Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1914 — What Editor’s Know. [ARTICLE]

What Editor’s Know.

A good many editors are said not to know much, says an exchange. The trouble is, they know a lot of stuff that they dare not tell. They know who drinks and they know the ladies who deviate ’ from the straight and narrow path of rectitude, and the boys who smoke in alleys and dark places, and the girls who arc out auto riding till the roosters crow for daylight. They know the fellows that are good to pay and they know the fellow who can’t get trusted for a tobacco sack full of salt. They could guess nt once why some fellows are as they are and they can guess what they do to make themselves so. They know enough to make one of the red-hottest, rip snorting, highgeared, triple action, chain-light-ning, editions you ever read, but they also know it is best for the community and themselves to let the law take Care of humanity’s development and publish only such news as will do to read in the house. Editors generally pursue this policy and thereby live longer and get more enjoyment out of life.