The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1911-02-24
Round About
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vested interests are about to- swal.
low up the newspapers and periodicals
OF the country Just now the fiuan.
cial interests are credited with de.
sire TO buy all the magazines and
merge them into trust" When
that benevolent scheme is carried out,
It's said, the socallod undertaking"
magazines will cease their muckral1-
ing and viii devote their space to fic.
ton and such articles as do not inter
fere with big business.
One Of the sources Of this rumor is
the fact that the American Magazine
has been sold to the CrOwell Publish
ing company. The American was for
merry owned and edited by John s.
Phillips, with Finley Peter Dunno,
Ray Stannard Baker, Ida Tarbell and
William Allen White as associates
AS all of these distinguished writer's
it is said, will continue their connec.
ton, the fear that the magazine will
become the organ of the interests APP
pears to be baseless. Money will buy
printing presses, but, despite the Gym
ical prOyerb that Every man has his
price" il is a l00.to.I shot that the
millionaires of the country have not
enough wealth to get lease on the
brains of a Mr. Dooley" or Miss Tar.
bell or any of the other brilliant writ
ers who have made American maya
zines and newspapers serve the en-.
Evening purpose of sharppointed
tacks in the seats of the mighty.
The apology forced from another
magazine because of mistaken at
tack on the Standard Oil company is
also source of joy to those who think
American journalism amenable to
the influence of the powers that prey.
Unfortunate as was the unwarranted
allegation against the highly moral
"oil trust" it remains true that those
who make no mistakes make no war.
Numerous attempts have been made
in the past to buy up magazines and
newspapers and to use them in fight
ing the battles of the interests against
the people at large. In practically
every case such journalistic frauds
have speedily failed There is moth.
ing to indicate that the present rum
Ors of a periodical trust have any
foundation. Even if the reports were
true. worry is not indicated, II would
mean merely that the notifications in.
volved were doomed TO failure and
that others would take their places
The old destructive undertaking is
probably a thing of the past. The
constructive undertaking is just COM
ing into its own.
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play without words is the latest
European sensation TO be imported to
this country. Entitled "The Darling
of Paris" it made a great hit in the
French capital, and will have its mi
tial production on this side at the Co.
lonial on Monday night. Twenty per-
sons will appear in the cast. and not
word will be spoken by any of them
from the rise to the fall of the cur
tain.
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