The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-11-26
Printing War News.
Bennington Banner. }

i1VAA WI tiiN lAAAt' lily Fitdt A'Aitisi
publisher, at a recent gathering of
American newspaper editors in Kan
,, sas City, told them that many of them
are not doing right in the way they
! are reporting the war news He de-
clared that il is serious error to do
as several of the great New York pa
| pers are doing, in featuring the cncour-
| aging news from the war and minimiz
| ing the other side. Lord Northchffe
said in part;
To-day l saw a great headline
| across newspaper. 1t read, - 800
German Prisoners Taken. In another
place, carefully hidden, "27 800 British
| Casualties. Think of it-placed
where no one would think of looking
for it. This is all wrong. The news
that makes up n newspaper Is every
thing, and true and important news
| should be placed where il viii attract
the reader S attention.
I'm an important propaganda in my
country we never print the news that
way. The British newspapers at pres
ent give you facts Just as they actual
ly happen, bat we had to learn to dc
that. / believe that is only fair, SC
that the people can actually know what
il going on.
You read where a wonderful inven
ton was made which would destroy
the submarine. You read about sub
marines being destroyed in large mum
bers. You read that in your newspa
pers, and YOU believe il to be authen
tic information, and it is no informa
tion at all.
Presentation Of this war news,
am sure, YOU have already found is ont
Of the more difficult tasks that eve,
confronted a newspaper. Even if cor
rect facts are printed, oftentimes they
r will not be accepted by the public.
= Still, we have found il TO be on
experience that when the war frs
broke out the newspapers that PRINTED
tiattcring reports of the war that weT
= accepted as facts by the reading pub
2 lie-iust as soon as our sons began
, to write us from the battle front wha
was really going on, those newspaper
who printed false, although tlatterini
reports of the war news, were discred
tied. and those few who, from the first
dared to print the real facts, becam
! more and more to be relied on and ros
in public favor.
u know the difficulty OF dealin
It with the prosperous people-thcv ar
Y all 50 optimistic. The war has don
4 much for thcm-it has made them pros
| porous, they get more for their whea
= corn, meat, etc. They read about tn
n wonder-victories we are having-abou
II the hundreds Of submarines that We ar
r. sinking--that Germany is without foo
or anything 10 wcar-that she is havin
internal rcvolts, etc, and they AXE
o all in-all Of it untrue.
Y Believe me, when the soldiers CON
home, they are going TO rule the pc,
pie to q certain extent. They are q
ing TO overrule these politicians wl
l. have given us a rotten deal. 1t will /
-, an awful hard thing for anyone to .,
any OF us III war in the future, whc
" this war is over. l have talked wit
T. our soldiers II the front who hay
re- been there and have had three yea
!. OF this horrible warfare.
They are yerv determined and hay
\ very strong ideas OF capital, labor, III
ot and all the various questions that a
- paramount in the public minds toda
: They will be III position to domino
to certain extent many Of the cor
munities in which they will resid
nc They have 4 strong feeling of brothe
f. hood.
,c This war has done LOT IN dra,
:, ing people together and our soidie
are going to come back banded t
y gethcr with q yery strong bond.
1.-The United States and Great Bri
ain are very close together. ii '
s two people keep together, we can,
am sure, see that there is never q
> other war.
IL - ~ ! travel over the United Stat
rs ! find that your country is very sin
Sc lar to our country-your people Il
- very similar to our people. You a
ruled by your people, 50 are we u
re hated an army and 50 did we. v
n are very similar in our likes, idea
81 and government. We hated war, ,
"a did not have an army, and | hope al
pray that we will never have anoth
~ war, and l believe that if we keep
rs gether when the soldiers come ba
ed and the conditions are adjusted,
.. will have continued peace, for | /
lieve that the people viii see to
= that nothing viii happen like this
e5 long as they live.