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TirEOiLnA SUNDAY BEE: ArRIL 17. 1010.
'News Suppression and Endowed Papers
7 8 dltor of 71:6 E to Prof. Ross Article Denouncing the Modern Newspaper
Th- pr- 1, n institution, and ail nf.
whrm it f4,i t ,, ,h, ,p , of
H prlmar.ly. r at least s-on.1a-iir. , rnuo
limine lt9 rr,, rfht to d
ewe. the qntca and tlie lead. nd ,
or both If th o,in ,arr... Ihe
Profanity. I, K upn i:, a,cnt. Incrn-
. v-V""" th" PrWW h'ar ' "itlr.
anVablr. .mi to deb.t- fault, .,, th,lr
rhlr smicsbly. N) critic;. m that is
amor should ar..us rf-rntin,.nt. pmvul-l
the pnm who uij-rt.kw It is B,.t l.amil
eapjwsl by a diablln, ignorance of the
eubjert ha tackle,. r a dualifTlna; preju
dice aint the Institution he atta. ks
Then Prrf. Edward IWs published In the
jtiazire Monthly, an article muckrakiM i
-he American newspaper the r.jt,:-ter- 1
Journal v.ntnr-d t. p..int out certa'n In- j
ccurPie aa to f jets and defe-ta of !..(,..
nd few error In conclusions h;-fi j
marked the article a the output of a,
mind unfamiliar with the affairs of the '
work-a-day world and the conduct of news- :
papers. Victor Roaewater. of the OTiitha j
Be, discussing Prof. Rrs' article at some i
length, tvjrins by quixii.s; him as follow; j
"Ws altogether too much time on I
the daily newypaper. jome of you may be
(wjtJnff haif an hour to reading the paper
saw day. Cut It down to fifteen minute?.
jaitou will find that you are not loam
anrihln. When you hare u creeled ln do
In this, try reducing the time to ten min
Wss. and you will find you are doing (till
batter. Then iut that down to five minutes
47 "1 pretty soon you will be able to
cut out reading the newspapers altogether
and roa will" get along Just aa well. The
daily newspaper cannot give you a true
account of current events. Tou can get all
you need to know ln the weekly periodicals
and the monthly magazines, and If you
read two or throe of theae you will have all
th Information about what Is going on
about you that la worth having. Time
pent ln reading the newspaper la worse
than thrown away. Don't waata your time
on newspapers."
Thi is what Mr. Roee water heard one
day when entering, unobserved, a ciaes
room in the University of Nebraska. Upon
being chaffed by Mr. R-wm water for hia
excoriation of the newspapers, rhe lecturer
aid tie did not exactly mean what he
aid. but that the lecture was originally
written under great provocation, when cer
tain newspapers In Pan Francisco bad
crltlislsed him.
"From his article In tha Atlantic." says
Mr. Rosewater. "Prof. Ross shows that
wile he has not fallowed his own injunc
tion to Tut out rad;ng newspapers alto
rthr." he has retained his prej ldlr-es
aeaipsr the prfss. and Is as prone to ex-
kt-rat. i;s faiil's and deny l:s virtue
lie was after the San FianiM-o papers had
Iw-en grilling him nnmrrHfTiHr.'-
The Pr(r(ssr' Watlve.
It Is a rule In courts of law to establish
the moilvs befor seeking to prov th;
prisoner at bar su'lty of having murdered
the individual wtioke "remainders' wrr
fn;nd by the roadsde. Mr. Ro-eBier
seems to have had the evident e at hand
and established the motive after witnesirg
the assault. If Pnf. Ross' animadversions
upon the probity and usefulness of tht?
press are traceable to an encfuinter with
tte San Franciscf ra,-f. and the Atlantic
Month'y Is his sutwn fir attacking a
lass rranso an Individual, i t Individuals.
aro.ie.1 his Ire a iinn years ago. his as
sertions and arguments are hardly worthy
of the friendly consideration that was ac
corded U them bv the t "ouriei - Journal
"hen his article was published. Put grant
ing, for the sake of a little pleasant tuck
et ing. that there is no connection with the
professor's feud with tls? Pacific roaat
papers and his fulminatiuns against those
of the rest of the United States, he fails
to make a caae which mould prevent any
level-headed Judge from giving peremptory
instructions In favor of the defendant.
Prof. Rows' charges boll down to the
allegation that the press leaves undone
pretty nearly everything It ought to do.
and does nearly evervtlnns that It ought
not to do. Additional sins consist partly
in doing those which it ought to leave un
done and doing tha bidding .f
those who never leave the people un
done. The crimes charged are monstrous.
If the accused were guilty nothing but the
extreme penalty would vindicate the law
or protect society from future harm.
pre "ISewa."
One complaint of Prof. Ross Is that Im
portant news la suppressed, but he cites
aa proof of his assertion the suppression
of nauseating scandal by the Philadelphia
newspapers, and asserts that the Influence
of an advertiser was the cause of this
failure to print the news. While the news
papers are occasionally forced to print
such "news." it la unclean, and ought never
to be published. The subject Is unfit for
discussion outside of the lecture room or
office of a specialist upon nervous and
mental disorders. If the Philadelphia
papers were subservient to their adver
tisers they were wrong ln principle, but It
Is Strang that an educator considers the
result unsatisfactory from the viewpoint
of the public. Anc the a.g-jment that the
press supcre-.es the news is capsizrd by
the admission that wh: fie rhllad-'phia
pipers did not print the New V"rk nnprs
l.d nit suppress. This ju.cv mor-el :t
-'mportani news " was dihd up for Phila
delphia despite ;he vna it;. yi the count
ing rooms, or the decency of the editorial
r.frs. In the ray in wh eh the lamentable
event occurred.
I Basis r iaallt-tmeats.
The naif professor indicts the prs be
caue a lawyer give to three newsaper
men a story supprte.1 hv affidavits, that
, n thug hired bv "a rr-m n emporium" had
kilhd a striker, and although the three
newspaper n:i n sccpie.J ,t a. true, and
promiwd to print it. that account neves
appeared.
Possibly Prt K;r. d.f n"t "now that
affidavits weired hv .vto.eys interested
'ti tn;-t;tuting act;. ins for damages iir not
proof, but testimony, and that libeling "an
emporium " or an indtvdual to helo a dm
; age suit la-.tyer earn a fee is a crime,
i S3'nst which individuals and emporiums
j ar property protected by the law. of
Course the "news " of the murder was not
; suppressed. Such news never is. But "that
; account"" w;ts doubtless nut accepted as
final bv M e reporters or editors,
j "A prominent social worker" held con
! trscts sitm-d by salesgirls infamous. The
! pre- did not crusade. Prof R. s sees in
this proof of corruption. Upon the other
; hand cer;a:n papers would not espouse the
; cause of street-car -mployes in a ' justl
j f"'tl- strike.- becauK m jUanta threaten
j t mithdrw advertisements. Why answer
j such flap-c'oudle?
j rasreralsc ews tilie.
- As Mr. Roovewater inslvts. rivalry, and
! tiie unwillingness of newspapers to be
,1 beaten, develops most of the news that
ia north priming, and a gosl deal that
j ian't. If one Journal suppresses a "story"
! 4. . .. .
j "m ui ujun me rroni page or a eoin
; petitor. But editors disagree as to news
I v-.luos. and outside of editorial rooms
. there are countless persons who have
different opinions as to what ia news, and
divergent views aa to 'what policy the
press should pursue. Many of them may
honestly and (nnoocentiy believe that
whenever a given newspaper does not meet
j with their critical approval a combination
of corruption and ignorance lie behind its
Imagined failure to discharge Its full duty.
Prof Ross assertion that the popularity
of magaxlnes as vehicles of suppressed
news results from the lamentable morals
of the press, calls from Mr. Roosewate:
the statemept thst most of the facts in
m.iganno artlr'es d.-sling with politics are
those previously published by newspapers.
It m;ght be added that the files of news-pape-s
are the mine most, corrnnonly
worked bv the "muckracker " The mini
.ne article is interesting, and useful, be
cause it sums up news that has been pub
i shed piecemeal by the press. One of the
first of the series of "murkrake- articles
tint have flourished in t!ie magazines
dutiT'g the last doaen years was 'The
Shame of M .nneapwlis." which brought
l.,ncoln Steffens into prominence. Mr
Steffens is an earnest Invest gator, a force
f tl writer, and en admirable yiung man.
It is no disparagement of his taients or
h's motives, and no reflection upon the
value of his contributions to matraaires.
to say that the facts he set forth in Mc
Clure's magaxine weren t "news" in Min
neapolis. Far Fetched Rxaaaplea.
Prof Ross sees In the popularity of lec
tures the wickedness of a news suppressing
pros We pass over Mr. Roscwater's dis
position of the charge, which ends in a
auertion as to why the chautauqua lecturer
' so grateful for punll.- tv. and why he Is
so wlliing to i"e for the photographer
who represents the press
Reference was made some t;me ago I v
the Courier-Journal to the tllumlnat.rg
fact that In seeking for examples of crook
edness In editorial rooms Prof. llvs was '
forced to describe the rules that Roveened
the moulding of the news by a thb-jgo
Pier published by a man who Is now j
serving a term in the penitentiary There .
Is no law to prevent an individual who is ;
shaping hia course in the direction of the 1
penitentiary from publishing a newspaper, j
but a good many things stand In the way i
of his giving character to the Ame-lcan '
i-ieee. ti rmi rtoss is more amusing, in
his tneptnesa as a cftlc. at one point than
at another. It Is when he castigates the
newspapers because they stotd together,
without the formality of a gentlemen s
agreement, to minimise the bad news and
play up- the good news durng the panic
of lXTT-. Such an argument needs no an
swer. It def.-ats Itself.
The Courier-Journal does not recall the
cassus belli that precipitated the clash be
tween Prof. Ross and t!;e Sun Francisco
papers In point of fact we never read the
history of that war-but possibly It was
some unreasonable and etsjly p-.inctumble
statement of his
at the I'rttle Illustrates.
H;s assaults urcn the prss aa an institu
allegatlons constitute nothing mo: than
tton h. r.o ti ue e tner as const rucTTve or
destru.-tlve citticlsm lv neither points the
Pathway upward nor U s a monster low
If Its spirit was engendered by grilling
of the educator bv certain newspapers, it
mav be put down as "a piece of logic which
w.l hardly pass In the world, that bec ause
one man has a s.ire nose all the town
should put plaster on theirs."" Rut. fctvlng
the alienator the benefit of the doubt, his
another illustration of the fact that nearly
every one who knows nothing about jour
nalism believes that he knows Infinitely
more about how to conduct a newspaper
than any one who has devoted hia l:fe to
the work.
By all means let there be established the
endowed newspaper, recommended hy Prof.
Ross, which will net "dramatis crime r
doctor news or publish gossip.- yet which
will fearlessly print such "news" as that
which tha professor regrets that the Phll
ade'ptiia papers suppressed, and which wMl
let no combination of advertiser fir thi
restraint of scuilery scandal prevent
from publishing ti e story of the unfs;rS
fulnees of a mcrrhar.t s wife or the Inrt
cretlcn of his daughter SlH h a newspaper
elitel bv d. tors of dlvin'tv. sociology ant
lews would he hwile-t l a hntnor-lov n
preee as a -ontemn.rarv rather than feares
bv comift pubiicalions as a compet'tor
tot with It at onee" " It fiere b light;
l et "ea h reporter and elltor he some nnt
who has aired his views upon the vlciou
nes and rapidity of newspapers publish
by newspaper men.
Old rets Blew Mr sr.
Art old darkev. w!;, Hi f. some d'etancs
fr-m town, had a very s'ck mule H dovt
Into town to see the village veterinarv aa
to what to ,li for the mule The doctor
told htm to get a pound of calomel and a
hollow g'aes tube and Mow the calomel
through the tube down the mute's throat.
Arvout a week after that the darky ap
peared In town look.r g very de'ected snd
paie. He met the dew-tor on tl.e street and
said: "Ssv. boss. I gut the caiotnei and
the tube and put the calomel in the tube."
and Just then the doctor asked him If bt
b e"v it down the throat of the mule, and
the dr.rkv ee.-d:
"No. miss, old Pete ha done blew first. '
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Description of Farm and Improvements
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