The Washington times., 1917-06-27
What Is a Good Newspaper?
Here Is One Answer-There Are Forty Others.

ask tat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways
Don't try to work forty ways at once
reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper
work. Here is of forty possible definitions.
A good newspaper attends first to the most i'm
poan work at hand Today that work consists in earnest
support of those that must get honoraby out of this
Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism
earnest SUPPORT above and the less criticism the better
good newspaper feels toward its readers-the great
body of them not chosen few who repay an
honest lawyer feels toward the client that retains him
There newspapers in this country that give to the
poor man. for his daily penny service faithful advocacy
determined as Rockefeller could buy from Root with
miIiOn-dollar fee-and that is saying good deal
good newspaper like good restaurant keeper pre-.
pares carefully mental table d'hote.
First NEWS-the daily history of the race. A
newspaper the secondhand the face of times clock
And like the swiftly hopping second hand it must make
fuss about little things.
Second comes HUMoR- this is sad world with its
retail murders in cellars and its wholesale murders ION
the field of honor" When you have read the news you
need something that will help you to smile and forget it.
After news and humor come GOOD PICTURES.
In this day Of hurry learn through the eye and one pic
ture may be worth million words
Then there is the newspapers spinal column has
one THE EDITORIAL 1t is not the most pleasing or
most interesting thing in the newspaper in the human
body-but enables both to stand up straight walk erect
look upward and outward and fight destiny.
The young thinks he marries for the girls pink
cheeks curly hair pretty hands and smile He would resent
your speaking of her backbone but THAT principally, is
what he marries. Without it. she would be fat the
ground, inert protoplasm
There is good deal of fat inert protoplasm in the
newspaper world-thats what makes newspaper
quite simple Mercu Providence arranges your competitor
that he doesn't know what the matter with him.
The ely-fsh doesn't know that he isn't vertebrate
he did know it. he would say: I glad of it, hate
tebrates- s-they socialistic"
good newspaper is public what speech is to the
Individual The press is public speech.
good editorial column and honest columns to
the nation of today what the public square the Greek
ctya place for meeting and discussing in which conspr
acies are exposed and punished
For example the Steel Trust the Copper Trust and
dozen others give million dollars the Red with
the weadverised right hand and with the left STEAL
BILLION from the nation in extortonate charges
How much more do you suppose these modern bandits
would steal if there newspapers to check them?
What nurse does for crying baby good newspaper
does for the public The doesn't tell the baby what
the thinks but finds and tells what is matter
WITH THE BABY. The good newspaper expresses the
thoughts wishes troubles aspirations just complaints of
the public.
You have written good editorial if your reader says
That is what have thought thousand times
good newspaper tells the OLD truths with sincerity
and earnestness that make them new
And, fortunately for those that work sincerely, the
humbest recognizes the good newspaper instantly
knows HIS FRIENDS VOICE.
We began by mentioning 'the abest and most
powerful editor in the United States Every other editor
will tell you that this is William Randolph Hearst
He succeeded in spite of wealth To know how difficult
that is look the wrecks that inherited wealth scatters
around you
He is the of successful journalism as it stands
today. Mr. Lawson of the great Chicago News is
doing with his paper the things that Hearst taught him to
do in the evening and he will tell you So
And those young genuses Paterson and Mccormick
who have made gigantic of their Chicago Tribune
doing in the morning and Sun6a7 the things that
Hearst taught them-and they will tell you So And a
hundred well known newspaper could be added to