Show nc r T L rasy MR STAE lio JAM AN explanation there is one thin thing 0 the roosevelt standard can truth fully say and that is it has never indulged in mudsling mud sling ing and it never will the da day y has passed when newspapers made it a common practice to abuse each other people no longer pay their money to read what one newspaper man thinks of his competitor what they want is the n hews aws and the legitimate paper will ove give n it to them without comment the newspaper per that tha t is conducted on these modem methods and maintains mant ains a high 0 moral tone wins its way into the hearts of the people and lias a standing and an influence which gr grows and extends with vi t h every issue the people can call not he be fooled they know that when the hit bird flutters the arrow has found its mark As to the harmston death the standard went to press a few hours after it occurred it made a brief mention of the fact and the following issue it ponta contained ined a lengthy of the life of the deceased in connect connection ion with a full account of the funeral the fact that the entire matter was published in ill the same issue made the story complete and valuable for mailin mailing to relatives and friends of the family this is good journalism so far as an error creeping in the due to the inaccuracy of the myton free press article there is nothing serious about that although of course it would have been better to have had the correct date published the free press has copied news items bodily from the standard and E express without giving due credit and we want it to know that it is welcome to continue the practice bigger newspapers than any published in in the basin exercise this liberty the fact that sonic some of the type used in the standard ib set up on oil the linotype machine at vernal is surely not so bad as printing 0 the entire duchesne courier supplement every week at the office of the flit myton tryfon free press people who live in glass houses should not throw stones there can be no criticism ot the amount of taxes paid by the standard on its plant and real estate it has paid more taxes into the treasury of du chesne county than any other paper its employees livo and spend their money in roosevelt the standard works loyally for the ing ing cr of Roosevel ts commercial interests and qi at the same tinn is a booster for all parts of duchesne Duch esue county the prosperity of our county is the prosperity of roosevelt so far as one of the owners of this paper not living livin in in roosevelt is concerned that 18 ia farfetched far fetched the same criticism s could apply to the peppard peps seed co the leslie ashton sons sells co the golden rule r store Gep liari stores co occidental seed co and other big bi concerns in roosevelt such stich a criticism is the cheapest claptrap clap trap if communities muni ties exacted that men melt with means to invest should make their residence where they establish their business many in my a flourishing 0 metropolis would have remained a struggling 0 0 villa village 0 e broadminded men understand this ibis thorough thoroughly 11 ay and any comment from us is really unnecessary |