The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-18
Walter WincheII
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 The editor of The Mouse RiveI Farmers Press tthe official papeI of McHenry County and City oi TOwner, North DakOta) remarks:.
 T got bone to pick with Walter Winchel. Where does he get thai way, anyway? He's ridieuling the weekly papers with his ''The Hick- town News-Press', which appear: in his syndicated column now and then. He has notion, I suppose that he writes in the vein of a small town weekly newspaper man We'll, he don't. Walter just hasn't read the weekly papers for thirty forty years. They don't write ye scribe, ye ed, etc. in the news co., umnS anymore. They don't use the editorial plural or personal pro- nouns like this one. In his mock cry, Winchell throws in editorial opinion here and there in his news items, and ends with some expres- SionS as so say we all, ha-ha', i've presume and as the well known sayin' goes
 No, w. w., your weekly news paper reader of today does not read articles with constructions like yours in your Hicktown News-Press, to wit: Mrs. O'Neill's little girl Sally informs the News-Press that reports of a wedding ain't so. Better: luck next time, so say we all.' That ain't the way you read it in the old home town weekly, Walt"
 From the leading editorial of The Hawley (Pa.) Times:
 Recently Walter Winchell, who views the Babylonian aspects of life through crow-feet eyes. drew him. self barrage of objections for minicking a small-town newspaper .--or at least what the critics in- terpreted as Winchell,s conception of a small-town weekly. The cri- ticism, as printed in Winchells col umn, were quotations from small- town newspaper editorials. Needless to say, the editors hotly deneid the hayseed implications of Winchell They pointed to the radio, the movies and the automobile as de- stroyers of the limited boundaries and isolation of fifty years ago They inferred that small-towners were no different than their city cousins. We can't help but concur in these opipions. As an editor of small weekly newspaper in a small town, we have no objection to MT Winchel!'s 'Hickville' column, for 'Hickyille' dull also will find all large cities dull"
 Dear Walter: Ever since the old Graphic days I've been reading you When you started The Hicktown News-Press I thought you were play ing in strange pastures because ] knew that field so well. My dad and have published six weeklies Frankly I was surprised at the ac- curacy and intimacy you displayed on the subject. Where the hell did you get 1t? It was swell to see you publish those complaints from real Hicktown editors and too bad they muffed the real idea-4the good natured fun-poking, mean Swell that is. until one of them said that there are no more country towns because we here in Hicktown wear the same clothes, ssee the same movies, buy the same motor cars read the same books, etc. NUTS!
 
 T lived in New York 12 years and the guy who wrote that-for any odds-is one of those who visits The Bigtown every other year for a few days and becomes an authority Try buying a suit in Kewanna that looks anything like a Banks or Brooks model. even under the arms Go to our library some day and ask for the last four or five Book of the Month offerings. Try find- ing a party like I have gone to with Red Dolan. Skolsky and the other fellows when I worked over on The Daily News down on Park Row Walter, we used to have such good times. Somehow I've never found them in Hicktown. There was Jock Whitney, Tommy Ryan, Peevey Wells and so many others. There was Moriarty's when it was over on E. 58th. You and Mark Hellinger making the rounds and then. later, a more sane era-although the other was more fun.
 Well. I'm out here now because I like being my own boss, but on my trips back to New York two or three times a year, I'll bete I have more fun than the guys who wrote what I'm raying about will have in their long-but long-small town lifetime. Sincerely yours,
 HI. H. Gould.
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