The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-04-09
RAT BISCUIT AMP GOOD BISCUIT

Look here" said ihe president y
ihe Society for Regulating Editors
y dont see why It is that one woman
Who feeds her husband rat poison gets
steen columns of stuff about il IN tho
papers while nothing is said about
millions Of others who iced their al
legged lords ana masters on tha finest
0i the land three times day HortB6i
days every year is tllaf giYingsths
good women and The good coos a
square deal? Wheoupon the Pres
ident Of the aforesaid soeiey. With 4
mountain Of scorn piled up on his
mug Withdrew from the unhOly pres
ence Of the editors barely choking q
threat to stop the paper
Now possibly other members Of the
society have asked this m0mentous
question ana in order to clarity the at-
mosphere also in an effort 10 head
of any possible indignation meeting,
we'll iust listen To the defendant Ia
the case for q few moments no "a
at once to The root Of the natter the
sole question before the house Is
What is news?" The best brief def.
nixon we have ever heard is this:
News is what people want to know"
Having laid the foundation for the
heavy argument to follow, we pro,
ceed with an Illustration. Just sup!
pose You picked up your paper some
evening after You had finished clear
ing away the dishes for your wife, and
read something like this: Mrs El
Perkins cooked a fine dinner for her
husband today and you read on "a
lind that Mrs sam Slocum made an
excellent pie today and you kept on
reading column after column OF tho
same kind Of ''news'-just suppose
we say-noW eWhat would You dor
The chances are tfat you'd wonter
what kind OF bloomin idiot was editing
That pesky paper and you'd stop IL
about the second time it came filled
up with that sort OF stuff OF course,
il your wife happened to be mention
ed you might stand for it once, but
if she were not-and there are fully
1900 good cooks in Chickasha-uwell
you know what would happen.
The trath is. the fact that Mrs Per
kins cooked a good meal doesn't come
under the category OF things thai you
want to know; It is the usual ordin-
any thing and you are not interested
in it or excited about il, but let Mrs.
Perkins slip a poison pill into the
diuner and then you want the paper
to get an extra SO y0a can find out
an about It at once.
The function of the newspaper be,
ing to furnish news-s something you
don't know and want to know-it has
little TO say about the good sermon
which Rev Good Man breaches every
Sunday. but II Rev Good Man incau.
tiously figures in a scandal it IS good
ter al Lease 3 column or two. The
honest officer who does his duty every
1ay seldom gets his name in print but
y he becomes CRATER he becomes
good copy
The newspapers ten the stories Of
GOOD deeds and bad deds, provided
they are out Of the ordinary run Of
affairs they don't tell Of Che usual
things that happen every day and you
wouldn't care TO buy them if they did.
fhe good deeds that are out OF tha
ordinary. the acts OF heroism or un-
usual saerifice, The deeds that disulay
splendid oourage FAN these make
news and the newspaper is generally
more eager TO tell Of them than it is
TO relate soraid stories Of crime, but
it takes all kinds OF sto,aes to make
2 faithful photograph OF Die things