The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-06-07
/ The Cherry
/" Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things. sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

about many things sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly. $1,000.
The country is all steamed up over
power company ownership of news
papers, who's who in the Washington
social war, and what will happen in
the suit through which lady hopes
to nick Gene Tunney's roll for fifty
grand
These, to b esure, are great issues.
They are all great issues. Look them
over. No sooned does a newspaper
scandal break than some other big
news, like divorce scandal, comes
along to push it off page 1.
There is Harry Sinclair, in Jail
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Almost frogotten, just one more bird
in a jailful. But Harry wears his
expensive clothes, while less lucky
ones wear stripes and do ther stuff
under strict discipline.
But Harry is lost to the front page
while froth fills the columns.
No sooner does a serious story of
true Importance come along than g
burst of foam wipes it off. News
papers are strange the only thing
stranger is the human mass that
stands for them
For time the reporters were wilo
for news about Harry. Soon they for
got him. They were determined to
see if he got the same treatment
meted out to others. He doesn't, but
the newspapers are no longer scan
dalized.
Then came great Indignation owe,
ownership of newspapers by power.
companies. That, too, will pass. All
indignation passes, but newspaper in
dignation is especially short of life.
Daily newspapers excuse them
selves, saying each day is new day
SO it is, but abuses are never truly
old news until they are stopped.
Of course, getting to the gizzard OF
it, all this scandalizing about power
trust ownership of newspapers Is
mere buster. Most papers are scan
dalized, not because of the fact but
because it has become public.
Like certain other acts, newspaper
prostitution is an old story, heinous
only when people find it out.
For free utterance and frank opin
ion, read your labor paper. 1t i:
today's freest newspaper.
Some daily papers may be free
spoken about one thing must al
have their sacred COWS, their gods be
fore whom they tremble and shut up
Not to harp too much on newspa
pers and their ills, there was an ex
ception in the case of Paul Mallon
Press reporter who published secre
roll call and got the senate all boil
ing. 1t was all not overly important
and it showed the hypocrisy of som
senators much more than it shove:
| newspaper courage. To most news
papers it was just one more goo,
story"
Newspapers could do real servic
| if they would get at and print the in
side story of the reparations confer
ence. But they will not. Maybe the.
can not, but that is unlikely.
What was the program arranged il
Wall street before the delegate
sailed? Well have no secret roll cal
story about that, quite surely.
We must have our daily newspaper
and they are lot better than thei
sevefest critics say they are. Som
are corrupt. Some of merely cas-
virtue Some just careless. Some ig
norant. Indispensable, as whole.
But let them pirate about no grea
sanctimonious urge to save the race
That's mere palaver. In most case
they say, with the gentleman VIII
took power trust money to start
paper, II think | can make none.
running a paper there"
1t is better to admit the fact. 1t i
not dishonest. The worst phase abou
the whole newspaper business is tn
cheap hypocrisy with which gooc
bad and Indifferent business mel
seek to wrap their business aims u
to look like tinseled Christmas par
GELS of unadulterated idealism.