HIS SPARE TIME
A COUNTRY EDITOR Uncle Sam asked, and Editor Carl Broome, of the Brantley Enterprise, a weekly newspaper, answered, in detail. ' Filling out an occupational questionnaire for selective service he gave his duties; as:—"I write news, editorials, advertisements, keep books, pay bills, read proofs, clean type, set headlines, set advertisements, set news and editorials, pay bills, set joh#, feed presses;, cut paper, wrap bundles, solicit advertisements, solicit subscriptions, pay bills, repair presses, and. linotype (jack-leg repairing), splice belts, saw metal cuts, pay bills, chisel cuts, make up newspaper, order supplies, tell people, where'the local Draft Board is, tell others where the town's lawyers might be, tell still others that silly rumours they were excited about was only a silly rumour, pay bills, wash proof, clean type, set headlines, set printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item. "Then in my spare time 1 hunt and fish and pay checkers.*'
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 49, 19 February 1943, Page 2
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171HIS SPARE TIME Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 49, 19 February 1943, Page 2
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