Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-16

When you are unable to ind anything passing
along the channels Of current and Legitimate news
that might furnish an excuse TO say something mean
about person YOU have particular fondness for'
or 10 deprecate the city in which live and pros
per why Just set your private news manufacturing
machinery in motion and turn out something TO suit
Fake it, and foist it upon the readers of your
>paper-that is. if you publish newspaper-as gen
uine fresh. pure-food-proof information supplied by
your Washington Bureau OF fact and fancy chiefly the
latter and spice it with imitation Federal official
approval extract for flavor effect.
Not an honorab proposition. you say. and you
will have none OF il. Well, the Evening News eyl-
IDENTIFY doesn't think you do, for 1t has adopted
the plan. and is. doubt. chuckling over the SICK
manner in which it got away with the stun.
Perhaps it is not so much the Newark plan from
the News standpoint as it the Omaha plan so fire.
quenty put in operation by the News 1t has all the
Wild and weird earmarks of woolly-west journalism
al all events.
Last week there was sent out from Washington,
D. c. sort OF circular copy of form 8-45Sl. De-
partment Of Commerce. Bureau of the Census treat
ine of Cities Under Commission Form of Govern
ment'' The Evening star received copy on the
same day the News received its copy and other papers
received copies The circular was subject TO re-
lease for publication on June Il at any time there
after
The circular covers transactions Of the calendar
year 1912 or the fiscal year closing dates prior
to February l. 1918 in the siNtynine cities OF the
country operating under commission rule. There is
positively not the slightest reference 70 Newark y
in the circular nor vas it contemplated that any
city other taan commission governed cities should be
referred 10. There vas no more reason 10 mention
Nea-srk than there would be reason 10 mention
Kalamazoo
Yet tbe Evening News in a special from its
washington Bureau blossoms forth with this cir
eulsr. which vas mailed TO its Newark Office from
be identical source that mailed It to The Star Office
and not sent ont BY is Washington Bureau and in
eorporated features concerning Newark in manner
calculated 10 give us readers the impression that the
whole business came from the Department Of Com
merce High-clsss journalism this. 10 be sure. IT
the old grapevine method Of supplying news sban-
doned by backvoods publications in the dim and
misty past.
It is quite plain that the Washington Bureau OF
the Evening News had nothing to do with the doc
tornEs treatment to which the circular vas sub
iected and there doesn't appear the slightest hope
of planning it on the telegraph operator as was
done by the News in recent memorable case. The
sections of the article bearing upon Newark, and in
a complex and poorly drawn comparison at that
we're dragged in by the heels in the local office of
the Evening News.
Journalistic enterprise with a vengeance, sort
of by force and arms artifce.
And to aggregate the ofense, ii were, the News,
knowing full we'll that the Department Of Commerce,
or its Census Bureau, had not officially issued COM
harrison between Newark which is not commission
governed city, and commission governed cities, the
Census Bureau being given TO idiotic doings,
prints an editorial which essentially accuses the
bureau of @luocking' Newark. In his irrepressibe
and irresponsible zeal the compiler Of the editorial
nuts his foot into it and shows his hand, also his
teeth and spleen
He suggests that City Counsel James r. Nugent
call down the Census Bureau for knocking New