, 1907-08-01
MEETEETsE PAPER GIVES Elk.
PRESTON TO sENsIBLE DE-
DUcTIoNs FROM REPORT
OF COMMISSION.
News Of That City Devotes Six Col,
umns to Matter, Giving Greater
Part of Report Itself and Comment
ing Upon Certain Portions Of It
Tribute to Miss Hebard and Roast
for Democratic Mudslingers.

The Big Horn County News of Nee
~teetse, edited by Ed Boucher Stevens,
devotes about six columns of it's space.
in the issue of the 9th of July, to the
university investigation. Meeteetse is
the home of Hon. l.. G. Phelps, one of
the members of the commission, and
the News is presumed, therefore, to
reflect sCme of his ideas, he having
been interviewed on the matter upon
his return home from this city. The
News devotes three columns upon the
first page to a reprint of the report of
the commission, using nearly the whole
of that document, interlarded with
comments by the editor. This item Is
the news of the situation.
Editorial Expression.
The editorial page, on the other
hand, contains the expressions of the
editor himself and the light he has
drawn from the report OF the commits
sion. The editor takes, for instance.
the portion OF the report relating to
DR.. Hebard, the secretary of the board
of trustees of the University of Wyo
ming, and under the caption, Prob.
ably Done in Haste" says:
Due to Little Blunder.
"a little blunder in the portion of
the university report that refers to the
secretary of the board of trustees is
to be d%eplored, inasmuch as it gives
those who wish the institution harm
an excuse for pretending to misunder-
stand the report and also seems to
throw a damper On the work of a wo-
man who according to ten separate and
distinct statements in the same para,
graph that contains the blunder, must
be one of the most capable, noble and
self-sacriticing women anywhere.
Meaning of Word Used.
1.-The blunder is in the use of the
word 'o~verzealous.' After the eXplana.
tion the paragraph makes of Miss He
bard's faithful discharge of her own
duties and performance of other hard
tasks not sought by her but absolutely
necessary to the success of the uni
versity, and, furthermore, left by all
others for her to do, it is just as ridic-
ulous to say that she has been over
jealous in the faithful discharge of
her duties as it would be to say that
God has been overzealous in working
to save man from his own sin and
shiftlessness.
For ~overZealous, as everybody
knows, only means too zealous-zeal-
Gus to excess"
University Printing.
Speaking of that portion of the re
port relating to the printing for the
university, the News makes the fol-
lowing comments:
Some of the recommendations the
committee makes are merely in line
with the ideas the members have as to
the proper methods of doing business,
and in certain cases the committees
ideas may not exactly agree with the
ideas Of other good business men.
The Best of Work.
"Take, for instance, the recommen-
dalton regarding printing. The com
mittee found after very careful inves.
tigation that the university had in no
case paid more than a reasonable price
for it's printing and had got the best
of work. In its recommendations, 1t
asks for a radical change in the letting
of printing contracts. Now, many of
the pest business firms in the country
would be entirely satisfied with that
condition of affairs in their own bust
ness and would not care to consider
a proposition to let their printing out
by bid merely because some one said
that plan was theoretically more cor
rect. 1t would. seem that If there was
any real necessity for such a change
the committee would have been able to
find at least one instance in which the
university had paid an exorbitant price
for its printing or had got a poor job"
Lied in Their Headlines.
AS to the vituperative and ~uncalled
for attacks by the W democratic
dailies of the state, the News says,
under the caption, Sincerity Wards
off Humiliation"
"The Rawlins Journal, so far as we
have noticed, is the only democratic
paper in the state that was honest
enough to take the report of the uni
versity investigating committee for