Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-01-10
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DO you. KNOW WHAT A
NEWSPAPER IS?

What is a newspaper? Realizing
that there are many intelligent
people right here in Sheridan county
who really do not understand Just
what a newspaper Is or what its
function is, we are taking the liber-
ty to reprint below the definition Of
a newspaper. given by that well
known veteran newspaper man, Arth-
ur Brisbane, who recently celebrated
his SEVENTEEN birthday and, a few
weeks before that his fiftieth anniv-
ersary as a newspaper man. We be-
lieve every person who reads the
sentiments expressed by Mr.. Bris-
bane will have q clearer broader and
more definite understanding of just
what a newspaper Is.
What is a newspaper? A news
paper is a mirror In which are re-
Elected events and human beings.
Don't break the mirror. II you don't
like what you see IN 1t, change the
face like they do in the beauty par
lor.
What else Is a newspaper besides
a mirror? 1t Is a second hand. On
the face OF your watch there are
three hands. There Is the slow
hour hand-you cannot see 1t move.
That is history written q long time
after. Then there Is the rapidly NOV
ing minute hand. You cannot sec
that move. although If you watch,
you see the change Of its position,
and that Is the making Of law and
the other minor things that make 1t
up. Then, there Is the second hand.
ne part that the second hand plays
in time the newspaper plays In the
history OF events.
Newspaper men make q great
fuss about the little events in the
lives of men. In newspaper work 1t
is the little things that are the i'm
portant things. You might have a
million atoms in the corner Of your
eye and not know they are there.
you may compare a newspaper
to the rainfall. Nature distributes
the water in drops. The rainfall com
es down in quantities that the small
flower can absorb. II 1t were drop
ped a cubic yard at the time the
flower would be washed away and
there would be no irrigation. News
papers distribute information simil-
arly in drops, easily absorbed, to a
man who will take Greek quotations
in a series, when a heavy volume
from the library dropped on his head
would be too much.
The first great piece OF news sent
out was the rainbow, put in the sky
promising that there would be no
more floods. 1t vas the worlds
greatest advertisement and 1t was
very well done, because 1t was the
biggest that could be printed and
printed in every color Of the rain
bow.
when the Ruler OF the Universe
has anything to say He piles up the
black clouds bigger and blacker than
any type we can use, and II that
isn't enough He shoots red tighten
ing through 1t. Then He does what
VIC Sdl W. ullhOttoAatOhy W0S VA@%e
we would like to dole makes the
front page thunder.
"A newspaper mans work Is for
gotten but everything in time Is for
gotten. The earth on which he lives
will grow cold and old and die; and
this entire corner of the universe
that we call the Milky Way will dis
appear and be only a memory like
some great actor Of former times.
"But 1t all offers opportunity. A
mar is made from nothing; does not
know how he got there; does not
know where he Is going; does not
know what he wants to amount to,
but he does know that he Is a small
part Of the entire thing. He has an
opportunity to work. II he does his
best and lives up to the opportunity
that Is given to him, he need not
pity himself, but thank his Maker"