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WILMA SMITH LELAND HELEN HOY GREELEY

"I wonder if there will ever be all the money an editor wants?
| I doubt it, for our wants and desires ever increase faster than our in-
i comes, don't they? That's progress, they say. Of course, we've had

more money than ever before, but I long for the day when the editor
won't have the irksome job of haggling with printers over $2.00 items,
thinking all the while that $2.00 would pay for one more cut! I long
for the day when the editor won't have to clip together ten pages of
proof and mark them 'run next time' because she had ten pages over
the 128 allotted by the budget. Oh, I long for lots of things, and I
burn with envy as I watch other editors spend their dollars without
thought.

"But only those editors and business managers who have preceded
me and those who are yet to come will know what real joy there is in
the editing of this magazine of ours—the thrill that came when I saw
the name of-Virginia Judy's daughter, Josephine, at the top of the Sigma
letter sent for this issue; the kinship I feel toward those girls who have
been so loyal and faithful in sending material and answering last-minute
telegrams; the joy of finding personal letters tucked into chapter letter
envelopes and the greater joy of once in a while meeting those 'friends
made by mail'; and the satisfaction of looking through the first copy
' out of the bindery to find it free of errors, clean and sharp of print.
f "Yes, it's hard work—long hours during nap time and night time
when new books and magazines look so inviting; or minutes snatched
during the 'awake' hours, interrupted by a trip to see where the young
tour-year-old is, and if she isn't in sight to discover just where she has
gone. There are disappointments, someone fails to send the article she
nas promised; another refuses to send a much-needed picture; a cut

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