The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-07
Southern Editors Big Job,'
Address BY Norman Hap
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been cir men To keep their adFor-
tisements out~of all papers that favor
early evolution.
The man that represents more
good today is another man from the
same town as Mr.. Joy. Mr.. Ford. of
Detroit. There is 4 true American.
There is an American who when ne
has shown his Individual power. when
he a gone on and accumulated a
vast fortune, he felt that more OF that
belongs to the men who have helped
him to ear it. and he takes a plunge
and he gives them part of it, and he
nails up his standard in favor of the
principle that they have a right to it.
He is aware that those foreigners,
knowing very little Of American ideals,
that they may not use that for the
community good and he goes in and
arouses interest hat they raise a
standard of living. that these men
who are having better opportunity.
that they shall give back more than
they get back before. that they have
better houses and better standards of
education for their children.
Truth the Basis OF Business.
"In Toronto last week saw a large
group of typical American business
men. They were the Advertising Club
Of the United States. They had met a
veal ago Ill Baltimore, ana l1oy ndQ
laid down the great principle that
truth must be the basis Of business
today. 1t has not always been. One
or the best known forces in alleged
business is Let the buyer look out
for himself. the seller owes him moth
ing They say it owes him every
thing, it owes him honesty, fidelity to
his own standards Of right. They put
that in a general principle at Balti-
more. This week they have been do
ing something far harder. They have
gone to Toronto and they set their
general principles in a nut, that we
are going to reduce hat cOnCentra-
ton with insistence on truth in deal
ing into sacrifice rules that ant be
got away from. We are going to put
the rules of each business down so
exactly that any man who dOeS not
live up to them, who in any way mis-
leads his customers will fail. We will
go to him with the forces OF the great
public opinion and show him that rule
and say Here is a rule agreed to by
the sober minds Of solid business men
as the least VIZ can give the public.
A Young Mans Fine Spirit.
There has another meeting beer
going on recently up at Niagara Falls
to deal with a foreign problem. Their
was a reporter up there to report that
meeting to a string Of papers thai
have a circulation of millions. a hall
dozen. owned by one rich man whose
He went to Harvard. l refer to Mr.
William Randolph Hearst. Thi:
young man was representing Mr.
Hearst and he was sending back thu
truth and nothing but the truth. II
the office they were changing thes.
dispatches to carry out their purposes
to embrOll this country in war will
Mexico and mother to tarnish tn,
national administration. Thai youns
man would not stand for that, ant
I threw up his job. Mr.. Poe spoke o
my leaving a paper for principle
sake. and giving up a large salary.
e dom know that / deserve as mucl
credit as this young man. for [ knoy
that could get another good position
but he was young in the profession
He simply took his life in his hands
Il He was an example of the increasing
number of young men in our profes
sion, as all other lines of bushes
8 have come to look on their work q
y a profession.
"A profession recognizes certain oh
legations to the community, and bust
ness, until recently has not been sup
u posed to have these obligations to tn
. community. This job of keeping TIL
Z fine creative moral spirit in us all tn
= time. no matter what our work.
making success and virtue the sam
thing. That IS a big job in every sec
- ton of the United States, but it is TIA
biggest job of all in the South. be
cause the South is the next great pal
OF the country in which it is TO L
tried out. | don't call it the South
q big JOB. | cali it the Southern Editor
"a Big lob because he has a special re-
~ sponsibility on him. He has in h
a hands the greatest weapon of moder
s. times.
ct Enormous Power OF the Press.
le SO far pack as Napoleon he sa
he feared three more tina
one hundre thousand men. an
Horace Greeley said away back the1
that a one-cent newspaper of his tirr
had moro power than the govern
ment at Washington. We all kno
the truth CT the enormous power II
er press has. The French have stril
ing phrase that there is a certain &
ne OF obligations that rest upon the "a