Arizona republican., 1904-12-14
A Quaint Editor on Ills Calling.

daily-is one of the most original news
 papers in the world. It is unique, be cause it's editor, <E,. w. Howe, gene~ ally says what he thinks. and no what people and convention say h. ; ought tc say. Incidentally, he ha. , made a financial success in a towI ) which is noted as a newspaper grave
 yard. The other day the Globe moved
 into its fine new building, and in the
 anniversary number MT. Howe prints a personal letter to his readers. It is more interesting
 than the letters Of congratula-
 ton sent him from many of the leading
 men of the world. Newspaper writers
 who consider that enc of their chief
 functions is to. pitch into" somebody the writers who follow a cowardly in-
 stinct and needlessly wound the feel
 ings of men and women because the
 citizen is usually helpless when at
 tackled by a newspaper-will find little
 to approve in MT. Howe's opening re-
 marks, but he voices in a felicitous
 way the feelings of many who have
 been long in the newspaper harness: 
 With this issue. begin my twenty 1 eighth year as editor of the Atchison l Globe I began at 23 I passed my fif- tieth birthday last May. I fear that during these twenty-seyen years I have 1 offended a good many people. As | rule, particularly during the past fif- | teen years, this has been unintentional. Every day, of late, I .''kill' paragra phs that I fear may make other people feel uncomfortable. I am not afraid to de- nounce that which is palpa bly wrong. but I am sensitive about wounding the feelings of worthy people. When I do it, it is not intended: it is because 1 do not know any better. People have a hard time getting along, at best; l do not wish to add to their burdens. I believe in encouraging good people and good institutions.
 ''I suppose that twenty years ago, like most men of SO I thought 1 knew it all, but I do not think so now. I fear that. years ago, I cut and slashed a good deal. but it was due to lack of judg- ment, and not to viciousness. Ger tainly I do not wish to harm any liv- ing creature now, and certainly I bear no resentments. If I have wronged any one, I sincerely regret it."
 MT. Howe does not pretend that he loves everybody. He has a delightful way of touching up hypocrites. shams and humbugs. as his paragraphs abun- dantly show, but he is too broad to hate anybody, and he has a sane con- eeption of a newspapers true prov ince:
 'I greatly admire hundreds of peo~ | pie living in Atchison and vicinity, but | hate no one. Men there are who have | disliked me many years, and I do not | like them, and would net wrong them. | We have different notions, and cannot | please each other. They let me alone, | for which am thankful, and try to return the favor. But any employe of the Globe will tell you that the paper has no boycott list; some of my asso- ciates admire people with whom I do not get along, and they are at liberty to praise them when there is occasion. As I grow older, find more to admire in people, and less to condemn. SoTne- times I fear I exploit my favorites too much, but honestly try not to. I re- gard the Globe as an Atchison ins.itu- tion of which I happen to be in charge"
 The Globe does not please everybody in Atchison, of course, and there, as everywhere else, there, are numerous people who could tell fthe editor how his paper ought to be conducted. Mr. Howe says of them:
 "One Of the uncomfortable things in the life of an editor is that so many people honestly have notions how his newspaper should be conducted, and criticise his methods. I have only one thing to say to this, and ask my critics to think of it: A merchant, or lawyer, CT doctor, or other man, has no practical knowledge of the newspaper ' business. but he has theories. AS a matter of fairness, what right has he 10 say that his judgment of a rews- aper's policy is right, while the policy 1f practical newspaper man is ( wrong? I 60 not pretend to know ' more about merchandising than a mer- ;hant who has made a success Of his , business; nor do I know more about aw than lawyer, or more about med cine than a doctor, and have never 1retended to. The editor of the Globe ' loes not amount to much. but he IS at ( east the sole survivor of the many , nen who have attempted daily news papers here. Providing the editor of he Globe is an honest man-and ]
 
 O this-is not a good deal of this crit cism unfair?"
 There are people everywhere wto :. .arnot understand how a paper can be :, ! great force for the public good un- |, ess it follows their peculiar notions. Ir. Howe insists that he must oe a !, missionary in his own way:
 "One of the cCmmonest complaints gainst the editor Of the Globe is that ' Ie is not religious. I cannot help that f l should pretend to believe that j which l do not believe I would be open t o the charge of hypocrisy and dishon- " sty. But believe in every good move 1ent wherever found; and perhaps it . 5 true, that I have exploited my own ; pinicn tco much, which I shall do less u in the future. It is a subject that T annot very well be discussed here but h