The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-13

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! better la"s and better enforcement
II laws on the statute book
The News and Observer believes that
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vulgar or the salarlouS- Bal q news
paper that merely prints the news
while q good puTyeyor 81 what hap
pens and g. Improvements o. The old
time mouth-to-m"uth practice 81 -.
ting the heiellb'Ts kho" what mas
happened VIII exert "a" lAith'let
have 40 character. \ newspaper
should be more than "a map - busy
life" Ii should seek 10 To- a moulleE
of healthy public sentiment, a preach
81. Of sound doctrine. q leader IN good
and morals. the Zoe II graft and evil,
and should have rs its motto am
4 ma and what concerns man vitality
interests INC. II should, ip z sense.
be a public prosecutor OF "fohS-doinS
and wrong doors, and particularly 50
when the legal prosecutors hat in
their duties or are inefhclenl. II
should, when public duty demands, DC
a defender OF the weak who are OPP
pressed and 4 find no advocate, II
should be a censor, upon occasion, Of
public officials. and should day IN n
day out hold pubic men II are m
or cuipable 10 II perform
of the duties conferred upon
them. II for which they are paid,
but it should commend and stand by
the faithful public official just as il
calls attention to the failure OF the
other sort of public officers. There is
nothing that touches humanity that =
too low or too high for the consider
alton Of the newspaper, ana IT should
any topic h a concerns man.
John Wesley said the world is my
parish" Every field Of thought and
endcavor is embraced in the purvieW
of the editor. and his neiGhbOr is the
who needs his assistance. though
must have regard to the command
'beginninG at Jerusalem.' He must
cover his own field. The interests OF
own community must have first
place and his teaching must have ref
erence to the needs and tastes of his
constituency, drawing upon the |
world for their entertainment and in
struction, but remembering that his
mission is mainly to those who read
columns. Some editors fail be
they neglect the topics that
chiefly interest their readers, writing
mostly upon subjects about which they
little. Others err by writing |
only of the local affairs. OF the two. |
last is the wisest, but the editor
ought to give nine-tenths of his edi-
torials TO questions that concern
directly his readers, giving to world
enough to keep his readers |
posted and instruct them SO tina they
will get the worlds point of view
as we'll as their own local grasp. But
home folks and home topics should |
be the burden of the teaching, for if
IN editor cares not for his own he
Will waste himself furnishing pabululn |
to suit those who neve see his paper
and neglecting those Who depend upon
him for the discussion of topics that af-
their home surroundings or politi- |
cal faith. The ewSpap that does not |
help iii all proper ways the welfare |
not doearya ana viii NOT racaiva tbeir