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5 i THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MARCH 2ft. 1910. News Suppression and Endowed Papers A Rejoinder to an Article by Prof. Edward a Ross in March Atlantic, By Victor Rosewatcr. (OA TU) n mil (EI GftTTO (D) ' 1 1 O i i A "We waste altogether too niurh time on the dally newspaper. Pome of you may he devotlng half an hour to reading the paper each day. Cut It down to fifteen minutes and you will find that you are not losing anything. When you have succeeded In doing this, try reducing the time to ten minute, and you will find you are doing allll better. Then cut that down to five, minutes a day and pretty soon you will he able to cut out reading the newspaper altogether and you will get along Just as well. The. dally newspaper cannot give you a true account of current event. You can get all you need to know In the weekly periodical and the monthly magazine, and If you read two or three of these you will have all the Information about what Is put the moat Important news each day on the front page, yet the contents of no two front pages are ever alike even where each I nf ai iin uini'iica,! rt.ijr iiriil 1113 uinri iiaa nat men makes nens important? Ana does the wealth or business prominence of a criminal make Important an offense that would attract small attention, If any. In a man In ordinary station? Is not one of the well founded criticisms leveled at our newspapers because they give undue weight to wealth and blaion the foibles and follies of the mlllonatre In space that might better be devoted to something more useful? Is a crime committed by an adver tiser more Important than the same crime committed by some one who does not ad vertise? If Prof Unii were rnnriurtlnir the going on about ou that Is worth having.! ...,. .,,,, ,. .1,1. .,., lime spent in reading the newpapM is worse than thrown away. Don't waste your lime on newspapr-i s." ! This excoriation of the newspaper and much more of the same tenor In what erected my ears on? day a few years ago when. In order not to disturb the lecture In progress, I slipped unnoticed Ir.to a Ha room at the I'nlverslty of Nebraska. I had gone there to renew acquaintance with an old friend of college day. At the close of the lecture I pressed forward to hake hand and, after words of mutual (elight at meeting again after many years, 1 said: I "Had you known I was to be here, I would have supposed your diatribe at the newspapers was specially prepared for my benefit and that you were determined on putting all newspaper men out of business ib depriving us of readers." "Well, I didn't' really mean that," was the answer. "Perhaps I did use rather trong language, but, as I recollect It. ( that part of my lecture was written 'originally under great provocation, Just after some f the Han Francisco papers had been going after me viciously." From his article In the Atlantic on "The Suppression of Important New," Prof. Ttoss hows that while he has not himself followed his own Injunction "to . cut out reading newspapers altogether." he has, however, retained his prejudice against the newspaper, and Is as prone to exaggerate Its faults and deny It any virtues as he was Just alter the San Francisco papers ad been grilling him unmercifully. But taking up hi bill of complaint, what sort of a case does he really make out when the evidence and arguments he adduces are sifted and shorn o( the In vective and denunciatory adjectives Inter jected merely for full measure? The in dictment is that the newspaper falls to give the news, and, of course, If It falls In this, which Is Its principal mission and ralson d'etre, It Is worse than useless and time devoted to newspaper reading is time wasted. I would be the last to assert that the newspaper as It exists today Is fault less or that Important news Is not some times suppressed, although more often through mistake or negligence than through design. But the Idea which Prof. Koss would ins'tlll, that the newspaper of today Is a greater offender In this respect than the newspaper of days gone by, is almost sclf-contradlctory. The facilities and resources for gathering news are so much greater nowadays than formerly that the amount of Information of public Interest given newspaper publicity Is many times multiplied. The searchlight pene trates to every nook and corner and the opportunity for those directly Interested to suppress news by intercepting it at Its source or on Its way to the public has been almost completely destroyed. The hurry and speed with which the news is put out each day in successive editions under stress of the fiercest competition nd the strongest competition between newspapers Is In getting the news first and scoring "beats" or "scoops" on one another make the suppression by one paper of news almost certain to be spread forth by a rival paper, one of the rare occurrences rather than the commonplace which Prof, ltoss would have us believe. Now what is the "Important news" which we aro told Is being suppressed? Prof. Itoas cites a few examples which he be lieves are flagrant and reasons on the theory of "false In one, false In all." I venture to assert, however, that It would be lmpossiblo to find two experienced newspaper men who would agree on what constitutes "Important news." Most news paper men would doubtless agree that cer tain classes of news Items are of unusual Importance, but It would not take long to develop unrecoucilable differences of opin ion as to specific news Items. The cus tomary rule of the newspaper office is to for all these evils, would he give publicity as to "Important news" to the filthy mess which he accuses Philadelphia newspapers with suppressing out of consideration for their advertising patronage, while a New York scandal monger played It up In order to sell papers on the strength of that sup pression? I freely admit that stuff like that Is suppressed or minimized every day by reputable newspapers who will not con cede its "Importance" whether It concerns an advertiser or a non-advertiser. Incidentally, it must be remembered that the newspaper Is a legally responsible In stitution that can be, and Is, held to answer in damages for libel. It is easy for Irresponsible to circulate rumors reflfct Ing on people's reputations and slide out from under when the lurid tales are dis proved. Loose talk and idle gossip are altogether different (from cold type In black and white; the newspaper cannot say It did not print It or meant to say something else. This also accounts In part for the contrast of daring recklessness of the new-born paper with nothing to lose and everything to gain from libel suit notoriety and the established paper of character that Is naturally more conserva tive because of what it has at stake. Prof. Ross would apparently classify as "important news" such occurrences as the misbranding of goods, the sale of potted cheeeae treated with preservatives, the single tax agitation, assaults and resorts to violence Instigated by employers (why not by employes) In time of labor trcvbles, the dismissal of a school teacher by a corrupt (?) school board, the shut-down of a factory or the lay-off of workmen, especially In times of industrltU depression. The rela tlve "importance" of news Items on such subjects as these, everyone knows who knows anything about newspaper making, depends upon a whole lot of things. News is Important only by comparison, and what is of first Importance one day Is of sec ondary Importance another day. When there is really big news doing, everything else is cut to the bone or sidetracked altogether. What Is Important to one news paper because of its local bearing is un Important to another. Borne of the sup pressed Items mentioned by Prof. Ross may have been entitled to consideration as "Important news" under the peculiar circumstances surrounding them, but it is also quite conceivable that they might be under other circumstances condensed each to a few lines and -stuck away on some back page,, without any malicious design or deliberate conspiracy of silence, but on the contrary with due regard to all the demands of the numerous varieties of news simultaneously clamoring for space at that very moment. Because newspapers as a rule prefer construction to destruction, they are ac cused by Prof. Ctoss of malfeasance for selfish purposes. True, a newspaper de penda for its own prosperity upon the pros' perlty. of the community In which it is published. The newspaper selfishly prefers business prosperity to business adversity. A panic- is largely psychological and the newspapers can do much to aggravate or to mitigate its severity. There Is no ques tion that to the wilful efforts of the news papers as a body to allay public fear and to restore business confidence Is to be credited the short duration and compara tive mildness of the last financial cata clysm. Would an endowed newspaper have acted differently? Most people would freely commend the newspapers for what they did to start the wheels of Industry again revolving, and this Is the first time I have seen them condemned tor suppressing "Ini portant news" of business calamity and industrial distress In subservience to worship of advertising revenue. Sometimes the Indictment proves alto Kether "too much. Prof, Hoes ascribes th popularity of "muck raking'" magazlnp to their service as "vehicles of suppressed news," when he must know, or ought to know, that not one "muck raking" maga tlr.e story In 100 gives a single important fact that has not already had newspaper publicity. The "muck rake" magazine writer, with few exceptions, simply gathers together In striking succession or contrast, what the local newspaper has printed In detail, a bit at a time as It occurred. He tries to give a bird's eye view (too often grossly distorted) of a public scandal, or a civic tragedy that has been already un rolled In the newspapers In several acts, and tho magazine Is In great demand among the people Immediately affected and familiar with the facts, eager to see what a fantastic tale can be woven and how much of the truth has been suppressed to make it thoroughly sensational. We are told that partisan newspapers suppress neas reflecting on the party and party leaders or menacing party success. If so. there Is always a partisan paper of the other parly sure to print It. We are told that "nonpartisan" leaders are meeting with cheering response when they found weeklies in order to reach their natural following The reference to weeklies founded by "nonpartlsians" plainly points to William J. Bryan's Commoner, Tom Watson's Monthly and LaFollette's Maga zine. Let some one who disagrees with the policy and the purpose of any one of these papers submit something that does noi accord with the editors' "nonpartisan ideas and see how quickly It Is "suppressed by prompt return to tha writer as "unavailable." We are told BRaln that five cities have tarted periodical publications for free dis tribution at taxpayers expense 10 quaint the citizens with municipal Hap penings and affairs" as 11 wnai is mus 1... v. ml n.FI given were suppressed uj mo " 11 r- Every intelligent person in eacn 01 inose cities knows that the reason is an en tirely different one. Those municipal pub lications are purely advertising sheets got ten out by the officials to boost their towns and Incidentally themselves and impress the people with the grand work they are doing. Not, a thing of news value appears in any of them that is shut out or me daily papers, and If occasionally they pro duce something worth while from the pen of some one worth quoting, the whole item Is eagerly seized by the newspapers only by reprinting in the newspaper cures the publicity it deserves. Finally, we are told that because newspaper suppression of news, spoken word iB once more a power, so the demand for lectures and speakers is "unsatlable" and the platform bids fair to recover its old prestige; the "smotherers" are "dismayed" by the growth of the Chau tauqua circuit; congressional speeches give vent to "boycotted truth" and circulate widely under franking privilege (why then free postage?); clubs are formed to listen to facts and ideas "tabooed by the dally press;" more is made of public hearings before committees of councllmen or lega tors. But what is making the spoken word a power? Is It the hypnotic influence of soul-stlrrlng oratory or the unanswerable loglo with which it argues? Is It inquls Itlvensss to learn facts that the news papers are conspiring to stifle? Is It not rather because of the publicity which the newspapers . freely accord, be cause thrtfugh newspapers the speaker whose voice Is heard by a mere handful of people, reaches thousands upon thou sands who do not know him except by newspaper reputation, and whom he has never seen at all? Why does a Chautauqua circuit rider try to beat the record for long distance talking? Why does he crowd and push to make a seconding speech at a great national convention? Why does he pitchfork his remarks with bizarre lan guage? Wny is he so complacent to be snap shotted for his photograph? Why does he take to farming (at a financial and se- of "the and OS" 1 PLAYER PIANO Problem Solved BE It THE OR THE $1,500 PLAYER PIANO or at any figure, between t HOSPE CO, TI PLAGE WE WILL CONVINCE YOU TWELVE LEADING MAKES TO CHOOSE FROM If you wish the world's best piano the Mason A Hamlin with outside player uttachment, especially tilth the Welle Player the greatest com bination on earth. If you desire the player piano which contains the best player mechan ism, buy the Apollo Player, with the marvelous new Holo accenting device. If you are seeking the highest grade automatic player piano, we have It in the rUrkh at Zettilcr-Welle, at $1,600, If the lowest priced, we have that In the Boudoir at only 1.175. If you want u well known piano, with a good plaver on the Inside of It, we have the Krakawer. Kranlch Bach. A. B. t'hase. Bush Lane, t'hase Sk Halter. t'able-NeUon. Kimball, l'r.lersal, Ilospu, etc., etc. Each have ape vial advantages. It Is impossible to lodge a player piano from hearing It alone, without a chance to compare It with other makes, and it is very difficult to carry a mcnlsl Impression around from store to store. It was to remedy this c ndltlon, and lo make selection both simple and air, that we arranged to represent the player pianos of the twelve leading ctorle. By making coiiiptirtri lis at Hospe's you can secure the Ideal L,iyr piano, and the reasons why. We allow liberal amounts for used pianos In exchange and arrange easy terms. Complimentary demonstrations daily to visitors or buyers. A. HOSPE CO., 1513-1515 Douglas St. 111 rz.ATrm riAato cxsrrxx or oiuu, i413-15-17 SOUTH 16TH STREET' ..au fll.y'-'O- f . ;;:.:l',S:):.:'-:i.-.iY'ii S110 Ye have just received our new spring slock of Oriental Rugs. Among them are many rare pieces of unusual beauty and worth. This collection consists of large aud medium sizrs. in room size rugs, Kis Kelim Couch Covers and Draperies. Hundreds of the smaller sizes, such as Royal aud Princess Bokharas, Kazaks, Carabaughs, Qabest&ns, Daghestans, Shirvans, Ana tolians, Belouchistans, Sennas, Mosuls and many other weaves. Many dealers purchase their rugs of eastern importers and pay their enormous profits. These Oriental rugs are ship-' ped to us direct from the Orient by our oriental rug buyer, thus saving the profits asked by the New: York Importer. This not only saves our customers many dollars, but assures them that every piece is genuine. "We would be pleased to have you call and inspect this grand display, feeling that it will be a source o Oriental Bug education and interest to you. There are many varieties and such a wide range of sizes that it is not difficult, to, fit any; space you may require. The prices we herewith quote are but an inder,to thegen eral run of values this sale offers: . i i r ' t Khiva Rug, 9-2x7-4 Kashmir Rug, 11x7-11 $105 Muskabad, 11-3x7-3 $175 Kazak Rug, 9-10x4-7 $48 Bergama Rug, 4-2x3-1 Bergaraa Rug, 4-6x3-2 Helouchistan Rug, 4x3 Belouchistan Rug, 4x2-11 Kelim'Rug, 6-5x3-10 Mosul Rug, 6-8x4-2 Royal Bokhara Rug, 4x3-4 $40 Taprez Rug, 6-8x4-4 $100 $10 $18 $22 S18 $24 $44 Kashmir Rug, 11x8-2 $110 Khiva Rug, 8-3x7 $95 Kashmir Rug, 11-9x8-7 $125 Kazak Rug, 9-3x3-8 $52 Bergama Rug, 3-9x3-9 $12.50 Belouchistan Rug, 11x7-5 $145 Belouchistan Rug, 4-9x2-8 $20 Kelim Rug, 5-8x4-2 $28 Shiraz Rug, 5-7x4-5 $56 Shiraz Rug, 6-8x4-2 $100 Royal Bokhara Rug, 4-2x3-2 $42 Kirmaushah, 3x4-11 $48 Guenji Rug, 9x4-1 4.$44, Guenji Rug, 7-10x4-1 .. ..... .840 Guenji Rug, 7-7x4-2 $40 -Kashmir Rug, 6-2x4-9' . . . . -..-$32 Kazak Rug, 5-7x7-7 .j88 Ghoravan Rug, 15-4x10-2.. . .$385 Cabistan Rug, 4-4x2-8 ,..-$24 Hamaden Rug, 3-7x2-5 .$8 Belouchistan Rug, 3-5x2-10 .$18 Kashmir Rug, 6-6x4-4 $29.50 Mosoul Rug, 6-6x4-2 .......$44 Muskabad Kug, 11-9x9 ,. .$210 Six bales of Belouchistan Rugs, regular value, each, $30.00; on sale for, each $18.00, $20.00 and, $22.00 New Arrivals of Lace Curtains and Curtain Nets Bungalow Nets Forty varieties, in natural color, red and green, all 50 inches wide; special price, per yard i.30c Italian Filet Nets Twenty new patterns in white and ecru, ranging in price from $1.25 to. . .... .........45c Colonial Nets The latest importation, in white or Arab; prices range from $L70 to . , .85c Curtain Scrim Plain or fancy, white, cream and ecru; price, per yard, 35o and .-.25c Lace Edging We cany a complete line of lace edging to match all fancy nets; price, per yard, 5a and 3c Lace Curtains "VVe have made large purchases of lace curtains, anticipating a greater demand this spring than usual. Wonderful concessions in price to be seeured by extensive purchases enables us to offer exceptional values.. The new stock consists of DUCHESS LACE in Ivory with plain or figured centers. CLUNY LACE, in the latest designs. LAOET ARABIAN CURTAINS with dainty edges and beautiful insertions with corner designs, very suitable for Reception Rooms, Halls or. Dining Rooms; also a very complete line of REAL SAXONY BRUSSELS and POINT DE MILAN, SWISS POINTS and NOVELTY NETS. Every known variety of Lace Curtain is represented in our new stock. Make Your Selection While the Assortment is Complete. MEAT RATE BOOST SUNDAY loss)? Why If not for the free newspaper BrivertihinB- which Is to create the "In satiable" demand for him as a lecturer and enable him to Increase the share of the gate receipts which ha hopes to get? If the Congressional Record Is a mine of boycotted truth" which the newspapers are suppressing, It ought to be the most popular publication extant and boast a big ger circulation than them all. Why buy a 'muck rake" magazine If you can get It all for nothing by a simple request to your congressman? How does it come that more Is now made of public hearings be fore investigating committees? How do we get such Investigations anyway? Are they not in nine cases out of ten the outgrowth of newspaper exposures and are they not fully exploited In the newspapers? If the work of investigating committees belonged to the class of 'important news "sup pressed" by the newspapers, what effect would the investigations have if they should eventuate only in a voluminous re port made weeks and months after all the beat had cooled and the whole affair had been forgotten? Not only do I deny that democracy has been struck a "staggering blow" by the "defection of the press," but 1 assert that modern democracy Is as much a product of the newspaper as the newspaper is a product of democracy. A few black sheep in the newspaper fold do not make the whole flock black, mr do the combined Imperfections of all newspapers condemn ! them to failure. Personally, 1 would like I to see the experiment of an endowed ncs- paper tried, because I am convinced com parison would only redound to the advan tage of tbe newspaper privately conducted as a commercial undertaking. Tho news paper most akin to the endowed newspaper In this country la published in the in terest of the Christian Science- church. With It, "important news" is news cal culated to promote the propaganda of the faith, and close inspection of its columns would disclose news suppression in every Issue. On the other hand, a dally news paper standing on Its own bottom, must have readers to make its advertising space valuable, and without a reasonable effort to cover all the news and command public confidence, the standing and clientage of the paper cannot be successfully main tained. The endowed paper pictured to us as the ideal paper, run by a board of gov ernors, filled in turn by representatives of the various uplift societies enumerated by Prof. Koss. would blow hot and would blow cold, would have no consistent policy or principles, would be unable to alter the rrev&llliig notion of what constitutes im portant news, and would be from the out set busily engaged In a work of news sup pression to suit the whims of the particular hobby riders who happened for the mo ment to be in dominating control. New Tariff Then Put Into Effect by All Roads bat One. GREAT WESTERN SWINGS IN LINE Increase Will Go Into Effect Mar 20 on This Road Railroad Men Say Discrimination Aaralnst This City Only Apparent. Sunday Is the day on which the railroads running out of Omaha, except the Great Western, will raise the rate on dressed meat shipments from Omaha to Chicago. The railroads have advertised the new rate and have notified the Interstate Commerce commission thirty days in advance and say the rate will go into ejfect March 20 as announced. Jobbers, live stock Interests, the Com mercial club, business men generally and some of the towns of the state have made a protest against the advance, but the railroads sa'y they will put It in effect anyway, making the claim that it will not hurt Omaha. Several meetings have been held and strong resolutions of pro test sent to the railroads, a delegation vis ited the traffic heads of the railroads at Chicago, but received little satisfaction. The matter Is now in statu quo, as the ocal interests have decided to await re sults for a short time. Omaha protects against the rate, not so much on the raise, but because it Is a direct discrimination against Omaha, Sioux City and other river towns in favor of Kansas City. Two roads from Kansas City to Chicago, the Alton and the Wabash, have refused to take In the increase, and this gives Kansas City an advantage over On aha of 5 cents per 100. It is this dis crimination which the local interests ob ject to. President Stlckney Is Mlaaed. Local Interests expected the Great West-, ern to protect Omaha against the dis crimination of the other roads, but that road has changed hands. President Stiok ney Is no longer at the helm, and the first opportunity given to the new Morgan road to show Its hand found that road lined up with the others and It has given notice that it will also raise the rate May SO. Rates on dressed meats from Omaha and Kansas City to St. Louis are the same, 184 cents per hundred. The rate on dressed meat from Omaha to Chicago after tomor row on all roads except the Great Western will be 234 cents per 100 pounds. That road will continue to haul It for 20 cents until May 20. Railroad men say they cannot see any discrimination against Omaha, and say they will wagrr It will not be six weeks before the other lines from Kansas City raie their rates so that all charges of discrimination will be done away with. They say the Alton & Wabash will be in line before the raise Is made by the Great Western, so that Omaha will not suffer. Burlington officials take the stand that they do not care for the business as there is no money in it and In proof of their statement show that over a year ago they took off their meat train and have not tried to get any of that business. LAWYERS JOLT CATTLE FIRM AGAIN FOR THEIR OWN FEES Garley A Wood rough Produce Law ShOTvinir that They Get Pay In Addition to Jndajinent. The law firm of Gurley & Woodrough, which Jolted the Oregon Short Line somt months ago with a verdict for J6.200 in the suit of the North Wisconsin Cattle com pany, has deeply pained the railroad and the railroad's attorneys by digging up a, statute under which it Is asked that the road be made to pay the attorneys of the winning side. An attorney fee of tl.500 Is asked under the Hepburn law, one section of which provides that In the event of losses on Interstate shipments, the railroad, which Is stuck by a verdict for this, may also be called upon to pay the lawyers on the other side. Tnere have been one or two decisions under this section, but the point Is novel In Nebraka. It Is contended by the other side that the Wisconsin Cattle company won Its vic tory under the 28-hour shipment law and not under the Hepburn act, the sections of which, fheiefore. do not apply. The motion lo grant the $1,500 was argued before Judge Redick, ' who heard the origi nal suit, and his decision is expected soon.' The fee, if legal, Is not considered un- reasonable, (or the law suit was a lengthyi one Involving the testimony of mora than) two score witnesses. Three thousand sheepi of a shipment of 5,000 died of thirst while 1 being shipped from Nampa, Idaho, to St ! Paul. All the parties are non-residents of,. Nebraska and for this reason the railroad: company could not transfer the case from1' district to federal court. t LET THE DOCJOR HASTEN ON go 8ar t'onnell Reference the fonilag of Marine r-miyrt to In. ' apect Water. i i Health Commissioner Connell has receive! a letter from Dr. A. Wyman, chief of the Marine Hospital service of the' United j States, inquiring when Dr. Lunsden should come to Omaha to make his examination of city water. ,1 Dr. Connell has written in reply that the sooner the marine surgeon begins his in vestigation the better. This letter should reach Dr. Wyman Monday, and If Dr. Lunsden should start Tuesday he would arrive in Omaha probably next Thursday. Dr. Lunsden Is the marine, sm geon who has been appointed to make an investiga tion of the Omaha rlty water, on request of Governor Shallenberger. The governor acted on request of the Douglas County . Medical society. New Type of Steamboat -- .- Tu -Vi , J ps i VIKW Of TH K AQUAPLANE. Her Clrrer Motive. "So you are going to housekeeping as soon as you're married? I thought you had made up your mind to board?" "Yes. bul George is equally determined to have a house of our own." "And so you are going to keep house in order to please George?" 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