The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-04-28

upon its merits as newspaper. 1t has
never given premium or conducted
a circulation building contest; yet il
has made constant gains and main
tanned its lead in it's territory.
Never Been In Office
Mr.. Weiss is an ardent Democrat
but he has never sought nor accepted
public Office, save that for a period
of three years he was a member OF
the Minnesota Board of Prison Man.
ayers, work in which he was deep:
~ interested.
The Herald was active in promot-
ing the movement to make Wood.
row Wilson President, and the selec.
ton of a Wilson delegation to the
Baltimore convention from Minne-
sofa was largely result of the eff
forts of the Herald and its publisher
While a member of and identified
with all the clubs in Duluth, Mr.
Weiss finds his favorite pastime ir
whipping trout streams, which abouno
along the rugged north shore of Lake
Superior, and he usually finds time
to spend day or two there each
week during the season.
Mr.. Weiss became a member OF
the board of directors of the Asso-
ciated Press in 1910, and contributes
his mature judgment with great in.
terest toward the welfare of the
worlds greatest news-gathering anG
disseminating organization.
Not long ago Mr.. Weiss was in.
duced to set forth his ideas of the
duty of a newspaper man and of the
life purpose which should in his opin.
ion actuate newspaper man. A
summary of the principles adhered
to by this successful publisher Of
the North is subjoined.
His Newspaper Ideals
'In setting down such individual
conception of an ideal, any of US,
fear, may feel consciousness of e
disparity between ideal and prac
tice. Yet that we should have ideals
goes without saying, for ideals are
visions, and where there is no vision
the people perish
"My duty as a newspaper man, as
l conceive it, is to write the daily
history of the times with truth, &C.
curacy and fearlcssness, and to com.
ment upon it with charity and such
helpfulness as We may, drawing from
it lessons for the common good with
out fear of special interests which
conflict with the common interest
The life-purpose of newspaper mar
should be to have and to hold high
ideal of his duty, and to come a.
close to that ideal in practice as hi
may.
In these yet imperfect times it j:
not always possible to have ideal ant
practice twins; yet that is all thu
more reason why the newspaper mar
should cling jealousy to his idea
and keep it shining brightly. His
duty is high one-higher, even
than that of any official public ser
want. Because, unlike the official, hi.
duty is not prescribed or his func
lions checked by any except those
intended to preserve public mora
health, all the more should he in
sist to himself that he is a public
servant, owing his first and CHIEF
duty to the public, and wishing only
to prosper through success in pub
lie service.
ITO make practice square mathe
matically with the ideal, logically {
newspaper man should have no frient
but his newspaper, no master but hi.
public.
1.-THE real success in life of a news
paper man depends not only upon tn,
character of his ideal of duty, bu
upon the measure of the gap between
his practice and his ideal."- Dalla.
Morning News.