The Holly chieftain., 1917-08-03
WHAT A FOOL THING
An EDITOR REALLY u
Chisftain Man Inhsrits . Lot Of
Trouble 0vsr-Nothing

! Last weekk one of our advertisers
brought in an advertisement ad.
dressed. to 'The Honorable City
Mayor" which, as far as we could
see, did no one any harm and
meant nothing in particular except
that Santa Fe avenue was still in
habited by business houses and
that chief among them was one
Hardware store owned and man.
aged by Mr.. Goodman, alias Joe
Murphy. But alas! some of the
deer pee-pul" did not take it so.
They read it as cheap and tawdry
attempt of the, poor weak minded
editor" to east slurr in the direc-
tion of the present City mayor.
1t is really amuseing when we
stop to think how little is expected
of q newspaper man. He may boost
his blOOmin' head off week after
week without single word of en-
cOuragement but let him pop-off
about something that gets upon a
neighbors toes and he is at once
subject to ton of abuse and the
ncighbors delight in telling to the
world how little he honestly knows,
He is expected to wallow around in
rhetorical mud, and to exude phras.
Biological slime, without saying any
thing that is important or true
he must offend no one-just sort
of a harmless necessary evil, shall
be his role. If the papers good-it
ought to be-if it's poor the editor
is chump-I told, you so.'
Why "ding-bustit," they even
threatened to whip the editor or
"wOrser' yet-to start another pa
per, and starve the worthless cuss
out. And take 1t from us, they had
this editor man scared stiff he run
himself right straight home and
,plsnged Into the sea OF despair,
proper. WI were accused III taking
sides in the city fight and ".goldern
-our-hide' we never even knew there
was such thing. We've been so
busy trying to boost Holly, trying
to talk the simple language of q
plain blunt man and hoping to
have a hand in the things that
work together as force for decency
in our little city, that we quiet over
looked some of the stories that are
being told.
1 When we come to Holly several
weeks ago we told the public that
in the future we should be for Hol-
ly, all along the line, that we would
be glad to print anything that was
for the betterment of the town but
that our door was closed to all
knock we want to tell you rightr
now that it's still closed. AS far
as we know, the present city admin
istration is capable one and fully
able to attend to the business af-
fairs of our city. If they quibble-
around and fail in this the shame is
on their heads and not upon ours.
We might state here though, that
in the future, should we attempt
any criticism of the administration
it will be run in the editorial col
umns of this paper and will be
plain enough that you will not
have to hunt" to ascertain who
done 'er"-the editor alone will be
responsible.
We have no bone to pick with
anyone and as long as we live in
Holly it Is Our Town and we are
for it right-or wrong. We have no
other apologies to make for the ad>
vertising we accepted and we are
not goin' to beg any ones pardon,
because we do not know what in
thunder we would beg it about.
But we will slip you this quiet tip
we have better plan than start
in another paper-we'll sell you
this one.