The gazette-times., October 22, 1914, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OKK.. Till ItsnXV, OCT. 22. 1014
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WHY IS THK HF.HAl.D.'
Dear Mr. Editor:
Under tlie caption "A riain SUt--rv
nt cf Facts"' the Herald of ti e
i v.h in t. has a most remarkable
;..-:.'!e over the signature of ore I.
K. Marian, which article I be? leave
t answer ti.rM.sh the medium of
jour columns lest, perchance, even
cite of the more desirable and respec
table of the community may have
heard of the article, through one of
their friends, for the thought of any
one of good taste picking up that is-s-ue
cf that paper and innocently
reading such scurrilious epithets is
one, I am sure, most distasteful to
the mind of anyone like yourself,
anxious that the people of this coun
ty should read nothing but good En
fiUsh, and matter that would have
a tendency to elevate and improve
the mind whilst imparting informa
tion of a generally desirable kind
and which would interest most of
your readers. In this you are right
and a paper which does not strive for
this object has no excuse for exist
ence. It has been laid down aa a dictum
that an editor who runs a paper for
saltish and personal reasons without
due consideration for the wishes of
the community, (whose interests are
supposed to be his) is not a fit per
son to edit a paper or to hold public
cliice of any kind. It is furthermore
a generally accepted theory than any
person who would make use of the
editorial chair for the paying of pri
vate grudges, and in order to vent
his spleen upon pilvate Individuals
through the medium of his journal,
shall be deemed a person unfit to oc
cupy the chair or even to be employ
ed in any capacity upon the staff of
a respectable paper.
These are generally accepted
theories of all enlightened people in
all civilized countries of the world.
To be sure it happens occasionally
that a man or woman gets into the
semijournalistic profession in a town
through a back entrance. They are
seldom found in the employ of a de
cent man, in fact they gt-nerally own
the papers in which their articles
appear, or which is easily as bad
they are in the ".;r'.,;. of some per
son more uiutrusi-ou. t! an them
selve? who . Aii'ii" to appear
or, ..urJ-o-.- ;"i ' ':.k. '.-- respon
;! ijity r.i 'A'l.ut hi i-; i " 4, and
Tj.ner tHu to'soa i!p i Imsure of
Ivt-h.p some rnemr ; . im back (and
r. ..!: ,imtH.;-'i ,i thru -r to gain
s n.t: pilka! r:.'"vaiiuu;e which by
re-.Ln of th"i" tv: :.-onj!:ty or lack
of brains they are unable to obtain,
they pay some t-'ie ei?e to i their
thinking and trelr d;:ty cr-' for
them, and in retu.-n for their work,
and, which is more important, their
silence, the muckraker, as 'his .h.ns
of editor is called, is C.M.L.l'l') tin?
owner of the paper, an;! ;u lows us he
is prepared to do his airly duty to
his miserable master he remains, to
all outward appearances, owner of
the filthy rag, and a pestilence to the
community in which he breeds his
.discord.
i Public opinion has always been op
posed to this class of paper and al
though some few people read the pa
r,pr out of curiosity and a few others
in the hope of getting grounds for
a damage suit, in the main their cir
culation is multiplied many times
over by gratuitous copies to people
they daslro to obtain upon their sub
scription list, whom they endeavor to
get bv unctious flattery and a sick
ening" inflation of their commercial
star-ding, forgetting in the mean
ness of tlitir souls, that an upright
man abhors unnecessary publicity
as he dees any oth?r kind of plague.
Therefore the main source of their
income is derived from blackmail.
As a rule this class of paper is
shr.'Uived; sometimes it is stopped
by the man who holds the position of
postal inspector, then again it dies a
lingering death through the disgust
of the people who have unwisely sup
ported it. It sometime:; happens
that the law courts kill it with a sen-tpn(.-i
that cannot be paid.
Such a paper has been cured of
it:s sickness by the removal of the
caus. Vv'itness the "Daily Mail" and
"John Bull'.
The first of these papers was fined
$500,000 for a statement which was
a part of a systematic attack on Sir
Charles Leaver. The paper cnangeu
its noliey and its editor, and now it
is ranked as one of the greatest daily
papers in the world
Horatio Bottomley, who had been
for a great many years member of
Parliament for Hackney and was the
owner of a weekly called "John Bull
was fined $250,000, and all the court
costs in the case, for a mean and
scurrilous attack upon the memory
of one Arthur Armstrong, his widow
hrlnzlne the action and getting the
benefit of the verdict of the jury
In the case of the "Daily Mail" the
the payment was made Into the court
within thirty minutes but in the case
of "John Bull" the money could not
be found in the ten days placed at
its disposal, and the paper was made
bankrupt and placed in a receiver's
hands to be conducted for the bene
fit of Mrs. Armstrong.
But unfortunately for those who
are attacked, every muckraker has
not got $500,000, nor if they were
put into liquidation would they have
a paid circulation of 1,000,000, as in
the case of "John Bull". The cases
I have quoted are not in this coun
try, but the laws of decency are at
the root of all such matters and the
people of this country are as decent
as those of any other; I merely quot
cd those in question to point my mor-
1, and because I did not happen to
Know auy yeuniu u,ot;rj in Amenta,
Doth examples are of a consumma -
tiou d .voutedly to be wished. "What,
then," you will ask, "becomes of the
little ones v, ho have nothing at stake,
and who appear periodically in the
various smalf towns of west." The
answer is simple. They servo the
purpose for which they were brought
into the electorate and then when
they haxe to stand on their own
ground without surreptitious assist
ance the people find them out, and
they movo to the nearest town In
which they think they cau play the
game for a little while, and then
they move again, and so on, ad infin
item. "By their fruits yo shall know
them."
"A Plain Statement of Facts,"
Well, well Just let us, for a few
moments, consider these so-called
facts. Later on I will let my readers
into the unnecessary and uninten
tional cause for so much bad temper,
bad manners, bad English, and pos
itive panic of fright on the part of
the writer of the mess in question.
When L. K. Harlan says I was In
Echo, he is quite correct, and when
he says I was enquiring as to the
reason that the Echo plant was not
in operation, he is also correct.
But I should have thought that
the very statements which he now
puts forward as his excuse would
have been reason enough for not
thinking that I was going to organ
ize a plant in Staufield.
If I had any intention of starting
in Stanfield, it is in Stanneld, and not
in Echo, I should have made my en
quiries. Let us then be charitable
and suppose In this one instance L.
K. Harlan was only illogical, that is
to say, for a few moments; later on
I will show that it was something not
quite so mild as, want of reasoning
power on the part of the writer.
L. K. Harlan says In his article
that I accused HIM of being in the
employ of a syndicate. How shock
ing it is that a man in charge of a
nearly ?newspapcr should be so very
inaccurate! It is this inaccuracy, of
which I spoke before, and to which
I so much object. Surely the poor
public who are paying the outrageous
sum of $1.50 per annum for the pa
per are entitled to accuracy, If noth
ing else, in fact I think that those
people who take the paper home to
light the fire with are entitled to
truth in case they may be tempted
to scan the front page whilst other
wise engaged.
I did not state that L. K. Harlan
was in the employ of a syndicate. I
referred to the writer of the article
to which I objected, as an employee
of a syndicate. The readers of the
article will remember that this is
so. The article might have been
written by E. G. Harlan or the type
setter or by the office boy. Why I
never dreamt for a moment that the
MANAGEING EDITOR of a paper
would be so careless as to have
written the matter in question.
However, L. K. now stands self
acused, and really after having read
the last issue, I am inclined to go to
the office boy and offer my humblest
apologias for having suspected him.
What is a syndicate? Webster
savs a syndicate is a number of peo
ple joined together for promoting
or financing or carrying on any en
terprise. In the same issue of the
paper appears a sworn statement of
the proprietorship of the paper, and
it clearly gives more than one name
on the list cf owners. Therefore,
according to Webster, the paper un
questionably belongs to a syndicate.
The assertion that it does not is an
error of judgment on the part of L.
K. Harlan, who, apparently, did not
know the meaning of the word. And
for the statement that the paper be
longs to a syndicate, L. K. Harlan
alls me "a liar," "the biggest liar
that ever hit these parts of the coun
try." Such a nice expression for the
children of the readers to see in
print! Such a nice way to speak of
any mar. in print! Such a dignified
article to come from the pen of
MANAGING EDITOR of a journal!
I don't think.
To the careful reader there is
fear, Fear with a capital letter, in
L. K.'s fervid assurance that I am
a liar and that the paper does not
belong to a syndicate. Of what was
L. K. so frightened? Why should
the paper not belong to a syndicate?
It is a perfectly legal way to do busi
ness. Why, then, show such abhor
rence of the thought? As the ad-
tertiser says "There's a Reason" and
my dear reader, a very good one.
With the reason we shall deal later
on.
L. K. further accuses me of put
ting before the public an article deal
ing with his "respectability and In
tegrity." If L. K., or any of his
supporters, can find any such article
bearing my signature or can discover
than any article was offered to the
press by me, I shall be greatly sur
prised. How can a person write an
article on what does not exist?
Tills then is the second point upon
which we have proved L. K. to have
been wrong in his article. Still I
should hesitate before calling him a
LIAR. He may have made the mis
take through ignorance, and besides
the editor of this payper is just a
little particular as to what goes into
these columns, and might not appre
elate the good taste of calling a man
a LIAR in his journal.
"In our own office, and in the pres
ence of witnesses, this man has
sought to upbraid and stamp upon
the reputation and personality of
nearly every business man in the
city of Heppner." So saith the MAN-
AGING EDITOR. How strange that
I should go into the Herald office to
( "stamp upon the personality" of the
more prominent uuhiuchh uivii 01
( Heppner. I have never seen any of
lilt 111 tlK'.e. unt: fluumiuiasmc itiuv
if I wished to stamp upon any man
1 would go where I should be most
likely to find him, and that would
hardly be in the Herald office.
The statement is wholly false.
There is only one business in the
county . which I haye attacked in any
way, aud on the occasion in question
I spoke with some little feeling and
considered that I was justified in
doing so. But it was not in the Her
ald office, but in one of the most im
portant stores in the city .and in my
apology to tho owner afterwards, I
explained that I had seised the op
portunity because L. K. was present,
that being the surest way to get a
hurried report to the man in ques
tion. Why did I know that L. K. would
be so anxious to .report? I had good
reason to know that he was himself
by no means squeamish in regard to
the manner in which he spoke of
other leading lights of Heppner. I
well remember on one occasion,
when he first considered starting a
paper in Heppner, I happened to be
in the office of Mr. Knappenbcrg, a
well known lawyer of lone, and one
of L. K.'s supporters in that city be
fore ho immigrated into this, when
L. K. came in. Mr. Knappenberg
accused him of getting support tor
his paper in Heppner from the sa
loon element, and with tho intention
of discontinuing tho one they had all
supported so lavishly In lone. L. K.,
rt course denied it, and when the au
thorlty was given, he called the man
in question, what do you suppose?
Why a "DAMNED LIAR". I well
remember, though I am afraid that
L. K. has forgotten the lesson, that
Mr. Knappenberg took him to task
about calling the men with whom he
could not agree, "DAMNED LIARS.
I remember he told L. K. that the ex
pression was not a nice one to U3e,
that the informant was by no means
a liar, and he did not want the ex
pression used in his office. He said
much more to the same effect, and
ever since I have looked upon Mr.
Knappenberg with admiration and
respect, not that I am so conceited
as to suppose he cares a rap what my
opinion of him may be. Why then
was I so sure that L. K. would re
peat this particular tirade. Because
the man was J. L. Wilkins and the
business in question was the Palace
Hotel. Why, you will ask has that
got anything to do with L. K.'s feel
ings? And again I reply, "There's
a Reason" and a good one too.
But to continue our perusal of L.
K.'s article. L. K. states that the
cause of my imaginary spleen was
the fact that certain men in ques
tion would not subscribe for stock
in the creamery company whilst I
was myself connected with it. I defy
L. K. to give the names of five men
who have subscribed for stock since
I severed my connection with the
proposition. But I, on the contrary,
have had to persuade more than one
to retain his interest in the company,
which he wished to sever on account
of my not any longer being officially
connected with it, and I have told
them all, as I wrote In the last issue
of this paper, the proposition was
good and to stay with it. We have
therefore two more "facts" which
were not facts, published in tho
"Statement of Facts."
When is a fact not a fact? When
it is produced in a factory for a fac
tor
Again he states that I represented
myself as having $75,000 to $100,
000 in ready cash to invest. If L.
K. can produce three men In the
whole county, (always excepting
members of the syndicate) who will
hear out his statement, I will gladly
pay the annual subscription to the
Gazette-Times for ten people not
now getting the paper. L. K, fur
ther states that he has certain statn-
nents of mine taken down in short
hand derogatory to the busSa.r-: nio:i
of Heppner. Clever, hut not logical
or pcsslblc. In the first placs, on
'.he only occasion on which I pc;:;ui
tsd myself the pleasure of sial-u? my
opinion, which 1 have already ex
plained, I was talking to L, K. and
kept my eyes on him the whole time,
and I am perfectly rare that he had
no pencil. I wir-.li lie had had one-:
he left some cf the best part;; cut.
Secondly the bluff is iihcrkcl be
cause L. K. wan hi such a had t-m
per when he left tho district f'ior
ney's office that 5f he could have
found something more substantial to
have attacked me upon lie wouid
not have had to tlisgraco the journal
istic profession by calling a man a
liar in his paper. And thirdly it is
not a logical thing to say because I
do not believe that L. K. can write
shorthand fast enough to take a con
versation. Had he been able to do
so, ho would not have had to Inter
rupt the inquest on Earheart's re
mains with the noise of a typewriter.
However, I will call his bluff and
ask to see the nasty things I am
supposed to have said, In print. As
an example of the product of a for
vent imagination it will be Interest
ing. The suggestion of horrible
things to come, however, Is typical
of the class of journalists of whom
I spoke in the first part of this an
swer and is the usual prelude to
blackmail. Imagine being hounded
for blackmail in Heppner! Why life
would be worth while. Almost as
exciting as the war. And then again
imagine being fool enough to pay
it. And last, just think of being
rich enough to attract the black
mailer. One could have a pretty
good time without the help of the
Heppner Herald.
And now to come to some facts
which are facts, and were not factor-
! ed ln the Harlan factory for the pur-
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dental reform bill.
In every town and city
out working against the bill.
The Medical Trust is helping the Dental Trust by
forcing nurses and druggists, under threat of boycott, to
work against dental ref ormi
All kinds of campaign lies are being circulated to
deceive the voters. Don't let the Trust scare you.
The Trust made the present denetal law. Under this
law it cantrols the State Board of Dental Examiners
every member of that board is a member of the Trust.
In this way competent dentists are kept out of Ore
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It Has Done Great Work Hut Time
Has Come for Bigger Consoli
dated Structures.
I University of Oregon, Eugene, Or.,
Oct. 1 i. "So far as the country
I school remains an institution of one
room and one teacher it has become
an anachronism in American life and
iuusi ub i-HttiiBou 10 someining aurer
ent before the education it gives can
be made adequate to the needs of the
children living in the country today,"
says Dr. Joseph Schafer, professor of
history at the University of Oregon
in an article on rural education
which is being widely printed.
Dr. Schafer mourns a little for the
"little red schoolhouse" of old, which
he declares all should honor for the
great work it has accomplished In the
past, but he proceeds to argue pow
erfully for an efficient, consolidated
school, which will put the pupil Into
touch with times that are in a thous
and ways different from those of his
grandfathers.
"Because land Is now high and
margins of profit narrow," continues
Dr. Schafer, "the farmer must be a
business man. Because science can
aid in making his farm more produc
tive or in preventing losses, he must
be trained to apply scientific princi
ples. Because he Is a citizen, cos
mopolitan in his business and social
relations, he needs as his equipment
an education not a whit less thorough
or less broad than that which today
comes as a matter of course to the
man entering business life in the
towns or cities."
After two years of litigation the
Oregon City municipal elevator Is to
be built.
A 40,000 acre project in Goose
Lake valley, Lake county, is to be
reclaimed.
J. A. Cartwrlght of Portland is
investigating a cannery proposition
at Roseburg.
To secure a Bite for a city hall Eu
gene will vacate the old high school
site and build two new schools.
The federation of Woman's Clubs
at Eugene endorsed a program of
more labor laws to go before the leg
islature. Unless signs of. the times arc mis
leading, the framers of the proposed
eight-hour law will not recognize it
when the people are through voting
"NO" on the measure in November.
It is in for a hard drubbing, Union
Republican.
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