The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-02


all over the world when the outflow of such through
the regular channels has stopped. But the of this
news gathering and the labor connected with OF lit
tie consequence little consideration compared with the
working out of a sound idea.
And Sunday afternoon issue instead of morning
issue of an afternoon paper both sound and logical
The expense of this special news gathering service
and Geographic service however will be shared by our
other evening papers if the Sunday evening issue OF
The Washington Times proves to be the success that
pretty careful analysis of the problem suggests it should
be- And success of this kind cannot remain bottled up
cannot remain alone with my newspapers. 1t will
be caught up all by other evening papers which,
in the very nature of the case will seek special news
service The cost therefore, in the initial stages OF this
enterprise is not thing deter from putting in force
an idea that looks good to us.
The local news will be handled with the vigof
and the same thoroughness that have made The Washing
ton Times the most alert newspaper in the field
A small village needs no newspaper to spread the
local news; big city must have There is no other
way to touch elbows with your felow-townsmen. The
daily newspaper the medium through which the three
hundred thousand human entities of Washington become
neighborS 1t brings before each the thoughts and acts
and achievements of the others. 1t eliminates the vast
ness of the city and makes it neghborhood where hui
man interest in one another makes life worth while
The Washington Times is the ral1yng-point for
news-the news center With its staff of reporters COW
eng every inch of the ground and every phase of public
and popular interest and with ten thousand telephones
convergng in The Times office, over which all news is
flashed while it yet news it mirrors to you all that is
worth while in the town. Without some such service, you
can know nothing of what is happening at your very
doors.
In the Sunday issue of The Times you will get this
service will keep in touch with what is taking place on
Sunday as on other days of the week.
am dwelling on this matter of news service for the
special purpose of emphasizing the TACT that this Sunday
afternoon paper will have news service and will be
NEWSPAPER brstng wde-awake newspaper in
every sense of the word 1t will not be rehash of the
morning issues and will devote space to topics
upon which they have already touched than any weekday
afternoon paper devotes to subjects treated in the
irg papers.
AS matter of fact the morning newspaper dove
tails into the evening paper of the night BEFORE and the
afternoon paper likewise dovetasnto the morning paper
Il is impossible to draw line midway between the
ing and the afternoon newspaper and keep each paper
to its own field Each covers 10 some extent the held OF
the other but brings stories and happenings of the earlier
issue up to date printing the additional happenings that
occur within the strict period of the later ISSUE the period
after the other paper be morning evening has gone
TO press.
And to this extent only will the Sunday afternoon
issue of The Washington Times carry the of the
morning papers The line of differentiation will be as
sharply drawn as the with the weekday issues
On weekdays the stock exchange and the markets
and the furnish considerable percentage of news.
They are active features which lend themselves with
failing regularity the makeup of daily newspaper
On Sunday shall get of this kind, but another
kind of activity may we'll take its place. the activity of the
religious workers. the religious teachers Church news
and church happenings from the pulpit and the
1reOi
ways should in the nature of the case furnish Sun