Seward daily gateway., 1925-02-19
READING YOUR NEWSPAPER.

EVcIy udy tuS newspaper presses of the country put out enough papers to enable each person to read the news of the whole world,' said Prof. Joe Ashlock of the State College of Wash ington Journalism department, speak ing over KFAE the other night on How to Read Your Newspaper"
 You may read the news of your home town, of the state, nation, or foreign nation. This news, coming from around the earth, and collected by an army of wideawake reporters, is tossed on your doorstep morning and evening. Since the earth is large, the news of the earth, it's nations and people, is vast in quantity and vari ety. No one person may read it all. One who tries is apt to become be- wildered Discouraged, he may quit.
 "ln almost every locality a few will be found who practically never look at the newspaper. Several req sons for this might be suggested. A prevalent one is that they have be- come confused by the storm of news hurled at them each day, much of it contradictory in character. As we shun the task we cannot perform, these persons shun the newspapers.
 Others try to cover the news daily. They read hastily, merely skimming headlines. Such reader does not grasp the news. Rather, he gets mo- mentary impressions that in the end mors. He has not read any one item we'll, hence remembers nothing we'll. He has merely heard about the news, and talking to his neighbor he guesses at what he heard, thus becoming distributing agent for gossip and dis. tortion of facts that a few hours be- fore were told accurately in his paper.
 Another kind of reader hunts thru the papers for the news or comment that bolsters his own views. If all his own prejudices and traditions are favorably treated in the paper, he likes that paper fine. But if the paper counters his personal beliefs he at tacks it for not printing the truth Such reader is apt to be narrow, bigoted, intolerant of the views of others. He votes the democratic or republican ticket because his father or grandfather voted that way, and belongs to one church or another for that reason. He rails at the papers for not telling the truth, when as matter of fact he merely does not like to hear the truth as read.
 There is another kind of reader whose numbers are increasing. He reads with care and discrimination He weighs what he finds in news and edi- torial columns, not for it's appeal to his own views, but for the actual bit of fact or ideas. The display of front page murders, suicides and prominent divorces he passes with a glance. The presidents message he reads. He may skim the sport page, noticing that this or that team won the ball game, or who won the latest prize fight. He digests the editorial page and agrees or disagrees with the edi- tors views. He notices the settle ment of economic questions, and sees that Britain has a new prime minis ter, that France has a new repara- tions scheme, that Japan has launch ed new battleship. He sees how these happenings may effect his na- tion, his state, his own personal busi- ness or profession. This man is we'll informed, can talk intelligently about happenings of the day, knows how to vote, and not often do we find him abusing the newspapers, as he knows they merely repeat what comes to them, as it comes.
 Tt is an odd fact that the man who reads little or reads carelessly, abuses