Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1910-07-16
TOWN AND VICINITY.
For the Towns Sake.

Frostburg had the unsafest and unsanest
Fourth in the State, according to the vital
statistics Baltimore Sun.
This statement was based upon re-
port, stated with great particularly,
sent out by self-confessed daily news
reporter.
The JOURNAL objected to it last week
as an exaggeratedlf not false impression
based upon the gleanings of one who
didn't want to omit single incident Of
bad story. -
The reporter rejoins in Monday
Nems in an article bristling with I'M
necessary copulatives. He says this
land" and that land" with nearly as
much frequency as I'VE and" and land
we" AS "a sample let some rheto-
rician guess at what is meant III this:
As the article is headed "A Sample and
we are at a loss to understand whether 1t is
a sample of those space assessed stories or of
what we may expect in the future in the
way of a roast
When writer lays down premise
apparently interrogative, he ought to be
able to finish it for the reader even if he
cannot reach a conclusion in his own
mind.
Or, what will be better. let the daily
news reporter himself tackle it and with
the same conscientiousness he displays
when he reports 4th of July news, tell
his readers-and correctly, too" what
he was driving at?
But this is enough to demonstrate how
competent as well as impolitic this daily
news reporter of Homecoming is to report
Frostburg news daily.
Friday morning of last week, while
the forms" of the JOURNAL were TAX
ing shape for the press, the telephone
rang and one of the towns very best
citizens asked
Have you read the Baltimore Su" this
morning?
The JOURNAL was forced to answer
negatively, owing to pressure upon its
time.
He then called attention to this;
Frostburg had the unsafest and unsanest
Fourth IN the State, according to the vital
statistics.
The JOURNAL copied and commented
in way which made the daily news re-
porter boiler "ouch!'
For it seems to be his notion that as
the best should be made of good thing.
the worst should be made of a bad thing
"a theory which is not even good in
pulpit logic.
The Baltimore Sun, getting its reports
from here. through Cumberland, printed
the very Objectionable comment, and,
strangest of all the incidents-the Cum
berland Nems reproduced the SIMS in
suit in its own editorial columns!
Several men and girl were involved
in the fracas which gave the daily news
reporter the opportunity of his life to
state all the facts correctly" etc. But
not man ,Cns Frostburger Al ~ere
from Baltimore, or from SpnrroTs Point,
q suburb Of Baltimore : Eren the girl
came from the Suns ricinity
Could the JOURNAL abstain from
notice of an outrage so complete from
beginning to end?
Could it ignore the expressed wish of
people who think the towns good name
should not be jeopardized by even the
A. B: G. prose of youngster whose
misdirected ambition leads HIM to
imagine that he must exploit the need
less and injurious with even more
fervency than the Indispensable?
Not bit of it.
And the JOURNAL gives him notice
here and now that he is going to be kept
straight as to fact, and now and then he
will be awarded lesson in rhetoric.
Lastly, now is the time for him to
subscribe!