The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-05-16
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industry should be subjected to such an annoying probe.
 The tendency to slobber around the leaders in industry has the great paper of American life the most determined snob in the world of journalism. The doings of. Madame Mazuma whose husband is the president of Starbord Oil are the pictured social guides iii the social columns. The statements of Mir. Mazuma of the Starbord Oil Co. are cherished by the journals of the land as pearls of wisdom which the public swine must digest anyhow.
 Are we to take it that a paper is just as good as it's subscribers and it's readers demand-or are We to believe that because it requires money to operate great paper sue. ce3sfully, the subscribers ard read CTS have to take what they can get!
 It might be the more charitable view to take the latter opinion. but we very much doubt it. The paper that turns out Happy Hooligans and the Katzenjamemr Kids as the last word in cartooned humor knows every well that it is just rising to the heights of it's clientele and no higher. We see that when a peri odical, say like the Masses, has to struggle to live-a periodical that is alert in thought and vigorous in it's art, that treats real questions in a realistic way, that does not shirk the truth and dallies with it's un pleasant side as well as its attrac- tiveness-there is no little or no de- mand for news except that it be sensational for literary matter eX- for art unless it is so brazenly crude and impossible and for humor save it's main characteristic is a guffawing clownishness.
 It is herein that the great inter ests achieve their great ends. They can take the white paper and pour over it's columns great headlines, exciting the simplest imagination, dealing with horror, with fear, with terror stimulating the most ignor- ant ngs-unthinking national ism, brainless conventionality and the ever popular love of mystery
 Through these means can be builded up wave of popularity for almost any insane policy. for any mad purpose, for any criminal in tent. The suggestion of falsehood that is the suppression of the truth stares the reader in the face and be takes away utterly false notions of men and things and doings and say ings. The most atrocious falsehoods find instant circulation-to be cor rected in remote corners of the great paper that published the lie on it's front page with glaring head lines that it might better accomp- fish its purpose.
 In after years when the agonies that follow misleading statements and the cultivation of false and ar tificial notions, history pays little attention to the guilty ones. What is written is written. And the harm is accomplished in the perversion Of truth--which indeed is the end de- sired.
 This condition will not be better ed any until the workers who are the victims of this campaign of edu- cated falsehood support their own own papers and possess great pa pers which will disseminate the truth-which will acquaint the public with their side of the great questions of the day and be a need ed support in the day of trial and tribulation.
 The main thing today is orga- nization and still more organiza- tion and it is the labor organization that must control it's own press Were it not that the great papers which almost universally misrepre- sent labor, have clever custom oi lauding the leaders and congratu- lating the workers on the posses sion of such Messiahs and Moses as are in tho chief offices, this fact would be insisted upon much more emphatically by the labor organiza- tions than it now is. But when this man or that who is the leaders of some organization or it's affiila- tion can get his picture on the front