The Detroit times., 1910-11-16
SAYS PUBLISHER
is ACCOUNTABLE
tContIuusd from paE. IL


There IL a divinity that shapes our
ends and gets mixed up with our work
that is II our work is worth so much
as an hour or two OF after-dinner jab-
Der The serving OF the reader at a
juncture in our national life when the
reader is too often the forgotten man.
is nothing less than a divine commits
sion.
4 responsive ear inclined toward the
peoples voice. which Is the voice OF
God. An editorial we" that means
tho publisher and the least OF these.
my brethren. That's accountability in
action.
The other day you looked aIoft and
saw man-bird wheeling his dauntless
flight where Miss Liberty illumines the
luggage Of our home coming citizens.
The circling OF the air-sailor IN the
empyreap conferred the wonderment of
two worlds upon what cunning linked
with daring had wrought,
But 1t Is no less marvel and no
less a test OF courage and a wider ben e.
efactiOn 20 humanity TO nv the printed
page with that sense Of accountability
which the poet put into impressive
Boys nving kites maui In their white
winged birds.
But you can't do that way when you're
4 great editor who daily walked 10
his Office through these streats--Oh.
there were great pedestrians In the
earlier days as weIl--and from tina;
vantage point daily wrote himself
around the world. declared that ne was
not ashamed to print anything the good
Lord vas willing 10 let happen.
This ~ all the Justification the pub
Usher requires for telling the whole
story or the day. provided his purpose
and method partake OF the purpose OF
Omnipotence in 80 ordering the affairs
OF the children of men that they may
hatF ri n Iri gn
Now and then someone wants US 10
RussianiZo our newspapers. They
would establish here counterpart OF
the creature OF bureaucracy who da ubs
out all that he thinks the peasantry
shouldn't see. And the morning and
the evening OF the first day have not
been written in the Genesis Of Russian
liberty.
The things that the Lord lets hap
pen. shock and depress US sometimes.
but let US have the plain, unvarnished
truth. II our liberties are imperiled,
publicity forewarns " there Is let
down in social and political righteous
ness. publicity prods us into doing
something about Il.
There Is no economic progress in
concealment: no social security i'm sup
preston. Let the worst be revealed.
Turn on the light Which. being in
terpreted, means start the printing
presses. and deliver the whole story
Of the days disclosures I'm all their
vividness and variety.
But 70 should be a just and depend
able report Especially should the ad-
vices upon the state OF the union be
without varia b!eness or shadow Of dis
sembling The same story told In Gath
should not be cfnasculated when men
toned IN the streets OF Askelon. The
Saratoga version should gibe with the
message from OSawatomie.
This iB the age Of wonders In the
mechanical world Things undreamed
OF in other ages have taken form be-
fore our eyes. ~ is unbelleva hle that
our American life should mark time
morally while the material realm
moves on from glory 10 glory.
We are going 10 demand---yea. we
have begun 10 demand that those who
would be great among w should do
something worth while IN the direction
OF better government. beginning their
achievements for tho common good I'm
the way they order their own lives and
businesses.
For example. the reader is no longer
satisfied with tho publisher who runs
his editorial department as social
settlement planted in a dubious en-
vironment lie wants the uplift 20