Our Editorial

Observation Post, Volume 1, Issue 1, 22 May 1942, Page 2

Our Editorial

Well Chaps, here we are. Outown Newspaper!!! Just how good or bad the future issues will be, depends entirely on you. Your editor will do his part, but then you must remember he is only human not Divine (many of you have heard his language when he is peeved, so it is useless claiming Divinity). There is any amount of talent in our Regiment and this is the opportunity to make use of it. Don't forget that a certain amount of advertising has had to be sold to provide finance for the effort and we cannot expect to receive continued support unless we make Ae paper interesting. Let your editor tell you just how much work has gone into the effort to date, then you will probably realise how necessary it is that everyman does his damndest.

The Colonel has given an extra week-end leave to x the man putting in the best title for the paper, all the officers have gone out of their way to do something or other, N.C.O.’s and men have contributed items, articles, poetry, sports jottings and anecdotes. Your editor has been to town to sell advertising. (Yes! and to buy matches.)Wake Up’the canteens. The profit from the paper is going into a fund to provide social life for us all. But before all these things were done, arrangements had to be made as to ways and means. Lieut. J. Ham was invaluable here, we found that the cost of printing was only slightly higher than cyclostyling. Newsprint is scarce as hens’ teeth, newspaper employees all in the army (mostly in our Regiment) and the first day was disappointing. But we stuck to it, and here we are.