The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1922-01-12
,,,,rseryman Frankly Says
This Paper is Not What
It Should Be
"a .ome Power the giftie gle us
.ro zee oursels as ithers see us!
=. .d frae mony a blunder free us
a,An foolish notion.

la frae mony a blunder free US
sAn foolish notion.
" Won are going to be the cause OIL
.o;nv to Pasco or some other place
- - nv Job printing if you don't treat
!. I. letter. Think when a fellow keeps
= bills paid around town and espec-
ak; ii at the printing office the Editor :
oueht to take notice a little bit.
sIlv don't see how a paper can serve
y. .t community at large without serv-
=: >: the individuals. And then turn the
.,;ro around and from my point OF
49, don't see how the individuals
v, .fford to serve a paper that don't
80 them. When there isn't room
!, The home town paper for all the To-
..ls then claim there is room In the
home town for another paper. You
,,n think it over and any old time you
think your paper is too good for me
shen don't forget what told you.
The trouble with this town is that
I looks like every body is afraid they
iii get their hands dirty by touching
pmebody else. Now that sort OF splr-
\ never makes town. You know
Nat Mr.. Editor without me telling
,ou. whether you practice it or not.
One time I went to a banquet or
,,ther meeting in the new Liberty
Theatre of the New Corners and Old
Timers, where the Old Timers pre-
tended to welcome the New Corners.
We'll in some case they meant business
On both sides, but Pm here to tell
YOU that it looks to me nightly like
most Of the old timers were scared of
their jobs even then. The town paper
) responsible for that sort of feeling
more than any other element. l be-
lieve in the power of the press both
for good and bad. 1t makes human
being satisfied usually or dissatisfied
With his locality according to how
Ae local paper takes notice. If the
country people who dig in the dirt and
produce the crops are put on par
With town people who rob them of
tie fruits Of their toll then the poor
hrmer would not feel half so bad as
b would if he were showed still farther
away from his birth right and really
Kicked at and slapped in the face.
am republican because I think
tie best brains of the country are to
= found in that party, but being
somewhat of a farmer I cannot help
seeing and feeling the socialists side
II it also.
Your paper runs largely to social
dfairs Of townspeople. ! mean the
hcals Now ] have no kick about how
much the ladies entertain, absolutely
hone whatever, as a matter of fact, I
kt them go to it if that is what they
want My contentious are from a bus
ress standpoint. Why don't you slim
ulate and encourage development
whereever possible. You gave space
GENEROUSLY to the fair and you always
w'te up the high line ditch and other
ng units, but what am getting at is
mat you overshoot the atoms that
make Tor running expenses and daily
nvllhood. 1t is really much more i'm
portant to the business of the town to
nave some new blood develop and
make produce some of the land now
under the ditch and laying idle and an
sgesore and question mark than it
% know how and where and who
gave a kid party. Kid parties are all
nsas' OF course; they help cheer up
an Oy SO doing they help the commun-
NOW I'M GETTING DOWN TO
BUSINESS. All thru this irrigation
usrlct, and especially down below
smley, are dozens of misfits out here
Va ne desert. People who have been
~ % believe that all they had to do
.ss 70 put seed in the ground then
"a'en 1t grow. They have spent the
summer here with nothing to show
.Or their time but little shack T
Won't believe many will make good.
: 'aey fail and move away then their
sn'all effects become bleak WARNINGS
v'ner newcomers. I do not say that
! "ewspaper can make them a success
only say that it can help to mako
alem dig little harder and to tate
10y lew nope so that fewer will fail than
'srWlse. One good successful farm
IS worth more as an examn,a and
aspiration to his neighbors than anv.
NY dug else you can mention. And what
80 49, town amount to without sue.
sessful farmers?