Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-12-14
$500 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
Friday, December IA. 1923.

Many people do not realize the
work entailed in publishing a
newspaper. They bring copy in
on Thursday, feeling we are pub
fishing that day and that all work
is done at once. Some think we
are able to publish long writeups
that come in just as we go to
press.
We need co operation in this
matter. We need everything
brought in early that possibly
can be. Church notices, school
notes. correspondence, ad copy
must be in byWednesday to assure
publication. Thursday we are
busy with other things, and cam
not devote the hours that are
necessary to get such matter in
type. We want to accommodate
everyone, but it is physically i'm
possible to get the paper out in
one or two days.
If all the fellows in the world
who like to express themselves in
public without having the public
aware Of their identity, were to-
be suddenly endowed with a
newspaper, there would be al
most as many newspapers in the
world as there are fellows. The
Dispatch receives each week
advice as to what we should print
at our expense, in the hope that
we would give them publicity.
and this week bss been no ex-
ception. Its mighty easy to ed
it a newspaper from an obscure
position when no responsibility
is accepted as to the success or
failure of the financial side of
the proposition.
Yes, children, there is Santa
Claus. AS old as we are we have
never yet had reason to doubt it.
Perhaps as you grow older this
Santa Claus will also change in
habit and appearance, but his
breast will continue to cover the
same happy, generous, honest
heart. Don't become a cynic
just because some older person
has placed doubt in your head.
If there was no Santa Claus you
wouldn't be looking forward to
Christmas with the same zeal
which is now filling your mind
AS years go by, you will become
more and more convinced that
Santa Claus is a living spirit of
generosity and merriment ex-
listing for the pure purpose of
making children. both young
and grown-up, happy and joyous.
In one of the laboratories at
Washington they have a great
sunglass that measures three
feet across. It's like the burn
ing glasses" we used to treasure
when we were children, only
much larger.
This great glass gathers the
rays OF the sun that strikes
its flat surfaces and focuses them
on a single point in space a few
feet belo W. That single spot is
hotter than blow torch. 1t will
melt through steel plate asl
EARLY as red hot needle burn
through paper.
The tari.Dc heat-it can't be
measured for it melts all instru-
mentS-lS just three feet of or
binary sunshine centered on a
single point. Scattered these
rays are hardly felt-perhaps
just pleasantly warm - concent- !
cred they melt adamant.
The same principle applies to
human endeavor. Scattered a
mans energies do not amount to |
much. Once they are all TO- /,
cused on the task at hand seem |
ingly tremendous difficulties melt |
like snow on hot stove.
Get the habit Of concentrating
when you start to do a thing,
throw on all the steam that you
have and focus every energy on
the task in hand. Remember
that three feet of ordinary sun
shine, concentrated,s will burn
anything