The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-07
PRINTING THE NEWS.

Saturday afternoon, invaded the file
of old exchanges in a supreme attemp
to capture the Mysterious Mr.. Waffle
of the Portland Telegram and give hin
the 'DisappeariOus Mr.. Piffles of tn,
Evening Bunc' as an alias. he evil
IDENTIFY found other columns worthy o
conquest. Descending upon the file!
of the Morning Union, with a ruthless
welding of the blue pencil, the big
local story of the day was created, an"
in big, bold type the Bunc announced
to its readers, New Railroad to Be
Built to the City" On the front page
Of the Morning Unions issue of April
p, under the modest caption. Central
r. W. Coming" appears the Bunc's
big scoop of June 4. Only a month
and Il days late, that isn't so bad for
the Bunc. when you read 1t in the
Bunc, It's News
1t is an easy matter to plaster a
front page with bombastic boasting
but it is quite another thing to deliver
the goods and furnish to the public
each day the news of the city in an
interesting manner We do not care
to question or consult the intelligence
of our readers by utilizing the choicest
columns of our paper with verbose
nonsense as to what we are doing.
We prefer to devote our best efforts
to covering every branch of the local
field and to prove by actual production
rather than by long-winded digres-
sions what we are doing. Occasion
ally. we lose out on a story. We know
1t, we admit it, and we expect it. But
we repeat, however, and leave the
public to judge as ID our veracitv,
that one day with another the States
man prints more local news than any
other paper in the city.
All the Statesman asks, and We in
wife it, is an honest comparison with |
our verbose contemporary down the
street. For instance, Saturday eve
ming the Statesman, exclusive of So
clety' personal mention, and the space |
devoted to the announcement of
Raffles' coming to the city. printed
20 local stories or a total of 100 inches
of local news. The Bunc on that dav
offered its readers II local stories or
a total of SO inches of local news.
In the same issue and in the best
columns of its front page, it devoted
80 inches to a venting of it's jealousy
through the plagiarized antics of the
Mysterious Mr.. ,Waffles of the Port
land Telegram. Without dwelling on
the three columns of boiler Mate
jokes that appeared in the. news COL
umns of the Saturday Bunc and sum-
ming up the news recorded we have.
The Statesman printed more than
twice as many news stories and al
most three times as many inches of
local news as did the Boosting Bunc.
Nor is this all. The Bunc devoted
half column to a reprint story
which appeared in the Union. of April
% and buried, without headline. three
and half lines on the Dumas de-
cision in the Federal court. The
Dumas case which established a pre-
cedent in the relations of fruitgrower
and shipper, was the big local story
of the week. Every real newspaper in
the Northwest devoted more space to
if than did the Bunc. under whose
very nose the decision was rendered.
Without doubt the Bunc was unable
to supply the demand for copies of
the issue which came from fruit
growers of the valley, who were eager
to get all the details in three and a
half lines. But still, when You
Read 1t in the Bunc, Its News"
In setting up an holy howl of fraud.
the Bunc. in its latest farce. the Sun
day Morning Attempt, let opportunity
for news slip through it's fingers again
and left the public to wonder whether
or not its paid specials" are not
other brilliant achievements of the
scissor editor. The Bunc Attempt an
nounced under conspicuous heading 4
and utilized a full column of its val
liable CD space in printing what pur-
ported to be a Seattle special on the
big conference track meet at the A
Up exposition. The same morning
the Cnion-Statesman gave the public
the real news to the effect that Whit
man college had been advised that
the meet had been called off. The
Union Statesman received the news
through the diligence of its college re-
porter and the story was later con-
frmed by Associated Press dispatches.
And yet, When You Read 1t in the