| Show PAPERS AS SEEN BY PRO AND OTHERS walked among the high and the low and uncouth He hated the pompous pitied the fool and had no patience forstupid rule All he wanted for his own epitaph wassingle sentence paragraph Written on stone and stuck in sand He wasgood Newspaperman Not all evidence of journalists writing about journalism are so profound Humor prevailed inthree-paragraph treatise which traces topre-Linotype day when newspapers were still hand-set Its content The editor ofweekly newspaper found thatprankster had stolen all the letter s from his type cabinet and so he inserted the following apology in his next issue Thome louthy thneaking thcoundrel hath tholen into our compothing room and thkeedaddled with all our etheth We muth therefore apologithe to our readerth for the inthipid appearance of thith week th Thentinel We would altho like to thtate that if at any time in the yearth to come we thee thith dirty thnake in the grath about the premitheth we will thoot him tho full of holeth he will rethembleThwith chethe Thank you Insimilar vein former newsman Art McQuiddy then public relations director for United States Steel and the recipient of USPA1963 Honorary Publisher distinction found and reprinted this gem in his Utah Publisher and Printer column when president of the Salt Lake Advertising Club Xvxn though our typxwritzr is an old modxl it works quitx wall with thx xxcxption of onx of thx kxys Just onx of thx kxys not working makxs thx diffxrxncz In our club wx arx all kxy maxn and thx halp of xach onx is vary important You may say Wrll am only onx pxrson wonmakx or brxakprojxct But remxmbar club projxct nxxds thx activx participation of xvxry mxmbxr So whxn you rzad about club projxcts think of our typxwritxr and remxmbxr you arx nxxdxd and say to yourszlf amkxy pxrson and am nxxdxd vary much lament widely repeated in the press was called Newspaper Critics Abound It read Publishingsmall paper is no picnic If we print jokes people say we re silly if we donthey say we re too serious 403 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
