The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-08
FRANK E. HOWE. Editor and Pub
A NEWSPAPER cHANeE


Hubbard, Mr.. French has been the
editor and publisher of the Phoenix
for going on 40 years and built it up
to the highest rank OF county journal
ism. For years the Phoenix has
been considered the model newspaper
Of Vermont, clean, unbiased, honest
and straightforward in all things.
Not only in his newspaper but in his
personal life and influence Mr.
French has sought only the highest
ideals and few have been as consis-
tently and continuously on the right
side throughout a long and success
full business career as he.
Mr.. French in his announcement
says:
Beginning with the present week
the ownership of The Vermont Phoe-
nix and the editorial and business
control of the paper will pass into the
hands of Walter +. Hubbard. In ac-
cordance with present day business
methods Mr.. Hubbard will conduct
the business under the style of The
Vermont Phoenix Company.
1T is a source of great satisfaction
to me that the arrangements for this
change have been cOnsummated at
this time Mr. Hubbard came to The
Phoenix Immediately after his gradu
ba LII frH
school in 1885, and he mas been with
the paper without break or Interrupt
ton ever since He laid the best pos
sible foundation for a newspaper
career by upward of two years of ser
vice in the composing room and in
the general mechanical work of the
office. AT the end of that time he
took up the local reportorial work of
the paper, and gradually assumed the
general news editorship. For upward
of fifteen years he has had entire
charge of the news columns, and for
the past year he has been responsible
for the general editorial work of the
paper and for its business manage
ment. In all of these respects his
work is its own best and sufficient
recommendation He has always
been in full sympathy with the policy
of The Phoenix, and this policy he
will continue developing his own pro
gressive ideas of newspaper work,
and meeting the demands of the
times as they arise.
1T is not only in accordance with
my own plans and wishes, long enter
tanned. that the paper now passes in
to the ownership and control Of a
man trained and developed in its own
office in relations of mutual conf
dence and warm personal friendship,
but it is no less matter of justice
to Mr. Hubbard that he should now
| have the opportunity TO assume full
responsibility and develop his own
career. Ny interest in The Phoenix
will by no means end because its
ownership and management are thus
passed along in a natural and logical
way My cordial sympathy and sup
port and my services If needed, will
always be at its command.
80 far as am concerned personals
ly this change simply means that, re-
lieved in this acceptable way from
active editorial and business respOn
sibility | hope, in years that remain
to do some of the things that ! have
ALWAYS wanted to do. Perhaps
may rediscover some of the ideals OF
my boyhood In any case | mean tc
answer the call of the ut-of-doors-
especially as it comes from certain
orchard Of young apple trees, and a
slope of sugar naples, and plant
ing Of young pines, and some flower
borders. and outlooks across the hills
and valleys on Ames hill
; The Banner knows from long anC
intimate personal acquaintance witt
Mr.. Hubbard that the Phoenix coulC
not have passed into better hands
He is one of the finest OF the group o
present generation newspaper mel
who are giving Vermont today thu
best lot of country newspapers pub
lished in the United States. This Il
no idle talk but an admitted in thu
best informed newspaper circles out
side this state. Mr., Hubbard ha
served an apprenticeship under a maj
to whom Vermont newspapermel
have looked up to for many year
and he is worthy and well qualified t
carry on the work which Mr. Frencl
lays down In his announcement
MI Hubbard says:
In assuming the ownership of TIL
Phoenix | have no high-sounding pol
cy to announce | shall endeavor I
keep the paper up to the standar
which ii has always maintained an
to improve it as opportunity offers
| shall strive to make it a bushes
success, and to make its columns S
newsy and attractive that il will be
welcome visitor throughout its fielC
Running u newspaper Is business
but there is something more tina
mere commercialism in making
genuine newspaper, for such a pape
Is an institution in the life of II
home community, its county, and FRI
quently in the state. Ii should be
factor for progress and betterment
everything that concerns its own pa
ticular field and it has duties and o'
legations which il owes to its const
tuency in what it prints and what
does not print, in the attitude whlc
It assumes toward individuals and !
sues, toward every problem of cor
munity welfare and every question I
civic and political life. am not u
mindful of these duties and oblig
lions and | hope to meet them in
way to Justify myself to my ow
conscience, and to command the a
proval of thoughtful people. | sha
try 10 remnmher TINT IAN Americf