Semi-weekly herald., 1911-05-01
THE NEWSPAPER.

THE NEWSPAPER.
The newspaper Of the year Of Our
Lord 1911 Is q vastly different propo-
sition from the newspaper Of the long
ago, in fact from the newspaper Of
not SO very long ago 1t differs much
ly.
The old-fashioned newspaper gave
ideas, not news, nothing was publish
ed in its columns, in the way Of news,
until the same had been publicly
known for from ten days to two
weeks. II the editor had an idea that
duty of 20 per cent, ad valorum,
should be levied on prunes he wrote
editorials, in and out of season, on
that subject, If there were murders
and fires and weddings galore he gave
them some little space but the bulk Of
the paper was reserved for the advo-
eating of q 20 per cent, ad valorum,
duty on prunes.
The newspaper of today is devoted
to the printing Of the news of to-
day, the editor may have hobby or
two but these hobbies have to give
way TO the pertinent news items, he
may fully believe that the Salvation
Army should devote its entire atten-
ton to the collection Of funds to be
used in the conservion Of the natives
OF Patagonia, OF that the question as
/, whether or not the planet of Mars
is inhabited by two-legged, human
like, beings, is the all important sub
ject Of consideration, but, just the
same, If Timothy Timkins beats his
wife or the old brindle COW belonging to
Jimmy Jinks gives birth to seven Hell
en-pink heifer calves, these ponderous
and important ideas have to go over
until some future time In order to
tell all about Tim and his wife or the
seven calves which have popped into
the possession of brother Jinks.
We nowadays devote very little
space, in our daily editions Of the
Great Moral Guide and Family Edu-
Gator, to the dissemination of the idea
that when King Bill, Of the Sixth CEN
tury B. c., made ruling that all
male subjects should wear ruffles on
their pants, he was taking = privi-
lege from the one sex and giving it
to the other, and that the many Sc
we're storms at sea which sank ships
and the many wars which have follow
ed the edict were = direct result of
this mistaken idea in the legislation
Of His Royal Majesty, King Bill, but
we use the space to tell our readers
that John Johns went to Silverton,
on the fast freight, to take q position
as foreman Of the Big Nugget mine,
or that Mrs. Winks went to Denver,
on the overland limited mail and ex-
press, to visit her husbands mother
in-law for few weeks.
When matters Of q sensational ma
ture occur then we are supposed to
get out and run down the facts in
the case and present them to our
readers in the best and quickest way,
sometimes we can get action on the
principals and learn from them their
own version of the afafir, at other
times we are compelled to 90 out on
the street and piece together a story,
getting q few facts here and few
facts there and, as is sometimes the
case, lot of dope that lacks mile
OF being facts is pushed at us, then we
have to sift it all over in order to get
the grain from the chaff and secure
a report that we are willing to stand
behind and look our readers in the
eye when we meet them.
Our idea of running newspaper
seems to be trifle different from
the idea of the old time editor. We
would like to always give all the news
but, as we can't do that, we always
give all we can, but the main thing
we care for is this: we would like to
know that, when our readers read q
story in The Herald, they will feel
sure that an effort has been made to
get the true story and that the facts,
as we get them, have been given with
ou@ iSoi vi infVi, ahu Iiat thc otu
fat editor is only saying to you in
print just what he would stand up
before you and say while looking you
square in the eye mad crossing his
heat and hoping to die" II he Is
not telling the truth. according to the
best Of his information and belief.
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Our idea of cold nerve is that shown
by an editor who has the hardihood
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