The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-07-22
H NEWS FOR MAUI

Telegraph news of the world, the daily service of the Associated
Press, will be furnished to Maui News readers beginning September
, From that time ON Maui will no longer be dependent upon out
side newspapers for news from the outside. 1t will have its own
home service of uptothc-mimtc world news by wireless. At the
same time it will begin the publication of THE MAUI NEWS SEMI
WEEKLY, publishing twice a week in its present form.
But a scmi-vcckly edition is not all that this paper plans to
supply the people of Maui. Some time since it promised that in the
near future it would issue twice a week and would have a wireless
news service. 1t will do more for Maui, for in connection with the
two issues a week it purposes to issue a MAUI NEWS DAILY bull
LETIN which will summarize briefly the telegraph news and the
more important local news of that day.
The Scmi-Wecky Maui News will be in the same form and of
the same size as the present weekly edition and will contain the local
and telegraph news of the preceding half week. What form the
daily bulletin will take and the size Of it will depend upon the wishes
columns, it is the purpose of the management Of this paper and Of
its publishers to give to the people Of the Island just as good a
paper as they show they want, 1t therefore asks its readers to call
up the Office, "alIuEu -, and tell the editor or the manager just
what are their wishes relative to a daily service, for in no other way
can such knowledge be adequately obtained.
Present subscribers of the paper will have two papers a week
instead of one, but the cost Of subscription to the newspaper will
not be doubled, though the service rendered be twice as frequent
and of much greater value. The subscription rate for the Semi
Weekly will be increased to a a year from $3.50, the price per copy
to subscribers thus being reduced twenty percent.
Splendid support by the people of Maui has made this improved
service possible. To render it will entail a considerably larger eX-
pensc for the management in payment to the Associated Press for
its regular news dispatches and to the telegraph company for its
tolls. To meet such increased costs it will need to have continued
and increasing support from the merchants and business houses of
Maui, but Maui News has an abiding faith i'll Maui and her people.
1t will not ask its advertisers to double their advertising appropria-
tons, but it will ask them to increase such appropriations suffi-
GENTLY to take an adequate amount Of display space in each issue
it will ask those who have not been using its advertising columns
to take advantage of the improved medium Of publicity that it will
offer to them, and it wishes to impress upon the business community
that it is making this move for Maui and for their interests more
than for its own.
Since publication of the Daily Wireless was suspended there
have been many on Maui who have missed it and have ''felt lost
without it. This fact Maui News has recognized. The Daily Wire
less was a subsidized publication, that is, was made possible by the
contributions of larger business concerns. Ii was posted upon bull
letin boards and in other conspicuous places by such subscribers and
thereupon became public property. The new daily publication will
be on a different basis. 1t will issue on the four days of the week
when the scmi-weekly does not appear and subscription to it will be
to subscribers of the scmi-weekly only. There may be subscriptions
to the scmiweekly without the daily bulletin, but not to the daily
without the se~mi-weekly.
This paper avoids seeking a subsidy for the news service be-
cause it is its purpose TO stand firmly upon its own feet, to earn its
way in the community by that which it renders to the community
and to maintain that independence which any publication must
have if it is to hold the respect OF its readers and to fill the place
which it should.