Milford chronicle., 1923-07-20
NOT SENSATIONAL, BUT SOUND

Commenting upon the remark of &
Republican newspaper that president
Harding's speeches are instructive but
contain nothing sensational, and
therefore, they won't be widely read u
the Republican Publicity Association,
through its president, Hon. Jonathan
1 Bourne, Jr., says:
I'VE believe, and sincerely hope
that the editor is wrong in his esti-
mate Of the state of mind of the Am
erican people. He is right in assert
ing that the Presidents speeches are
instructive but not sensational. They
couldn't be sensational and be made
by President Harding. When he was
an editor, Mr.. Harding published a
paper that was filled from front page
to back with matter worth reading by
every subscriber. There was nothing
in the paper unfit to be read in the
family circle. That his paper should
be of that character was one of Hard
ing's early rules, and he stuck to it.
Mr.. Harding was not a sensational ed
itor, he was not sensational Senator,
and he is not sensational President.
He deals in plain, uncolored truth
in which the public ought to be deep
ly interested.
$50 much for the President.
eve believe the great mass of Am
erican citizens like that sort of edi- |
tor, Senator and President. While it is
true that most of us-perhaps all of
the sensational items we find |
in our daily papers, yet that is not
what we read for, nor do we entertain
any higher opinion of the publisher
ior giving us that sort Of information.
The average reader looks with suspic-
on upon everything he finds in a
of the sensational type. He
nay find passing interest in sensa-
ionalism, but for dependable infOr-
nation, and guidance in judgment, he
urns to the editor who avoids the SEN {
ational. J
"This country has had enough of
lysteria. All through the early part '
f the Wilson administration we were 1
reeted almost every morning with a
crisis in Mexico or else v
7here. The diplomatic crisis of one t
Teek was followed by a diplomatic
riumph' the next, and yet month af- f
er month we were just where we had L
tarted. Mr.. Wilson sent a fleet to
Iexico and landed an army of 5000 g
Oldiers and marines to enforce a sa- L
lte to the flag, but the salute was not
ecured. We had the sensation, and D
Ow much better off were we? S
1--WE had our 'too-proud-tO-fight'
our 'peace-without-victory' d,
snsation, our Fourteen Points SEN 81
ltion, and what came Of them? Moth -
g, absolutely nothing. We did fight, D,
le peace without victory is still in G
)ubt, and the fourteen points were
trapped by their author in an effort w
subject the United States to the die Ii
ito nOf a super-state. Mr.. Wilson's
dresses were sensational. He de- or
Dunced majority of the Senators as at
he intimated that their il
ads served chiefly as knots to keep
cir bodies from unraveling; he de- on
ared that he would weave the league DE
nations covenant into the peace
saty in such a way that the Senate gr
q coordinate body under our Con- be
tutiOn-Would be compelled to rat
it against its judgment. When re- 8 ]
Onsible American citizens went to G'
lshington to present petitions to 7
ngress, as the Constitution gives in
IN right to do, Wilson denounced Da
IN as an fnsidious lobby 7
All that was sensational. Do the f
lerican people want a return to the He
gn of hysteria or do they prefer an r
lerly, deliberate, economical, con- sav
uctive, dignified and dependable ed:
nagement of the public business? !-O.
Let each citizen answer for him F
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