Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1919-07-24


leave you a mess of my new potatoes
and tell you that your paper gets bet
ter every week. Your account of my
daughters wedding was written in
fine style. III take about $500 worth
of extra papers. Say, you did the
other editor up in great shape in re-
gard to licensing saloons. By the
way, here's a dollar, send your paper
to that son-in-law of mine in Oshkosh
Guess I'd better give you another dol
lar and let you send it to my wife's
sister back in Kokomo. My crops
are looking fine Well, guess I'll
be going. By the way, I'm going to
run for sheriff and want you to say
a good word for me. OF course you
can't work for nothing, so here's $40
But just then the editor woke up.
An unknown man was found dead
in the outskirts of "a small town. A
search disclosed 500 in money and a
revolver on the person of the unfor-
tunate young man. An inquest was
held and $75 was taken for burial ex-
penses after which the police judge
fined the corpse $25 for carrying con-
cealed weapons and confiscated the
revolver, but as usaul the newspaper
got nothing, it would seem, for print
ing his obituary.
Tattlers are confined to no particu-
hf- class sgf society. They belong to
all, classes, and operate in all. We
find them among the rich and the
poor-"upper ten" and the flower
Million" in the church and out of it.
They are people who have no higher
ambition than to be well informed in
regard to other peoples private bust
ness, and exalt in fendish triumph
over the wounded feelings and bruised
hearts of their innocent victims.
Never find fault because newspa-
per fails to give every scrap of news,
if you are one Of the people who never
gives the editor any information. An
editor isn't medium for mind read
er but he gets his news the same way
the milkman gets his milk, by pump
ing. This is true especially of that
class of items known as personals. y
Rightly they are not puffery or tat
fly but simple personal mention, Civ
en- for the benefit of the local read
ers, and If you have friend or rel
alive visiting you, let US know and
we will be glad to give the item prop
er notice. Put any bit of news worth
printing in the way of our pencil
pushers.
1t is the wish OF every patriotic
parent that his child shall stand in
the front ranks of the business world
To get these results the teacher, the
parent and the child must work to-
gether. Open mutiny with the school
means hindrance to the child to at
tain this unity. If your child is not
doing we'll in school it is your duty to
see the teacher and help her to de-
wise plans that will remedy the evil.
Don't pour out your wrath against
tn teacher at the supper table in. the
presence of the children 1t only
means that your children will reap
what you sow for them. They will
have no confidence in the teacher
cause trouble in the school and lose
interest in learning.
Congress should veto the antiqu-
ated custom of the free distribution
of seeds. 1t is simply steal that
costs the country $150,000 per an
mum and is productive of no good
and is not wanted except by senators
and congressman who pose as covers
at the public expense.
Do you know that there are more
people who sponge on newspaper
than there are people who sponge on
their relatives? When a man comes
into tn world he receives free "ad''
and WIN he dies his bad debts are
overlooked by the charitable editor
All dring his life he asksNand receives
favors fro mthe newspapers. If they
speak well of him the fiattering no.
tice is received in silence If his acts
are criticized, he talks of au damage
suit He desires favorable mention
and he desires it often In fact, some
men have an idea that a newspaper
is run expressly for the purpose of
keeping them before the public, and
that too without mony and without