The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1917-02-14
.LOVfLOCK EDITOR DENIES
And Then ADMITS FACTS
Takes Exceptions to Remarks ON
Hazen-Lovelock Road and Blames
Churchill County.

Of its wrath and in a long TRADE
"roasts' the editor of the Standard
"to a frazzle." The cause of this
paroxysm on the part of the editor
of the Reyiew-Miner was an item
that appeared in these columns a
couple of weeks ago, wherein was
Lrecounted the experiences of a trio
of truck drivers who left Lovelock
and attempted to make Hazen over
portion of the so-called and muchly
lauded Overland Trail" Tie
Standard simply told the story as il
was told to US, without embellish-
ment or exaggeration. Here is the
way the Loyelock editor opens up:
Narrow-yisioned want-braiued be
ings who stoop to mud-throwing sci
dom accomplish the purpose for
which they try TO palm off their lies
under the guise Of truth. rneir
auditors, these days too often seek
the truth and hnd IL.
And then too. the very principle
OF mid throwing has fallen in dis
repute amongst the nasses. IS old
school politicians can testify after
their recent hitter exseriene ees.
Now comes the Standard of Ia
lon, with misleading, untrue and
prejudiced article oR rooe. frGm
Hazon here
Whether Intentionally. or [ roYga
lack Of proper information, we 90
not know that paper has printed IN
truths which may have tho eTect Of
demsging the prosperity of to Love
lock valley, and the points along tic
road
Now, we submit that the Loveloak
editor is throwing q iit and becloud-
ing the atmosphere without having
said anything TO the point, OF course
he may be correct in his estimate Of
our brain capacity and our narrow
vision and all the rest. Probably he
could find a number of people here
and elsewhere who will agree with
him, so we are not disposed TO give
undue prominence to that part of the
discussion lest We find out how small
an opinion many people have of US.
when ignorance is bliss It's folly to
be wise" But, we fail to see where
in the Loveiock editor has been able
to sustain the high" pitch promised
in the introduction TO his article, but
sort of fizzles out and winds up by
practically admitting the truth of eH-
erything in the Standards article.
Now, the Standard editor is not re-
sponsible for the condition of the
road between Hazen and Loveloek.
We haven't tried to drive machine
over 1t, and, what is more, we are
not going 10. Being content to take
the word of those who have that IL
is next to impossible. If tie irasc-
ible editor of the Reyiew-Mlner had
confined himself to discussing ways
and means of remedying the condi-
tions of the road between Hazen and
Lovelock instead of giving his gra-
tuitous opinion, as an alienist, OF the
mental capacity of the editor of the
Standard, he would be getting some
where. Lots of people are interest
ed in good roads, but we are modest
enough to believe that very few are
Interested in whether the writer of
this possesses sufficient intelligence
to bait one-hole mouse trap.
The story to which the Lovelock
editor takes exceptions was to the
effect that these men left Loyeloek
with three trucks; they got mired
down somewhere northeast of Hazen
and 1t took them three days to get
out of the mud. They stated that
they would not make the trip again
under similar conditions for thous-
and dollars. The Standard said the
road is practically impossible. We
did not say that Lovelock Humboldt
county, or the editor of the Review
Miner was responsible for that con-
dition. We didn't make the mud and
we didn't throw any of it at the peo-
pie of Loyelock nor at the Review
editor. The Standard did say that
for those people who are working
night and day in an endeavor to
change the route of the Lincoln
Highway from its present course to
that along the line OF the railroad,
here Is an object lesson. We said
and repeat that travel is going over
the Carson sink every day in the
week on schedule time while the
route along the Humboldt Is prae1-
oally impossible. That 2S miles OF
that route lays in Churchill county
is beside the question. The fact re-
mains the same whatever county II
lies in. II is very little satisfaction
TO the traveller who essays the trip
that IL Is this county that is to be
cussed out for the condition rather
than Humboldt county.
To put IL straight to the editor OF
the Review Miner. He has accused
the Standard of publishing untruths,
either knowingly or unwittingiy;
Did those three trucks leave Love
lock for Hazen and get stuck in the
mud? Did it take them three days
TO extricate themselves? Is the route
such a one as the editor OF the Re.
view-Miner would advise the general