White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-01-28
BABBLING
IN THE DESERT
l don't agree with my friend Tom

l don't agree with my friend Tom
King.
| have V met Tom, but | call
him my friend because he pals
around with George Doyle and J. NJ
Loekhart and other people that I've
known a long time. Acquired their
.mannerisms. it seems.
What | don't agree with him about
is his spiel at the banquet about
White Pine county not getting a
mention in the special holiday mum
Der Of Governor Boyle's Reno news
paper. True, it is deplorable for a
county not to get a mention IN any
state writeup. but whose fault is it,
Don't blame the Chamber of Com
merce. II is not its place to keep
track of the newspapers that are
about TO issue a special graft edition
these special editions and the men
tions in them being for revenue only.
II Governor Boyle wanted a write
up from White Pine county 1t was his
place to get on the train and come
over to Ely and quote prices for said
writeup. II he could not come him
self, send his editor or advertising
solicitor. printers devil or some
body. If ne or any of his male ser
wants fail 10 come or write a letter
then | contend that IL Is better 10 lei
II slip without a mention than for
Messrs. Doyle. Lockhart. Mayor Gal
lagher or any of the rest of them 10
take a run down to Reno TO remind
the governor that there was a White
Pine county, lay the money on his
counter and beseeoh him TO give II a
mention In short. | do not see how
a newspaper owned by a governor is
any different from any other news
paper, for my friend Tom will surely
admit that 1t would be unseemly for
White Pine county to pursue such a
course with a paper owned by any
one else than the governor
In fact. there is one article in my
creed which is deadly opposed 10
eending u of town for anything
that can lie purchased a home. One
Of the things | I'm opposed to send
ing away for is newspaper publicity.
1t can be had right here as cheap as
anywhere, with the added advantage
that the money remains at home.
Typographical errors sometimes
are funny; other times serious. The
other day the Reno Journal had this
headline: San jose Banker Is Au-
tomobile Thief Yours truly read
the little item through three or four
times and could find nothing about
a banker stealing an automobile.
What the item said was that Mister
~So-and-So, a San Jose banker had
been elected president Of an automo-
bile association. Finally II occurred
TO me. as it might 10 others ten min
utes sooner. that what the head writ
er was trying TO say was chief in-
stead of thief" and the linotype OPP
orator touched the wrong key. At
least that Is what | think it was and
| do not believe there is much danger
in Ely. but at that the first person |
thought of was Mike Fenton. who
has been careless about the way he
has been going away for hours and
leaving his Pierce-Arrow truck in the
financial district OF the city, so I've
warned him and he Is there watching
II every minute.
George =. Armand says: What
the matter with tn ticket we had in
1920? Give US some names TO con
jure with
Mickey Breen says: Il got r'spe't
fer a highway robber, but | like TO
take a lot o. them stool pigeons ont
in back alley an beat EN- t'dett.'
Hary Lambert says: Great coun-
try. We took 1t way from III In
juns. but I'm gittin' 'bou. ready 10
give my part back to EN-
b. BROOKS.