Evening star., 1963-05-28

he finally slipped away to the
hospital and never came back.
This quality Of concern for
others is vital to the tradition
Of the times. A newspaper is
a very special kind of partner
ship. The main ingredients are
not newsprint, ink and ad-
vertising, but the more vola-
tile human ingredients Of blood,
brains, pride and courage. This
is why understanding is so i'm
portant at the top. and why
Adolph Ochs. Arthur Sulz-
berger and Orvil Dryfoos, hav-
ing understanding, were so
good ad it. For they saw a
newspaper, as Edmund Burke
saw a nation, not only as a
partner of the living, but as
a partnership between those
who are living, those who are
dead, and those who are to be
born
Sense Of Trusteeship
"There should be some con-
ISOLATION for us all, believer and
u n believer alike, in this
thought. Orvil Dryfoos had this
special sense Of trusteeship to
a marked degree. He thought
Of himself, as his father-in-
law did before him, as one Of
team working for an ideal
larger than himself, Of carry
ing on for a time something
he devoutly believed to be i'm
portant. And he not only car
ried it higher up the hill, but
expanded its influence across
the continent and planted a
new edition Of the Times be-
yond the Rockies. Thus, he
achieved his ideal much more
then most men are able to do,
and remains a part of an in
stitution that will go on as long
as men are faithful to its ideals.
II never thought much of
the family joke that Arthur
Sulzberger and Orvil Dryfoos
married the New York Times.
The Women they married were
so much better than any news
paper. Beside, it was the wom-
en- who married them, and
what is important now, bore
them the children who must
carry on.
Their fathers have given
them a good lead. 1t is summed
up for me in a quote from Rob-
ert Burns. He said: Whatever
mitigates the woes or increases
the happiness of others-this
is my criterion of goodness.
And whatever injuries society
at large, or any individual in
it-this is my measure Of in
iquity.'
! His Ideal
"Orvil Dryfoos lived by this
noble ideal, but knew that
ideals, and traditions, are not
Self-enforcing. Somebody must
decide in the newspaper busi-
ness. In no other institution are
so many choices offered every
day of the year. In no other
craft are there so many men
with so many diverse ideas on
so many subjects, about which
so much can be said. But the
tyranny Of the deadline is al
ways present, and while most
of these decisions are made on
the desk, the big ones have to
be made at the top.
Here, Orvil Dryfoos was
equal to his duty. I will al
ways remember him in the city
room on election night of 1860
when he was the first to sense
that we had gone out on limb
for Kennedy too early and in
sisted that we reconsider. And
again, in 1861, when we were
on the point Of reporting a
premateur invasion Of Cuba
his courteous questions and
wise judgment held US back.
He had his weaknesses, like
all Of US, but usually they
sprang from the more amiable
qualities Of the human spirit
To hurt a colleague was ar
agony for him, and in thiS
savage generation, when mer
decide. other men often gel
hurt. But he could make up hi;
mind. He suffered, but he
acted.
Inspired Respect
Perhaps the simplest thing
to say about him-and I be-
lieve I speak for my colleagues
! in this-is that the more W.
knew him. the more we re.
spected him. He was a gentle.
man. He was faithful to 9
noble tradition. to the family
from which he came, and tC
the great family he Joined anC
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