The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-14
IS IT SEEMS
TO ME
DANA SLEETH

-ovELy weather were
III having lately.
N Especially for this
= time Of the year.
Yesterday all We had
,cxn was couple OF earth
,..s~s half a dozen judicial thun.
rry,prms and nineteen editorial
xrnadces.
sor>how, II seems as tho any
- anything new is going TO
s.prsn In this country. II starts
~ ID happen In Seattle.
lny novel form OF government.
: ass designs In journalistic fire
v~kx OF modlsh patterns in edt
- profanity are first displayed
~ and later are exhibited the
uun.ry over.
Az while !, Is nice 10 be In the
.ussrr of things. and to know that
q sboax you the boys are making
neory. stiil IL Is somewhat con-
su1rx not 10 know from one min
- 70 another whether you are a
nnhevsk or a SNUG patrician.
@FTER wc road the morn
TAI ing paper yesterday. We
decided that. without
Knowing ID. We must
have anarchistic learn
- md warnings.
la After reading the evening
ussfs. We decided we must be
~ nfs and sane
N probably by this afternoon
y vll b. reckoned drafted re-
o1nnsry corporate hireling, be
- ~ are stisl out Of jail
" 4 which is dlsturbins TO a
~ Who ssil has the same
~ and perceptions. and opiH-
- y always had. but who finds
- uG11y racing world revolving
~ that the pink elephant on
o ~ deck OF a csrousei
nnAs By and merxes with the
~ giraffe before he can rceog-
- dth<r.
~ anyway. u was quite n day.
= evsn the police reporter was
~ nom his biasc attitude. to-
- n things mundane.
" HAVE always pitied
those careful routine
souls who make living
In other businesses.
Doubtless they have
enndsFzbie more wealth for their
~. but think OF the fun they
- ~ not being journalists"
@ any banker here present
- 1rvard to another banker
~ him a front page editorial.
- him a widow -robbing. or
ynsioosins rascal7
HAs any broker here the oppor.
Uasy Of reading. In boIdfaced
~ what a rival broker thinks
0Dut him.
pses lawyer anticipate the JOY
: heArfng the Bar association
s.nludng anent his shysterfsm?
-. sir; only In the newspaper
s9one9 does a pecved editor call
: ma out Of his name.
Only In journalism" do digni-
- tat Gentlemen throw bricks
- otuzy professional secrets.
INF COURSE. IL f. some
AI what childish. but IL
amuses the town: keeps
a fellow Interested in
life. and not for the bet
toFtGnes Of more profitable pur-
W. would we swap the occasion
: nlllp the game gives our tired
a2pst.te.
ana you know there must be n
o. fundamental honesty and
1'nzth and integrity to the news
'ser business generally.
y is the only business that is
nned BY those who follow Il: the
My business that has no trade
's's and that IL crucified by f.
a whenever some publisher gets
% sore at his circulation fig
~ and seeks 10 get balm for his
NAL us va
1u' despite all earthquake,
a'nlng and hellIsh barrage Of
,al .'al fury. newspapers keep
~ along retaining public conf.
increasing circulation, hold
nsir fundamental grasp upon
= public life Of the nation.
y r.nally. we guess that most OF
tauks s ~ d ii'e Vi
otner business could stand
n eiiine Of the cold truth, and
~. n'ling Of heated lies besides.
Iou' losing every friend IL ever
among the public.
~ newspapers hardly miss
s,s s even tho they walk out the
"sbry window