Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-12-06
THE DAY AFTER

The hardest day of tie week of get
ting out the paper is the day after.
After the paper has been printed, and
addressed, and mailed, to the readers,
then the real anxiety of the week be-
gins. For that is the day after.
The day after the paper is printed
i. tho day you start to hear from the
, people who sit in judgment on you
and YOUR work of the week. 1t is the
day when you realize you and your
work are far from perfection.
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The day after is the day you learn
IF your mistakes, for it seems there
are always some to harass one. Per
haps you have omitted the name OF
the star guest at Sairy Gump's party.
Maybe YOU have included the name
of the woman down on the alley, IN
stead of the woman up on the avenue
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Tobe Plunkett drops in to tell you
he wasn't drunk Saturday night, and
when YOU remind him that the record
down in police court says he was, ana
Maid a fine of $99S for the offense,
lobe comes back and says he paid the
fine. not because he was drunk, but
because he didn't want to go to the
trouble of hiring a lawyer to fight the
case.
The day after is when you learn
that the compositOr has guessed at
some of his copy and made mackinaws
read neckwear; when you flnd thaC ne
has accidentally dropped an N" when
Won say. "Jones, the merchant, has
very bad cold, caught by sleeping TOO
close to the window"
The day after is the day when you
get cussed because you tell OF the
arrest of a bootlegger and gambler
ON the theory that such things hurt
fine town; when you also yet cussed
because YOU don't rip into 'em hard
or and EXPOSE the iniquities and evils
that Turk throughout the community.
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The day after is when you are ac-
cused of this, and of that, ana when
the fellers who do little for the paper
stand up on their legs and howl ABOUT
the town needing a Zeal live paper that
amounts to something, one that is
credit to the town and is awake TO
the RESPONSIBILITIES of the occasion.
The day after is when Irate SUB
scriber drops in to tell you that his
Uncle Bill and Aunt Anastasia are
here on a visit. and you have nary
word about it in the dinky old sheet.
.sYou always have room for news
about some people," the l. 5. raves,
but you never get my name IN the
paper"
The day after is when you hear, IN
y roundabout way, that you are pull
ing an awful lot of boners in your
Daper: that you are running the town;
that YOU ought to have sense enough
TO keep out of the paper the tmngs
that aren't fit to print, much less TO
read.
The day after is when you wait,
Iut wait i'm vain. for some kind word
telling YOU that you have risen to
some occasion and "dOne" it justice.
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The day after is when you grid your
loins for another weeks work; when
YOU take up the white mans burden
again and go whistling to the task OF
the odds and ends OF news
the fads and foibles OF the
people of Main street as well as the
neople on the other side of the town:
when you begin to make the rounds OF
plumber and pancake maker; merchant
and minister, maid and matron, with
vour 0Know anything today?' or ANY
news todayT
Sure, the day after is an awful day:
mr. n fine day. just as ones spirit OF
or ontimism rules