Once Upon a Time

Thirty years ago, the following editorial, written by an editor 27 years old, appeared in a Kansas newspaper which that day printed 485 copies:

"In the first place, the new editor hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall, have come true. He hopes always to sign 'from Emporia' after his name when he is abroad, and he trusts that he may endear himself to the people, that they will be as proud of the first words of the signature as he is of the last words. He expects to perform all the kind offices of the country editor in this community for a generation to come."

The new editor had just bought the paper with $3,000 worth of borrowed money.

Last week the above editorial was published in the same paper by the same editor. The paper is the Emporia Gazette; the editor, William Allen White. The circulation is 6,000.