The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-16

NOW ana tnen someone wants uS 10
RusStaniZe our newspapers They
would establish here a counterpart OF ,
the creature ~ Bureaucracy who dauhs
out ALI that ne thinks the pessantry
shouldn't see And the morninG and
the evening % tho nrst DAY have not
been written In the Genesis 81 Russian
liberty.
The things thar the Lord let's hap
pen" shock and depress us sometimes.
but let Us have the plain. unVarnishcd
truth II our liberties are inperiled.
publicity foreNarns II there - let
down iu social and political righteous
ness publicity prods VS. into doing
something about IL.
There il no economic progress in
concealment no social security in sup
preston Let the worst be revealed
Turn on the light Which being tn
tNrpreted. means start the printing
presses, and deliver the whole story
OF the days disclosures in all their
vtvtdness and variety
But II should he a Just and depend
a BILE report Especially should the al
vices upon the state OF the union bc
without varia bleness or shadow or dis
sembinR The same story told In Gath
should not be cm3sCulated when men
toned in the streets OF Askelon. The
Saratoga version should gibe with the
message from Osawatomie
This is the ago ~ wonders in the
mechanical world Things undreamed
fore our eyes. II Is unbelievable that
our American life should mark time
morally while the material realm
moves on from glory to glory
We are going TO demand-Nea. we
have begun TO demand that those who
would be great among ~ should do
something worth while in he direction
of better government beginning their
/ achievements for the common good In
fthe way they order their own lives and
businesses
For example. the reader is no longer
satisfied with the publisher who runs
his editorial department as social
settlement planted In dubious en-
vironment lie wants the uplift TO
overlap the column rules and perue-
ate the whole product for he has 10
take IL all into his home.
Editorial virtue limited is no longer
, listed with positive moral virtues. 1t
! needs more development work
Il is akin 20 the INCONSISTENCY or the
! Pharisees whose long prayers in the
/ synagogue should have been stamped,
good for this day ana date only.
II Is sha bby trick 10 capture the
reader with editorial UNFOLDING OF the
decencies OF life only TO deliver HIM
over TO the spoilers who lie IN walt for
him IN the advertising section OF the
paper.
Nowadays We not only expect the
sanity man TO put his own house In
order. but we want 10 know what kind
81 tenants are paying him rental Tor
his other houses WHAT kind OF ten
ants Is the publisher renting to- Third
! floor backs or get -rtCG- quick crooks
| The other tenants and the passers-0v
have a right 10 know
There is a white plague and philan-
thropists are hghtiug II. The pub
! Usher helps In his editorial ana news
/ columns But in his business section
/ there Is black plague. an inky infcc-
I ton, In the form or spurious cOnSunp-
| tion remedies--offe rinR false hope 10
( the hopeless brazenly guaranteeing
( 70 cure the incurable.
The awful cry OF the despairing
leper. "Unclean. Unclean." ought TO be
! branded upon newspapers infected By
/ the black plague
/ as a sportive lad can as Fourth-ot-
; July celebration once, on an uucarUcd
/ dollar 4 man paid me the money Just
| for lifting a she'll and showing a farm
/ er the little pea underneath when my
employer appes red TO be looking the
| other way The Victim laid wager
! that the pea was under there, and lost.
never knew till later. that ! figured
in that incident IS capper Tor a
| sharper.
What az the publisher who lures his
| readers into wildcat investments Oy
lifting the shell and showing the en-
/ tlCing pea Is he an opinion molder or
I just "A capper? And he isn't too i'm
mature - know the sort OF game he Is
! helping In.
i II IL glorious to save the state at
! election time and send relief eNpedi
lions when calamity hlightS the land
/ but the genuine brand OF national
] righteousness should begin with tho
| newspaper that advocates ~ " Is bet
ter 10 protect the reader every day
! against ChiCanery and betrayal than
/ TO use tainted money for spectaculaf
/ schemes or relief
The great ToIstoy the Russian seer
/ who only recently renowned the world.
! told a student who came inquiring Of
! lis faith. that the world would not &c
/ better until he himself was better.
| Ilore YOU have national morality
/ brought down TO the unit Hero is the
\ publishers incentive to ceta blish
| parity between pretensc and practice
! in the trustful readers behalf
Thc newspapers should not abandon
/ guaranteed adv ertisiuR 10 the maya
/ zines They should not let IL go forth
/ that it takes fifteen cents 10 he Nirtuuus
! In the business section OF AN American
/ publication And IT is not alone the
cultured and the we'll to-do that should
| be protected against tho spurious and
! the pestilential in advertising, here Is
= hne opening Tor popular paper that
wants 10 he and claims 20 be the peo@-
! Piles friend
Bacon was half-right when he said
! wife and children are tmpcdiments 20
/ great enterprises. whether OF virtue
I or Of michel he was right about tho
mischief 1 believe tho publisher who
ms wife and children will give hos
tagcs 20 fortune 10 the extent OF re-
tecting private medical advertising
revenues He senses the extent 60 which
offending newspapers betray the con
fdence reposed in them. and violate
the welcome given them a. the fire.
side
An .unsuiIied home circle. the sane
tity OF the hearthstone-these are more
than phrases 10 the housekeeping pub
Usher
wife and children In his case are
itnpediuents 10 the miserable enter
prise OF spreading before immature
and innocent minds abointnable phrase
ology and poisonous suggestions
II does not devolve upon me 10 take
up tho progressive burden OF the stout
hearted Sage OF Sycamore Htll-temp-
orariIy In rctirenent--bUt I'm against
JachCiorhood and race suicide from
this angle, anyway
Tho progressive publisher will also
70 TO the street car conductor. con-
sider his command and sit closer,
please" With publishing as with poll
tics distance may lend enchantmout
but ncarness cOnduces 20 understand
ing and accountability u has just
been demonstrated that any number
OF statesmen we're too far away from
the home-folks when they got 10