Delending the Logger

(From the Four L Lumber News) lle rvas roughly dressed, said the great news organ, and ther'efore must have been a logger. That, we take it, is the sound logic of a news reporter.

We had thought by our mighty editorial efforts to have laid the libel low long befor'e this, but it cropped up again the other day in a Portland newspaper. Describing a young yegg who had set upon an old man and robbed him of his money and watch, the paper said: "He was roughly dressed, apparently a logger."

It happens that we know a number of newspaper men and not all of them are exactly Beau Brummels in the matter of attire. But because of that fact we would not say that a yegg was probably a newspaper man if he rvas "roughly dressed."

The real logger, we would inform the daily press, can and does dress better than the average reporter. His clothes are likely to be well-kept, his face clean-shaven-r,vithout the small thing affected by so many reporters and termed by them a moustache-his shoes shined and, yes, his finger nails free from the mourning edge noticeable in so many pefsons-even newspaper men.

No, today's logger in town is not likely to be roughly dressed; nor is he moie given to acting rough than any other person, including newspaper men.

We suggest that the press of these parts adopt a new comparison. We will even go so far as to offer a constructive idea. Why not, if things continue as they have of late, say, "He was roughly dressed, probably a sawmill operatortt ?