New Britain herald., 1916-09-29
BERLIN AND NEW HAVEN.

l BERLIN AND NEW HAVEN. Colonel Charles M. Jarvis of Berlin,
 than whom there is no more gallant, 1 has discontinued his subscription to 1 the New Haven Journal Courier be- 1 cause, as he tersely informs it's edi- l tor, "can't stand your politics." In l severing diplomatic relations, so to 1 speak, the Berlin Colonel draws from 1 his New Haven brother-in arms, Colonel Nod Osborn, column edi- l torial in which the famous weilder of the pen makes a few pertinent re- marks anent views expressed and news standards maintained by news papers. The Journal-Courier has been supporting Woodrow Wilson but,
 politics. It owes allegiance to no po-
 litical party, party organization, or
 party leadership. It Is not candi-
 date for office and seeks no share in
 the possible spells of victory.
 We have conviction upon the issues
 before the country for settlement, and
 are much more interested in them
 than in the personalities of the two
 admirable gentlemen who are candi-
 dates for the Presidency. Having con-
 victions, which have been created by
 as careful a study of the issues as
 we are intellectually able to make, we
 let our convictions determine our atti-
 tude, not that particular individual
 may become the beneficiary of our
 support but that the country may be
 the gainer by the views he happens
 to champion"
 Therein is contained a good exposi-
 tion of the reason for an independent
 paper adopting any particular atti-
 tude. Newspapers, as 8. rule, are not
 in politics. The men working on them
 are not running for public office. When
 such things happen, the men seeking
 office usually sever their connections
 with the newspapers, nor do the pa
 pers always accord them support.
 Journalism and politics are separate
 and distinct arts. although it is the
 accounts of events happening in the
 political arena and to comment on such of them as demand editorial notice. After all, the news is the first thing that makes a newspaper; the views are secondary. If a sub- scriber wants to study only one side of any question he can confine his reading to newspapers carrying his end of the discussion. For broader l views, men generally read one or more 1 Journals carrying both sides of all 1 public questions. No editor expects 1 to satisfy all his readers. It was aptly
 remarked not long ago that when one 1 is found who does please them all l he is lying on the flat of his back in | a long black box with a plate glass 1 over his face.
 1 If it is true, as often stated, that one-half of the world does not know l what the other half is doing, it is l because one-ha1f of the world is not | reading the newspapers. Or, if one- l half of the world does not know what l the other half thinks, it is because l that one-half does not read or listen | to the views of the other half. It | still holds true today as it did yester- l day and the day before that there are l two sides to every question. If one l man holds to thing so tenatiously l that he will not listen to arguments l against it, there is good reason to be- 1 lieve that narrow partisanship is l creeping in where broadmindedness 1 should reside. We know Colonel l Jarvis too well, or think we do, to l believe that he will deliberately de- | prive himself of those brilliant dis l cussions which are to be found every 1 day on the editorial page of the New | Haven Journal Courier, and most of
 them are written by his old friend
 Colonel Osborn. If Colonel Osborn