Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1904 — Ignorance of Some. [ARTICLE]

Ignorance of Some.

Mendon (Mich.) Leader: How little many people know about newspaper making is evidenced by the following: Not long since a person asked us if we could use a certain out in our paper and w hen informed that we could if we had the out actually fished from his pocket a picture out out of a newspaper, remarking that there was the out and we could use it if we would like to. Then there are those who rush into the oJice just on the eve of going to prets, with three or four pages of copy, expecting to find a space waiting for it, and that it can be put into type in three or four minutes. , Suppose you stop iat) the office som > day and watch the compositor as he, or she, picks away at a single letter punctuation mark, space, etc., one at a time, stands it up in the stick* spices out eaoh line to an exact length, and the lesson you will learn will be a g»od one for you, and save the printer much scolding. And still this is only a small part of the work.