A Beneficent Institution

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 16, 18 April 1907, Page 9

A Beneficent Institution

Sancho Panza invoked a blessing on the man - who invented sleep. Readers of newspapers would—if they did but know—call down the benisons oi heaven upon ' the man. who invented the .waste basket. It is with 1 A sad little sigh \ * " Ot a. tear in the eye' 1 ' that the soft-hearted editor consigns to the willow-sided grave inoffensive contributions that are merely belated or untimely or inappropriate, or the efforts of struggling 0 * genius to find expression in verse before it has mastered the simpler art of p"ose. It is, however., with an un-' holy joy or a ' saeva indignatio ' (fierce indignation) that s the religious editor tosses into the office limbo intemperate partisan communications, "", personal attacks, efforts /ooen O r indirect) to make his columns an arena for the performance of parochial war-hakas, and, generally, all written, stuff that should be directed to the corpora tion tip-tilt' or destructor rather than to the bureau of a respectable and responsible newspaper. .To the writers of such, we commend the example of Edmund Burke when, in a season of folly, he wrote a- play. 'Have you shown it to Garrick ? ' said Fox. 'No ', replied Burke ; ' I had indeed the folly 16 write it, but the wit tci keep it to myself '.