The silver state. [volume], July 19, 1923, Page THREE, Image 3

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WHAT IS A GOOD NEWSPAPER?
A minister writes: “Can we not have
a whole week’s issue in which there is not
a single crime or divorce suit, or political
scandal or story of human frailty?
“Publish for a whole week all the good
things you can find in Winnemucca and the
world. Let your readers know what a
good town they have. It will be ‘news’ tc
them. It will relive them of the depres
sion that settles on them as they face the
daily grist of human sin. Give virtue and
kindness and good will a week’s publicity.”
The question is one every conscientious
journalist has ruefully asked himself ever
since the beginning of publicity. With the
same earnestness a pastor might sigh for
the day when he could dispense with read
ing the decalogue and could omit the
prayers for sinners.
In either case it can be little more than
a pious aspiration, since both church and
press deal with conditions of living. For
the newspaper, it has to be said that it is
primarily the handmaiden of history; day
by day it records what men say and do;
sin, it realizes, does not vanish because un
remarked. Society eliminates sin by de
tecting and denouncing it. Publicity is the
greatest agent of restraint The minister
who wrote the letter probably realizes this.
Nor would he be willing, on reflection, tc
welcome an ostrich journalism which, by
sticking its head into the sands, would set
no evil, hear no evil, and thus pretend to
believe that the community could do no
evil.
The newspaper is a reporter of events.
If it is less it evades its duty. But if it
searches out crime, not for the plain record
of it, but to enlarge on it, ornament it,
envelop it in the gilded robes of romance,
and suspend it like bait day after day be
fore the eyes of the public, then duty has
been long since left behind and such a
newspaper is with the panderers to crime,
and is popularly known as yellow.
Do men become good because the exist
ence of evil is ignored? Do communities
become good because the evils of society
are suppressed from knowledge? The key
to the moral conscience of this generation
is not in the existence of sin either in in
dividual or in community, but in the in
stant denunciation of it when discovered
and the proclamation of society’s ostracism
% of evil.
The newspaper, whose ethical princi
pals are sound, knows that it is its duty to
inform its readers each day of the truth
as it discovers it, neither more nor less. It
knows that its readers do not want to be
lulled into false complacency by the omis
sion of any part of society’s activity, good
or bad, any more than he wishes his in
telligence affronted and his home de
graded by the printed presentation of bale
fill exploitations and passion-provoking
distortions of the weakness of men and
women. The abnormal character of “bad
news,” sufficiently bad in its bare exist
ence, is the supreme compliment to thal
decent living confidently assumed to be
long to the great majority of citizens.
When men and women no longer yield
to passion and dishonor, good newspaper*
will be freed from including the records
in their columns. But, as the true record
of the times in which we live, those things
which men do and say as challenges to
common morality, must find their place for
the scrutiny and judgment of society. For
that is the weapon of reform and the news
paper's watchful contribution to good liv
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Faith is something that keeps inducing
. a man in the fall to lay away a straw hat
that will be thrown away in the spring.
ALASKA’S DAY HAS COME
Alaska experiences the dual advantages
of being picturesque and a long way off.
During two decades its story has been
often told, but without dispelling the
glamor with which the novelist of realism
has enveloped it Distance lends enchant
ment, but discourages personal investiga
tion.
President Harding is the first national
executive to visit the great territory to the
north and the significance of his visit is
that more than one hundred million pairs
of eyes follow him there. Where he goes
and what he beholds is national knowledge
as fast as wires can flash the word and
mails can carry the pictures. Thus, in a
sense, the American people are introduced
to Alaska, and many of them will discover
it something different from the bitter,
hardknuckled land of the novelist.
The visit is particularly timely through
the completion of the government railroad
to Fairbanks. This road penetrates the
rich agricultural valleys of the Susitna and
Nenana rivers to the important Fairbanks
district, through which flows the great
Tanana river with its neighboring mineral
deposits. Real development of Alaska has
waited on this railroad, for now it will be
possible for settlers to farm the abundant
valley, as large as the state of Iowa, and
3upply the mining centers for which Fair
banks is the focusing point. There prob
ably are thousands of sturdy Americans
who, once the true picture of Alaska’s op
portunity opens their eyes, together with
the asurance of transportation facilities,
would be glad to people this new frontier
for which experts prophesy a future com
mensurate with the great development of
the middlewest of the United States.
Ice and snow may be found in Alaska,
but also fat cattle and generous crops.
President Harding will experience both,
and his experience will be public property.
For such publicity the territory long has
petitioned; none will grudge those hardy
sons, who waited not on railroads, this
deferred revelation of the basis of their
faith. Alaska is the treasure-chest of the
Unitd States.
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DON’T ROCK THE BOAT
President Harding: “We have come thus
far, and thus fortunately, through the most
difficult period of reconstruction that we
have ever known. We have been sheltered
against the world storm of tendency to
social revolution. The best test of policy is
by results. By that test, we ask no more
than a fair and reasoned verdict on our
program. We ask that its results be com
pared with the showing, in these after-war
years, that can be presented by any other
country on the face of the earth. We ask
that you examine the contrast, thoughfully
and seriously, between the general state of
the public weal in this country and in
others. For our vindication, we point to a
great nation, its credit preserved, its indus
tries crowded to the point of capacity pro
duction, its people employed, its wage
scales high beyond all comparison with
any other in the world, its banking system
standing as the final bulwark of sound
money and the gold standard, and its aver
age level of comfort and prosperity unex
ampled among the races of men.”
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BEST PLACE ON EARTH
On the morning of the First of July, at
the beginning of the new fiscal and gov
ernmental year, there were several steam
ships full of immigrants waiting in Atlan
tic Coast harbors to be landed under the
annual allotments to the different nation
alities. However much the I. W. W., the
Bolshevists, the Socialists and some public
men have to say in severe criticism of the
Government of the United States and in
dustrial conditions here, it is evident that
the rest of the world looks upon the United
States as the best place on earth in which
to live. If the dissatisfied would only emi
grate to a country they like better, there
would be more room and opportunity for
those of other nations who would like to
come here.
OPINIONS OF OTHER NEVADA EDITORS |!
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Excerpts from Editorial Expressions in Nevada and (
Other Publications, Showing Trend of Public *
Sentiment in Other Places ,
MY LADY NICOTINE 1
There is very little romance con- i
lected with the dope traffic. The t
irrest of a San Francisco woman I
las unearthed an extensive con- I
ipiracy to violate the laws against i
;he sale of narcotics. It is not a <
iretty story. It would take more i
:han a woman to invest its sordid i
Features with anything resembling
romance. Sometimes we may feel '
in element of sympathy for a wo- I
man who is led into breaking some i
>f the laws by the necessity of <
making a living for dependents, I
but there is no redeeming fetaure i
connected with the traffic in nai- <
:otics. For the sake of an easy 1
profit with which to sustain an un- 1
earned and unmerited luxury the '
dope peddler plays a game of 1
rhance with the lives and happiness 1
af his victims in which all the cards ]
ire marked; 1
There are* occasions when it seems '
humane to a patient suffering from
m incurable disease to keep him <
under the influence of morphine to
ease the pain and smooth his jour
ney to the grave. But it is a ter
rible responsibility to take, because 1
it closes the dor to all earthly '
hope. It he should recover from
his original ailment he would be in
the clutches of another even worse.
From that dread affliction there '
is very little chance to escape when '
it has reached advanced stages.— 1
Carson ^ppeal.
“DOESN’T NEVADA
ADVERTISE 7”
Lemuel Bolles, National Adjutafit
of the American Legion, was a
passenger through this part of tlie
country recently, en route to Sa.n
Francisco and Los Angeles. M r.
Bolles chief interest, as his train
fled through the great stretches of
Nevada lands, was centered aboiA
its possibilities from the standpoint
of colonization.
“Doesn’t Nevada do anything -to
advertise these great stretches of
available lands?” Mr. Bolles Io-!
quired.
While the query may not have
been so pertinent in some localitue*
as in others, the question of water
having considerable to do with l.he
value of any advertising campaign
designed to bring settlers, it never
theless expressed once more the
general idea that much could be
done toward increasing the popu la
tion of this state'through the a te
dium of publicity accorded its : re
sources and opportunities. Becal tse
of the constant search of the • or
ganization which Mr. Bolles rep re
sents, for new lands upon wk ich
former service men may be local .ed
to advantage a lack of means 1 Cor
informing the nation at large up on
Nevada's great land areas may hi ive
seem more unpardonable to b iim
than would have been the cast w itjt
the average private citizen. 1 Jut
Bolles has had considerable I ex
perience with colonization. Be ci ted
the cases of two eastern sta tes
where large areas had bean cu lti
vated with crops and peopled w ith
substantial citiaens solely throi igh
the medium of publicity. Certai nly
the enterprise of eastern pa* pie
could be duplicated here under far or
sble conditions he thought.
Which brings to mind once at ore
the thought that Nevada may I >we
some of her sparsity of populat ion
to her own dereliction.—Elko In
dependent.
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HOW THE PRESIDENTS
TRIP IS PAID FOR
The New York World so* a
publication called Labor are tww pa
pers that will go to any king ths
in serving the cause of sociaBst de
mocracy. In recent issues tMqr join
in the statement or intimation that
the taxpayers of the country are
paying the expenses of the Mg party
accompanying the president on; his
Alaskan trip. Only the expenses* of
the president and his small im
mediate party, including two eabdnet
officers on official business are paid
as a matter of fact The news
paper correspondents and others
numerously accompanying the presi
dent must, and do, pay thalr own
fare and hotel bills. President Hard
ing has expended a very small por
tion of the executive travel al
lowance. The small bora socialist
democrats who are complaining
about the coat of the presidents
Alaskan trip sang paeans of praise
when President Wilson campaigned
for his league of nations at gov
ernment expense, and when he trav
eled to Europe twice with expendi
tures on a scale so lavish that they
dwarf the outlay of any other ex
ecutive for travel into insignafl
cance.—Tonopah Bonanza.
HE’S A CANDIDATE, OF COURSE
One dispatch says Mr. McAdoo is
not determined yet as to whether
he will be a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent, while another says that Gov.
Hunt of Arisons has endorsed Mr.
\
fcAdoo’s candidacy. The endorse- '
tent by Gov. Hunt ought of course 1
ettle the question, because the in
luence of Arizona in national af- 1
airs is so powerful as to leave no 1
tore to be said, but, curiously 1
nough, there will be a lot of people <
vho will aak: “Who is Gov. Hunt, 1
inyway?’’ 1
In any event, if Mr, McAdoo is
villing to go as far as to say that
le has not yet made up his mind,
t is quite settled. He is a candi
late. One might go farther and say
hat he was a candidate the day he
esigned from his father-in-law’s
abinet and went out fate the wide,
vide world to try and Make a
iving by the sweat of his fsee, for
here never has been any doubt in
he mind of political students that
dr. McAdoo sensed the growing un
>opularity of Mr. Wilson’s adminis
ration and decided to get out while
he getting was good.
Yes, indeed, Mr. McAdoo is a
■fndidate. He has never hesitated,
whatever impression today’s dispatch
nay leave upon the public. And,
f he has hesitated, remember the
>ld saying that “he who hestitates is
ost.’’—Reno Journal.
WHEN FORTUNE TURNS
Old Bill Dunlap, of Beaumont,
rexas, didn’t cut much ice in his
tome town a few weeks ago He
lad been well-to-do, but had lest
nost of his money, and fur fifteen
fears has pursued Lady Luck in
fain. Bankers refused to lend him
more money for his little rice farm,
ind merchants displayed their1 “No
Trust’’ signs when he appeared. It
was a case of cold shoulder yvith
a vengeance.
But prospectors found oil on an
old farm of Dunlap’s up in another
county, and after he lad been
offered a million for his land! people
began to speak to him again. Bank
ers forgot foimer coldness, and
storekeepers insisted that he take
anything in the store on credit.
Women who elevated their chins at
Dunlap’s daughters who had to work
found it remarkable easy to recog
nize them on the street, and the
iacal smart set realized it hadn’t
been so smart, after all.
All things considered, it seemed
as if Old Bill had become a promi
nent and respected citizen over
night, instead of just a poor farmer.
And it ia astonishing how promi
nent and respected a citizen may be
if he can write a big check.
Fortune seems to govern friend
ship to a big degree with .certain
people, and when the wheel turns
forward one’s calling list may look
like s telephone book. When it
turns backward, one’s friend* often
seem to be limited to the family
cat and village undertaker*—Elko
Free Press.
coffin™
BY U. S. IS SOUGHT
To transfer control of the world’s
silver market from England to the
United States is one of the primary
purposes of s pan-American con
ference on silvert to be held at Reno
in August. Hie conference wQl be
held under the official auspices of
the gold and silver investigation
commission appointed by the United
States senate on the last day of the
late congress. The chairman of the
commission is Senator Tasker L.
Odd re of Nevada. The other mem
bers of the senati >rial commission
are Messrs Walsh of Montana, Sterl
ing of South Dakota, Pittman ol
Nevada and Gooding of Idaho.
Formation of a silver export as
sociation and formulation of plant
for vigorous representation' of silvei
interests in oongress on farm blot
lines will also be discussed at Reno
All of the silver producing states of
North, Central and South Americj
will participate in the meeting
which ia the fi rst attempt ever madi
to league thena for common action
Not all otf them may favor the idei
of dethroning London pa the world’
silver center. Vast amounts o
British capital ore invested in Nortl
and South Anverica mines.
“The three Americas of the west
ern hemisphere,” aays Senator Od
die, “produce 90 per cent of th
world’s annual output of 175,000
000 U» 200,000,000 ounces of silvei
Mexico, the United States and Car
*“*> in the order named, mins, th
lion's share, which exceeds 150,000
000 ounces* Central and Sout
America, between them with an oui
pot of roundly 16,900,000 ounce
produce almost as marh so Europ
and Asia combined. It ia becaui
of this overwhelming American pn
dominance in the nilver industr
that it is desired to make New Yorl
instead of London, the mater whet
prices are fixed.
“London since ^tima Jsememorii
as regulated the silver market with 11
utocratic authority. A few bank-II
ra in Threadneedle atreet, like the 11
reat firm of Samuel Montague A11
lo. come together every morning 11
nd arbitrarily say what the world 11 {
rice of ailver for the next 24 hounll
hall be. It is fixed in British cur- I
ency, and, presumably, wheneverl|
cession demands in British inter-11
sts. || -
"That is not unnatural or even ||
eprehensible, as long as the silver ||
iroducers of the world car# to II
olerate London’s domination. If 11
here are valid reasons for the pew-11
>etuation of British control of the||
rilver market they will probably be ||
idvanced at the Beno conference. ||
rhere certainly will be urgent pro- I
josals that the American republics 11
■hall take in hand, in a spirit of||c
self determination, the regulation of||
in industry in which they are the||
main factors." jl
Senator Oddie is at great pains to | '
make plain that the Reno meeting ||
in no wise contemplates a props-11
Kan da either at home or abroad for II
bi-metalism. He insista there is no I
16-to-l business in the conference.il
Ha, himself, is a confirmed “sound ||
money” man and foreshadows that 11
sentiment at Reno will favor the II
maintenance of the gold standard ||
throughout the world. || j
“Nevertheless,” says Senator Od-1|.
die, “there ia legitimate occasion
for pan-American silver producers to 11
counsel and confer on the Male of 11
the industry. It is not in deeay but||
it certainly is in decline. j!
“The Reno conference aims toll
arrest that decline. Prices are ab-||
normally and inexcusably low. We II
shall discuss ways and means of 11
popularising the use of silver for 11
currency purposes in sil countries, II
particularly in lands other than then
United States. We need a silvern
export association, organised on the|| .
lines of the cotton export assorts-1|
tion. Its task will be to keep an ||
eye on everything that is happening ||
in the world market, in order that||
silver producers may shape their | \
policies accordingly. If
“Our principal aim, of course, is II
to evolve conditions that will justify ||
s greater output of silver. . Our 11
mines today do not approximate 11
maximum producing capacity. To |
expand output on safe and sane I
lines is phe ultimate objective of |
the Reno conference. Throughout 11
the world, Spring and ainee the |
war, governments .have inflated their 11
currencies with pM>*r issues. Sil-11
ver coinage has fallen into cone-11
sponding disuse and ,AilUPPute.”
As far as United States pro- I
dncery are concerned, 'Nevods. Utah, I
Montana and Idaho, are OUT great 11
silver states, they frankly aspire toll
a more closely knit organisation at 11
Washington. They want to be able 11
to make the voice of the industry||
felt in congress as the farmers do. II
They believe that for them, aa for I
other*, Acre ia strength only in |
union. IV one recent piece of nil-11
ver legislation, the Pittman act, 11
was an emengency war measure and 11
even that, (the silver men claim, ia 11
now being violated by a hostile ||
treasury. II
Senator Oddie succeeded to the 11
chairmanship of the senate gold and||
stiver commission after the death of 11
Senator Sam Nicholson of Colorado. ||
He is s practical silver mining engi- |
neer, having been one of the to-II
caters of the famous Tonopah ailver
fields of Nevada. | i
He is also president of the Wash-1|
ington chapter of the American In-|
stitute of Mining and Metallurgical |
Engineers and will be the chairman |
of the senate committee on mines |
and mining in the 68th congress. |
Senator Oddie intends advocating |
the creation of a department of |
mines as a cabinet office, declaring |
that the mining industry ia entitled |
to such recognition because of its |
paramount importance to American |
national welfare.—Tonopah Bon
anza.
Two Care Turned Over
.Two automobiles scraped bub cape
on the Rene-Carson highway two
miles north sf Steamboat Springs
and four men were injured, not
seriously, when their Podge tonring
car twice turned over and was com
pletely wrecked.
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