The Detroit times., 1914-02-21
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sisting OF william Charles. Jr.. OF
Bellevue: NJ. II. DeFoe. OF Charlotte.
and f. J. Mccall. OF Mt. Pleasant. to
protest TO Insurance Commissioner
Winship against alleged discrimina-
ton against small employers on the
part Of the state insurance depart
ment and old-line insurance COM
panies In the matter Of rates on en-
ployers' liability insurance. A rcsor
luton was adopted calling the atten-
ton Of Mr.. Winship to the fact that
employers whose payrolls are from
81, 900 to $500 q year have TO pay
double the rate given larger employ
ers, and asking for relief. The insur'
anee companies justify their charge
ON the ground that II Is not prontanle
to handle the insurance Of the small
employer at the same rate that 10
granted the employer with larger
payroll.
The speakers on the Saturday after.
noon program were Fred w. Gage,
Battle Creek; Maj. william p. Me
bett. Big Rapids. historian OF the
Michigan Press association: w. n.
Berkeley, Cassopolis: Harry L. Ixor.
Durand; H. Nj. Myers. Standish; Pat
O'Brien, Iron River: John N. Mccall.
Ithaca. and Miss Jennie Buell.. Of the
state Grange. Saturday evening.
banquet will be given by Fred Pos
tsl, of the Hotel 0riswold. The
speakers will be Louis A. Well. Port
Huron; A. C. Carton. Flint: John !.
Gibson. Western Michigan Develop.
ment bureau; Congressman Cramton,
Lapeer, and Charles T. Schermerhorn.
managing editor Of The Detroit Times.
OmcerS will be elected In the bust
ness meeting. at 4 o'clock, Saturday
afternoon.
Don c. Seitz, business manager OF
the New York World. was the guest
Of the federation. Friday afternoon.
and addressed its opening session.
Mr.. Sets told Of the advantages to
be gained by cooperation. and told
Of the experience OF New York pa
pers in this respect. He then dis
cussed the newspaper business In gen.
ticular. His speech was epigrammatic
and drew much laughter and ap
plause.
1.-THE country editor 10 an oateast,
but he need not be unhappy on that
account" said Mr.. Seitz. "He has
got to represent protest all thA
time, not necessarily . protest against
goodness and purity. but there are
times when even goodness and purity
become oppressive and when the web
constructed editor ought to sit down
on them"
He spoke Of the aid to the develop
ment Of newspapers that has come
through the trolley and the telephone.
He advised that In small towns where
there are two or three papers, the
managements cooperate In q delivery
system. end In the purchase Of paper
and supplies.
THE small-town editor must have
plenty OF nerve" he said. Otherwise
he will be under the tyranny OF tho
owner of the biggest factory. I kr~w
OF . case where the factory owner
also owned q mortgage on the print
shop. When the editor said some
thing that the owner didn't like, he
to foreclose. Go ahead.
the editor told him. Put me out, and
III print my paper on the street 1t
would have been q good thing for that
editor to have been elected. and to
have set up his press on the public
square. His reputation az . coura-
geous editor would have been estab-
lished. The owner Of the biggest fac.
tory often has to be- tipped over by
q small editor.
when I was running q paper In
small country town, noticed that col.
lections fell on a. soon az people got
to call me by my first name. The
large city paper has an advantage
over the small town paper, because
the editor can surround himself with
moro or less mystery"
1.-The universities have found q great
deal of fault with the modern newspe-
per. l heard William Dudley Foulke.
of Richmond. Ind, deliver . lecture
on the Newspaper that would have
been mastery except for one fact
that II wasn't true. When he had nm
ished, I was called on to defend the
asked one question
which nobody could answer. I said:
What IL Il that we. the papers. print,
that Il worse than you, the people.
do?'
Often We receive protests that
there was very good lecture that We
did not report in full. Our reply u.
II you want to know all about birds,
60 TO q natural history. not to the
The reason that We dis
miss In a few lines q lecture In the
art museum, and deYote considerable
space to the tipping over Of q hre en-
CINE, 10 that q great many people saw
that overturned ire engine and won
dered who tho man under It was.
Moreover, Il has been discovered that
people like to be told something about
what they are already somewhat "a
miliar with. The paper that pays at-
tention to homo things ID the paper
that u most interesting.
1.-THE so-callei sensational paper -
not really sensational. II merely OF.
fers . loud appeal to the rudimentary
sense Of the general public. It ID. loud
only In ito announcements. When !
was a boy. selling papers, didn't read
the New York Times because it, COR
umns were too compact. I read the
Herald, because Sc carried larger head
lines and spread IT. type.
THE average man doesn't read more
than one-eighth Of the paper. He reads
only what interests him. Therefore
the paper has to be divided into de-
partments for his convenience.
THE modern newspaper has nothing