Evening times-Republican., 1903-09-16
Entered at the Postoffice at Marshalltown
Iowa, as second-class mail matter.
SECRET OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE

There was never q time Wnen q uaiis
naner was so necessary and filed a
want so insistent as at present The
news of a neighborhood. of a state or
OF a single nation fails to suffice. 10
the great news gathering, news pup
ashine agencies and the multitudinous
news absorbing public there are nellh-
,r neighborhoods nor nations. Inc
newspaper rakes the world day after
law for its features and Its reader
,almly awaits the synopsis of one days
hfe of whole planet and gratlfies ms
desire for current knowledge without
irving thought to the ant-like aetiv-
lty which has made his pleasure IN his
evening paper possible.
II is this desire on the part of the
reader and the effort to satisfy 1t tha1
has made the world narrow enough 10
be photographed upon eight pages OF
aaily paper. An uprising in China is
rhronicled in Marshalitown Within an
hour. A clash between Turks ana the
Insurgents is reported IN Iowa before
The smoke of the rifles has llftea froF
HE Macedonian hills AMI gorges. Ihe
aetails of a massacre are laid before
the reading public Ave thousand miles
from the scene before the blood OF the
yictims has dried upon the pavements
The shadow of European political
changes falls on America as quickly as
II does over Europe and the making OF
! new pope is flashed to New York by
those indefatigable agents of publicity.
the American newspaper correspond
ents while the ballots are still ablaze,
and London is notified from America
Nv American newspaper enterprise or
,he consummation of a worlds event.
comparatively speaking. under its very
aose. Possibly few among the mult,-
Nude Of daily newspaper subscribers
have realized the systematized and
eternal vigilance OF an army of trained
lews gatherers. the expenditure of for
rlcal wires and cables, the machines,
mechanics ard all the marvellous en-
,rgy that centers upon the making OF
the newspaper TO be read at the desk
er beside the evening lamp and cast
carelessly Into the waste basket when
It's information has been absorbed.
Still ii is that very newspaper read
daily and thrown aside that gives the
average American that wide knowledge
OF affairs and familiarity with the
world in general which so astonishes
the European tourist In this country
He reads the paper. He follows the
armies Of intervention in China and
watches the stand Of the besieged ie-
cations to a wide knowledge of the
Chinese situation He learns the geog-
rauh y ssnd the possibilities of the Phil
sbpfres. the routes OF travel and traf-
fic on the Pacific and draws his own
differences about the advisability and
profit of an eastern connection for the
United States. The Kishinef massa-
cres set him delving into Russia's
geography and politics. He studies
Manchuria thru the news reports,
learns of Servia from the interest
awakened by spectacular regicide,
and dropping these as the leaves of his
current encyclopedia of events futter
over day by day turns to Macedonia
and the terrible Turk. "The world is his
oyster" served on the half shell at his
supper table and seasoned with the
condiments of local happenings and
editorial comment The daily newspa-
per is the busy mans educator. It
makes him think.