Show THEY ARE BEHIND THE TIMES Once when the Kearns agency de dej declared j dared that Utah was years year behind her sister states The Herald Republican took issue with that state statement ment We Wo believe belleve the state wa waher behind her sister states in anything any thin That seems to have been error The Tribune Is behind the times behind i newspapers in the sister states and i if i there be any brother rother states is behind behina good newspaper work In them theme too That scandalous slander of Governor Governo Spry this untruthful charge that Sen Son Senator Senator ator Smoot did not enter the Unitarian church last Sunday and the explanation ex explanation plana tion the Tribune has made ot of its report jn i in the matter proves conclusively that tha the Podunk Clarion is an publication In comparison In a labored article published Fri Friday Friday day the Tribune convicts Itself of moss mossback mossback mossback back journalism that be tol tolerate crated erate in Po Poey ey county In any state other than Utah If th the governor I vernor attending the President o othe ot of the United States had been as having refused to enter cuter a church o othe of the Presidents choice basing his re refusal refusal refusal on the statement that his re religious religious convictions would not permit him to do such a thing if a United States senator also of the Presidents President entourage had been heen reported as refus refusIng refusIng refusIng Ing to enter the church for tor the same sam reason the paper to which such a state stat of affairs was reported would have In Interviewed interviewed the governor and the senator senate before printing anything Even in Posey county the statesmen of a reporter that neither governor no nor senator could be reached by telephone would not have been accepted The E re Ie reporter porter all the reporters in Posey would have been assigned to the duty of interviewing those officials before s so strange a report would have been pub published concerning them We Ve are glad the Tribune has con confessed confessed confessed that th t it is years be behind behind behind hind its us Journalistic brothers It saves save the effort on the part of or any anyone one else elseI I And in Posey if any any owner of a paper pape found that paper publishing so im improbable Improbable probable a ate ry without investigating i If i it were true that owner would call th the I responsible heads of the establishment establIshment into his private office and when they came ame out they have any heads headst at t all For in Posey county a blunder plus Infamous cussedness Is the worst of crimes rimes And the Tribune Is far more than han a quarter century behind that standard of Journalism By the Tribunes managing editor who vho makes free use of ot two columns to print rint his confession he fired the lying reporter Yet that reporter brought in just what he was expected and required to bring In n He H brought just what the Tribune wanted And the man who printed the slanderous untrue and inexcusable ar article tide icle without investigation should fol foll oV l v the discarded reporter down the pathway treet street But whether they go or stay they have the proud satisfaction of knowing they hey have in their recent conduct struck highwater mark of immoral journal journalIsm Ism sm Nothing quite so shameful quite so Inefficient quite so clumsy will be bedone bedone bedone done in the next hundred years Either here or in the sister states |