The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-19
THE LATEST NEWSPAPER SALE

1 HE SALE of the Post and Telegram is notable event. A The price, than million dollars, is interesting but not important in America where million dollars no long CT buys very much property.
 The importance of the transaction consists in the spiritual things pass The buildings the machinery, the type and equipment of modern newspaper differ little from the material features of any other manufacturing plant
 newspaper is than manufacturing plant; it pur- veys material of the soul the compendium from which men womn receive the of the world the facts upon which they make up their minds before they act in school in church and at the ballot box.
 newspaper has the function of interpreting the events of the world important trivial function dangerous or helpful one. according O the made of the power.
 The original newspapers of America were small affairs They nearly always the property of an individual If the chanced to be small man, with little outlook, his paper died in few survived by passing into the con- ro larger Men like Greeley and the elder Bennett established newspapers which reflected their views, and which had wide influence.
 Within the thirty years about to end and within the past five the system of individual ownership and control has been passing.
 More and more newspapers bought into the pos session what is commonly called the money power
 The new ownership but in the most limited sense, in dividuasc Newspaper properties acquired by of wealth in the interest of grouped wealth. So acquired they representative of the property system and promote the deals of the vast capasc enterprises which have played part in the industrial and economic development of the United States.
 The Post and Telegram 20 definitely out of the diminish ing group journals of the old school and pass into the and much larger group which in its interpretation of the news brings significant happenings far possible within the ideals of grouped and consolidated capital
 The election Of 1920 will mark the beginning of the first contest in which big business socalled will have definitely arrayed upon its side most of the newspapers and nearly all of the great periodicals
 The system produces newspapers that stronger in respects. They operated with unlimited capital upon scale the individual owner seldom reach.
 The weakness of the system is the necessity it der support class interest There is truth in facts which later gets itself known Upon the possession of the truth Is spiritual development of civilization founded
 All by which facts misinerpreted in the ture of in diet As the individual who will not know the truth about diet suffers with Bghts other malades society constantly fed with transformation,
 es for the ndscreons imposed upon it. to which it has sub mted.
 The power of the printing press is such that information be nonopozod tract correcs An eigh page sheet issued from flat bed press may the long potent than 42 page daily printed 10000 hour but devoted to class rather than to national ideal
 The election of 1920 will mark epoch Few apparently to be the daes that will be upon the side of the president