Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-11-06
"An Editorial Worth Reading.
From the Pine Bluff Commercial.

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 rily "oyercrowd' Pine Bluff. Not
 alone is it hardship on the old pub fishers and owners, but it is even
 worse, if possible, upon the business
 community; indeed, when properly viewed with a city like Pine Bluff,
 which only has a population of some
 where between 22,OOO to 25,000 inhab- litants, all told, it looks like shame l to ask the business as well as the reading community to aid equally three daily newspapers.
 ] When it is remembered-and it is a fact-that Little Rock with nearly three times the population of this city has only two daily newspapers-the morning Gazette and the afternoon Democrat-does it not look unreason- able, if not unrighteous, that Pine Bluff should have had, off and on, morning and two afternoon journals? And while on: the subject let us point to many cities in the South and West whose population runs, each, from 150,oo0 toYs90,0Oo, that only maintain two daily. papers. Memphis, claim ing 150,000. has a morning and af- ternoon daily. New Orleans, with 35O,000 people, has two morning and one afternoon paper, while Minneapo- lis, with 329,00O population, has only two dailies-the Tribune, morning, and the Journal, afternoon; St. Paul, with 236,000, has only two-the Pio- neer Press and the Evening Dispatch. Lincoln, Nebraska, population S0,0OO, has only a morning and afternoon pa per, while Omaha, with her 100000 souls, has the Morning Bee and the World-Herald. The Dallas News (morning) and the Times-Herald (af- ternoon), cover that field of about 125,000 inhabitants. Richmond, Va., has the Morning Times-Dispatch and the Evening News-Leader. Richmond is composed of 125,000 persons.
 Lynchburg, with 45,000 souls, has only two-Adance and News. Wheel ing, w. Va, two-the Morning Intel lignecer and the Evening News. Still- water, Minn., with a population of 26,OOO, has only two weekly newspa pers.
 We could go on for fifty columns and tell the same tale of other cities, but We have said enough to convince any reasonable person that two daily papers in Pine Bluff are abundant; but two are necessary and these should be divided, a morning and an afternoon paper.
 The Graphic as is shown aC the be- ginning of this. article realizes this fact and has notified the public that beginning January ,. 1908, that jour- nal will be published as & morning newspaper The Graphic is already thoroughly equipped for the morning field, having two modern linotypes and other accessories needed to issue a real good morning edition and the Commercial is glad to know that it in tends, emphatically, to start in the morning field on Sunday, January ). With it as such and the Commercial occupying it's old-time original after noon field Pine Bluff will surely have plenty of daily newspapers.
 With such a situation the business community and the public generally can and should give every encourage ment in future to both and by and by our citizens will observe that each will prosper as they should, and stead fly each paper will increase in size and beauty so that every citizen will be proud of their daily press. And by supporting both of these papers our business people will be relieved of the burden that has been put upon them ever and anon by inexperienced persons in the journalistic field.