The Coconino sun., 1916-06-23
4 HIGH COMPLIMENT
We HOPE We DESERVE

up III the HOrtHeru part Oh the
state, at Flagstaff, the financial and
commercial metropolis of that section
Of Arizona, new paper has been
started and the press of the state is
extending the customary congratula-
tons to the newest member of Ari-
IONA newspaperdom and while news
papers exert the greatest good for
and community, the question arises in
this connection as to whether it is the
part of wisdom for small commune
ty to support two struggling palladi-
ums or combine all their support on
the one newspaper.
Until recently, the Coconino Sun,
of which F. S. Breen, former state
senator, is editor and proprietor, has
been the sole newspaper in Flagstaff.
Mr.. Breen has published newspaper
of which any community the size of
Flagstaff might be proud. He has
always lent his personal aid and the
resources of his paper to the up
building Of Flagstaff and Coconino
County and his newspaper without
doubt is one of the foremost weekly
newspapers in Arizona. Although a
stand-pat Republican (which, incl
IDENTIFY is the only thing that can be
said against him) Mr.. Breen has OBJ
served no party lines when it comes to
publishing news in the news sections
of his paper and Democrats, Republi-
cans and Progressives all have had
fair chance at reaching the public of
Coconino county through the columns
of the Sun. Mr.. Breen has lived up
to the highest ethics Of newspaper
editor in printing all the news that is
fit to print, and that his efforts were
appreciated by the great majority of
the people of Coocnino county can be
seen from the fact that he had built
up the finest and most complete news
paper and job plant in the northern
part Of Arizona
Under these circumstances, the peo-
pie of Flagstaff and Of Coconino coun-
ty are taking a rather doubtful step
in encouraging opposition to an estab-
lished newspaper which is giving
them all that years of experience and
complete plant can produce. The
advent Of a second paper into the
Flagstaff journalistic field means that
both papers will have hard time
with the established paper Winning
out, provided it is conducted along
the lines Mr.. Breen has managed it
heretofore. In the meantime both
papers will have bitter struggle to
meet their payrolls out Of the earn
ings of their plants with the odds al
ways in favor Of the established pa
per.
The only complaint ever made
against Mr.. Breen's management OF
the Coconino Sun was that he was
too enterprising and gave the people
better paper than they were paying
for. 1t remains to be seen how the
people of Flagstaff will enjoy paying
for two newspapers. The new paper,
according to reliable reports, owes its
birth to jealousy, spite and an ill-con-
ceived regard for the public welfare.
Douglas Dispatch.
While we fully appreciate the ar
ticle written by one who knows the
ups and downs of the game of making
newspaper, and in building one up
from the ground floor, we are con-
strained to believe that it was merely
newspaper venture like thousands
of others, not begot in malice. Com
petition is always good thing for a
town; some appreciate it and some do
not, but an open field for all corners
is a good policy for any growing
town. We realize, that even with all
our measley sarcasm and mean dis
position, the people and the papers
of the state have dealt very kindly
with us