minnesota the land of lakes and streams and forests head waters of the mississippi the red river the st lawrence longfellow inspiration where the falls of mina ha ha flash and bleed among the oak trees of good hardy stock where those men and women who settled the upper mississippi valley with them they brought traditions of work and thrift they built a great livestock industry they developed fine dairy herd minnesota became a buffer state in the ranges they found deposits of iron ore and minnesota became the iron state from the pioneers was a wholesome respect for education minnesota in the twentieth century is known for its progress in the arts and sciences world renowned other works of its men and women in programming human life it has become a great center of medical progress a wealth of thriving industry makes minnesota a state of balance healthy sound economy a spirit of neighborly cooperation a love of individual freedom inherited from the early settlers friendly people the sincere their civic obligations good neighbors this is minnesota company crossroads of the state minneapolis a sounding board for the progressive upper mississippi valley and the spokesman for these good neighbors are their newspapers the minneapolis star journal and the morning and sunday tribune a city within a city neighbors working together bringing all the new to all the people to these men and women freedom of the press is not only a privilege it's an obligation they have chosen one of their number to tell us about the making of the star journal and trivium this is columnist cedric adams good friend of all minnesotans alone neighbors here in this organization we try to be good citizens and we believe in supporting good leadership in our community our big job of course is to keep you readers informed we'd like you to see just how this is done from the time the news happens until the finished paper is delivered at your front door to make up a newspaper staff it takes a lot of specialists and their work needs direction and correlation it takes an experienced staff of editors to do this and them only results into the minneapolis star journal and tribune any morning or evening the city room presents a busy scene every member of the team is a clock watcher we have to be for the printing of each edition is a challenge for film a promise to deliver to the reader on time to save precious minutes of foreigners phone in local news items to rewrite man who put the news in story far at the copy desk all stories are checked for accuracy and background material is added to make them more interesting to the reader national and foreign news rushed over the teletype machines from associated press united press international news service chicago daily news foreign service and our own washington bureau all reporters dig up news of special to upper mississippi valley reader are telegraph editor and a core of assistants and all the teletype material just as the crew with a copy desk works of the local stories all the news stories are sent by pneumatic tubes down to the composing room and that's a world of its own are men and machines that the news into metal type the skill fingers of these type setters are like those of a concert organist but their music is a march of world events cast in lines of metal that's our story gets into tight now how the pictures there are an important part of good reporting of the news our own staff of photons refers covers the local scenes or pictures help to tell the story and they make it more interesting we also get many pictures from far corners of the world where photo brings us action scenes which are just been taken several thousand miles away years to perfect the technique of sending pictures by wires comparatively simple it's not a matter of sending the whole picture at once but of separating the picture and the fine lines sending those lines over a wire and assembling them at the other end let's suppose we have a picture or a pattern which we want to send it to another location and the only way to send it is through a small tube for our purpose we'll make this wanted up again on the negative giving us a duplicate image of what happened to the stunt car and airplane at the valet and here is the finish picture just eight minutes by wire and ready for the picture editors some pictures must be retouched to make them prints that are this is done in the art department other artists doest actual maps to make the day's big news more graphic the staff turns out only artwork required on a metropolitan newspaper day for a picture or a drawing can be printed it has to be etched on a metal plate that's done in the engraving department by first photographing the picture through a screen screen breaks the picture in the thousands of tiny dots each of these dots pictures is chemically transferred to a zinc plate then an acid eats away the zinc between the dots leaving the dots to print the pictures look but fine quality engraving calls for real craftsmanship and these minnesota boys can deliver ravings and stories are brought together here in the composing room the men who assemble the type in pictures on a pencil layout are dummies which the new staff design that far i appeal the flat pages of metal the map is an exact impression of the phone newspaper pa back in the main press room everything is made ready for the run of this edition and eight tons are used every week in this plan to clean white papers waiting great roams of it waiting for the minute hand of the clock the flick of a master switch and the way they roll at a speed capable of turning out many thousands of completed papers every hour papers to the mail room every second count job isn't over not until the last paper gets to its readers hundreds of mail carriers distribute newspapers to farm homes and there are five thousand carrier sales in your own sons perhaps or your neighbor's boys these young fellows are part of the newspaper organization getting valuable business experience this job teaches salesmanship builds character develop sound bodies by industrious carrier sales and the paper reaches its readers eagerly await the news of the world today we've seen how this news gets into the papers now let's see some of the work of the men who get the news from our own correspondents cover the battle fronts of the world they follow the fleet in the air force the army and the marines send back firsthand new news of our own minnesota boys and the part they play in the big fight our eskimo got the first complete story of this famous highly editorial comments on city state national and world affairs are written by men you've heard and other commentators of the star journal  we believe that a newspaper should express its own views for a just and readers should have the same privilege this is the american way and everybody's ideas you'll find letters from our neighbors that often disagree with  editorial views honest opinions openly expressed don't build sound decisions still other opinions to help keep the citizens of the upper mississippi valley informed that we bring the viewpoints of these well known columnists the gallup poll brings still more opinions and the national opinion poll the views of the american people and then there's our own poll which tells us what the people of the northwest are thinking about local state a national affairs of special interest here politics for a third of a century minnesota and national politics have been covered by another well known neighbor mike kalar and mike believes in reporting fairly and completely all sides of controversial question he's proudest of the fact that not even his wife knows how a vote at least that's what mike thinks food producers and consumers to welcome the timely information prepared by e w minnesota homemakers keep up on menus and rationing problems through alice bennett's column in the morning tribune and here's another department i'm good neighbors in this corner every day you know it's your friendly help that has made this corner our corner when there is a need for something you always open your hearts i remember the request from our boys in the south pacific they wanted old jewelry to swap to the as for things they needed you came through as usual in the good old minnesota spirit with five tons of costume jewelry in fact you've always exceeded the goal when there was a need no matter what it was and i'm grateful for the opportunity of meeting with you every day but let's get on with our story virginia's average column is written from first hand experience sports games something new to eat something new to try to keep the readers interested a peek speaking of something new to try their other pages of a newspaper full of ideas a dress shop announces something new and attractive and seller meet through the pages of the newspaper and both are please and employers seek help address men know well they're a janitor or an executive perhaps he writes a note to every reader of the star journal in tribune and here again minnesotans who may never have met during the course of a lifetime get together through their meeting place the want ad section of their newspaper minnesotans are proud of their charlie charlie johnson sports editor of the star journal in  form over the group of gridiron they bring back a complete story in words and in pictures often more than three thousand action pictures are taken during a single game the best pictures are chosen for the tribune sports section on the street barton naturally writes about boxing and wrestling men like bernie swanson peterson round out a staff of experts to keep our sports pages alive and sparkling encouragement of clean sports by the star journal and tribune and clues the famous turn writers of the northwest  boys and girls in the manual silver state sponsored by these papers jimmy robinson is on the go most of the time speaking on outdoor life and sports here and there over the northwestern pounding out his daily column clubs and visits the annual says a dinner for disabled veterans is it almost guess that he's indian name means comes with a good tidings covering the cultural  america's great critics he keeps eyes and ears open for native talent for minnesota's a great center of the arts it supports one of the world's outstanding symphony orchestra one which is entertained music lovers in forty leadership needs support so as good neighbors we endeavor to support good leadership and to assume our share of responsibility this is discussed and weekly meetings of our supervisory staff out of such meetings came the decisions to help the scrap salvage campaign victory garden clean slate bonzai scholarship awards and many other projects we hope you've enjoyed this little visit behind the pages to make a newspaper takes more than just the ability to write and print it calls for good honest principles we constantly strive to edit these newspapers so they will be worthy every day visitors and hundreds of thousands of homes we think that the purpose of a newspaper is to present all of the news quickly and accurately to give you the views of the best known commentators and also the opinions of our neighbor like attorneys in a court of law we lay all the evidence before you it's up to you the reader our ever to make final decisions you are the jury and your information and knowledge on your thinking on your carefully considered decision is the pen the progress of our community and of our nation