The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
TWORIVAL
SYSTEMS
By EDNA WAKEFIELD


how a newspaper should be conducted.
/ His plan was to please as many per
/ sons as possible. Miss Williams was
"new woman" who was supporting
herself by teaching. Mr.. Penfield met
her and was attracted to her largely
on account of her force of character
/ and intellectual abilities. Miss VIII
/ liams was attracted to Mr. Penfield
! largely on account of admiration for
man in power, for he was a man of
authority. having under him subedi
tors. clerks, printers. etc.
There are as many kinds of newspa-
! pers as there are kinds of men. Mr..
! Penfield's policy was with a view TO
making his paper pay or what he con
sidered the best method of making it.
| pay. Miss Williams idea of a news
paper was ain intellectual engine to
/ mold opinion. That is what she sup
posed Mr.. Penfeld's paper to be. be-
cause she supposed that to be what
newspapers are for. They became en-
gagged.
One of the triumphs Of the Union
was the election Of the governor of the
state. for it was generally conceded
that the papers brilliant advocacy Of
the governors side and singing con
demnatiOn Of his opponent and his
/ principles had secured the election.
But when the campaign was over the
Union returned to its independence.
! I'll, =
/ please the greatest number, thereby
securing the greatest circulation and
consequently the greatest income from
| advertisements.
! \ question of moment came up, i'll
which the governor took q decided
stand. it was supported by many ana
/ opposed By IN equal number Miss
Williams supposed that her lover
would stand BY the man if he thought
him right and oppose him if be thought
him wrong. One day an editorial mp
peared in the Union, written in the
style Of the editor in chief It read -
follows.
1t is perhaps too early TO discover
. whether the governor has acted wisely in
the matter or whether he has been inGis-
4 Greet. No one viii doubt that he has been
! influenced by the highest motives, though
there are those who win deny this con-
sideTing that his object is to fiji his peck
cts Even these viii admit that his pre-
I viOus record has been free from making
I money by virtue Of the official positions
he has held. There is but one charge
against him that has never been saUsfac-
: tOrily answered, and this ia balanced by
/ many acts that have Te1Ounded to the
. welfare Of the state. Those who support
the governors policy have the satisfaction
Of knowing that in the many important
> political questions with which he has been
identified he has usually been right. Only
. in two cases has he been wrong.
When Miss Williams read this leader
the blood came into her cheek and an
Ominous light flashed in her eye. Was
this molding public opinion? She had
not informed herself OF the matter IN
question and. having no opinion on it,
was free to be Influenced by the man
whose intellectual strength had won
her. Great was her disappointment
Later in the day she took up the Senti-
mel, paper that had bitterly opposed
the governors election. and read in al
article a clear. logical argument rs 10
why the governor was right on the
question ut Issue and calling on all
good citizens to support him.
That evening when Mr.. PenfieIG
called on his iancee he found that she
had gone to spend the evening with an
aunt. Since she left DO message for
him he was mif'ed and did not call
again for q week. Two days after his
article on the governors policy an
editorial appeared in the Bee under the
head of On Both Sides of the Fence"
quoting from his own editorial AND
comparing it with the one on the same
subject in the Sentinel.
Never had Mr.. Penfield seen himself
so ridiculed in the columns Of any Of
his competitors. SO singing were
many Of the phrases used that every
body would say: That's the painful
est sting the Bee ever gave. Ha, har'
Inquiries were made at the Bee Office
as 10 who wrote the article. but no
Information on the subject was given
out. Mr. Penfield was not seriously
troubled about the article. He had his
policy and considered ii the only policy
on which newspaper should be run,
but he began to feel uneasy about his
fancee. He expected to meet her cas-
ually. but did not.
One morning the Bee appeared in Il
new dress, and the first article on the
editorial page was an announcement
that Miss Elizabeth Williams haG
bought the paper and would thence
forward be the editor in chief.
When Mr.. Penfield saw this an
nouncement a light was turned on il
his brain that revealed several things.
He knew that by his attempt to please
everybody he HAD Disguised his fancee
He knew that Miss Williams had writ
ten the article ridiculing him in the
Bee And he was destined to learn
that there were more ways than one OF
running a newspaper.
When Mr.. Penfield met Miss Will
liams again neither of them referred
to their past relation; they met as pro
prietors and managers of two different
newspapers. The editress adopted q
policy of not troubling her readers with