The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-02-04
WORDS OF

WORDS OF WELCOME
Ho, Hum! Well folks, here we
go. We're going to do a little slap
exercise with our aged type
writer, new editor or no new edi-
tor.
We see that somebody has sue
ceeded in organizin' a new Cham
Der of something or other in Har-
din recently (the old one got
busted up) and right away they
broke out Oast week, it was) with
what was meant to be a welcome
to our midst message to the new
editor of the Tribune-Herald. It
was very nice of them, of course,
and we don't see how they man
aged it, but we amt agonna let
no little upstart like them get
ahead of us in this welcome stuff,
no sir, not if we know it. We're
gonna march right down to that
printin' office and thrown u hat
in first and if nothin' happens
we're gonna march right back an
thrown in this manu-manu-, what
ever it is they call this stuff be-
fore it Is printed-then if nothin'
happens, why, of course, nothin's
gonna happen and everybody'n be
happy.
You folks want to remember, Of
course, that these editor persons
are peculiar things. Speaking in
strictly biological sense, they
ARE a species of the human fam
lily. However, there seems to be
something's missing link, maybe,
between them and the rest Of US
that no one has ever been able to
discover, They are, it seems, with
very few exceptions, very, very
tempemental, havin' guilt-edged
minds, so to speak, which act and
react in a very disturbing way at
Their attitude towards US
mortals depends, it seems,
on their circulation. II their cir
culation Is good they're regular lit
tie angels, or as near to being an
gels as an editor ever could get,
but If theor circulation is poor
boy, oh boy, you just want to look
out. Can't nobdy get along with
EN-.
For this reason, Ladies and Gen.
tlemen, you can readily see that
it's going to be necessary for US
to use considerable caution in our
to the subject in hand.
Not KNOWN this new editor, we
can't help but hope that he is pos
sessed of a lot OF sense, sense Of hu-
MOI, we mean, cause accordin' to our
chief censor (she's been censoring
now for twenty-some add years.
on whom we've tried this stuff, she
says that so far, one would have
to have a suger-charged sense OF
to detect any thing humor
We'll skip the rest of it, she
must be sort Of prejudiced any
way.
Anyhow. we've decided to write
this new editor a nice little letter
Of welcome an we'ere gonna do 1t
right now, before we forget it.
Dear Mr.. Editor:
We thought we'd-er-ah, that
is, we had it in mind to-to-Hem!
We would like to say, Mr.. Editor,
that it's a great-gr-gr-heh, heb.
It's great weather we're havin',
it? Yeah. It's somewhat
cooler-we noticed that. AS we
out to say, Mr.. Editor,
your names johnson, amt it?
EIow's that? Oh, Hollis Johnson.
Well, MI. johnson, we're pleased
to meetcha. You say your first
name Is Hollis? Odd, isn't it? We
call you Holly, for short, but
On second thought that wouldn't
do cause we got one outfit here
now by that name-an' five was
you-wen, anyhow, as we was gon-
ma say-What's that? Oh, yes.
Pardon US. Our mistake. our name
is-er-ah-Red. Yeah. JUS Red.
We're from Rhode Island, Uh, huh.
It's a place over there in Indiana,
somewheres-down close to Brown
county-you've heard of that.
That's where Charlie Corkins come
from, and Dave Egnew. he come
from there too. Alot of the fel-
lows here come from down there.
think DR.. H%averfield an Char
lie Elder an Ole Anderson come
from down there too. They all
lived down there until they were
old enough to wear shoes am vote,
then they decided to see the world
an they come to Hardin. Uh, huh.
But as we was gonna say, we