Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-06-11
SHOULD PROVE
ALL ASSERTIONS

Cornered in a number of its misrep-
reservations concerning the acts of the
school board of Independent School
District No. 4, the Times is endeavor-
ing to cover up its smallness by evas-
ion and childish queries.
The editor of the Times is a leading
citizen of this community; he is to be
respected for any ideals he may have;
he has helped to success many public
enterprises and has given of his time
and money for the welfare of the town
and county, but he has not yet attain
ed the position in this community
which entities him to expect that the
members of the school board should
be accountable to him or his paper for
their private or official acts. 1t is
not to be wondered at that the school
trustees have ignored answering the
attacks of the Times and have refused
the use of the columns of the Times.
If the editor of the Times had spent
more time attending school board
meetings and interviewing the school
trustees concerning school matters
and less time hunting through a $500
page dictionary for a sufficient vocab-
ulary with which to attempt to deride
the Herald, he would have had no
past few weeks and would not have
strayed so far from the truth in many
of his articles.
When the editor of the Times sits
so high in his own estimation that he
may, with impunity, assert that the six
members of the SHOOT board have not
acted with ordinary acumen", he is
! likely to take about the same kind of
a fall that Humpety Dumpety did in
the nursery book rythmes. 1t might
be all right for one man to question
the good judgment of another but it
shows something is wrong somewhere
when a single man will set up his
judgment against that of six others
who surely are to be regarded as hav-
ing as high or higher mentality than
that of the editor of the Times.
The Herald does not propose to i'm
peach or impugn the motives OF the
Times in the school matter. But Mr..
Mcintyre has not yet given a salts
factory reason why he did not, for the
best interests of the school district and
all concerned, take his information a.
gainst Supt Kent to the school trus-
tees and give them more than a day
in which to act before publishing the
allegations brought to him by Supt
Mcintyre has not yet given a reason
for having inferred that there was
something that the public should know
about the purchase of sewing machines
and the securing of printed work for
the district He has not shown
wherein the Herald erred in stating
that he had deliberately fabricated the
story about local printer and mem
Der of the school board going to the
, superintendent and telling him thai
the school district should use more
printing. He does state that he was
asked to figure on a school catalogue
of a certain number of pages and Sc
many copies Why don't you say who
! asked you for this quotation, Mr.
/ Mcintyre, (if this matter has anything
to do with the actions of the schoo
trustees)? 1t may be that the Times
had some nice fat printing jobs il
, sight had Supt. Collins stayed here
: But then, of course, Mr. Mcintyre
+ would not "spew forth venom" be
cause the school board unconsciousl.
cut off any part of a proposed revenue
Editor Mcintyre is in a position
) where he is not elevating himself il
the opinion of the patrons of his pa
per. His rawlings against the schoo
, trustees have been uncalled for and h
has been unable to prove any groun'
, for them. The continuance of thes
I rawlings is indicative of a diseased
Z mentality and considered in this ligh
! is subject to pity rather than censor