The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-12
''THE THUNDERER" FOR OURS

A Il THE BOTTOM of this page the reader
~ will discover highly interesting discus
sion of suggestion that is something new
under the sun. The international exchange OF
talent should be well worth while.
To see ourselves as others see us,is valuable
even as applied to nations. Trained newspaper
writer's "swapped" between an American news
paper and an English newspaper, for instance,
should be able to interchange the national view
point as we'll as that of the individual; for a
newspaper writer properly trained is publ
cist. sociologist and a reporter blended.
We are willing to be sacrificed upon the
altar of international good will under this sug-
gestion. Our notion is that The Daily Ardmore-
te might profit by such interchange of talent
and that Ardmore and the rest of our circula-
ton territory might share in the profit The
profit would accrue to the reader in two ways.
First for instance he would have the novelty
of reading baseball write-up by sporting
editor educated to cricket-which undoubtedly
would be some sport! Second, when our sport
ing editor returned from holding down that job
on the London Daily Mail, the reader would
have the benefit of his experiences and observa-
tions with regard to cricket, which he might
apply to baseball reporting.
AS to the editorship-in-ch if we are to be
selected as one of the international goodwill
field of effort. We are reasonably sure that
readers of The Ardmorete would enjoy having
Lord Northcliffe pilot this scintilant satellite
through its orbit in the grand galaxy of Amer
lean journalism. We should be happy to leave
m'lud our desk cleared for action, including the
paste pot freshly manicured and the shears
newly sharpened His lordship might get on
better with Ardmoreite readers, of course, if
he should call himself plain Alfred Harms
worth at the masthead" on this page, or still
palmer Alf Harmsworth; but that, naturally,
would be up to Alf himself.
AS editor of the London Times for brief
spell we should be able to offer the British men
tality a new viewpoint upon the Irish problem,
for instance, and it may be that we could en-
Tighten the Anglican conscience as to certain
other ethcalities, so to speak. About six
months of editing the London Times according
to broaden our views to some slight extent
which naturally would benefit our home readers
when we returned to The Ardmorete to dis
place Lord Alf in the editorial chair.
While in Ardmore, as the only man in his
classification as peer of England, Lord North
cliffe would be eligible to election as Rotarian,
and no doubt the Lions Club also could see fit
to honor him. 1t is the thing, you know, any
way, to lionize a lord AS an Ardmore Lion and
an Ardmore Rotaran, Lord Northciffe would
return to his editorial eerie on the London Times
as a living advertisement for Ardmore; and if
he should happen to find that 'The Thunderer"
had been laundering from other directions than
usual during his absence, he could ascribe it
only to the international goodwill of the editor
of The ArdmOreite.
On the whole we rather like the sugges-
ton set forth in The Daily Oklahoman as
quoted below