The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-07
SEATTLE WINS FIGHT.
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 country over and quoted the country over A newspaper is in the glare oil the brightest white light every day in tn eyear It accumulates enemes who remain enemies It makes friends who are fair weather friends They' are for the newspaper so long as the newspaper is for what they want When a newspaper is for something they don't want their friendship Is as cold as charity.
 Before we go any further with this matter, let's see why we need thIs organization. Go back to that law ot q few years ago which Is now opera tive and which requires the news papers to tell 6 good many of their business secrets which other bust nesses are not required to tell Do you thing that law, which Is unnec essary, would have been passed if the newspapers had gone in full and or ganized strength and requested the proper sort of hearing? The law ia unnecessary and unimportant. News papers do not obieSt to it except that 1t is offensive in its inference. It infers that newspapers are crooked. There are crooked newspapers, Also there are crooked ministers. do not know, however that the ratio oi crooked newsTarNrs is greater than the ratio of crooked ministers and all of us know there are very few crook ed ministers.
 Then we have the zone postal law. This doesn't hurt the smaller news papers, but 1t is a master stroke for the curtailment of information and therefore for the increase of ignor ance Its chief effect thus far haa been to awaken big newspapers ana periodicals to the extent Of the hell the weekly newspapers are capable of giving in em ergency. This is q pretty good old world, but selfishness is still the motive power. N omattei what your proposition if you can fint
 the point that appeals 10 selfish in terest you have winner. Newspape, l men are as selfish as other indiyid uals WJhen big newspapers and peri 1 odicals wanted help in thing tha meant much to them they came C smaller dailies and the the countr. tweeklies. Of course l should like C
 tell you that the men who run th'
 smaller dailies and the country week
 lies are different but they are not
 They were not particularly interested
 because the new law did no. affec
 them and their help in the battle thu, far has been most passive
 The war has caused an increase il
 everything that goes into the mak | ing of a newspaper and a decrease il
 the things that make revenue for ; newspaper, but we have before u,
 each day the strange spectacle of | Iigovernment using newspapers more | than any other agency paying war
 prices to practically every other agency it uses except the newspapers
 and doing unknowngly perhaps but
 very certainly. many things to kill the newspaper business.
 ne pAlAti ua4 II ItAtiNeu d uidfktN copy of that widely circulated and little read publication known as the Official Bulletin, published daily by the Committee on Public Information George Creel chairman Its i6 pages were given to the speeches made by advertising men and government off cials at luncheon in Washington. The officials acknowledged the debt owed by the government to the news paper business. The Associated Ad- yertising Clubs showed that the pub fishers and advertisers of the country have in three months contributed space valued at $1,222.031 of which S40S, 900 worth had been used in gov
 ernment campaigns and SS1d ,000 worth is available for usein future campaigns. High tribute was paid to the newspaper business and the news paper publishers, but I have found that men who won't pay a s2O0 sul-
 scription, but are most willing to pas high tribute To be serious again, would not have you think that m'
 idea is that the newspapers shouls lput material welfare above patriotism
 In the very nature of things tho now paper must do more for the govern