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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

pipes on his golden reed, and, hearing
he needs must follow to the piper's
merry tune. And ICE again, end per
haps many times, Jehovah calls all
men-an insistent call that comes
through the sunlight of Gods sweet
day or in the still watches of the
night, demanding Of him service-de-
handing of him that he be, and do,
good; demanding that he serve his fel-
low men according to his talent; that
he help and make his little world, the
community or city in which he lives,
the better for his having been in 1t.
The life of the preacher who Is call
ed Of God is a life Of service. He has
little time for business, except that
of his heavenly Father. He is an ac-
tor in all parts of the drama Of life.
He christens the infant, joins men
and maids in wedlock, visits the old,
prays with the sick and afflicted,
gives spiritual advice and consolation,
and when man returns to the dust
from whence he came teaches the
great comforting fact that 1t is posi-
Bile for the grave to be swallowed up
In victory.
And what about the editor who has
heard and needed the call-the call to
service? I know the popular but
apocryphal type of country editor-the
nan who takes cabbage and cordwood
on subscription; whose ready print
comes G. o. D.; who sells his paper In
political campaigns to the highest bid
der. Like Sairy Camps esteemed
friend, Miss Harris, "There amt no
such person"
The typical country editor Of this
part of the west is another personality.
His columns are the annals of coun-
try folk, the history Of neighborhoods
and families, the heartbeat Of the com
munity. He is with his people through
the fat and the lean years. His paper
Is the diary of their civilization. And
by the f1reside In the home its pages
are gone over column by column and
It'd E. So
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

ing to thousands OF people every week
through the years, wet and dry, fat and
lean.
Evil loves darkness, and the best
way to fight sin is to turn ON the light.
And a mighty good way to press the
button is to unbutton the press.
The man who fosters artificial con-
flicts between the ministry and the
laity, between the church and the Of
fee, between religion and business, is
a foe of the kingdom.
If folks didn't forgive the editor for
his sins he would be a goner. And If
the editor published all he knows about
church members there would be a hot
time in the old town.
As the story books say, THE moral
is, Let's all cultivate a little charity
and try to do better next time.'"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

Certain callings, however, offer lar
ger opportunities for ministry than 9th
ers. The three factors that have con-
tributed and are contributing most to
the progress of the modern world are
the pulpit, the press and the public
school. To these callings much has
been given and of them much shall be
required. He who enters one of them
is entitled to no honor that is denied
those working in other fields of en-
deavor. His distinction is not n of
glory, but of opportunity and response
bility. The same truth applies to any
comparison that might be made be-
tween preacher, journalist and teacher.
That there Is any real hostility be-
tween the press and the pulpit l can
not believe. The aim of both is to be
teachers Of the truth. The message of
the pulpit is religious truth. The mes
sage of the press is secular truth. The
pulpit can deal safely with secular af-
fairs only when a clear cut moral or
religious issue is involved. The press
can take no part in religious contro
versies. It should give all sides a hear
ing, but may safely declare itself only
on those wider and more fundamental
truths that are common to all creeds.
The pulpit has its peculiar advan-
tages. AS a rule, it speaks to a select
audience composed largely of the most
intelligent and moral element in the
community. The press speaks to the
entire of humanity-the good and
the bad, the intelligent and the igno-
rant The message Of each must be
adapted to the needs Of its audience.
Because of this the pulpit must often
blaze the. way for the press in matters
Of reform. But rest assured the press
will follow as fast as it may without
leaving the most needy portion Of its
audience behind.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

ognize that it Is a good thing to own
for the purpose of making money and
having something to do In life with
which to keep busy.
The newspaper breaches daily to
many thousands, and In the audience
are Presbyterians, Methodists, Unita-
rians, Christian Scientists, Catholics
and Mormons and representatives of
every shading of creed and belief.
The preacher breaches twice a week
to ONE hundreds. and he must also
visit them in sickness and in death
and mingle with their social life and
live on terms of close brotherly and
sympathetic interest. When he preach.
es he breaches to Presbyterians or
Methodists or Baptists or whatever
creed his church represents. There is
no problem in his mind as to what his
orthodox duty really is. He has few
er temptations than the editor has to
preach at a class or build himself a
special following.
His clear call is to serve Christ, and
the ages have builded him a dicipline
of service. His marching orders are
rather clear.
The editor had to begin without any
program. No martyrs had ever gone tc
the stake for his cause. His business
was not even dignifed as a profession
The newspaper began in political chaos
with no established standards, and II
soon caught all of the faults of the age
Newspapers that ten years ago did
not seek to introduce moral scrutiny
into their responsibility for their ad
yertising columns are now cleaning up
cutting out liquor advertisements, filthy
medical advertisements and seeking tc
make their advertising columns, theil
news columns and their editorial col
umns coordinate in an effort at clean
journalism.
The future benefit of this effort can.
not be weighed. A clean press and
clean pulpit are travelling in the same
direction, but the field of the press is
naturally much the larger. Its Obliga
ton to serve high civilization is just as
sacred as the obligation of the pulpit.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

icy, Is a moral question.
The church must not only be inter-
ested In having a a inherit eternal
life, but also interested in having him
inherit from his p%rogenitors a clean
body and a sound mind and from So
ciety a decent environment and a fair
show in the game of life.
The church will always need to be
something more than a mere humani-
tartan institution, but It cannot fail to
include the humanities in its program.
This new vision which the church is
getting does not mean less theology,
but 1t means a more vital theology.
The theology which will be lost be-
cause the church is putting into prac-
tice seven days in the week the teach
fngs of Jesus is not worth the saving.
The church and the press meet. on
the great common field Of social serv-
ice. They are to be friends and not
foes, colaborers and not competitors.
The editor without a vision of social
service needs to have his soul exam
lined. And the preacher who doesn't
mix with his fellow men and translate
theology into terms Of everyday life
should be sent to the same hospital for
heroic treatment.
The country newspaper may not say
much, but it talks to far more people
every week than all the preachers In
the town. And / can name a lot Of edi-
tors in little country towns who have
been doing nightly wholesome preach
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

Dor and are alike working for the gen
eral uplift of humanity. The editor
joyfully heralds the news Of your ar
rival into this transitory existence, is
delighted to chronicle your happy mar.
riage and bows his head in sorrow as
he publishes a half column obituary
at your untimely demise.
While the minister's chief function is
to point the way toward God and spir-
itual things, yet it is not speaking dis
paragingly Of his high calling to note
the fact that much of his labor deals
with the practical, everyday problems
of human life. The church has found
it necessary to give attention to social,
economic and even political questions
in order to establish the foundation
upon which to build a permanent
Christian citizenship.
The functions of the public press ar,
more varied than those of any othe
profession. First of all u newspa
pers are the mirrors from which ar,
reflected the actual conditions Of ever,
day and season and of every people
state and nation.
The public press is also charged witt
the responsibility of exerting Il Whole
some editorial influence. 1t goes int
practically every home in the land. il
read by every fireside, by people of ey
cry sect and creed, by people of every
trade and profession, by people Of ev
cry station in life and of every taste.
It is not always popular for the editor
to stand out firmly for the right side of
these great moral questions. In fact
in many instances he has done SO at
the hazard of his business, his property
and even of his life. But as a rule the
public press stands for the highest
ideals of life, for purity In public and
private affairs and for the betterment
of all mankind.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

RdpCA 10 a (iC0-
ture of a commercial system, depend
ent upon its revenue for secular serv-
ices rendered in competition with other
mediums Of publicity for its very ex-
istence. Necessarily 1t must first es-
tablish itself OF a paying basis before
1t can become interested in the ques-
lions with which it is the pulpit's mis-
sion to deal.
But the newspaper should not be ex-
pected to become more closely allied
with the pulpit than to encourage in a
general way the work of the church.
1t cannot become the newspapers bust
ness primarily to preach the gospel.
The newspaper, rs a matter of fact,
differs none from any other private
business in the respect that it must
supply a carnal demand. While it may
in a measure educate its constituents
to a taste for less Objectionable news,
it rests primarily with the pulpit to do
that or at least to lead in the effort.
The experiment of publishing a daily
paper according to the ideals Of the
pulpit a number Of years ago resulted
in such a severe censorship Of the
news as to make the paper dull and
embarrassing to the average reader.
True, it does not necessarily follow
that the public taste for news cannot
he modified. The gospel which the
pulpit proclaims is effective in altering
tastes. Through the medium Of this
gospel the pulpit, supported by a quick
ened press. may some day make It pos
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

nCWcDdRCA 10 III
most always misunderstood by the pull
pit, and this misunderstanding arises
from what l think is misconception of
the provinces and functions of the
newspaper.
And yet If you take the newspaper
at its face value and accept it for what
1t claims to be the m-isconception is
hardly possible.
All newspaper criticism is based to
a large extent upon the personal atti-
tude of the critic. 1t seems difficult
sometimes for a man outside the news
paper profession to remember that a
newspaper is made for all people, not
for any n set nor class nor clique.
The newspaper is not q preacher; it
is not a jeremiah nor a John the Bap-
fist. The world has need of both of
these, but the world provides for them;
that place is not in the editorial chair.
The newspaper is a chronicle of the
times, a reflection Of the life of the
day. : 1t makes nj pretension to be a
complete guide. philosopher and friend.
1t is only one factor in modern life.
The editor does not seek to take the
place of the public schools or the high
er institutions of learning. He does
not seek to supplant the clergy. He
leaves them their work and expects
them to do it. He is willing to aid, but
he cannot take their work and their re-
sp~onsibility off their shoulders.
Newspapers, l fear, like clergymen,
are likely sometimes to be judged not
by their best specimens or by their
best efforts, but by their worst speci-
mems and by their delinquencies. The
average publisher or editor is not wan
tonly giving the people a poorer quail
ity of newspaper than they ought to
have. Experience has taught him that
the public does not demand anything
better; that, in fact. it will not have
anything better and might be pleased
with something worse. The new stand
ard is improving constantly. and every
Inch of encroachment ON the part of
the morbid, the morally wholesome and
poisonous has been fought by the men
who make the papers, not the people
who patronize the newspaper.
While possibly not living up to their
opportunities, newspapers are never
theless in my judgment doing at least
as much as any other influence to pro-
mote such interests as political hon
esty, the promotion of international
peace, the abolition Of poverty, the ad-
yancement of the brotherhood Of man.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
paragraph by paragraph. And this is

paragraph by paragraph. And this Is
service.
And the paper prints the news worth
printing = the clean news. He has
convictions ON moral questions, and
when vice threatens the boys and girls
of his little town he takes his sub
scription list and advertising columns
In hand and stands shoulder to shout
der with the preacher in fighting the
good fight For the true editor heark-
ems to his ''call."
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
THE CHRIST OF TODAY.
William Allen White of the Emporia
Gazette Discusses Social Progress.

TIME W
gods at any
time will be
found to be made
from the heart OF
the world; from the
worlds emotions
its hopes and fears
and loves and ha-
treds and aspira.
tons. A god Is a
living god. only SC
long as the god
lives in the emo
tons and the will
-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
THE R VISION.
Discussion by Homer Hooh, Editor of
the Marion Record.

DANDOM SEN
X fences from
the sermon:
We are coming
to understand
that religion is
life.
The boundary
line between the
religious and the
secular, between
the moral and the
nonmoral, is a
vanishing line. In
the last analysis
every question of
conduct, of social
and political pol
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
PRESS is DOING ITS WORK.
Arthur capper of the capper PubIioa-
tions Calls For Newspaper Appreeia-
tion.

r DO not want
L to appear be
fore you as
an apologist for
the newspaper.
Because the de-
&C e n newspaper
needs no apollo
gist, and the In
decent newspaper
deserves none.
The pulpit is, I
fear, too often
misunderstood by
the press. The
na-cnonar 10 nj
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
NEED VISION OF SERVICE.
Henry J. Allen of Wichita Beacon Says
Papers Are Improving.

THERE is one
respect in
which edi-
tors and preachers
may be compared,
and that Is in this.
There are two
kinds. Some have
a broader vision
of service than
others. Some edi-
tors recognize that
a newspaper has
a glorious oppor-
tunity for doing
- Al
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

sible for newspapers to practice a more
drastic censorship. Possibly the eff
forts of the pulpit to bring the press
up to the pulpit's ideal of perfection
would be more readily accomplished
through an appreciation by the pulpit
Of the perplexing problems of the press
and its cooperation rather than by ex-
travagant condemnation.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
THE SACRED CALLING.
BY Imri Zumwalt of the Bonner
Springs chieftain.

THERE are
those who
hold tina
certain callings
are sacred. There
are others who
declare that there
are no sacred
callings. To my
mind all callings
are sacred. The
ministry of the
gospel Is a sacred
calling; likewise
Is the ministry
Of the farm and
the foundry.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
NEWSPAPERS
AND THE PULPIT
Editors Discuss Problem at
journalism Week.
DEMAND COOPERATION.

William Allen White, Arthur capper,
Henry J. Allen and Nine Other Well
Known Kansas Scribes Turn "Preaoh-
or" For the Occasion.
One of the big features Of journal
ism week at the University of Kansas
was a series of twelve sermons deliv-
cred by twelve famous newspaper men
on 1.-THE Press and the Pulpit in
twelve different churches on the same
night.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
PRESS AND THE PULPIT.
BY Fred w. Knapp, Editor of the Be-
lott Gazette.

Vou may not
have noted
h fact
but preachers
and editors are
very much alike.
They are never
overpaid in this
worlds goods for
the services they
perform for hui
mainly; they are
each expected to
share in the joys
and sorrows OF
t h community
In which thav In.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08

TT would be i'm
L possible to ar
rive at any
accurate conclu-
sion as to the
relation of the
newspaper press
to the pulpit
without taking
account of the
fact that the
newspaper is sub
jected to eco
nomic necessities
which do not
confront the pull
pit. The news
nanar ia a craa-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
EDITOR, roo, is CALLED"
Stands With the Preacher, Says &. &.
Kelley Of the Toronto Republican.

W na ~ y ,
bent of a
m a q m d
whatever the de-
velopment of his
b or t h e
quality of t b e
gray matter of
his brain, two
t thin gs m u s t
come into t h e
life of every
n o r m a
Once at least.
Or late
there comes a
time when love
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-08
PULPIT CAN HELP PRESS.

improvements Noticeable, Says George
w. Marble of the Fort Scott Tribune.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1914.
THE CHIEF FoREsTER's REPORT

MT. Henry S. Graves, chief forester of the United States and head of the forestry bureau of the Department Of Agriculture, is certainly an optimist, says an exchange. His latest report, covering the fiscal year l912-l3, spreads a cheerful aspect over some very depressing figures. This is done by holding out hope for the meat supply"
 "The forage resources of the na- tional forests" says the report. con tribute to the maintenance of more than 20,000,000 head of live stock" It further shows sales of 2,000,00O,- 900 feet of timber" out of possi- ble 6,OOO,00O000 feet, cut, however. of only 5O0,0O0,000 feet; revenues of "slightly less than $2,5OO,O0o" and ex- penditures of "a little more than $4,- 6OO,000."
 Analyzins the statement concern ing forage, and granting that it is true, it is proper to remark that there are 4O,000,000 acres of forests in western Washington, Oregon and in Alaska that contribute nothing to the maintenance of any live stock what ever. The forage areas are in the dry or partially dry belts of the country where the timber resources are small, compared with those areas which are without forage for live stock-the 4O,OOO,OoO acres mentioned above
 Taking up the figures, and making all allowance for the indefinite phraseology in the little more than" and slightly less than" qualifying clauses which characterize the feder- al forest bureau reports, and three facts remain.
 The service sold one-third of it's own estimate of the crop on long time sales, the bulk of them going to the large numbering concerns. It cut but one-twelfth of what the bu reau itself gives as the proper es- timate of annual nfw growth In other words, it took off the ground but 8 per cent of what the ground produced
 The years administrat tion of this estate-an area of national forests in the aggregate as large as all Ger many-produced another deficit for the fiscal year of "a little more than" $2,100,000, total deficit since 1908 of about" $14,9OO,O0O.
 What no service report has ever shown is comparison between field and office expenditures, nor has there ever been an exact ;temized state ment of any kind printed. The finan- cial operations of the service are placed before the country in a hay. indefinite form which would never be tolerated coming from any private in stitution or any other government bureau
 Like all previous reports, this one clouds the real issue, as to whether or not forestry pays or ever will pay. by indulging in cheap buncombe about the future of the meat sup ply"
 To get down to dollars and cents, however, why do the national forests produce nothing but deficits?
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16
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Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16
WEATHER RECORD.

Taken at 500 a. m. Snow is given as depth on level, in inches.
 Locations "Temp. Snow
 Friday January 16 1914
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16

The big scow load of lumber from the Copper River Lumber company for use of the Prince William Sound Fishing Company, of which Jack Cam is president, is ready and loaded and will be taken to Kiniklik,. where a large warehouse will be constructed and the output of the company great ly enlarged.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16

Wortman's-clear, calm, trail open. Thompson's Pass-clear, windy, trail
 drifted.
 Beaver Dam-clear, calm, trail good. : Teikhell-clear. windy, trail good. Tonsina-clear. calm, trail good. Copper Cen+er-clear, calm, trail
 good.
 Gulkana-clear, calm, trail good. Hogan's-clear, calm, trail good. Paxson's-clear, calm, trail open.
 Thursday, January IS. 1914. WOrtmanss, :. ...... 56
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16
At the orpheum Tonight.

At the Orpheum Ioht0ht. With the Mounted Police-A fine drama.
 Forced Bravery-Keysone comedy. At the Phone-Startling detective story.
 The Landlords Troubles-Another Keystone comedy.
 Change of program tomorrow ever- ing.
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16

OWNER Lot Blh Wa Val Val Per- Total
Valdez daily prospector., 1914-01-16

DELINQUENT TAX LIST OF THE TOWN OF VALDEZ, ALASKA FOR THE YEAR 1913 All herein listed delinquent Per Penalty, 1ntr.s
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-02

this deficit Next year, when a new
appropriation can be made, it will be
an easy matter to arrange for suffi-
cient funds to care for the increase
in pay asked for. At present, how
ever, the council does not sec where
the money to pay the increase can
come from, and unless some means
can be devised, it is not likely that
the request can be granted at: this
time The petition has not been turned
down, however, and the matter VIII
be investigated before final action is
taken.
The council today authorized the
city clerk to draw a resolution desig-
mating Holbrook Brothers as t3Hoffl'
cial morgue Of the city, following the
request to that effect made by the
firm concerned last week. The reso-
luton provides that this shall be
done at no cost to the city. There
were a number of reasons EMBODIED
in the request for this action by the
council, which were published re-