The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-07
AMERICAN MARINES SMASH THE GERMANS


 yesterday when he suggested the formation of a more effective news paper organization for the protec- tion of the rights of the press and preservation of the press from en- oroachments that have been made He also outlined effectively the work l the newspapers had done in the war Mir. Haskell said in part;
 The National Editorial Association is a strong organization This is it's thirty third annual meeting. But it's scope is too much restricted, though am sure through no fault of it's own. We should have an organization of the daily and weekly newspapers Of the entire country. It should be a compact and aggressive organization. One of it's biggest and most neces- sary works should be the elimination of foolish and suicidal competition and of the eternal and disgraceful bickerings between newspapers. A half dozen wholesale drygoods men or wholesale grocers can do business in a town and speak well of eacn other during business hours, but if there are two newspapers in a town they get along like strange wild cats. The editorial and city forces and the business office forces take up the quarrels quite often and people who are not in the newspaper work get strange impression Of it. l would not curtail competition. I believe in it. do not think you can get any where without it. But competition does not make make it necessary to look on your competitor as the l. W. w. looks on the man who wears a clean shirt Newspapers must get together.
 l realize that in urging this close co-operation ann urging something that wit not burgeon into reality un- less a vast amount of work is done and the work can not be done by the country newspaper men alone. Not only must the big city newspapers take an active and sympathetic in terest, but this interest must be taken by the heads of the big city news papers.
 One reason, as I see 1t, that the newspaper business is so disorgan- ized is that in most cases the men who make the big newspapers are not the owners of them. Often the own CTS are men who know nothing of the newspaper business, or very little They have money invested and these investments bring dividends or defic- it's, as the case may be. The men act-| ually making the newspaper each day have not that personal interest to bel found in other businesses where the owners do the work each day. Tue rules of the men who do the work in newspaper offices are the rules orI the newspaper profession and not of the business man. The proper rule or code is the means between the eX- tremes of newsnaperdom and busi- ness. For instance l should not ad- Vocate the granting of special favors to big advertisers in such matters as the suppression of news. On the other hand l do not think it is good business or necessary professionalism to insult the customers of the news papers.
 The other day l was talking to banker from one of the largest cities in the middle west. He was discuss ing a newspaper that has had com manding position in that city. He said there Is an air of arrogance about this newspaper plant when one goes ill to make a request or to give it business that is telling against it. This air of arrogance does nos of course come from the newspapers owners. It comes from the men wno make the newspaper. who know the worth and standing of the newspaper, and who have adopted an attitude cl "go to the devil if you don't like our way" In that city another news paper, which was negligible quan- tity few years ago. is steadily gain ing on it's arrogant competitor and is maxim new and powerful friends every day Instead of meeting thel situation by the elimination of the arrogance and unnecessary offen- siveness. the arrogant newspaper isl meeting fl by hating it's competitor and the competitor is putting in all spare moments in hating it's arrogant neighbor. mention this so that we may understand at the outset, if we are to get anywhere in a plan of CO., operation between the country and the city press. We must go to head quarters. We should have from each newspaper the head man among tho actual newspaper workers and the head man among the owners of the newspaper
 One of the first obstacles to be overcome is the attitude of the nakers and many of De owners of big newspapers In their estimation their newspapers are too big 10 be hurt This is a silly view. Many big newspapers. dead today. flourished a few years ago nd were known the
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