The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-02-18

RW-rA informed that the newspaper which said commendatory things
HAMM about monographs, has n o jobpnnting department OF its own
w We didn't know there al a Nevada newspaper which did not
&NXsN pack a side line of job-printing in its grip; now the matter is
G1 quite plain. Job-printng newspaper shops are a tnhe touchy
about monographs way that they feel hurt when legislators propose
to start the State into the printing business; and the way me ieia o0u'
government envelopes, and some other things that might be mentioned
Now. monographs are all right IN their place; but they ae mighty poor
makeshifts for legibe printing and every newspaper nice Is IN eOns'an
receipt of plenty of "damning evidence of te Oh TINS Statement "A
correspondent tells of the fine work of a mimeograph in an Office and declares
the machine turned OUT approximately 100000 sheets of printed stun IN
apout sixteen months mar Is rousn.y p eanin "e @Nnne -" ~. o.
500 days about 1000 printed sheets a day. When one considers the cost Of
product the argument of comparison with printed matter It, say, 81 to $40
the thousand, does not seem very good
This newspaper learned, definitely, by a signed letter, who va responsible
for the little mmeographed gem W commented upon unfavoraby a few days
age If our understanding of the matter correct, the author is "sore"
and he thinks something personal" "a intended, although he admits that
" could not know of his identity. Quite right, and if it will smooth matters
any The Silver State will say it was not taking a crack" at individual
to use the writer's language But the writer of the communication cannot
claim for himself any like excuse He takes strenuous exception to the -four
inch, doubtecolumn editorial Of a "smalLtown editorial commentator"
tits first in order, W think, to tell our correspondent that W do OF con
slider this space in The Silver State a regular editorial column. where the
anairs o. te auo are setned tnree INES "eek- II Is mercy a hue
takas-youpease space, wherein almost any subject may be mentioned -even
maao pano .rsato w.s - Tho miOosl ~ rancbe un IN washoe count som
where? AS TAR Is we an learnsfrom looking at census figures, all the popu
lahon Of washoe is in Reno. excepting an Indian reservation up o Pyramid
Lakeland the Indians are not all fmpounded there, either.
washoe county is, to borrow ron a n old geography. a narrow strip of
land bounded by four pr five California counties on the west, and the great
county of Humboldt o the east This county supplies a large part of the
wealth of Nevada, and wnnemucca is the county seat Also if comparisons
are not too odiOus. winnemucca is not situated o a spur-hne of the Western
Pacific. 1t is or the nail line of two great railroads and Winnemucea was
here first The railroads came to it We "a "edtorialy comment" here
just as well as they cal in Reno; and it was just for a change that W made
this column double measure. We like the looks of it,
Our correspondent tells IS h mimeographed matter m nut vas copy
hOm a. page FtTJSemSu III the NeNdud NEWS I6leT, WHICH ne WTOued anu
which he still thinks good. He declares that the tone Of the whole adver-
to admit that he got way with it pretty WELL We have been taught that
exaggeration "a to be expected in circus advertising, and W e have often
been told that exaggeration in any other kind of advertising as the poorest
sort of business; and it would seem to us that this must be particularly true
in an ad for a banking institution, or n planned to induce people to invest
their money.
The writer tells us he has worked for nothing for fifteen months for the
War Savings committee, but has earned by his literary efforts nearly $4,000
during the last six years." and wants to know if anyone in u Office can
beat it, We cannot; it is far beyond u.s.; W e can't even see it, And we
feel safe in saying that N Nevada newspaper mn will agree that a fellow
who has earned that much money in this State, by writing, ought to work
for nothing the rest of his life. 1t makes us jealous.
us it entirely unpermissible," he says, an winnemucca to speak of a
barometer dropping below zero'" 1t is. friend correspondent; it is. ri
barometer only goes to 49, yu wouldn't ask such a question.
Yes" says the correspondent, people who send out that stuff ar telling
you your duty az patriots" All, there's the point, and he sticks to it, AL
dangerous tendency has grown u p during the past year or two in these United
States. to think that the many patriots who work fol- nothing" are above
people take a great deal upon themselves in the matter of laying down the
la This whole country has been brought into a world of trouble, which is
not yet settled by people who work for nothing and claim to represent the
government" That thu system is fundamentally wrong "a be seen after a
moments reflection. There ire plenty of people who would work fol nothing
at any old job if the community would let them I'll their Job according tt
n dictates OF their sweet will We could find a man % fill every Office
or nothing give him authority 1t goes without saying that we might find
postmasters, OF bank cashiers. or sheep herders. o work for nothng-gfve
them the chance to do as they pleased with the Office, the bank. or the flock
working To- nothing is n o cerifcation of competency. What, fol instance
would a really able man, at the head of any committee, or council. O Office
nave 10 say II he knew the copy" which was being sen. from his office to
publishers raj sometimes absolutely flegfble? Would he think there was
virtue In haVn an ohce force which merely went through the notions?