The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-03-18
Why No Tablets for Mark Twain ct al?

Wl ~ TAI VIZ gN EIgaI rEtas a@glg-E lave T1Ee-Ig L1EEL1 EL--
hA j A which would indicate that their members possess sO1e Of hat
TEwyAH quality which is often spoken Of in newspaper shops as almost
M1N7a human intelligence It's tough 10 tzrn . pet phrase Of tie
ESTI craft back uD01 tie members thereOf. but Nera6a nsxEpaper
IoWX5d men are going 10 Reno nex week 20 be talked 70 and il map be
- well u refrain from OVere11uszzm- The Massachusetts Press
al opposed to giving free space % g0Ternmeat war committees and agencies
TOR the reason thai these agencies are paying the going prices for other
commodities entering into tie eOnduet Of their departments AZ ~eu al EN-
D3oyng assistants al standard salaries and for other good reasons
The Vermont Press Association has seen III 10 take time 10 beEt0w honor
where IL "a long since due upon ne Of its own craft to the disgust. no
doubt Of uDstarlng politicians Of the old Pine Tree state But What the
Boston Transcript has o sy Of the proceeding makes worthwhile reading
matter and The Silver State would like 70 print something similar about
certain olc-tAlers IN tie newspaper game d the Comstock. Of whom il may
easily be sld that the world Is better for their having lived Let the Nevada
Press Association consider fs ~ glory . little "a in . while
TIE Vermont Press Association does well says The Transcript 10 place 4
memorial tablet On the old building Al East Po1ltney. where = ragged. II
yeaf-od boy IN the year 1875. began = painful apprenticeship al = printer.
and in which he obtained a working knowledge Of The most dynamic Of ali
te arts The ragged boy was Horace Greeley. and the building vas the
Office Of The Northern Spectator, a country weekly newspaper In those days
The Northern Spectator val published in a village Of about 400 De0Dle
In 3 village n larger. in the same state . paper called the National
Opinion was proudly Published while from the next village, still smaller ia
population, the Aurora Of the Valley shed it's radiance oyr the surrounding
farms and workshops These old New England village newspapers. Just the
san o1rished a ace Of journalistic giants. II wg from q little Gomez
rcut Office. that Of the Connecticut Mirror. that q keen Yankee raued
George D. Prentice. wen forth 10 prepare the way for tina. great Hgb. o.
Southern journalism. Henry Waierson. The dngy little printing shops Of
vermont trained In ID service Of the types many men VITO anerward became
eminent a metropolitan and Western Journalism
But the eae Of Greeley ws a epic in Itself No MORE uncou,b and
miserable little wretch yer sought employment But he frightened NJ se
Aounern Spectator with bis youthful writings. which were then az ever after
his very oSn and not mere imitation Addsonanlsmg From The son in
East Poultney he went forth to a nlustroas career; and whether II rked
Dr. not the country had TO listen to him
Horace Greeley was a type Of the restless intellectual energy .na mn-,
pioneersm Of New England. His brain OF inneouenuy-so bs o,,,rno
would OF express it-shDDed a cog There were strange lapges in hs in,e,
"a moral achievement but none in his honesty or his good will