Show PENNYPACKER READS PAPERS p GO of nf Pennsylvania at least reads a few of o the Ute newspapers he is I so de desirous desirous sirous of muscling The other day he wrote a remarkable letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger In whisk which h he e thanked that paper for tor preventing him hint from violating the constitution of et the state In to the matter of some me appoint appointments apPOintments appointments ments This is not the first Instance ba tance on record by any means mean where w ere a 3 newspaper has kept a public officer o Icer from making a fool of himself but hat politicians rarely recognise the obliga obligation obligation tion In his letter Jetter the governor says Th The appointments to which you refer will w I Inot not be made and they probably would have hae been beeD if my attention had not boon been bf en attracted to your editorial That seems frank frant and manly enough but the thoi governor could not refrain from spoiling spoil spoiling spoilIng ing it all aU by the addition of this It Is ta Isone Isone one of the few occasions occa lODS when I hav have found a newspaper to be of real service in the conduct of public affairs That I 1 hat bat ungracious sentence might just justas as well have been left out It puts the Pennypacker letter Jetter about on a par with such an utterance as this th I from a man who has baa just accepted a donation lOr I Idon dont don t like you ou and I l dont don t like Uke your money bat bM Im going to take it be because because because cause it will keep me from going hun hungry hungry hungry gry Still the bare acknowledgment of the obligation from a man as notoriously noto notoriously notoriously opposed to a free press pres as Pennypacker means a great grea t deal It is 1 much more than anyone could have ex expected petted of at him And speaking of ot Peen packer re reminds remInds reminds minds us that his new libel or press muzzling law seem to have hae muzzled mowed a little bit As one bright has haa put it the only effect of ot the measure thus thu far has been to show that an illegal cartoon is very much funnier ier than a legal one Eer Ever since the bill b be became tamo ame a law the more prominent sylvania newspapers llew have been fiercely cartooning c Penny Pennypacker Pennypacker packer Quay Senator Penrose and others every very f day Jt It J t is evident eident that they are trying to II fc fore e libel suits with w th i a a view to deter the of ot the then j n statute but not one of ot the politicians attacked hs has dated darn ie gO so go late into court Perhaps they fear that th t the cartoon on case against them em be e a proved to the thesa sa tad on of ot any jury fury j ry that might begotten be begotten gotten together er In Pennsylvania This Thisie ie s the tile only oary conclusion that can can roe rea reasonably r be Ite drawn from frem their silence e |