Weekly journal-miner., 1922-12-20
THE REVOLT AGAINST PROPAGANDA.

1 THE REVOLT AGAINST PROPAGANDA.
 The newspapers of Arizona are long-suffering
 but an action taken at meeting of the publish
 CTS on Sunday indicates that they are at last
 about to turn against their despoiler-the propa-
 gandist. There were never in the history of the
 world so many people dissatisfied with God, the
 government, and things generally they have
 worked themselves out to the existing status as
 are at the present time engaged in the process of
 making the world over. In his late report, At torney General Daugherty stated that he knew of
 487 different kinds of propaganda which mil
 lions were being expended every year.
 The work which many of the various groups of propagandistS have .undertaken is a work which comes within official activities after ex- perience; and not propaganda, has impressed a considerable number of people that it needs to be accomplished.
 Much of the propaganda originates in pure fool ishness and much in sefisllness It is intended only either to furnish idle and futile men and wo men with something with which to busy them selves in an apparently semi-publc way and thus gain for them place in the public eye. And much of 1t is without any other aim than to furn-
 sh the propagandist with jobs carrying greater or less remuneration.
 Most of the propaganda is harmless so far as concerns its effects upon the public. It is pass ing wind gone tomorrow next year and for gotten. Other winds have swept down after it. It has only taken the money and part of the time of those whose interest in 1t has been en- listed.
 But the newspapers have allowed themselves to be embarrassed and inconVehienced by it. That oo1 +O ha : rassed but if one now studies the columns of the large metropolitan papers, he will find in them little signs of propaganda. Here is being dealt a blow which propaganda feels, for its life is in l publicity.
 The newspapers have been compelled for the protection of themselves, their subscribers and ad- vertisers to make stand against propaganda. It l is not news. It relates to what is going to hap pen tomorrow or some other time in the future. News is of only things that have been done-to meetings that have been held and programs that have been executed, and not of things only in prospect, and these things in which not one read CT in hundred feels the slightest concern.
 Before the propagandist became so numerous and clamant for newspaper space, and when be- cause of their supposed pretended interest in the public, they were allowed inordinate space, we 1, used to look over newspapers for that kind of stuff which had been submitted as news (''heres ] little piece to fill up your paper'O. We often thought that the papers might little better have left the space occupied by the propaganda run blank It would have been precisely as entertain ng and instructive to the average reader. It would also have aroused his curiosity and that is the next best thing to arousing ones interest. And then the cost of composition would have been saved
 In those days the newspaper used to be the principal holder of the sack. A propaganda may nave cost the participants in it nothing but their lime, and the average propagandists time is nothing. But it always cost the newspaper a lot of valuable space. lseless, only the most of 1t, say about nine enths There are always, though, some great hings to be accomplished by cooperation, and must be preceded by organization The aims of the organization are so meritorious hat they need only to be presented properly, and heir accomplishment will be so plainly and gen erally beneficial, that newspapers should join with Ill good citizens in furthering them. $
 This is usually work which cannot be taken up oy official agencies at any ratc cannot be carried along solely on official lines. They are matters -ather of community endeavor in which the news paper should play its part.-Republican,
 As the end of the year approaches merchants Ire taking stock" says writer. And corpora