The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-11-20
II LEAVE TAKING.


charge of the Pennington Time
rs editor and business manager
and during the nearly y-fvt
intervening years have been asso
ciated with it in that capacity, a,
well as proprietor part of the time
and later as major stakeholder in the
present Pennington Times Print
ing Company. With this number
of The Times, not without a tinge
Of regret, take my leave, turn its
editorial and business management
over to younger aud more active
man, aud bid "A reluctant good. by
to It's readers. many Of whom have
been faithful friends and patrons
Of the paper all these wears. For
them all | feel a warm personal
attachment and lasting friendship
u feeling that will abide in my heart
and be treasured for the few re-
manning years that may be allotted
10 me on earth.
For some time ! have felt the
weight of the years that have FROST
ed my hair and Slapped the vital
forces of my ply steal nature; have
sensed the gradual drifting out of
touch with the younger generation
in whose hands rests the solving of
the great moral and political issues
affecting its destiny, though my
heart is with it and my judgment
approves its progressive spirit. !
realize that The Times needs an
Infusion OF younger blood, fresh |
energy and more youthful enthusi.
asm, to give it the dynamic force
necessary to its further growth and
usefulness as an influential local
factor III the great battle for the
strident moral, religions, educa-
tlOnal and political reforms that
engross county, state and nation
aye, the whole world, to-day. Old
men, perhaps, for monitors, but
Young men for effort, dynamics,
results.
1t has been the aim and purpose
in making a change to find a man
10 take charge of The Times who .
would fill this need In Mr.. Robert {
=. Moore | believe this has been I
lone. He is young man of NOR |
Il worth, pleasant address and '
confident energy, with both natural q
md acquired intellectual force,
'acked up by several years success a
nj experience in country journal b
SIN. The latter is a school of ex. n
'erienoe that exercises Il larger e
ersatility-though this is not gen q
rally recognized-than the average Il
ritter or reporter on the big city d
ally paper ever covers, for it en- b
races along with the ability to v
'rlte and edit, initiative and ex- 0
cutive ability; an intuition of 81
hat is news and how to present p
:; a knowledge of and sympathy II
18th the needs of the community Il
nd county; conversabenes with i
tate and national issues and the ST
diversified moral and economical CT
uestions for the uplift and better. il
tent of humanity, as well as fl
1aptability in conducting the bus. OF
less end of his office down to the ST
inuest detail, in order to keep the is
achinery in motion. On a coun- Al
y paper all these are the work of m
ne man, or two or three at most, fC
lille on the big city daily they are W
lie work of many men, each in his W
Tn particular assignment. al
The country editor and business &C
anager is usually one and the pl
me person, therefore he feels the al
ed Of practical encouragement
ID help on the part of the home
ople, and the more help and en- -,
he receives, the better ~. :"
me paper he can give them, the in
)re he will be able to do for the ia,
in building up local no
siness and the public institutions Ii
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