Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1907 — AFTER YOU’VE GONE AND DONE IT [ARTICLE]

AFTER YOU’VE GONE AND DONE IT

When it iB everlasting too late—when you get into trouble or bring digrace upon your family—don’t spend time trying to get the newspapers to “keep it ont of the papers.” “It,” whatever it was, wouldn’t be in the paper if it wasn’t for your own conduct. The newspaper men merely chronicle that which yon and your neighbors have made. And if yon don’t like the variety you have made it is your lookout, not the newspaper’s. Especially, don’t go into th e newspaper office with that stale hypocritical plea: “Think how |it will hurt my wife, my family!” It’s not what the newspaper prints bnt what yon yourself have done, that hurts. Don’t think that because you live in a mansion that when your name goes on the police docket or the divorce court record or any other court, you are any mqye entitled to the suppression of the news than the poorest citizen; Don’t wail about your relatives. There never was a man looked in jail who wasn’t some mother’s son. If you’ll spend as mnoh time thinking about “how it will look in print,” before yon commit the offense as von would spend ohasing around newspaper offices afterwards —nine hundred times out of a thousand there would be no such news printed. Had .you ever thought of it that way? Soma of yon have, no j doubt.—Anderson News.