Show THEY CALL ON US early last sunday afternoon when the news staff was busily s preparing for sabbath school the office was invaded by a gang of journalistic high binders from salt lake and provo who had heard a about price and wanted to seethe see the sights complying 1 wit er requests qu the local newspapermen abandoned their I 1 religious ante intentions eions ons a and showed the visitors the postmaster post master B R mcddnald ar cop copy of the eastern utah advocate arter fter ft er ti t it t boys 6 looked over the lesser attractions and were unanimous nani all 9 in ri th tho thoc 1 0 v 10 that la hk can stay the progress of a auction ion a ing 8 eq i many natural advantages r I 1 the valuable a tb pg ig about the newspaper toiler is that he be tells y YO you 0 I 1 tho the truth alto abo lf jf no beating about bush W wah h him hira WA men aad thing things and he vets of the faker and the mental and moral delinquent so don dont t ask him what he thinks of you or your scheme unless you expect him to tell you for exactly what ho he will do and ninety nine times in a hundred hes right about it his value to the people who employ him lies largely in his ability quickly aud truly to weigh and measure individuals and conditions of course in his wis newspaper he often too often of ten says things which he be knows are false but policy and theman the man who furnishes the brains of the average newspaper must please his owner or lose his job get the average editor or reporter away from his desk however and you will find his opinion of things worth while and holy moses how he does tell you the truth about yourself I 1 we had a few samples of this forthright expression of the opinion from the boys sunday we were foolish to be caught off our guard long enough to ask city editor wilson of the telegram what he thought of our latest issue and of us generally and the grouch of salt lake journalism had bad the gall a 1 ti th u honesty to tell us from where we now sit it appear that any worthy cause would be served by reproducing any part of what this man wilson said the visiting party was composed of the fol following lowing gentlemen who mould public opinion in the metropolis and throughout the I 1 state N L never loser wilson city editor evening Tele telegram grami s W D want a drink bratz sporting editor evening telegram earnest when the old man is looking at him evans cartoonist salt lake lahe tribune J D john doe larsen until last saturday a respectable reporter but now fallen to the humble and meaningless es estate of proprietor of the utah county democrat being sunday it was ans impossible to regale the distinguished visitors with the brand of inspiration behind which they are usually sitting but with the assistance of past meridian geiwitz Gui witz whitmore mcdonald middleton and a few other citizens they were led to the water trough and cordially invited to go the limit we are saying nothing about the mysterious disappearance pe arance of two bottles of red ink and we make no personal reference to mr wilson or anyone else about fifteen minutes before the arrival of the train which was to carry the boys back to the city some waterlogged water logged pencil pusher suggested lets get out a newspaper in ten seconds the whole gang was bubyr note the result in this issue of the news in the helter to get out this special newspaper it was unction to the soul to note how the members of the telegram staff turned down all the suggestions of city editor wilson who has daily for months been riding rough shod over his betters in chiq hl 13 mad rush to t beat the loathsome contemporary to the street they paid him about as much attention as they usually give a bartender who is just going off wata and the czar of the telegram local room was for a quarter hour at least pushed back into the oblivion ion where he and all city editors for that matter will somi day clim a permanent asylum asyl uni but a single shadow of regret was cast over the occasion thi the failure of dave gill and bennie hite to accompany the bunch it was explained that the t some would be funny man had nailed their the 1 ir feet to the floor of buffet and they had been unable to extricate themselves in time to catch the train |