The Camas Hot Springs Exchange

A Warning To Gossipers- The Lying Kind, Tuesday morning we were called on the phone and the gossiper at the other end began to tell us that So & So had told her that we had refused to publish the Mobile Tuberculosis service -had said that it was advertising and should be paid for. Now this was so absurd that any one could even think of such a thing and as when people gossip to us, we want to be able to look into the face in order to guess just which is the liar. the --the party of the first part or the party of the second part (meaning the one repeating it to us. We interrupted the one at the other end of the phone by saying that anyone telling her such a thing was a liar, and after getting the name hung up. Now we find this a good place to give fair warning to anyone who dares put our name to an untruth, and if we hear of this again, the story will be published along with the names. A number of years ago we had to do this, and we hope it does not become our unpleasant task to do the same thing again, but if we hear anything more, that is just what we are going to do. We hate a liar and our greatest ambition is to bring all of them to judgment. Of course anyone who reads this paper knows we would not refuse to publish anything free of charge, where the public good is concerned. During the war we gave page after page to the selling of war bonds, worked many hours overtime selling and making out reports,-gave column after column to the Red Cross as well as giving of our money, published many articles about USO, the clothing collection and everything that was put on in order to help the public, and no charge was ever made. We have never charged the clubs for their announcements. During the war, 3 years of it, we were sending out from 125 to 150 papers to the boys in the service from this valley, and there was no charge. We ask--has anyone in this valley given anymore as a public service than we have Now this is a warning, and we don't mean may be. During the revolution in this country. the patriots carried a flag with a snake on it, and the words "Don't tread on me". We have a better way of dealing with snakes than treading on them.