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SPRINGFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1915.
NEWSPAPERS AND THEIR POLICIES
In the course of an address at the University of Missouri
recently, G. B. Dealey, general manager of the Dallas, Texas,
Morning News, Galveston Daily News, and allied publications,
said:
"There is a popular idea abroad that a newspaper should
give the people what they want that is to say, that a news
paper should be made by its readers. I do not believe this to
be true in its entirety.
"Generally the. readers should be given 'what they want
so long as what they want is good for them. But a newspaper
always has a moral responsibility, whether it appreciates it
or not, to help its readers to higher standards. It is all right
to .be popular and keep close to the people, but a newspaper
should not cater to the baser mind and prostitute, its columns-"
into sensationalism and uncleanness. Its aim always should
be to uplift to point the way to better and. nobler things.
"The policy of any enduring newspaper must necessarily
be based on what is true and what is right, even though it
may sometimes come in conflict with the opinions and pre
judices of its readers.. To apply this statement to our own
papers let me say that with them the effort has always been
to avoid morbid sensationalism and all that class of news
which-depends on idle or prurient curiosity for its interest.
"The News does not make a display of public executions,
lynchings, murder trials, divorce cases, scandals of salacious
personal news of any kind. No doubt, however, there is a
demand for this class of news and it attracts a certain kind
of. readers, but at the, same time it has a demoralizing effect.
"I believe that the control of newspaper policies by ad
vertisers is practically negligible, the only exception being in
the very indirect way which I have pointed out namely, that
- an honest policy means not only large circulation, but high
-grade circulation. But as for direct influence, no publisher can
grshape his policies at the behest of any advertiser or class of
advertisers for the sake of the revenue to b'e derived from
these without immediately endangering his enterprise.
"There is no business on which a closer watch-is kept by
the public than that of the newspaper. What the publisher
does and what his paper's opinion is goes before the public
every day. That same public is merciless in its criticism,
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Ralph Peters
. On Railway Mall Pay
A Controversy Imi been rnRlntt In tho columns of tho
press botwocii tho rnllronds and tho Federal I'ost Ofllco
Department over tho question of proper compensation
for handling the Unltod Btatos malls, Mr. Ralph rotors.
Chairman of tho Hallway Mall Commlttco, when uskod
to 8tao tho railroad sldo, of tho controversy to tho
American farmer, said In part:
"Tho rnllwr.y mall pay question will ho settled and
Bottled permanently and with, JuBtlco to all concerned
as soon as tho Amorlcan pooplo realUo thut tho whole
subject, while seemlnRly complicated and technical, bolls
down to n tow Rlmplo points of fair business doalluK
which hn nnn nnfil bo n rato oxnort to understand.
"Thn nret Is tlmt tho Post oillco Dannitmont woIrIis tho malls, and re
adjusts tho pay of tho railroads, only onco In four years, This compels tho
railroads ta carry tho Incroaso In tho mall tonnngo durlntt thd IntorvonlnR
vcars without pay manifestly an Injustice In tho caso oO rapidly crowtnn
business, Ono coiiRequenco has been that last year tho rallrouds carried fully
half tho parcel post for nothing.
"A second point is this: In addition to carry In?; tho malh. tho rail
roads aro required to oporato many trnvollnp post offlces for nortlnit and
distributing tho malls whllo In transit. Hut tho l'ost OtPco Department paya
for such post ofllces only whom they occupy wholo cars, and paya nothing
in tho many cases In which It merely requires tho uso of post otllco apart
ments in combination cars, nltho.ich such apartments differ from tho full
railway post otllco cars only in slse, Moro than 4,200 npnttnonta of thin
character havo been fitted up, and aro maintained for tho oxcluntvo uso of
tho Post Ofllco Department. Falluro to payx for them has beon an especial
hardship to tho smaller roads on which tho Department docs not find It
uoccssary to utilize wholo cars.
"Ono last point? In thoucands of Instances (though not In all) tho Tost
Ofllco Department requires tho railroads to carry tho malls back and forth
between railroad stations and post olllces, but pays thorn nothing for (his
extra service beyond tho rates covering tho rail transportation. Tho rail
loads havo no choice but to perform this additional scrvlco gratis, or retusu
to carry tho malls at all.
"Now for tho remedies tho railroads ask: Thoy do not ask to havo tho I
mans wcigncu uaiiy, or to navo cacn snipmcni woigneu nnu pain tor sep
arately, as l done In tho caso of privato shippers. They merely ask to
have the malls weighed, and tho'pay of tho railroads adjusted, at least onco
a year. Instead of onco in four years. Thoy also ask that apartment post
ofllco cars bo paid for, at reasonable rates, according to alio. Lastly, they
ask that tho Post Ofllco Department ceaso to rcqulro of thorn freo messenger
servlco between stations and post ofllccs, and. either relievo them of this
sorvlco or pay fairly for It. These aro tho reforms tho railroads jisk of Con
gress. They gladly lay theso reforms beforo tho public, confident that they
will appeal to tho common sense and fairness of Amorlcan voters."
quick to jump at conclusions and frequently unjust in its
judgment. A newspaper may deceive a part of Its readers for
a while, but none of them for a veiy long time.
"Summing up, I should say that a newspaper's policies
should forbid it from needlessly offending good customers or
good morals. It should be true to the right, but it need not be
fussy' or suspicious or meddlesome or intolerant, it should
be a good neighbor honest, courageous, virtuous and friend
ly but not like a bad neighbor vindictive, spying, gossipy
and mischievous. It should say: My policy Is to do right and
to be a good merchant, which is to sriy, to deal in honest goods
and give good measure.' "
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Considerable comment has been aroused in some quar
ters over the plan to limit preliminary discussion beforo the
state-wide conference on the Oregon-California railroad land
grant case, which is to be held, at Salem next Wednesday. The
preliminary plans as adopted by the' rules committee, sum
moned by Governor Withycoinbe, provide for the introduction
of resolutions by title and author, and their immediate re
ference to the resolutions committee. All set speeches are to
tbe barred until after the committee on resolutions has form
ulatd its report. The Portland Journal and the Pendleton
East Oregonian, raise objections to any plan that in any way
limits discussion. Their point, it would seem, is not well tak
en. The conference is, of course, a voluntary one, with no re
muneration for the time of the delegates. Naturally, then,
procedure should be so .mapped as to take the least possible,
time to secure the best possible consideration of .the subject
at hand. Speeches made before and definite question is before
the conference would, of necessity, be general in their nature,
and would lack direct bearing. Proper parliamentary proced
ure requires a motion, made nnd seconded, before it can be
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To attempt to dictate the lines that shall bo followed defeats
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are a number of large interests which have claims that are
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feat the purposes of any conference. The counties, which
have advanced to the state tax money not yet collected from
the railroad, have a large right to be heard. They also have a
claim to attention on account of the roads and the schools
they will have to construct when this land is settled. The
people of Oregon see in this vast tract of land an opportunity
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former grants of public land. Easterners see in tho lands an
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Lumbermen, on the other hand, see vast areas of timber, ripe
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the conference. It would be foolish to rule out, beforehand,
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