The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-01-20
WORDS THAT CHEER

The man who does his duty as he
sees it, whether he be commended for
it or not, will keep straight ahead.
Though he may not use these words,
he will follow a motto of import simi
lar to the following: 81 will do my
d-est-Angels cannot do better.
Yet to the man engaged in some life
task nothing brings greater cheer,
nothing is more encouraging than
words of commendation.
Last week a Hood River man, a citi-
zen who observes the activities of his
home community, called at our office
and said without Introductory formal
ity: 81 want to congratulate the
Glacier on its edition of this week. ]
have never seen better copy Of
country newspaper" 1t is needless to
say that those words meant much.
Just few moments before this bit
of encouragement had been granted US.
we had been perusing an editorial in c.
G. Chapman's "Oregon Voter" And,
IL we will be permitted to disgress, we
wish to speak commendatory Of Mr..
Chapman's work. Some weeks, when
the "voter" comes to our desk, we do
not find. as we hastily turn the pages,
any article that draws our interest suf-
fciently to cause an immediate perusal,
excepting, of course, Jerry Ovens d.
verslfied items. But we file the publ
cation away for the value of the sta
tistics it always records. And more
often than not the "Voter" contains
something that we read and reread
with keen appreciation. While we do
not always agree with Mr.. Chapman,
his method of handling the solution of
problems uppermost in his mind ap-
peals to our sense of fair play. We
give below portions of the editorial of
last week:
Our great daily papers have cleaned
up their moving picture advertise
mcUtSS anu VIC are sure tUGIC ptC many
anxious parents who are grateful. Yet
how can they show their gratitude and
appreciation?
1t is the daily newspaper which car
ries the financial burden of advertising
reform. Every month it declines prof
fered advertising amounting to thous-
ands of dollars.
Consider the patent medicine and
quack doctor adveI tising. These ven-
dors will pay highest rates. The
cleverer among them modify the tone
of their advertisements to conform
witt the varying standards of the daily
pass, and by censorship of objection
aole words they are able to secure a
place in some advertising columns.
Physicians of standing condemn the
dailies for accepting any of this kind
OF advertising. Yet the ethics of their
profession is such that they cannot pay
money to advertise themselves. Their
associations are so weak they cannot
finance an educational campaign to in
struct the public through daily paper
columns. So the high-class daily is
compelled by principle alone to reject
the quack medical advertisements, thus
suffering the entire financial loss. To
boot, some of them go further (as has
our own great Oregonian), and at con-
siderable expense publish columns of
sound medical advice from qualified
physicians of standing, thus discredit-
ing the quacks.
And what appreciation does the pub
lie give? Simply quits kicking 8
all. Hardly "Thank YOU"
IL all parents who are grateful for
the cessation of vicious moving picture
advertising in our daily papers would
send letters to the publishers, it would
at least show that they appreciate the
financial sacrifice involved in rejecting
questionable advertising. A few do
send in such letters.
1t costs money to gather news and
publish a country weekly newspaper.
The loyal advertisers of this commun-
ity must be thanked for their cooperat-
i've efforts. They have benefited, we
think, and SO have we. But in many
instances the citizens benefited by a
progressive newspaper do not even
stop to say Thank you"
While we will welcome your word of
encouragement, il ycu have one, re-
member that we will also IT ceive in the
same spirit your words of sincere and
reasonable criticism. Thus we will
build better.