The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-08-26
THE ORIGINAL
WISE CITY

WISE GUY
1t would seem the editorial writer
OF the Ely Daily Times 10 of opinion
his particular duty is to tax a crack
at every other Nevada newspaper. as
opportunity arises. which comes out
with an idea differing with his own
unexpressed ideas. This time the
Wells Herald is under fire, concerning
something written about the escape
OF Joe Bell, the boy implicated with
Fristoe In the murder o. two Elko
county officers. Whether the Times
attack on the Herald is justified or
not we haven taken the trouble to
learn. The outstanding thing, as we
see it, is that the Times is hunting
trouble and likely to find it.
Some time ago The Silver State
published an editorial CONCERNING
merits Of the Overland Trail and Lin
coin Highway. We said newspapers
emphasis on the plural along the
Lincoln Highway continue to COM
plain of how badly their t%ransconti-
mental road is misrepresented. AT the
same time they print columns about
cars going off grades. getting stuck
In the desert miles from water, and OF
consequent thirst and suffering"
Thereafter the Times took occasion
to take a crack" at The Silver State
the main objection being that we said
columns" The Times pointed on
that it had printed a %half-column
story.
For several days the matter was
thought over and it was finally de
cided to let the Times get away with
something" for sake of peace in the
newspaper family. Now we answer
their complaint in short form, thusly:
We respectfully call attention to the
Times that it is not the only paper
published along the Lincoln Highway. |
There are others in Austin and Carson
City, for instance, to say nothing of
the Times highly-esteemed neighbors. |
While the Times writer had this
case in consideration he took occasion
more than once, in his editorial, to
infer The Silver State suppressed
news of accidents along the Overland
Trail. 1t is such slurring. uncalled- |
for and groundless remarks, against
The Silver State and other Nevada
newspapers, that brings forth this
Had it been The Silver State was
the only newspaper picked on by the
Times we might think we were wrong
and justly disciplined, and let it go
that. But other newspapers have
received the same dose from the
even though 1t commenced
publication only a few months ago,
for anything from stories concerning
a faithful horse to the present case.
The Times editorial writer land by
that we don't mean its publisher)
therefore would appear in the role of
one assuming his opinion and knowl-
edge superior to all others.
Many times we have noticed subtle
suggestion in the Times and state
ments editorial and otherwise it would
have been a personal pleasure to ex-
pose and pick to pieces. AS far as
that goes, most any newspaper can be
to pieces and found full of
flaws by a writer not particularly
If done with deliberate wrong
intent all that is necessary is to stoop
to twisting of words and meanings.
There are no writers, and the Times
is not an exception. who prepare
newspaper copy in such fashion il
leaves no loophole for a comeback.
When it gets so the Times scrib-
bler's opinion is greatly superior to
those of all other Nevada newspaper
men he car graduate from s~agebrush
journalism without 6ifSculty, and it
went make The Silver State a bit
peeved when he does.