Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-02-03
PRESS AND PUBLIC
ARTHUR J. CARRUTH GAVE FINE
ADDRESS AT DINNER
Practical and Interesting Talk Told
OF Relations of Newspaper to
mmunity-Banquet Was
Spiced With Good
Cheer

ever attended 5ucn an dIldlT, nht
down to dinner In the Masonic tenn
pie last evening and afterward lis
tened to a practical thorough and
eye-opening address on 1.-THE Rela-
ton OF the Press to the Merchant
by Arthur j. Carruth, managing
editor of the Topeka State Journal,
of the capitol city. The spirit of the
meeting was one that has fire.
quented previous similar gather
ings and showed the proper attitude
toward the citys welfare which the
men Of the city are coming every
day more nearly to adopt. G. M.
Troup, president of the Business
Mems Association, under the aus
pices OF which the affair was given,
acted as POSTMASTER and did well
in that capacity. Toasts were re-
sponded to with impromptu speeches
by ]. w. Howe Of Topeka, ]. y.
Nicolay, president of the Abilene
Chamber of Commerce; w. A. Stacey
Of the city schools; p. w. Heath,
w. II. Goldsmith, Karl Riddle, Fred
CouIson, II. W. Wilson, DR.. F. S.
Blayney and c. M. Harger.
An excellent dinner was served by
the Eastern Star ladies. This was
the second of a series of six dinners
which the association had planned
for the winter and according to
what Mr.. Troup said in his closing
address, the remaining four will be
given bi-monthly. Such occasions
promote remarkable manifesto
ton for the communitys betterment
among the merchants. All the toasts
given last evening, outside of the
shop talk had that attitude.
Mr.. Carruths interesting talk
depicting the inside of newspaper,
its relation to the advertiser, to
the community as a news agent, to
the merchant as a publicity agent,
was spiced with newspaper talk and
terms which made it attractive to
the layman.
Harmony between newspapers
and the supporters of newspapers"
said Mr.. Carruth, "the advertisers
never should be allowed to with
er. don't mean that when Peter
Smith buys bushel of charcoal for
the blower In his blacksmith shop,
the newspapers of the town should
reveal the fact-and Peter straight
way should insert a 1-inch ad and
pay years back subscription. That
sn't harmony-it's policy. mean
hat the business men of the town
should stop and consider that the
,nly means of letting the world
Inow of their business methods,
heir energy, their advantages, their
ity, is through the channel of the
title ink-odored office down town.
Another feature, business men
t Abilene. did you ever stop and
hink that the newspaper boys work !,
ay in and day out drilling their /
Ired brains for diversified adjec- 6
Ives, just. to put in a good word
ere and there, for you and your !
lmily and your friends and your a
own? If you build new front on t
our building, you don't look in the q
.ansas City Star or the Topeka
tate Journal for 1t the next day,
o you? You bet you dontl If a
ew baby arrives, 1t isn't the St. :
outs Post-Dispatch or the Denver !
ost that chronicles the event, is it?
ardly And If your only daughter
arries the good looking drug p
ore clerk you don't clip piece \
bout it from the New York Times. i
OF on your life You look for II P
the home paper-the sheet that
POSTS your name in times of sue
SIS and bushes it in times of stress.
THE larger the city and the y
'wspaper. the more Independent a.
e news editor in his relationship Vi
It'll the merchant. The ideal news %
per is the one that can print all VI
e news without regard for the N
rsonal feelings of the advertiser. "a
isn't advertising that dictates the vi
Icy of the larger daily newspa-
RS. They really have a heart and
soul-costly though it may be. l so
int out these things that the Of
pular depicting the editor as a tic
ward before advertisers might be "a
altered. You business men should bo
absorb that common belief. The sy,
tor isn't acting as the merchants All
f-centered publicity agent. even an
ugh he realizes the one big 80
Tree OF the papers revenue. The
re fearless, the more valuable is III