The Washington herald., 1921-03-28
STYLE OF POLISH JOURNALISM
GREATLY RESEMBLES FRENCH;
LITTLE NEWS, MUCH OPINION
Arthur Ruhl Discusses Warsaw Papers Which
Represent Political Parties Ads.
ny ARTHUR RUHL.

The warsaw newspapers are
little journals of opinion and argu-
ment in the French style rather than
big news journals like our own.
They represent. as so many OF the
Paris papers do. some political group
or personality, and are supported by
a party rather than by advertising.
They are, in other words, not SO
much news businesses as cart-tails
or platforms from which the editors
deliver each day their personal
harangues.
What they lack in news-or In
that chronicle of accidents and &C.
centric happenings. which; in Amer
lean papers, often passes for news
they partly make up in the variety
OF their political opinion. There Is
not the same variety on Warsaw
newsstand that there is on Paris
newsstand. where you may choose
any sort of flavor you wish. from
the Monarchistic LAction Fran
caise TO the almost =, Bolshevistic
Populaire, but a good deal Fof va
riety, nevertheless.
Numerous Conservative sheets.
The Rzeczpospolita Republicl. the
Kurjer warsawski (Warsaw CouI,
ier), and the Gazeta Warsawski
(warsaw Gazette) are all conserVa-
tive papers. They advocate Two
chamber national Parliament win
Senate composed OF more or less
conservative elements ana are OPP
posed to the Chief of state oeing
Command Chief of the army.
To that extent. at least they are
opposed to Pilsudski, VINO hoios
both ofiices. The warsaw uazet.e
is the official organ OF the NatlohaI
Democrats, bourgeois party
which, although less influential tnan
1t used to be, contains some OF the
ablest men In the country ana the
warsaw Courier, which has a large
number of readers, is also close 10
the National Democrats.
.Paderekskf's Paper.-
The Republic is a new and enter
prising journal, sometimes spoken
OF as a "Paderewski paper. IL
prints simultaneous editions In sew
eraI cities outside the capital. The
painter Ivanowski, a friend of Pad
erewski, who will be recalled here
for the pictures of Maude Adams as
Peter Pan" which he made for the
Century Magazine a few years ago.
has taken an active interest in the
pushing of this paper and. while its
or1 nj tGf of q 81
man will be determined by events.
naturally It could be counted on
during the autumn vigorously to
was attacked by the Left.
The Kurjer Poranny Is generally
regarded as "Pilsudski paper" and
the Chief of State, although theoret-
ically without a party now. and
democratic" rather than radical"
in his present political tendencies.
was formerly Socialist. The out
and-out radical papers are the
Rabotnik, a more or less official or
gan of the Polish Socialist party
"P. p. Sand the Narod. which
is still further Left. The latter Is
inclined to be rather intemperate in
it's language. and during the excite
ment over Gen. Zellgouskfs adven-
ture (the seizure of wilma from the
Lithuanians) it printed vicious at
tacks on Paderewski, who was rep
resenting Poland in Paris, and hav-
ing an exceedingly embassassing
time of 1t explaining away allied
objections to Zellgouskfs frankly
lawless performance, without in
furiatinS opinion a. home.
Well Written and Edited.
Rabotnik, while sociaIistic, is
well written and edited. and much
of its comment is merely liberal
and not infrequently characterized
by good sense. Its editor, the So