The editor of this paper is still away on his two weeks vacation, fishing for black bass and other varieties of the finny tribe in the Catawba river; camping among the gorgeous rhododendrons, resting ‘neath the shade of the gigantic chestnut tree; hiking across the mountain range from the tops of which can be seen the country far below, stretching out like a vast panorama, extending as far the eye can discern an object, and then on father as the objects blend in a bluish haze; drinking the ice cold water of the mountain springs; breathing the fresh mountain air as it is borne across the ranges by the Blue Ridge breezes.
If any man deserves such elysian bliss, it is an editor. No one else knows that a task it is to furnish readable matter for a single issue of a paper. Some people find fault with an editor and his paper without thinking of the difficulties he has to face. Instead of abusing him, sit down calmly and write an editorial for the next issue. You will not send it in, but you will change your opinion in regard to his work.
Anyway, nevertheless, perhaps, doubtless any one who tried to furnish “copy” for a paper in the absence of the editor would find it not an easy job.
Scribo, dear scribo, come home to us now.
The clock in the office—(strike one!)
You said you were coming right home to your work
As soon as vacation was done.
Scribo,
Please Scribo,
Come home.
From the editorial page of the Harnett County News, Lillington, N.C., Thursday, July 24, 1924. Henderson Steele is publisher of the Harnett County News, issued every Thursday.
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