The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-10-08
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Many editors are now righ
 up to their skulls in compla.
 cency. They gaze at the future
 through . roSe-colored crystal bal
 because they can't tell the differ
 ence between dove and an ostrich
 =. It was publisher Lord Beaver
 brook who once copped the cookie
 in the ostrich sweepstakes. Fol
 one year before Sept, 1899, his Lon-
 don Daily Express carried a daily
 front page headline that never
 varied. It read: There will not be
 another war"
 Americans are leery about Stalin's
 0aive-branch juggling because the
 Sovvy gazette, Pravda, continues
 beating the war drums. Russian
 leaders cannot pooh-pooh the
 opinions in their newspapers They
 represent the governments official
 policy A Soviet leader once in-
 formed Quentin Reynolds: "The
 world knows that we have censor
 ship here. Therefore the world
 knows that we approve any story
 that goes out of here. By impli-
 cetion that means the views ex-
 pressed in the story are the gov-
 ernment'S views"
 ARneEicAn eiitoriahsts who are turnig their backs on international perils might learn something from this tragic example: The House of UllStein was Germany's greatest publisher until Hitler rose to power. Those German publishers ignored the internal and external threat of NaziSm-and refused to publish the facts for fear that pessimistic news would lose subscribers for them. So what happened? By neglecting to spotlight the danger-they made 1t easier for Nazsm to gain strength. And when Hitler grabbed power-he promptly destroyed the House of Ullstein.
 Prof. Pearson recently snared scoop by publishing an important private letter penned by Henry Wallace Pearson was accused of filching the missive, which he didn't The incident recalls this yarn:. When newsreel photog Norman Alley was a cub reporter in Chicago his editor assigned him to hi-jack news-pix from a rival gazette's office. When Alley tri- umphantly returned with the photos the editor 1auded him Then Alley bragged that while he was in the competitors office he had also swiped 8 penknife The editor hit the ceiling You've got to make up your mind, Norman" he ragged. What do you want to be, Scoop Alley, the famous report er-or . common thief"
 FWeign correspondents in Ger many have been complaining about the wartime censorship hangover. Military authorities there have been mixing many yarns It reminds tls that the most blatant illustra- ton of stupid blue-penciling took place in America during the war British correspondents in Washing ton who attempted to inform their London gazetteS that some Ameri- cans criticized Churchill's colonial policies discovered their dispatches were censored here At the same time, London censors permitted British criticisms of the Churchill | policies to be sent to American | 
 The late Capt. Patterson had his own unique and effective methods 4 running . newspaper. .. Patter- 'on insisted that his editors meas We public taste at first hand. He would take his editors to subway 'tations to study the type of people who read his paper and note what tems they were reading.
 H. Lowrey Cooling, one of the Baltimore Sun editors, was recently asiEed by . mag to contribute anec- 1otes about his early newspaper ca- 'eer. Cooling replied: "The most interesting recollections of my early writing years concern those occa- dons when checks arrived. Such Incidents were infrequent enough Q stay in my mind"
 Joseph Pulitxer's willy counsel to 'i,b reporters: Look out of a win low and tell me what you see. Try md make me get picture of every hing -- everything. Never think hat anything Is too small to be 'f interest: describe every cloud, very shadow, every tree, every Aouse, every dress, every wrinkle on face, everythingr'
 Raymond CIapper's comment is Vorth remembering: Newspaper nen are often puzzled, the more we ook into something, to know what ruth Is. Try 1t sometime around Warrington. The more people you ak to, the more confused you will 'ecome. You get tangled up in a ross pull of wires as one official 'ulls against another. Truth is diff icult to find, but a reporter must lever stop searching for it."
 They say 1t happened at the 'ar1s confab. A reporter button loled a hurrying diplomat and sked him what hethought about a ertain International problem Don't bother me now" snapped the iplomat. T must make a speech, sked him what he thought about a
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