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4IIIIIMIIIIIMI IMMIIMimiMI Why does an editor use the word “We” in^ writing an editorial?
The “Iowa Publisher” recently reprinted the following explanation for the “editorial we” which was published in the Williamstown Advocate o\er 100 years ago: “A Country Editor—is one who reads newspapers, selects miscellany, writes articles on all subjects, sets type, reads proof, folds papers, and sometimes carries them, prints jobs, runs on errands, cuts wood, works in the garden, talks to all his patrons who call, patiently receives blame for a thousand things that never were and never can be done, gets little money, has scarce time and materials to satisfy his hunger, or to enjoy the quiet of nature’s sweet restorer, sleep, and esteems himself peculiarly happy if he is not assaulted and battered by some unprincipled demagogue who loves puppet shows and hires the rabble with a treat of cider brandy to vote him into some petty office. A man who does all this and much more, not here recorded, you will know must be a rather busy animal; and as he performs the work of so many different persons, he may justly be supposed their representative, and to have an indisputable right, when speaking of himself, to ase the plural number, and to say we on all occasions and in all places.”
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever” is reworded by the Rappahannock Garden Club into “a thing of beauty is a job forever.”
The ladies must been thinking of their flower gardens—truly a job—in keeping them clean and weeded, free from bugs and pests, and always on show.
The Garden Club ladies have been outdone lately, for the county is resplendant with rambling and climbing roses. The masses of bloom now on the fences
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