Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04

with a social conscience on the JOB
the newspaper will not confine its en-
ergies to printing the news accurate
II y) and commenting editorially (also
with accuracy on men and measures.
1t will initiate helpful movements and
| fight to carry them to a successful Is
sue. 1t must be of service today, not
only in politics and morals, but in aid
| ing in the solution of problems that are
part of the daily life of the people. II
must not only urge the public to swat
the crook. but should plead with them
| to swat the fly. 1t must not only fight
for clean city administration, but
must fight alongside those who arc
preaching the doctrine of clean
home.
There has been great forward
movement along these lines in the last
| decade. The average newspaper In
America today is clean paper ar
honest paper. There are not many ex-
amples left of virtues on the editorial
page and vice in the advertising col
umns. The advertiser of honest goods
doesn't like to sit in the same pew
with the quack, the loan shark, the
mining swindler. the oil pirate and the
merchandise faker. And, in the long
run, he is going to be the broom that
will sweep the few remaining Augean
i stables.
"There.i lis no better investment than
| q single standard of honor, honesty.
truth and integrity from the title to
| the last agate line on the back page.
Truth, cleanliness and decency are the
!. greatest dividend payers on earth.
Everybody Can't Be Pleased.
hr1 u f,,.on fi po
on the pleasurable side of newspaper
good, particularly when helpfulness
| walks hand in hand with success.
F., There is another side of the picture,
however - the side of perpiexftfes,
problems and exigencies. If man were
superhuman it might be possible to
hold even the scales between men who
differ on religion, politics, political
economy, sociology and all other topics,
| isms and happenings which create dis
cussion in the world. No man can
serve two masters, and 1 have found
| it equally difficult to satisfy those who
| hold divergent opinions on any public
! or private matters. But when both
sides kick: you feel measurably certain
| you are not far wrong.
! II have little sympathy with the
! myopic individuals who believe, or
rather say, that if nothing were printed
about crime, crime would cease, or
decrease. They are wrons, absolutely
wrong. The punishment of public
! opinion often is more potent and dread
full than that imposed by judge or jury
| Scores of times men have come to
| me and pleaded for the suppression OF
| the stories of their crime. And in nine
cases out of ten they have urged wife,
children and family as the reason for
concealing their wrongdoing. My an
swer always has. been Why didn't
you thing Of them before you did this
thing? I am thinking of the men,
| women and children. who have been
defrauded by you and IF the others
who will suffer unless your form OF
villainy is stopped
Print the News.
| II believe suppression Of news is
\ more of wrong than the printing of
| a piece of news that possibly might
| better not have been written. By Inn
! proper suppression; alnewspaper sells
| its soul and betrays its readers. TO
my mind it is the high treason y of
Journalism. No paper that permits its
advertisers or the personal, social and
! financial friends Of the editor to con-
troll or faint it's news and editorial
| columns ever has become a big news
| paper. .SE
IF there were no fight in this BUSH
ness Of ours it would lose half its