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About Central Point American. (Central Point, Or.) 1925-1927 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1926)
CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN PORTLAND NEWS FLAYS EDITORS PORTLAND NEWS DISPELS A SMALL TOWN EDITOR Has Low Intelligence Ba»ic and Facts by Oregonian Shows Country W eakly Has Mora Bearance Than Daily. The Portland News, a cheap, yel low sheet of a daily that delights in big headlines, sensation and comics, last week gave a mean, cowardly dig at the state's weekly papers—the "country paper,” because some of those papers were supporting a cer tain senatorial candidate. We don’t care who they support, there isn’t a one of them that dosn’t possess more newspaper brains than the News editor. The Portland Oregonian an swered him good and plenty and fraternally came to the assistance of the Scio Tribune, who the News edi tor choose to belittle. Here is what the Oregonian says in part only: “But we think that the good peo ple of Scio, and the country round about, have heard of the Scio Trib une, though the News would dis credit the Tribune’s editor and dis franchise its subscribers because Scio lacks the dubious privilege of ethical and political guidance by the News. And equally we think that every country newspaper which is supporting Mr. Steiwer, as well as those which are not, is favorably known to a majority of those who re side in its district of publication, and has a shore in their lives and a place in their thoughts, and a part in their instruction. The News may never have heard of them. It is of small consequence that this is prob able—more, it is of no consequence, Yet in their fields let us trust, even as this particular newspaper be lieves, they are representative in greater degree than is the News in its field, and possess more of the public confidence, and are superoir in faithful service. It is an outworn shabbiness of the metropolitan hick —than which no specimen is more verdant than the News—to sneer at the country press. "Editor Boalt of the News, who signed the editorial we here discuss does not know the country editor, and does not care to know him, and would not know him though he saw him at his tasks of public service. He would brush the evidence of merit aside, for facts are so much deadwood to the flippant They are cumbersome to the jester. They dis tract attention from the motely that pleases him so, and they hinder the bells that jangle. No Editor Boalt is not acquainted with the country edi tor. nor ever can be. He would not comprehend the earnestness, the directness, the unselfish content ment of the type. And w* must add, as is our sure belief, that to the country editor this pranking, rest less scribbler from the city would j seem quite as fantastic and im-1 probable. "But we know the country editor and know him well, and it is The Oregonian’s boast that it knows him. There is never a time, as there never has been a period in its long history, when The Oregonian has not an hour in which to weigh the com ment of the country press—which is the comment of a state and not the comment of a single city, though that city is the metropolis. We know the j country editor for a man of sincere and forthright opinion, who is not ashamed to share mechanical labors with his printers if by so doing he may strengthen the paper he pub lishes. We know him for one who in terprets, with remarkable accuracy^ in nearly every instance, the spirit and thought of his home to am. If it is a pleasant bondage, and like King Arthur in his armor, a man standeth straight in it. "If aught that the News has said! of country editors—end observe J that its cruel flippancies srere in-! elusive of all—eras true in a reía-1 tively remote past, it no longer is true save for exceptional instances of : incompetency. The country editor j has found himself, and the equip- j ment of his office, as the contents of his columns, *.‘ves the lie to these slanders of Equator and beggary. The pork-for-subscription era is happily ended, and more and more the trained newspaper m»" of the colleges are turning to the country field. Commonly the country news paper looks prosperous, and is pros perous, and you may stake your last dollar on the certainty that it did not purchase its prosperity by pander ing, or by pranking, or by twisting such news as it prints to suit the pur pose of a private end. “And so you never have heard of the Scio Tribune, Editor Boalt? And the News is puzzled to know just who of any consequence ever heard of it? The Tribune is of five- column pages, of which there are eight. It publishes the weekly hap penings of Scio, Shelburn, Frank lin Butte and Lyons, and it offers two columns of editorials. Its print is clean and bright, as are its pages, item by item. In fine, it is such a country paper, minor as it is, as must constitute an unregarded lesson for the News and its editor, in both manners and ethics.” coming home with tall stories of sales running into thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, was accused one evening by his fon, aged II, who announced: •Well Dad I’ve sold the dog.” “You’ve sold the dog?” “Yup.” "What for?” “For $10,000.” “Ten thousand dollars! What are you talking about? Where's the money?” ’I didn't get money. Dad, I got two $5,000 cats for it." We all know a pessimist is one who looks on the dark sides of things, while an optimist is one who looks on the bright side. Which had you rather be? Of course, we all want to be optimists, and why not? Isn’t it lots more pleasant to meet someone who is happy and who looks on the bright side, than one wno is a grouchy sort of a person, and al ways looking o nthe dark side. If you happen to feel a little down in your shoes because things don’t go exactly right, don’t it just make your heart warm up and get to going right, Just So. when you meet a jolly chap,, who tells A real estate man, who was always you that things will be all right. But ' say! When you meet a pessimist, and he encourages you in no way, except to feel a little more down in your shoes, it’s not very encouraging, Happiness is partly a habit, and it certainly is a good one. Try it and see for yourself. If everyone did, we would soon be short on pessimists in this world and surely no one would make any serious objection. Sweet, Tasty Meats THE CHOICE OF THE LAND— ALWAYS FRESH AND TENDER “Quality and Service”—Our Motto Central Point Meat Market I. D. LEWIS, Prop. VOTE AGAINST HIGHER TAXES Oregon’s total bonded debt is already I * • $ 166 , 000,000 Its per capita state debt is the highest in the union The Housewives’ Council “Water and Power” Amend ment would permit ’a new Apolitical board to issue $53,- 000,000 more bonds, or an increase of 32 per cent to start state adventures in irrigation and power. VOTE 3 3 7 X NO AGAINST AN ISSUE OF $53,000,000 OF NEW BONDS AGAINST AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF NEW TAXES AGAINST CREATING A BOARD OF POLITICIAN-DIRECTORS AGAINST ENROLLING A NEW ARMY OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AGAINST PARALYZING INDUSTRY BY BUREAUCRATIC DESPOTISM AGAINST REVOLUTIONIZING OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST A WILD JOY RIDE WITHOUT BRAKES AT YOUR EXPENSE. In Self-defense V ote337 X NO! in November The California Oregon Power Company Paid Adv. by Oregon Public Utility C ommittee—Opposed to the Housewives’ Council "Water and Power" Bonding Amendment— 124 Pacific B .Hiding. Portland, Oregon.