The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-08-30
Subscription 81. 80 q Year.
VOLUME FORTY.

VOLUME FORTY.
With this issue OF the Herald
Advance the paper enters upon
it's fortieth year. When con-
sidering men, old age, or num-
bers of years alone, when not
accompanied by other graces or
a past record of usefulness. are
not considered a matter to be
particularly proud of, and the
same thing undoubtedly should
apply to newspapers and other
institutions. But while the
Herald has never aspired to any
great heights in the journalistic
field, and has not set itself up
as a blazing torch of reform to
lead the world out Of darkness,
with a panacea for all the evils
Of society, it has never yet failed
to voice it's sentiments in what
it believed to be q just or lauda-
BILE cause or withheld its support
from what it believed to be q
q wholesome public morality.
It has made mistakes in it's near
~ forty year career--many Of
them-but it never made the
mistake of putting a dollar in the
pocket of it's publisher for a6vo-
eating in it's editorial columns q
cause in which he did not fully
believe. 1t has lived to see one
of the great reforms Of which it
has been q consistent advocate
brought to a successful issue in
the state, and with promise Of
an early triumph in the nation
While pursuing the even tenor
Of its way there sprung up on
different occasions during the
hurrying years some nor noisy
newspaper advocates of particu
lar reforms but either the sum
mer heat or the winter cold prov
ed too much for them, and one
after another they had their day,
basked in the sunlight for a
short period, and then, s'like the
Arabs, have silently folded their
ltents Tor had them folded for
them) and vanished away.
The Herald Advance notwith-
standing it's s~'endeavor to please
has been unable to completely
satisfy all its friends and pa
irons; but the consoling factor
in this is that the newspaper
that could perform this feat
wouldn't be worth while to any
one-.in fact the paper, like the
politician sometimes should be
loved for the enemies that it
makes
While the Herald Advance has
understood that it's principal
mission is that Of q local news
reporter, and has at no time la
bored under the hallucination
that it had q great work as 8
social or political reformer
marked out for it, the paper
has at all times endeavored in
it's editorial utterances to make
itself an advocate of princi.
pies rather than an antagonist OF
individnals-unless the individ.
nal persisted in making himself
obnoxious.
During the nearly forty years
that the Herald Advance has
been In training, it has been
witness to the rise and fall Of q
several political part;es-all at
first appearing like stars Of the
|first magnitnde-only TO shoot
on and cut, leaving no trace OF
their ever having been in exist.
ence-and the editor has been at
times severely criticised for not
hitching his wagon to these
shooting phenomena, but the
great tester-Time, played hav.
oc with their temporary brillian.
cy, and the Herald Advance has
seen them and their advocates,
one and all, gradually drop into
oblivion From their history it
has learned 70. be wary Of the SO
called retormers who propose
to redeem society with q politi-
cal platform and insists that the
acid test Of practicability be APP
In1ipd IL their fhnnrinc hcforn