Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — AS USUAL [ARTICLE]

AS USUAL

A certain editor had cause to admonish his son on account of hie reluctance to attend school. “You must go regularly and learn to be a great scholar,** said the fond father, encouragingly, “otherwise you can never be an editor, you know. What would you do, for Instance, ‘if your paper came out full of mistakes?” The boy looked up into his parent's face with childish Innocence. “Father,** he said, solemnly, “I’d blame ’em on the printer.” And then the editor fell upon his son's neck and wept tears of toy. He know he had a successor for the editorial chair.