The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1917-12-22

The public should remember
that the government and the state
colleges are not peddling spray
or dope to anybody. They have
no lice inspectors on the job, and
if your poultry needs a bath they
will not charge you for the infor-
nation. Even though the mites
grow so big as to wreck the coop,
no federal agent is likely to inter
fere unless the species appear to
be of German origin.
Occasionally a man gets in bad
with newspaper because Of his
own acts. a newspaper is a hui
man institution and the man be-
hind the pencil and the pen and
the typewriter is just as human
as any other normal human being.
He has emotions of pleasure and
resentment. Before a man offends
a newspaper editor he ought to
have judgment to realize that if
he causes otfense he may ostracise
himself from newspaper public
ity.-Statesman-lndeX.
The editor of the Index is ev-
identity unwilling to relinqush
the old idea Of a personal organ
in the guise Of newspaper, and
to stand upon the higher plane Of
modern journalism in demanding
that a newspaper and all its re-
porters, consider the paper a pub
lie institution, operated for pub
lie benefit. and anxious to give
true service to the community,
whether that community be great
or small.
a judge, any public official,
pastor. an editor-any public ser
vant-rcceivcs pay for public
work, but the fact that he re
ceives personal pay in some man
ner does not relieve him from
public duty. Perhaps it did in
the conscience Of man in former
times. 1t does not now. The pub
lication or the public man without
d comprehensive idea of service to
the people is being relegated.
Offending an editor is nothing
more than the beginning of pri-
vate quarrel, and need have no
newspaper notice until police
court records would warrant. But
offending ii newspaper could con,
sist only in an offense against
public interest-furnishing libel
orls or untrue statements for pub
Iication, refusing to give informa-
tion when public interest war
rants, or failure to give proper
assistance when the publication
leads in some effort for the gen
eral good.
"Ostracising" person from
the news columns because Of
personal quarrel with some Of the
editors is as childish a perform
ance as refusing taxes from a man
because his shirt isn't clean.
Every merchant in the state
will shortly be asked to subscribe
to set of resolutions just drawn
up by merchant members of the
commercial economy committee,
state council of defense. The res
olutiOns will go into effect Jan. l.
They follow:
% That all stores make only
one delivery a day to a customer.
(2) That all stores extend
credit for not to exceed 80 days.
(3) That all stores emphasize
economical goods and staples in
their window and interior dis
plays, and in their advertising.
(4 That all stores adopt a 9
hour day with the closing hour
not later than 6 o'clock, Satur-
days included.
(5) That all stores keep
minimum number Of information
giving ledger accounts.
co. That all stores unite To-
cally to pay for and publish these
resolutions in advertising form.
The first five resolutions, #
adopted generally, will release
hundreds Of men and much cqui p
ment. reduce over-buying, pro-