The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-26
MANCONI .AND TIL: PRESS.

The wreck Of ihn Titanic, has fur
niShed mann tl.mpr~ for editorials
and sermons. bat from q newspaper
slanlpoin, mothina ha> hl'3 So nruch
interest as IN, fact brought "ut IN the
scnalc iuNtstiGal.uE Yesterday mat
lhc Marc"ni "omnauV had ~"ronscni-
ed" tu allow tho W!r.isss operators
Ia sell the information they had md
which could only reach HE "utsid"
world from the t'arp#lhia rhro"sh
them. The cumlany's consent is
merely Il suntrrfugr for it's conn!N-
aaoc, If not participation IN The
scheme. The company. even if il did
not share in the sales prol!t. would
us. This Extra money i" help keep
operators who might not otherwise
care to tak" iii" risk Required tor the
pit,ance of forty dollars = month
which th"y are p"id,
There is n decided contrast be-
tween the spiri, shown by the wirc-
less company and III" n~ewspapers.
The latter spent thousands of dollars
and called on the hishrst powers of
the mon employed! 10y them t. secure
the news. Mon charged With this
responsibility forgot {" eat 81 sleep in
the intense struggle tn yet thu news.
Cost was not considered aud if in
formation could ic procured at a
dollar ur ;Wu dollars = word. II was
gotten. And the motives of the
newspapers We're not n~rrcenary.
There is NOT q paper in The country
that has lni spent ten dollars I" get
news of Tho wreck for every dollar
of Ntrn incon1" derived from the
news thu obtained. The daily pa
l,"rs in this ,itN spent more than this
in proportion Il" N" Extra sales, and
This is true Of all iii" papers in the
smaller cities. In TIA" larger cities
the heavy street sales increased The
income Bat th"s" niI":s cost for
Inc. white paper alone almost as much
rs they Were &nId for. Increased cir
cNlation is profitable as IA carrier of
advertising. But i'll great crises like
that - the Titanic disaster, thu bust
lt.>s ";lirc does not stop for sXira
:. Tn only thing is 10 get the
y Vs to th.. public in thu quickest
&C., sinlv time Iegardicss Of expense.
.\'pod. ever heard Of n newspaper
,' q newspaper syndicate agreeing To
y .'il''i'l I''Nf t'i II u nv w i'It
~o",d was waiting with hated breath
ia order To gel, AN extra prics--'fnur
iigircs"-aS the MArcuni people said.
T'hoy re"ocnlze TIL. fact that they owe
VIA, public 1he ,luty "f supplying
n ws. If the demand for such news
is great the obligation OF the part of
TIL, press is cD~rr->i,undincIE great.
No attempt IS ever made TO bottle up
news. and no effort has ever been
made to profit 10y tho Information.
There is a certain amount Of glory
in the effort. especially if a newspa-
per beats its contemporaries. and to
accomplish this energy and money do
not count. and the public profits by
the result. The demand for news
and the important place the distri-
butors OF news have in modern life
were we'll illustrated by the denun-
citation Of the suppression NJ the
wreck stories on the rarrathia. And
in a thousand newspaper and news
gathering and distributing offices men
were toiling like demons to supply
the demand against adverse circurn.
stances. 0nce the lid was lifted the
world knew the story In a few min
utcs. The newspapers did their part
nobly and Well. and without hope OF
reward other than meeting 10 the
fullest their obligations to the read
ing public.