July, 1917 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



When you were a small and temporarily 

 naughty child were you ever parentally led 

 out to the woodshed and given a good spank- 

 ing? Well, if you have ever had this useful 

 experience, you know how the Man-Around- 

 the-Office is just now feeling. Here 1 am 

 in the back-end woodshed of Gleanings, 

 dethroned from the position of a regular 

 department, deprived of a pretty typo- 

 graphical scroll ornament at the top of my 

 page, and otherwise humiliated. More of 

 this " otherwise " sort, too, than you think. 

 1 suppose this is the spanking I get for hav- 

 ing used bad language. I told 'em (the 

 Roots) that this " language " was quoted 

 language — not my own. But no use. They 

 told me I could " get the heck out " (that's 

 just exactly what they meant altho they 

 didn't use precisely those words) and go way 

 back and try to behave myself on the back 

 pages among the advertisers. They'd give 

 me one more chance back here — and then, 



if . Yes — , IF some of you other 



department editors or the United States 

 populace in general don't rise up and speak 

 •a good word for me and liberty of language 

 pretty durned golly quick, I'll go right out 

 thru the back cover into nowhere next time. 

 But I ain't proud. I am sticking in for 

 oncet again, anyway, right back here where 

 I have been shooed to. 

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I wish you all knew Mr. A. I. Root as I 

 have known him for many long years. He's 

 all wool and a yard wide — and more. He's 

 around the office here a good deal nowa- 

 days (Avhen he isn't in his garden or work- 

 ing with his chickens), and he's a sort of 

 traveling benediction to all of us. Evei-y 

 last man, woman, and child around the big 

 shop and office have only kind thoughts 

 and good will for " the grand old man " 

 of the establishment. I am going to draw 

 a pen picture of him in these columns some 

 day — and so I won't go on in this strain 

 any more just now, except to mention one 

 of his characteristics that quite frequently 

 gets him in on the butt end of a joke, 

 when he laughs about it with the rest of 

 us. This characteristic is that of " think- 

 ing no evil." He comes as near to measur- 

 ing up to that standard as any man I 

 have ever known. Some of his friends 

 even say that he is pretty nearly blind to 

 cunning evil — tho I don't think so. But let's 

 let an incident illustrate. He's tremendously 

 opposed to all false advertisting and adver- 

 tising' misrepresentation. Nothing hurts him 

 worse than to have some unworthy adver- 



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