COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE TIMES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 721, 7 April 1922, Page 5

COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE TIMES.

(To the Editor).

Sir,, —I common with a good many other ratepayers I have been astonished at the revelations made in your leader of, last Friday, and the publication of the terms of the resolution taking advertisements from the Times in Tuesday’s issue. Are we really to understand that the resolution was carried in committee, so that it would not be reported? If so, it reflects indelible disgrace upon the Council, who must have known they were committting a mean aand dispJicable act, or they would not have tried to conceal it. If the members of the Council are so thin-skinned that they cannot ' bear even such moderate criticism as the Times gave them in connection with the scandalous dealings in electric-power options, they will probably feel relieved when the ratepayers replace them by more courageous and open-acting men, as they undoubtedly will at next election.—fl am, etc., CANDID. (It is unfortunately quite correct that the resolution of the County Council withdrawing all advertisements from the Times was meant to be kept from our knowledge and that of the public. As our readers are aware reporters are excluded from meetings in committee, and though pur representative was present when the report of the committee was brought up to be confirmed in open council, as it must be before becoming effective, the .device of “taking it as read” precluded him from knowing its tenor. Had the matter been done in the open we should have published it in our report of the? Council meeting, and have been able at least to tell our readers where to look for County advertisements. As a matter of fact it was not until our leader upon the subject was in type that a County ratepayer searched the minutes and gave us a copy.—Ed. Times.)