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Show Ruminatin M . Roundabout 1 In whieli Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then while said Kumina: or can enjoy seeing the sparks fly. Those people, if any there are, who are not reading the school notes appearing in The News each week are missing, among other things, some striking paragraphs on the early history of Milford. For instance: How many of the present residents of the town can vision getting their culinary water and water for their horses of that day from a single community com-munity well? Ant the one - sentence "stories" submitted by the lower grades are surprising revelations of the development develop-ment going on in their young ' minds. Our good friends, Judge and Mrs. E. W. Clay, pioneer settlers of Burbank, in the west end of Millard county (though always we like to think of it as being in Beaver Bea-ver county) were interested observers ob-servers of some of the machinery in The News office Wednesday af-4 af-4 ternoon. Margie Burbank Clay is a native of Ludlow, Vermont, where her father edited a weekly newspaper, The Voice Among the Mountains, for many years, which afforded Mrs. Clay a bit of an acquaintance ac-quaintance with old-time type-getting and distribution when she was a young girl. Also, her father fa-ther was at one time a teacher in the Black River academy, a well known New England preparatory school, and, as such, taught the father of the late President Calvin Cal-vin Coolidge. Mrs. Clay and the man who was to be president also attended this school but at different differ-ent times. The little community of Burbank Bur-bank was named for Willard Burbank, Bur-bank, a brother of Mrs. Clay, who had much to do with railroad construction con-struction of an early day, while another brother, George, also an engineer, was the first to make a success of harnessing Niagara Falls, and also engineered the construction of Croton aqueduct, carrying to New York its first dependable de-pendable water supply. Years ago, while living in a sec-ton sec-ton where good coal was plentiful and plenty cheap we used to feel sorry, traveling along highway high-way 91, for the editor men and others in the inland towns, who seemed forever doomed to the use of wood if they were to keep warm in winter. Not by the wildest stretch of the imagination could we have visualized a time when good coal would be selling in Beaver for $1 to $5 less than here in Milford, on the railroad. rail-road. Yet such is the case! In justice to the local dealers and railroad, however, our information infor-mation is that orrly a few cents of the $2 raise in the price of stove lump coal (now $11 a ton) goes to the railroad, the remainder going go-ing to' the mine operators. And the latter would better look out for soft landing places! plac-es! Such a price to the consumer con-sumer becomes well nigh prohibitive pro-hibitive and compels would-be users to resort to substitutes. So long as we shall be at the helm of a newspaper we do not expect to be free of criticism and plenteous helpings of free advice as to what to print in a newspaper. Of these dosages of free advice we have no monopoly, by any manner of means. Other newspapers are not spared nor are the merchants, lawyers, bankers or professional men of a community. com-munity. Luckily, such free advice costs the giver nothing, otherwise oth-erwise the bankruptcy courts would bo worked to death. Constructively intended and tactfully given, however, such advice ad-vice will usually be received good naturedly and many times acted on to the benefit of all concerned. con-cerned. Given otherwise, such free advice sometimes becomes tiresome, tire-some, to say the least, and calls for something drastic. At the moment we can think of no more drastic treatment than to invite our critics to come into The News office for a few weeks, take off their coats and get this editing impulse out of their systems. Giving Giv-ing a critic unrestrained opportu-(Continued opportu-(Continued on last page.), o Rwninatin a critic an unrestrained opportunity opportu-nity to try to fill the boots of the! one he finds at fault, whether in civic, business or professional life, j is almost invariably a fool-' proof remedy for those who find ! themselves bitten by the free ad- vice bug, according to our observations. obser-vations. And what a cropper I hey ccme when they tumble from their magnificent obsession ! In this particular case, we should be glad to do the work our! friends to reap the glory if glory there might be (and pay the bills which are as sure as taxes. Why more than just one issue? For the simple reason1 that any torn, dick or harry can I splurge for an issue. But the busi- ness of running a newspaper and trying to make a iving out of it, as with any other business or profession pro-fession is a week-in-and-week-out matter which sometimes approaches ap-proaches the monotonous. But, who can tell, maybe(?) some critic friend would become be-come so enamored of his new new job that he would forsake all others and buy us out! |