Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — NEWSPAPER OBSERVATIONS. [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER OBSERVATIONS.

Baltimore American: Twenty years’ in newspaper work teaches a man that: The chap who tries hardest to work a newspaper for especial favors is the one who never spends a cent with it, and is not even a subscriber. That the one who demands the highest excellence in typography, subject matter and quantity of contents does least to help the cause along. That the man who kicks most about the inaccuracy of newepapers in general is the one who does least to assist in getting the facts accurately when he has an opportunity to do so. That the man who kicks hardest about a certain paper hasn't seen a copy of it for six weeks. That the man who has it in for newspapers in general has bad the bitter truth told about him once by some unusually frank reporter and has a big sore spot. That the man who brings in the longest obituary of the late deceased was not a model husband always. That a woman who declares it’s none of the public's business and she won't talk, so there, always winds up by giving the reporter a rattling good story so fast he can’t take it down in shorthand. That the man who begs that his name be left out of the list of drunks for tear it will hurt his mother’s feelings never considered that good lady’s sensibilities before in his life. That the man who spends most money with the paper kicks the least. That it you expect a man to find a compliment about himself you must put it on the front page in bold-face type. That if you put in a one-line roast in nonpareil between two patent medicine ads. on the steenth page he'll find it and come hunting the man what writ th* piece. That a map protected mercifully in rascality never appreciates it, because*, the protection only encourages him in being the sort of reptile he is. That the paper which tries to please everybody at once soon pleases its competitors by dying. That the man who spends least money for advertising expects more returns than the man who spends most. That those who patronize the papers systematically and presistentlv are the most level-headed and reliable citizens of the community. That shysters are the sworn enemies of newspapers, thereby testifying eloquently to the respectability of the crattM That the solemuest man always turns first to the jokes. That the man or woman who hates those petty little personals always turns to that page first.