read
where he is now"
On the other hand we have
well-to-do farmer who sends his
check for twenty dollars every lit
tie while because che likes 20 keep
ahead" When he has paid too far
in advance, he sends with his check
a list of names Of friends % whom
he wishes the paper sent, with his
compliments. He does this, too, as
though il gave him the kecuest
pleasure and probably II does
| have also learned that 10 Is diff
cult 20 flatter people. Il is amazing
how much flattery and how many
compliments, whether deserved or
not, especially when they are not,
the average individual vii. digest.
In dealing with almost any type Of
man or woman, j IS perfectly safe
90 put on all the "taffy' conscience
will permit have never yet had
fault found because ] piled D. on
too thick--unless it was from the
fellow who wasn't so treated. Then
the sugar-coating is considered in
rather bad tasteful he gets
dose
II is astonishing, too, how few
people practice the art of saying
"thark YOU ID reflects great
credit upon the majority Of human
beings that magnanimity and kind
ness and the doing of favOrs are
SO much accepted "a, matter OF
course We are so used t0 having
our fellows kind and thoughtful and
helpful that it seldom occurs Co us
To- say "thank you OF course
most persons are grateful and APP
pre- ive-only they seldom re-
member 90 say SO. Expressions Of
appreciation made 20 me directly
are still So rare-though | hear them
in a roundabout way-that they are
almost a novelty When occasional
Is some choice soul comes out in
the open and thanks me for some
thing / have written or done, | am
invarioably so surprise that ! am
invariably so surprised that ! am
rendered speechless. One Of the
rare and most sincere expressions
| ever received was when a young
woman. with tears in her eyes, re-
ferring 20 an obituary | had writ
ten, said feelngly: "You certainly
did a good job for my brother, and
You told the truth about him and