Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-03
Most News
Flows From
East TO West
Peqler Calls on Peoria
and ST. Paul 10 Arise
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER

fact that the weight of editorial
opinion and the bulk of our
domestic news originate in New
York and Washington.
News flows from East TO West
and from far West to the East
in smaller volume. But the
Midwest and Northwest and
South are relatively unim-
portant newsfields.
Perhaps these blank areas
produce more news than we
publish, but that seems a lame
explanation, for they are full of
American people and these sec
tons are always sending TO
washington, along with their
quota Of montebanks and
clowns, a fair number of sub
stantial men.
In The Middle West some peo-
pie insist that we of the East
Coast and particularly of New
York and Washington. cannot
lake -cnrrect-Niew- al the peril
of war because we consider our
selves 10 be right under the
guns and visualize lombard
ment IN Bridgeport and Bay
onnt.
/ Jicdbt that this is the feeling
of many caSterners, but there Is
no doubt that the fumes Of
propaganda from Europe are
stronger hcrcaboutS and that
our sympathies and antipathies
are sharper, whether with good
reason or without
Anyway, people hereabouts
are more aware OF the war and
some peril 10 this country.
DOSSIBLY our position is adj
Vgnt8geous and Ne are TIgTr.
while the more calm Americans
et other sections are victims OF
their geographical rcmotenesS.
l don know, but ! do believe
there ~ field for q good COS
Haie eelHa4fist OF editorial writer
based on, say. ST. Eouis or New
Orleans ttii.- : st. PATTI.
Chicago is pretty welt repre-
sentcd by Frank Knox. who can
give oui cdilorally from the in
terNcnII0nst side both AS sec
rotary oi the navy. speaking for
the administration, and in the
Chicago Daily News and by
r r Mccormick OF the Chicago
Tribune. in his weekly lesson on
the air and in print
But how come the editorial
opinion of the New York Herald
Tribune or Times IS deemed 10
be quotable on some momentous
issue and not the opinion of the
I Idaho STATESMEN or the-I was
going 10 suggest some paper IN
/ Wyoming. but I can't even re-
member the name OF one.
i READ dozens of local papers
Il when / take my hulk on tour
and ] find that they are pretty
( duh locally and heavily stocked
with eastern canned goods, such
as this
Pacific Coast news. particu-
larly union stuff bucks the trend
from the East TO West in pretty
good volume nowadays.
But there are no daily writer's
there whose Interpretation or
opinion breaks through our
service. ] am ignoring the Hol-
lywood trash. of course. and dis
cusSing informative comment on
events
OF course. il could be worse
IN Tact, until a few years ago II
was much worse. When | was a
cub on the United Press our
wire stopped AT Denver and |
had a lob of condenSing the i'm
portant parts OF the report.
eliminating all nonessential stuff,
into skeletonized form for trans
mission 10 San Francisco by
Western Union, collect.
We got very little stuff back
from San Francisco.
In ST. Louis and Dallas for
DAYS az a time / would offer no
local or regional news to the
wire. and a man who covered
Tom MONEYS tTIai IN san Fran
cisco tells me that he used 10
offer, say 500 at night and be
told TO cut it TO $50.
THUS. he says the Mooney
Il story was showed around the
World 70 WV = uT-ff11 Va ttttrvyT5 ~
the Communists and | can be-
licvc that because his anecdote
ties in with something that
George Crcel told me
Crcel said that after the rev.
oluton of 1917. Dave Francis,
the ambassador in Petrograd
sent a cable 20 the state depart
ment asking
"Nho il Tom Mooney They
are hcaving bricks M the en-
bassy demanding that he he
saved"
The state department didn't
know and Creel, who happened
10 catch the message at the
White House, told them and adj
viSed President Wilson TO inter-
cede and save Moneys life so
that the Bolsheviks would get