The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-12-21

You've got a whole page and on
Sundays two pages about baseball and
automobiles, and the horse is getting
crowded down into a corner. We
he was not unmindful Of the plural
I'VE must print more horse news.
You tell Atwin to send his young men
that does the Horse and Track
around to see me occasionally and III
be glad TO help him get some horse
news that is news. I wouldn't want
to have you bounce a young man
who's doing the best he can, but it
doesn't do a newspaper any good to
speak of Dan Patch as trotting
horse or give the record Of my 2-year-
old FLY Penelope o as 2:09A when she
made a clean 2:09. You've got to
print facts in a newspaper if you
want people to respect it How about
that, Morton?"
you're right, Aunt Sally. IN speak
TO Atwin about his horse news.
He began to wonder whether she
we're not amusing herself at his ex-
pense; but she gave him no reason
for doubling her seriousness. They
might have been partners from the
beginning Of time from her business
like manner of criticiZing the paper.
She had not only fatty refused to sell
her shares. but she was taking ad-
vantage Of the opportunity for which
she seemed to be prepared to tell him
how the Courier should be conducted!
el,
tinued deliberately, "the Courier has
fun every now and then over the
poor, but honest farmer. and prints
pictures Of him when he comes to
town for the State Fair that make
him look Ike a scarecrow. Farming,
Morton, is a profession, nowadays,
and those poor yaps Eggleston wrote
about IN The Hoosier Schoolmaster'
were all dead and buried before you
were born. Farmers are up and COM
ing can tell you, and wouldn't lose
their business by poking fun at 'em.
That Saturday column Of farm news,
by the way, is fraud-all stolen out
Of the Western Farmers Weekly
and no credit. They must keep that
column IN cold storage to run It the
way they do. They're usually about
n season behind time-telling how to
plant corn along in August and plant
ing winter wheat about Christmas.
Our farm editor must have been
raised on a New York roof garden.
Another thing I want to speak OF Is
the space they give to farmers and
stockmen's societies when they meet
here. The last time the Hoosier State
Mulefoot Hog Association met-right
here IN town at the horticultural
Society's room at the State House
all the notice they got in the Courier
was five lines in Minor Mention The
same day the State Bankers Associa-
ton filled three columns, and most
of that was a speech by Tom Adams
on currency reform. You might tell
that funny editorial man to give
Adams a poke now and then, and stop
throwing chestnuts about gold bricks
and green goods at farmers. And he
needn't show the bad state Of HIS
liver by sarcasticaIy speaking Of
farmers as honest husbandmen either;
q farmer Is q farmer. unless, for lack
Of Gods grace. he's a fool guess
the folks are coming now. I hope
Allen won't knock down the house
with that thrashing machine Of his.
That's all this time. Let me see
you'd better tell your editor to call
on me now and then. What did you
say HIS name was. Morton?"
''AtwiIl-Arthur P"
''Is he a son OF that Ebenezer At
viii who used to be a professor in
Asbury College?''
TN afraid not, Aunt Sally; don't
think he ever heard Of Ebenezer," re-
piled Bassett. with all the irony he
dared