| Show UTAH ASSOCIATION PRESS the over-rated underpaid hereby confers upon misconstrued and all-in-all frustratingly debasing degree of Honorary Publisher Which entitles you to squabble with irate subscribers soothe and pacify angry advertisers editorially denounce corruption and vice while upholding the sacred institutions of Prayer Motherhood and Education of the Young and to suffer outrageously for this public expression of personal opinion To endlessly pursue the collection of accounts sweat out payrolls attempt with only minimal success to repair balky typesetting equipment headstrong computers wayward folders and damnable presses to cut out repro proofs mis-set cameras under-develop negatives cut fingers on knives and scissors sweep floors empty wastebaskets and otherwise engage in wholly menial labor to lose sleep miss meals and develop ulcers To serve on the Town Council Board of Adjustments Business Development Committee Library Board School Board and assorted other tasks of little recompense and sometimes doubtful importance to be reporter pro tem for the Lions Club Rotary Club Kiwanis Club Optimists Club Sertoma Club and all other assorted and similar groups to be unofficial publicity agent for the United Fund Heart Fund March of Dimes WomenClub Daughters of Utah Pioneers BPW FOE BPOE and all like organizations To gather advertising news photographs and other community paraphernalia combine it intoweekly literary effort of great magnitude and be alternately roundly chastised and publicly commended for your achievements or lack of them In short to enjoy all the rather doubtful advantages of being publisher ofsmalltown newspaper where everyone already knows what happened and only reads your paper to see if you had guts enough to put the facts in print When Mr Backman received the award at the Hotel Utah conclave convention delegates noticed he wastrifle misty 316 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
