CARELESSNESS AND "COPY"

NZ Truth, Issue 695, 12 October 1918, Page 5

CARELESSNESS AND "COPY"

"Yes," said the editor, as he put his gum-brush into the ink bottle and tried to paste on a clipping with his pen; "yes, the great fault of newspaper contributors is carelessness. Indeed," he continued, as he dropped the copy he had been writing into the waste paper basket and marked "editorial" across the corner of a poem entitled "An Ode to Death," "contributors are terribly careless. You would be sui*prised," said he, as he clipped out a column of fashion notes and labelled them "agriculture," "to see the slipshod writing that comes into the editorial sanctum. Misspelled, ' unpunctuated, written on both sides of the sheet, illegible, ungrammatical stuff. Contributors are terribly careless. They are " Just then the office boy came m, m that dictatorial and autocratic manner he has, and demanded more copy, and the editor handed him the love-letter he had just written to his sweetheart.