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Show The editor of the Salina Sun observes that to tell the truth when it ought not to be told is often the meanest thing a newspaper or a person can do. It is easily possible for a truth to do more harm than a lie. We believe the worst habit of the worst newspaper is hunting hunt-ing up and printing truths that are not called for by any public interest, and the effect of whose publication is to bring shame and sometimes ruin upon individuals or families. Men and women have been driven to suicide by having their early mistakes or misfortunes served up in sensational newspapers for no purpose other than to make racy reading. Some of the most detested social pests are persons who plume themselves on their love of truth. Between the man or woman who will tell a white lie to shield another and the one who, in season and out of season, insists on telling "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," commend us to the former. |