The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-12
SETz TELLS OF
 REAL MISSION ]. OF NEWSPAPERS

Last night ITO sat down to ban Quet at the Royal James Hotel, Nor walk in celebration of the fftieth Norwalk Hour and of which paper the diners were the guests. The af- fair was pronounced one of the pleasantest and most successful which has taken place at this hostelry, which is acquiring a reputation for gatherings of this sort
 The guests included men who had been with the paper for years; men who worked on it years ago; newspa- permen from other towns; friends of the paper; distinguished citizens and offlcfaIs of Norwalk, and newsdealers of the city who handle the Hour.
 The principal speaker of the even ing was Don c. Seitzs of Cos Cob, Business Manager of the New York World. He was introduced by Ar thur c. Wheeler, the toastmaster, following a number of speeches filled with good natured banter put under which there was much real reminls- cence and an abundance of hearty interest and congratulations for the paper.
 MT. Seitz called his hearers atten- ton to the fact that Norwalk and urbs of Cos Cob; mentioned the pur- chase of the paper mill in Norwalk by the World, and explained that the rolls of paper manufactured there were some thirty-odd inches wider than that used by the World and so now the "big end of the roll is the New York World and the little end the Norwa,lk Hour" furnishing a con nection between the two papers
 After p-essing quickly over some matters connected with Ohio and Connecticut history and quoung man who accounted for the large amount of immigration into Ohio from Connecticut by the punishment of thieves in the latter State by the use of the whipping post, he came to the birth of the Hour and deciar- ed that the Hour twas established for a purpose, a purpose other than making money, and a very excellent purpose at that, which was none other than to trim the New Haven rail road"
 Becoming serious MT. Seitz said that in all his great experience he had never yet known a newspaper Whlcn became successful or remained sue cessful which was established or run simply to make money.
 He declared that the newspaper was the only Institution which the public ha5 to protect itself from the evils of government which were many and great; and that the government was 'estabIished to protect liberty and oftentines had to be destroyed to save liberty
 He insisted that a paper can be no better than the community in which
 
 to the numerous signing people who are always deploring the many terrible things in the press was the question What is it that you read in the press which is worse than the things which you, the public, do?"
 Commenting on the fact that it was only during the last few years, com parativeIy, that the papers had been properly supported, he said that he had file of the London papers print ed during the period of the Revolu- tionary war and that the only adver- tisemeuts in them were those of the peruners, fortune te1ers and deal CTS in patent medicines
 He paid tribute to the men in the uewSpaper profession declaring that they worked long hours at high speed and often for small pay and were an 6nftuence for good in the com msrnfty not wholly realized. ''It has come to be- said he, 'tthat as much is expected now of the editor as of the clergyman
 Judge Thomas of NorwaTk. e1npl1a- sized the influence, and it's import ance, which the newspapers had in building up a community and mak- ing 1t what if should be and Philip Troup of New Haven, declared that he was wholly in accord with MT. SeftIs view that no paper could be better than the community which it served and that the character of community could be guaged by the support which 1t gave it's newspa- peEz.