The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1925-10-16

JOURNAL EDITORIALS

The Hamilton Evening Journal has
been strong, editorially, for leasing
the gas mains of the city to the
Columbia Gas Supply Co. And that is
the Journals every right, providing
| it is sincere in it's belief that its stand
| is really for the best interests of the
| people as whole. Yet, at the same
time, the Journal should concede the
other man the same right to his
opinion and not condemn him for his
thoughts and give him to understand
that he knows nothing, that he really
doesn't know what is good for him.
self, even though he be wrong.
The Journal in an editorial We'd
nesday evening in light vein referr-
ed to Judge Shells decision, vacating
the injunction against council MEM
bers contracting with the Columbia
Gas Co., saying there was nothing
to it, that it was just as was to be
expected, etc., etc., winding up with
''The offer is good for Hamilton and
COUNCIL is FULLY WARRANT
ED IN ACCEPTING IT."
This editorial came just few
| hours before council was to meet in
special session and "put it over" and
no doubt was intended to "ginger up"
and put backbone" into the members
of council so that they wouldn't fall
down on the job when the time came
1t was like doping man about to be
executed And goodness knows the
| five performing council members need
ed the stimulant, Judging from the
look on their faces during the special
session Wednesday evening. They all
had the look of hunted animals on
their countenances and the member
at-large, now seeking reelection,
could have been pronounced dead and
| gently laid away in casket,
so naturally dead did he look. Had
someone suddenly said "boo" he would
have tainted. And they all had prac-
| tically like expression on their
faces, except possibly the leader, who
seems to be brazen enough to face any
situation of the kind that was up
Wednesday night.
But getting back to the Journal
editorials On the same night the
Journal ran an editorial copied from
the Cleveland Times, run October End
and headed, "Wise Hamilton Tax
payers" In it's editorial the Cleve-
land paper referred to Hamilton re-
| ceiving bids which will allow it to
retire from the gas business and COM
mends the city on its wisdom" At
the same time advising Clevelanders
to turn down a proposition to issue
| $5OO,0OO worth of bonds for Cleve-
lands municipality owned electric
plant. Coming when it did it was
nuts" for the Journal, and with
seeming great glee the Journal ran
| the editorial in full There was
another editorial, however, which the
Journal failed to comment on. Funny
thing, too, this editorial appeared in
the Journal just two days before the
| editorials above referred to appeared.
| 1t was in the To-day" column writ
ten by Arthur Brisbane whom the
Journal touts as the greatest editorial
| writer of the day. Brisbane's article
evidently slipped by unknowing to the
editor, for it is cinch it would never
have appeared had he known of it.
Here is what Brisbane said
"As you travel across this country,
from one ocean to the other, reading
newspapers, lighthouses of informa-
ton and warning, along the way. you
keep in touch with the world.
"The Pueblo Chieftain,' published
in Colorado, 4,e9O feet above the sea
level, and read by healthy people,
gives information annoying to cor
poration owners, convinced that the
people haven't enough brains to do
anything for themselves.
'Ponca City, in Oklahoma" says the
Chieftain, with $4,000 population, is
free from taxes. Buy your house and
that is the end of II No fax pafharor