Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-11-27
Teiegraphic War News"

worry ABOUT ILLS week, ana lacking
news to fill the portion of it's front
page not occupied with advertise
ments, long editorials on tax dodg-
ing, agricultural representatives, ETC.,
and news matter contained in last
| weeks News-Budget, the Journal pro-
ceeds to take slam at the way the
NeWs-Budget dishes out its few late
war bulletins every Friday The Jour-
nal modestly admits running some
thing along that line, too, but it
runs the dope in a superior, real
refined" way, to use the Journals
words.
The Journal says: eve get a tele
gram from a news bureau each
Thursday noon, containing extracts
from dispatches from London, Ber-
lin and other European points, the
same kind of telegram that is re-
ceived by any country paper that is
willing to blow in small quantity
| of real money for luxury that hap
pens to be in style. We don't know
| just why we do it. 1t is like drink
ing booze-you don't know why you
begin, but having begun you can't
shake off the habit.
''The telegram isn't special in any
sense-the dispatches don't come or
iginally to the news bureau They
come to one of the big press associa-
tons, and the news bureau gets them
| from the association. We and the
rest Of the weekly guys get from the
bureau a rehash of the service they
get from the association. We in turn.
when the stuff seems to be worth it.
give a rehash Of our telegram to our
readers. You can imagine the dope
should be pretty well ground up by
that time, real refined so to speak"
If the Journal doesn't like the war
news stuff, why does it print it? 1t
wasn't thrust onto the Journal If
| the Journal doesn't know why it does
| it, pardon the suggestion that it
| may have been because the News
Budget was doing it." These bulle
tins were run in this paper two
| weeks before the Journal started to
run them. The Journal would never
have got them if it hadn't wrote in
| to the Western Newspaper Union
that it wanted them, after seeing
| them in this paper
The bulletins the News-Budget
runs are special dispatches to the
| News-Budget, wired us from the news
| bureau at Minneapolis, no other pa
per in this section getting the dis
Soon after We started using them
we stated that they came via Mime
apolis These dispatches do originate
in London, Paris etc. and it is per-
fectly proper to run these names in
the date line. We have never init
mated that We had a direct wire or
wireless connection with Petrograd
or Bordeaux, Paris or London, but
We have just as much reason to run
| the name of the city from which
the dispatch comes in the bulletin
as any of the Minneapolis daily pa
pers, none of whom make any claim
| to having their own direct wire con-
nection with the foreign news cen
ters.
The difference between the way
the News-Budget and the Journal
run the war news is that the News
Budget runs them like any neWspa-
per would.
| We do not want our readers to get
the impression, that the Journal en-
deavors to convey, that we hand our
readers a lot of dope" not contained
in our dispatches. Fortunately we
were able to find last weeks bulle
tin and We will reproduce it in the
original language:
| NIB 40 Collect DPR
Minneapolis MINI Nov 20
News-Budget, Ladysmith
Paris-Tremendous pressure being ex-
erted on allied lines from Ypres
southwark to Labassee German bonn
bardment Partially destroys armen-
there's Great section burning, Germans
seeking weak spot to break through
| to coast. British launch Vigorous
counter attacks Germans. Washing
| ing firing on Tennessee at Smyrna
| Western Newspaper Union
246pm
Here is the way we give it to our
readers: