The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-03-06
SOMETHING NEW
UNDER THE Sun
From the Comemrce News.

From the Comemrce News.
The Times carries this week the
glad tidings of an approaching we'd
ding which is to be solemnized this
month. There is nothing unusual
about the announcement except that
it did not appear first in an Atlanta
daily. This is the first time within
our recollection that this paper has
been honored with the privilege of
carrying the first news of an ap-
preaching marriage. The weekly pa
pers usually play second fiddle on
announcements of this kind. No
doubt every weekly editor in Georgia
has been called to one side and had
the fact revealed to him that Mr.. So
and-So's daughter would be married
on a certain date to Mr.. So-and-SO,
and for him not to say word about
it in his little paper till the an
nouncement had been published in
all the Atlanta papers. The editor
of the Times has been told that so
often we have begun to look for it
and expect to play second fiddle in
carrying the glad news to the world
of an approaching marriage.
We have published enough obitu-
aries to have made US rich if we had
charged the regular advertising rate
for them (and the Atlanta dailies
and nearly all the weekly papers
charge for obituaries and cards Of
thanks), and these obituaries have
always been first hand. They never
come to us after they have appeared
in some metropolitan daily. They
never appear in a metropolitan daily.
The dailies charge for them. We
have wept with those who wept, but
our rejoicing over the approach of
a happy marriage comes after the
daiIies have rejoiced first.
People who do this mean no dis
respect whatever to the local paper.
They are usually the best friends the
local paper has. They do it because
it has been a custom. But it seems
that the time has come that this GUS
tom should be broken up. A local
paper is entitled to the news of this
section.
A local paper should be the first
to publish marriage announcements,
and if they appear in the metrOpoli-
tan dailies they could appear later
with no breach of etiquette. The
receipt of marriage announcement
this week first hand is taken as a
good omen. We feel that the time
is coming soon when the local papers
will come into their own in being
given announcements of this nature
first. The state of affairs is not con-
fined to this paper. All weeklies
have experienced the same thing
along this line. We are not COM
planning. We want new expert
ence. We want to be allowed to
publish the news that really belongs
to us and publish it first.-Lavonia
Times.
We don't play second fiddle ex-
cept as requested. When our people
send their announcements to the
dailies we take it for granted that
if they wanted them in the News
they would have made requests to
that effect. Hence, we never copy.
These announcements are sent to
the dailies and but few people who
read them know anything about the
contracting parties, when if made in
the local paper they would be seen
and appreciated by the people who
are acquainted with the couple in
volved. But when the wedding comes
off the local paper that has been ig-
nored is expected to give an elabor-
ate account of the marriage. And
when the baby is born the great daily
says nothing about it, but the local
paper is johnny on the spot.