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YOU KNOW ME
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Al, Himself
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We have been amazed since we
started writing this column, only
a few weeks ago, at the number
of persons who have come to us
and said they never knew we were
smart enough to write a column.
Now, we took this as a compli-
ment, because we agree with every
one of them as to how smart we
aren't. We dislike “smart” per-
sons and if wé were “smart” that
would make us disliking ourselves,
and that like cleanliness, is next
to impossible.
What disconcerts us is that so
many persons think columnists
“know it all.” They got that way,
possibly, by reading big town syndi-
cated columns whose authors con-
tinually point out how right they
were in previously written articles.
The whole world seems to be wrong
and they are the only guys who
know how it should be run.
We were brought up in a dif-
ferent school. The columnists we
knew years ago were real down to
earth fellows who thought they
were wrong more often than they
thought they were right. They
write for the fun of it as we do
now.
We remember way back on the
New York Sun, when we were just
out of our printers’ apprenticeship
and making up the editorial page,
we. first met Don Marquis. A more
humble man never lived. He wrote
a column every day that had to be
no longer or no shorter than one
full column. That's a task. Every
day when he'd bring his copy in
he never failed to express his opin-
jon that his readers wouldn't like
it and he worried continuously that
his copy wouldn't make a full col-
umn. One day, when it didn't,
we approached him and told him
he'd have to write some more stuff.
He said,
We answered,
“space the lines out.”
“we have spaced
them out.”
“Well, double space them,” he
retorted, ‘‘or are you afraid the
people will read between the
lines?”
Another time he gave us copy
of his famous poem, published two
years previously in his column and
reprinted a dozen times. It was
“Jonah, and the Whale’. He said
he wanted it reprinted again ‘by
request’.”
“By whose request?” we in-
quired.
“By mine,” he answered, ‘now
get going before the boss comes in
and discovers I haven't a column
written for today.”
He discovered that every time
he wrote a few lines favoring
union labor, the editor would tell
us to take it out. In those days
union labor articles were taboo in
all publications. After “killing”
the few lines we would either have
to space the column to its end or
pick up a paragraph from stand-
ing type that Don had written on
a previous day. So one day Don
approached us and said, “tomorrow
I'm going to write a dozen lines
on union labor. The editor will
‘kill’ it,” he explained, ‘‘as he usu-
ally does. Now here is another
item favoring labor that will be
on the ‘standing’ galley. When
the editor ‘kills’ the first item, you
pick the other one from the galley
and put it in my column, in that
way the editor won't. know any-
thing about it until the first edition
is on the street, then let’s see what
happens.”
Well, what happened had noth-
ing on the excitement of the Battle
of the Bulge. We were fired until
we could prove that the ‘killed’ item
was different than the one used.
Yes, Don was a regular and
humble man.
Then there was Heywood Broun.
When we first set Broun’s copy into
type he was struggling for a name
on the old Tribune before it be-
came the Herald-Tribune. From
there he went to the World and
when the Telegram bought out that
paper he wrote his column for the
World-Telegram and continued it
until the day he died. Before his
death almost anything he wrote
would have been accepted by any
publication, but he was so humble
that he was scared stiff about get-
ting his copy in after the “dead
line.”
. A “dead line” is a time set when
copy must be in the composing
room or it won't get in the paper
that day. When a person contracts
to write a column a day, naturally
he wants to. get it in, but “dead
lines” often have been known to
be broken, especially when the
copy writer has reached the heights
of Heywood Broun. Heywood never
thought he knew it all. One day
when he overslept at his home
away up town he telephoned for a
taxi and rushed out half dressed
and wrote his column in pencil
on envelopes on the way down
town. There never was a happier
person when he reached the office
just two minutes before the “dead |]
line”.
Saturday.
SWEET VALLEY
Mr. and Mrs. George Wesley
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Rexford Cope at Allentown.
Miss Bess Klinetob was dinner
guest of Miss Iona Holcomb on
Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Var-
ner and Elizabeth of Drums and
Mr. and Mrs. William Varner of
Berwick called at the Holcomb
home in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long and
family and Harry Edwards motor-
ed to Newark Valley, N. Y.,; on
Sunday. Mr. Edwards remained
with his daughter and son-in-law
for a week.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Daley and
family visited the former's parents]
in New Jersey a few days last |
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bittenbender of
Plymouth and Mrs. Cora Miller
and Sally Lee of Wyoming visited
Frank Edwards and Miss Keziah on
The Sweet Valley Protective
Association will meet at the home
of the Callender brothers tonight.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bronson
motored to Williamsport on Sun-
day.
Mrs. Letha Mitchell of Shaver-
town, Miss Norm Drapiewski of
Lake Silkworth, Dayton Long spent
Sunday evening with Miss Bess
Klinetob. Monday Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Naugle visited Miss Kline-
tob.
Mr.
Mrs.
day evening with Mrs.
Smith.
Murray Fiske is a patient at Nes-
bitt Hospital where he submitted
to an appendicitis operation on
Monday.
CARVERTON
Rehearsal for “Sister Swings It”
will be held at the church every
Tuesday and Thursday evening. The
play will be given in the Grange
Hall April 28 and 29. Tickets can
be purchased from members of the
class.
The Intermediates of this area
will meet April 8.
Mrs. Jack Scoble, Miss Shirley
Wall and Miss Beverly Dixon are
ill.
Mrs. H. Dixon Jr. visited in Ben-
ton on Sunday.
and Mrs. Ervin White and
Hattie Edwards spent Sun-
Elizabeth
Yes, Heywood was a regular and
humble man.
Now, take the writers of the
Dallas Post. The one we know
the best, although we have never
met her personally, is Mr, T. M. B.
Hicks, Jr. We know her from
reading her column every week.
She invites strangers to come on
her property and help themselves
to black walnuts and all she hum-
bly asks is that they first knock
on her door and tell her they want
to pick some.
Now, don’t think that we are
trying to compare ourselves to any
of the columnists mentioned above.
We merely want to point out that
we ‘are writing this column for
two reasons. First: for fun, and
second: we meet so many persons
from whom we learn so much.
—A. G. K.
Former Lehman Students
On College Dean's List
Priscilla Abbott, Lehman, and Ad-
da L. Keller, Idetown; Freshmen at
Bloomsburg State Teachers College,
and members of last year’s gradu-
ating class at Lehman High School
are on the Dean’s List for the first
semester, according to an announce-
ment made this week by Harvey A. |
Andruss, president of the College.
Chicken Dinner
Meeker W.S.C.S. will sponsor a
full course chicken dinner at the
Church, Thursday, April 7 starting
at 5:30 P. M. They will also feature |
a “What-not Table.” |
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