John Scholz, who distinguished himself on the copy desks of the Courier-Journal in Louisville and the Washington Star before coming to The Evening Sun many years ago, was the kind of copy editor who got into tussles with the assigning editors.

When he retired from The Sun, I recalled a classic Scholz remark that encapsulates the often-thorny relations between the copy desk and the assigning desk.

Returning one evening from a prolonged set-to over at the business desk — more than a rhubarb but less than a donnybrook — he announced triumphantly:

“They have agreed to forgive me for being right.”