Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-12

ut is painful to see one Of the state
Lest trees in all the forests come crash
ing down." declares the Omaha World
Herald, voicing q comment typical of
many which the passing Of the New
York World has inspired. "And this
particular tree" continues the World
Herald, was more than stately and
beautiful. For so many years it had
been so healthy, so sound and stancn,
that 1t seemed only reasonable to think
1t might live forever. Newspaper men,
IN particular, were proud Of the World.
They liked to point TO it as an out
standing exemplar OF Journalism that is
fearless. INDEPENDENT, public-spirited
enlightened, enterprising, progressive,
free. Here was q newspaper with no
strings to 1t and subject to no hidden
hands that were pulling the strings;
a newspaper representing no interests
but the public interest. A newspaper,
too, edited with distinguished ability,
notable for the grace and Vigor and
skill which its writers put into its col
umns. A peoples newspaper, and at the
same time newspaper for the discrim-
mating and the intelligent"
1T was never narrow, partisan, hide
bound" says the Cincinnati Times-Star,
land sometimes the generous things it
said of public men who had felt its
lash caused them to rub their eyes in
amaze. In a word, 1t was inde-
pendent. It passed judgments on acts
rather than men, and nothing 1t ever
said in praise or dispraise of q mans
deed kept it from denouncing or COM
mending the next thing to which he
set his hand" The Atlanta Journal
points to the fact that its passing "is
a bot 20 re
tate and to the Nation; that "for two
generations it has maintained undag-
gingly the highest newspaper ideals
and preserved an ethical integrity des-
tined to influence the American press
for years to come"
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"a tragedy in journalism as it is a
blow to true democracy" is seen by the
Roanoke WOrld-News, with the recog-
milton CT services that 1t has rendered
in fields other than those of the po-
Mtical arena, where it has championed
democratic principles with consistency
and clear purpose that shameS some So
called Democratic leaders" That paper
continues: 1T has been the most con-
slant and NEST vigorous fighter against
win be great rejoicing in the under
world as it passes" The Asbury Park
Press asserts that its sale cannot take
from American journalism the spirit
and ideals of its founder" and the Fort
Wayne Nsws-Sentinel calls its history
lone of the greatest epics of American
journalism" while it places the founder
as zone of the great line OF editors that
included Franklin, Greeley, Bennett,
Day, Raymond, Grady, Watterson and
Halstead."
Greater than the fall of a mighty
man or OF a city or of a small state is
the fall of q great newspaper" AYERS
the Portland Oregon Journal, with the
comment on the last days Of the paper:
What a shock 1t would have been to
Pulitzer, the founder, to have been in
the court room and heard the petition,
begging the court for permission to drop
the World from its former high place!
One OF the marvellous newspaper
romances OF America was the late Joe
PulitzerS performance in the journal
tStic field. American journalism lost one
OF its commanding figures when Mr.:
Pulitzer laid down his work and crossed
over, October 20, 1911. Since Horace
Greeley no man has exercised greater
influence on American political life
through the medium of a newspaper.
No journalist other than Greeley had
q clientele of readers who so implicitly
trusted his utterances."
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"For 40 years the World has been
one Of the great spokesman of the Re-
public" recalls the st. Louis Post-Dis-