The Coconino sun., 1927-09-30

THE HUMAN SIDE
OF LIFE
Dock Made the Iowa Editor
Pretty Sore
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A doctor in an Iowa town expressed
the opinion that newspapers are run
for revenue only, whereupon the editor
of a country newspaper in a neighbor-
ing town expressed himself in the fol-
lowing statement published in his
newspaper:
What the thunder do doctors run
for, anyway? Do they run for glory?
One good, strong, healthy doctors bill
will run this office six months. An
editor works all day for So or $4 with
an investment of $4,000; doctor looks
wise and works ten minutes for $500
with an investment of cents for cat
nip and a pill box that costs $1.35.
The doctor goes to college for two or
three years, gets diploma and a
string of words the devil himself can
not pronounce, cultivates look of
gravity that he pawns for wisdom,
gets box of pills, a cayuse and meat
saw, and sticks out shingle- full
fledged doctor. He will doctor you
until you die at a stipulated price per
visit, and puts them as thick as your
pocketbook will permit. An editor
never gets his education finished; he
learns as long as he lives, and studies
all his life. He eats bran, mush and
liver, he takes his pay in hay and tur-
nips and keeps the doctor in town by
refraining from printing the truth
about him. We would like to live in
that neighboring town and run a
newspaper six months and ssee if the
doctor would change his mind about
running a newspaper for revenue
only. If we didn't get some glory out
of it we would agree to take one dose
of his pills after first saying our pray
ers. If THE EDITOR MAKES A
MISTAKE HE HAS TO APOLOGIZE
FOR 1T. BUT IF THE DOCTOR
MAKES ONE HE BURIES 1T. If we
make mistake there is a lawsuit, tall
swearing and the smell of sulphur, but
if the doctor makes one there is a
funeral cut flowers and a smell OF
yarnish. A doctor can use word a
foot long; but if the editor uses 1t ne
has to spell it. IF THE DOCTOR
GOES TO SEE ANOTHER MANS
WIFE HE WILL CHARGE THE
MAN FOR THE VISIT. IF THE
EDITOR CALLS ON ANOTHER
MANS WIFE HE GETS A CHARGE
OF BUCKSHOT. A medical college
can make doctor. You can't make
an editor; he has to be born one. When
the doctor gets drunk it is a case OF
Overcome by heat and if he dies it
is heart failure. When an editor gets
drunk it is too much booze and If ne
dies it is deliriunl tremens. The ed
itor works to Keep from starving,
while the doctor works to ward off
the gout. The editor helps men to live
better and the doctor assists them to
die easy. The doctor pulls a sick
mans leg, the editor is glad if he can
collect his bills at all. Revenue only?
We are living for fun to spite the
doctor!
$50 you people put couple of mag
mates in Jail on heavy fines, did your
asked the investigating reformer.
eyes," replied the native. I'VE fined
them the limit; they wouldn't pay and
we put them in cells"
"That's a good example"
as it? Within two days they or
ganized the prisoners, guards and Jail
ers into the international Penalty
company, issued five hundred millions
in bonds, paid the fines of all the
prisoners, left US with mortgage on
the jail and the courthouse and stuck
+bo y,,,,,I,,cf money in their nocketS" :"