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Show PASSING ADVICE Last Saturday morning as we were quietly looking over our exchanges, we were startled to hear the sound of heavy footsteps foot-steps and a loud and thunderous thunder-ous voice, causing us to quake with fear and trembling, which reminded us of that fear we had when we climbed up to the top of the Savai'i volcano through smoke and sinders, and looked down into that awful pit as it poured fourth a torrent of lava running down the slopes of the j mountains into the valleys be-! be-! low destroying thirteen villages, homes and property and whatsoever what-soever came before it until finally fin-ally it reached the great ocean, at a distance of about ten miles from the crater, pouring the red hot moulten lava into the mighty migh-ty deep where great explosions took place causing earthquakes and tidal waves said: "Good Morning!" The owner of the voice was none other than that of our fellow townsman, Mr. C. G. Purrington, the moving picture pic-ture show man. After taking a chair he began on us in regard to an article that was published in the Pyramid Pyra-mid of April 11th, denouncing a fraud and faker, Prof. Zelriss, who appeared at the Melba Theater The-ater one week ago last Tuesday evening and who was in very deed a fraud as we have heretofore here-tofore stated and which was also al-so flcknnwlprlcrprl hv Mr Pur rington.' But what we cannot understand, under-stand, is why Mr. Purrington should take exception and become be-come so inflamed with anger over an article which was the truth, and was acknowledged by him as the truth, without it was the few lines at the bottom of the article, which to quote were "and it is to be hoped that in the future the management of the Melba will be more careful care-ful in his selections and not sting his patrons as they were stung last Tuesday evening," and we sincerely hope that the management will be more careful care-ful of this in the future. It is our aim tq boost any public pub-lic enterprise that will help to make our little city better, in either a financial or social way and to that end we will always work and give our hearty support sup-port and in publishing the article arti-cle regarding Prof. Zelriss, we feel justified, because not only does nearly every family in Mount Pleasant read the Pyramid, Pyra-mid, but there are more than twice as many copies go to other oth-er towns in the state and by reading the article people would not get taken in by the faker. Again Mr. Purrington stated that we have never boosted any public enterprise for the city that was legitimate, but we had "our little hammer out and knocked." We defy anyone to say that we have not always put in a good word for anything that was legitimate and above board and things that were not ; we have either let alone or com-jmented com-jmented on as we have felt justified jus-tified in doing. This we can back up by the files in this of-'fice, of-'fice, and as a passing remark we devoted all the editorial space of the issue of March 7th telling what a fine prod;clion was exhibited at the Melba Theatre one evening together with all the free advertising we gave him, and to this day he has not even thanked us for it. We have been in the past very modest in things of this kind and have been approached by innumerable business men of the city and criticised for not dealing justly with such men who come through our midst; and why we have not commented comment-ed upon this or that, but have heretofore refrained from so doing. But in the future, as a fearless independent newspaper we will deal with such subjects as may come to our attention in a manner as we may see fit. , A newspaper is a public organ and is read by the public and trends toward to-ward the moral welfare and uplifting uplift-ing of the community, and to this end the Pyramid has always work-pd work-pd since the date of it establishment establish-ment in the year 1890. I Notwithstanding the threats Mr. Purrington gave the editor to never again advise him to be careful in anything in the future through the columns of the Pyramid, we give the passing advice in this issue that it you want to get honey from the bees don't kick the hive. |