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' When a country editor gives us we have to say and what form carefully gone through to select the publican,” already given, are suffi. LC
, boasting about how many neigh— we put it in.” lstory to be enlarged upon. This cient to illustrate how Nichols of
f borhood correspondents he has writ- This miniature paper for corre— is not hard, for most of the cor- Chandler employs his correspond. ~ A:
; ing for his paper and about how spondents is made up like the front respondents have it written on a ents as business-getters for his pa. the
.i many columns of correspondence page of a regular newspaper, three separate sheet. The story is studied per. Subscriptions, want ads, bank emli
‘f or neighborhood news his newspa— columns in width, with headlines a bit, and, if possible, more in— statements, job printing orders, pers
‘ per publishes each week, aiid be- and everything, a dateline near the formation is sought. This not 013- display ads, and “readers”. . .he‘ agei
' gins to emphasize quality of news top carrying the name of the edi- tainable, the story may be rewrit- gives them a liberal commission on GO”
. in those correspondence columns, tor, and a nameplate over all. “The ten, stretched Gilt as much as pos- any 01‘ all business they can pro- lhg
he is getting somewhere with his Little Republican” is the name, and sible and given a good headline. duce. Bill“
efforts to produce a more interest- a second line reads, “Published I am quite familiar with the com- —.——— Wh‘
' ing and a more readable country Monthly in the Interest of Better munities from WhiCh the letters BY PYRAMIDING ADS (1.15“
‘ . newspaper. Rural News.” Nicholas probably come, so it is not hard to round out EVERYBODY IS GAINER tips,
_ The efforts of Lansing F. Nich- would send, on request, a copy of the story. We do not ask our cor— — teni
. ols, editor of the Lincoln County this little paper to any other editor. respondents to turn in letters that Many times this department has; D‘
: Republican, Chandler, Okla, along Perusal of the February issue are literary gems. but we do in- stressed the fact that a newspaper 511'“
2 that line during the last year hav— of “The Little Republican” re- sist and impress upon them at eV- page on which display advertising me“
. ing borne good fruit, are worthy of veals that “as a special induce- ery opportunity that we want all is pyramided to the right can be V9”
j review. He checked up on his own merit to correspondents the edi- of the facts in every case.” much more attractive as a whole, StOI‘l
paper’s situation and came to the tor will award a prize of $1 each As to the large headlines on the as well as more considerate of the for
, conclusion that there was too much month to the correspondent who correspondence pages, Nicholas ad- reader and more effective for ad- phal
“chaff” in his correspondence col— sends in the best story,” The mits they “are a great deal larger vertisers, than a page on which store
umns for his readers to wade announcement says that literary in most instances than the length advertisements are scattered in “13"
through in their attempt to find perfection does not count, that ‘and importance of the story war— helter-skelter fashion, states John V
the grains of real news of the rural facts are what the editor wants, rants.” But there is a reason for E. Allen in the department, “News. char
districts. and that members of the news- those heads,” and it is this: paper Make-up,” in the latest is- " shou
So, he decided to give his per- paper staff are to be the judges. “When we first tried to get sue of The Linotype News: sitaore
sonal attention to editing his Correspondents are asked in this away from the stereotyped _A page With its advertismg pyra- y,‘
. correspondence carefully. He little paper to “avoid the habit of heads, such as ‘Sparks News,’ mided not only makes possible the th
. soon saw that his rural writers writing only personals,” and they we found that if we put a small running of news or feature stories ‘ th'
needed instruction on what to are warned to guard against writ- head over the letter it was lost or departments at the top of the '
, write and how long to write it, ing too much about their own fam- on the‘page. There was some page, where readers are accus- 2’:
that they needed his help in ilies of relatives, to the exclusion of complaint from readers about tomed to looking for important ad
evaluating the news of their 10., other worthwhile folk of the neigh- not being able to locate com- stories or departments, but it helps stc
» calities. borhood. munity news easily enough. We the reader to concentrate on the do
, . . . One correspondent is singled out then started to use the larger items in which he is most interes- .
, noﬁzegggggs rgﬁglvgoﬁgigéleofmtﬁ; by name and complimented on her headlines and have continued to ed ,at the moment—“reading met 2)“
' editor of the Lincoln County Re- “good stories.” All are reminded, do so whenever there _is any ter’ or advertismg, as the case may as
publican are particularly worthy of ilf he’s not a subscriber, get his Story at all to fallow m- We .be. to:
mention: (1) He publishes a min- name and show him the paper— always try to incorporate in the 'On a helter-skelter page_the va- “B
iature newspaper of Ge page 7x814 the rest is easy.” heading the name of the com- rlous . stories 'and advertisements t" _ .
inches in size monthly for his cor: Within a box is the one-line munlty from which the letter keep interrupting and-diverting hls_ 0:31:
respondents- ’(2) he emphasizes the bold—face heading, “Here’s Pin comes.” . .attention, often to his annoyance clerk
importance ’of one best story from Money.” There follow seven Sample headings: Farm Home De- and to. the disadvantage of all of The
each community each week with lines of type which read: “Re— ‘stroyed By Fire; All Contents Lost. the units. Moreover, the storieson the
all important facts and details to member that your commission . .. . Meeker Poultry School Draws such a page, even important stories, leave
be written by the correspondent be— on new subscriptions is 75 cents Big Attendance. - - Sparks POSt Of— appear to be little more than fillers. to se
fore he starts on the lesser “items’” and on renewals 50 cents. There fice Is Now In Fourth Class: . . Pay- Not only do many metropolitan “F‘
(3) he gives the best of these “lead”’ are (10113“ to be made in your son Farms Are Now Being Im— newspapers follow the pyramid- in (
stories 2-column 30—point headlines community by working up the proved. These large headlines over plan, but several alert advertisers, disge
at the upper left—hand corners of subscriptions during your spare country news have been comment- recognizmg its effectiveness, follow read
correspondence pages (4) other moments.” ed upon favorably by rural read- it themselves for many of their dis- and
news stories or items which appeal The last two items on the page as When calling at the newspaper plays. . d- more
to him as superior to the general read: “Want ads are another source office. Such advertisers are shrew ad 6
run of items he marks to be set in Of revenue for correspondents: The Regarding the use of boldface enough to appreClate that space on merc
bold face type; and (5) he appoints rate 18 2 cents per word per issue. type for all items or stories desig- a page attractively arranged a:: to be
his correspondents authorized bus- Count the. words, collect the money hated by the editor as out of the whole can be much more effectill:e these
iness representatives of his paper and turn in one-half to this office. ordinary, superior to the general for them than .on a page of ftn‘ Pag
in their respective localities pay- ...MISS Lena Brown, Sparks com—‘run of items, little more need .be helter-skelter kind that so i: fer “W
ing them liberally for all n ew and munity, has the record for adver- . said or done in way of explanation results when the advertisers ast. its featu
renewal subscriptions, for want ads tismg coming from correspondents. than to reprint two or three sam— and are given preferred p051 ictid each
sent in, and even for their services She had one {reader’ ad than ran ples of such stories, as follow: at the top of a page ”and separithir in T<
in obtaining bank statements, job regularly for over a year. She also Luther, small son of Mr. and by iéeadingt matter from o impo
printing and display advertising turnsin a bank statement at reg- Mrs. Ed Alexander, was severely adxeif':1 isglmen s. hr wd adver- other
where correspondents are located‘ular intervals. which brinps her a burned about the eye when he t‘ n ose_ stamet s teh t stories ed h
in towns or villages. good commissmn. ran into a hot iron his father isers apprecia e, oo,t af at not l
“ . . Through this little paper, and i was holding. It is feared he or department at the op 0 a p g vertii
When we flrSt Started 150 lm‘ otherwise ever th' 'bl - l - - - b t h- can be attention arresting to man! ‘
prove the rural news we tried ’. . y ing_possl e 15 wouldilose 1.115 “Slon’ u ‘5 a reader who were there no such genu:
writing a ‘pep’ letter to each done to instll a deSlre m the condition ls improvmg. tt th , ld b ' l‘ned to 0f ‘30
corres ,, correspondent to turn in a bet- — ma er ere, W01} e inc 1 cm
pondent 93°11 month, to t 1 ti; E v 'd t - k turn the page Without more than p
quote Nichols’ own words on er e er. v‘eryinci en 111.1‘8- John Goodell and son, Jac , glancing at the advertising on it merc
the subject. We typed the let- relation to country news is seized were out from Shawnee Satur— b t h b . t d b those 1y in
ters and found that it took 2. upon and passed on to the cor- day. Ml" Goodell is preparing u -W o, eing S oppe y
u - - - - - stories or departments, may 100l_ J
great deal of time. Then the resgondents‘ A httle praise and t0 lnStau. a Delco llg‘htll‘lg’ sys- er the advertisements too before 0m
method of - - - a little bragging on the work tem at 1118 farm home. 0v ,
printing a little pa- . ,, . turning to other pages. am
per was adopted, and we find they are domg, as NIChOIS puts *— — to
that we can print enough of it, “will accomplish wonders.” Ed Fowler and sons of near . Hell poi
them in a, shorter time than we He leaves with them the impres- Meeker and Charles Bishop were The Harlan .Courier, J. J. 1an . fac
could type the letters. We saved sion that he is depending upon at the R. Fowler home on Pay- editor, began Its Eighth year - lati
time and money, and find that them to build up his paper. son Route Que the first of the month. adl
they create a, great: deal more In reference to emphasis on the weeh aSSlStlng Ml" FOWler In — On
- interest than the letters did. I one best story in each correspond- movmg' a vacant house to the No. 1, Volume 26, appeared on the advei
firmly belive that the corre- en’s letter each week, allow me Spoonei‘ farm Where the F0Wl' mast head of the Hazard. Herald
spondents look forward from one again to quote the Chandler editor: 91's TeSIde- Charles N. Wooten, editor, 011
issue to the next just to see what :“When the letters arrive they are Extracts from “The Little Re- August 27.

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, 1936 Okl h P he was very much lacking in knowl- It is Tetirick’s firm belief that‘about that much. So we discon- L '
a O oma aperS edge of women’s apparel. much of the newspaper space used tinue our paper at expiration un- L'
, . “This proved a constant source of in advertising the paper itself is less some definite arrangements L
_ lee Many TIPS On embarrassment,” he remarks. “The wasted on messages which are of have been made. L, .
D - . . department store managers soon little interest. Each paper carries the expira- L 7
LOCO! Adve rtlSlng learned that I COUld help them very Some Don’ts Listed . tion date. We have 01.111 dates all L
are SUffi- little, as a consequence, in the prep- “Another thing I have noticed," expiring on the first of the month. 2'
\Iichols of —— aration of advertising copy. The he adds, “is that many a paper Between the tenth and fifteenth of 7‘ -
)rrespond. ~ Allow me to introduce three 0f TESUlt was that I learned to window with a circulation covering sur- the month we go through our list L , ‘
or his pa. the smartest advertising meh DOW shop, and I still practice it—a pas— rounding towns runs office copy and send out notices to all sub-
ads, bank employed on Oklahoma newspa- time that formerly was unthinkable urging folks to read the ads care- scribers whose subscriptions expire L‘
g orders, persz'Ied Tetirick, advertising man- to me.” fully and buy at home. We have on the first of the next month. We L
zrs”. . .he‘ ager, Blackwell Tribune; John B. Mel‘chandiSillg Emphasized been very careful in office copy also send notices to all subscribers
nission on Gordon, advertising manager, CFUSh-L Gordon likes the idea 0f selling ‘to stay away from both of these whose subscriptions have expired t
can pro- ing Daily Citizen; Donald Welty, merchandising ideas — not just topics. the preceeding first. Those cards L:
BartleSVille Morning Examiner. space, voicing" the opinion that ad From time to time, however, ‘which bear an expiration date back
_ When they tl'Ot out thEir merchan- salesmen must learn to merchan-: we have run office copy on the more than a month are discontin- :‘ -
dising ideas and their ad selling dise goods just as the grocer or theL value of our columns to the Lued. 1,
.GAINER tips, they are usually worth iis— department store executive hasi‘ readers, complete news coverage, It was hard at first. Often 50 to ’
tening t0> learned to merchandise. promptness of delivery, et cetera. 100 names had to be removed from . ‘:
tment hase Don Welty, for example, has per-L “By that,” he says, ”I mean Two-thirds of such space in our the list, and no newspaper man L
newspaper suaded a good inany of. his local that the method, which proves columns has been devoted to likes to do that. We had made up L: ;‘
tdvertising merchant-advertisers '30 1h§tah ad— most benefmial t0 the customer, Blackwell as a courteous, clean Lour minds, however, and stuck to L L
it can be vertising bulletin boards 1h the” in the long “in, proves most L town in which to trade. In our plans. There were few com- S
a whole, stores. He hh'hLSheS tear sheetsL beliefiCial t0 the salesman, l‘e- other words, the welfare of the plaints, and by far the greater num- L, 5,
ate of the for these bulletin boards. He e’m— gardless Of What he is selling, town, not office copy in the her of those removed came in the L: '
'e for ad- phasizes the importance of, havingL that this is a day Of service and usual sense, has been pushed same week the paper was missed L ,
on which store clerks read the ads 0h a belle-l that, Othel‘ things being equal, foremost with the power of our Land paid up their subscriptions. L L
ttered in tin board. L the man who serves best l‘e- newspaper’s columns in the ,Others kept coming in for two or L .‘L
ates John ”We try to get over ‘90 eaCh “191“ ceives the most satisfactory re- background. Lthree weeks. ; l
at, ”News- chant that every one Of his clerks wards.” “A merchant uses space to tellL Naturally enough our list suffered ' LL
latest is-’ should read and have a COPY 0f the He believes it is highly worth the people of his merchandise and ‘ some at first when we made the , L
5. SW” ad before him) 01' her: every while to follow up a good many ofL values which he has not been able L change. Graduaily, however, it was i L .‘L
sing pyra- day,” says Manager DOh- Lthe ideas advanced by the ad mat to show them—but the newspaper L built up to where it was before. ‘ ‘L,
)ssible the «of course, we cannot be sure services, especially when they em- each day or week gives convincing L What is more, every card now rep- ': LL
ire stories‘ the merchant follows this Lphasize points designed to move proof of its value to everyone who‘resents $2.00 paid in and not the L LL
op of the thl‘OUghi 01’ that 'clerks Will merchandise in preference to mere sees it every time it appears in L wistful hope that something will be L H
.‘e accus- watch the advertismg bulletin space selling ideas. print. paid. LL LLL
important board. But we preach .tha.t any “Really, it’s a lOt 0f fun,” he de— “I have not spoken favorably to The system is simple and our L
It it he1ps ad 15 50 Pel‘ cent effBCtlve if the clares, “to subject this mat serVice a deluge of the usual office copy bookkeeper is able to go through L LLLLL
be on the store force reads 1h When they art to an idea of your own, one that appearing in the columns of a news- the list and get out the notices in 1 Li LL
1: interest- do read the ads, clerks assume the artist never dreamed of. It has paper, but time changes plans, 1301— a day or a day and a half each L i‘L
ding mat- that every cnstomer comes “1 jig—saws and cross-words beat a icies and ideas rapidly, and I will L month. Postage costs for the no- LL LL“
L case may to buy what 15 advel‘tlzed and, hundred ways for interest. As you L say this in favor of the feuow who tices are less than 5 cents per sub— if LLL
as a 1'85““, they Show to 0115- call on accounts from day to day, * sand-blasts his own columns: I have scriber.——A. R. Lemke in the Minn- l f:'_L
{e the va- tomers advertised items first. you grow to know their tastes and become more favorable to good esota Press. LL i
artisements “But.” he continues, “no adver- L dislikes. As soon as a thought pops newspaper publicity during the past h— L L L
Ierting his, tising man WhO has a full-time job L into your mind you almost khOV‘f year, and I am more favorable to COURT RULES A PAPER’S L L 2"
annoyance can take time to see that eachLin advance whether it Will ‘click it now than ever before.” STATUS IS NOT AFFECTED L L L
of an of clerk reads every item in every ad. with a certain advertiser. Tetirick expresses a lot of real BY PLACE TYPE IS SET L LLLL
stories on The best we can do is to furnish Files and Exchanges Useful optimism in stating it to be his __ 1 LL
int stories, the tear Sheets t0 the boss and “A careful reading 0f newspapers belief that money is going to be ANNAPOLIS, MD.—“Newspaper LL LLLL
rian fillers. leave the “St to him, after trying received at the office on ‘exchange’ cheaper and prices higher. “With readers are no more concerned in {L g l-L
atropolitan to sell him the bulletin board idea. is another good source of ideas for these two facts as a preface, and where the type erm which the pa— LL -: LLLLLL
pyramid - . “Furnishing of tear sheets, urg— the ad man, as are frequent check— history repeats, we are sure of an per is printed was set up, than they LL , .LLLL
tdvertisers, ing display of advertised merchan— L ups on files of your own newspaper. upturn of business this year,” he de- are in the birthplace of the type- LL ,L LL
ess, follow dise, insisting that the sales force Recently I was reminded I had not clares. ”Advertising the last three setter, nor is there any. perceptible LLLL
"their dis- read the store’s ads, holding sales checked the January file of a year years,” he points out, “has been season why matter printed from LL LLLLLL
. and pep meetings with employes of ago, and, upon doing so, I discov- greatly in favor of the newspaper type set in Howard county should i LLLLLL
3 shrewd merchant-advertisers, criticism of ered a 40—inch anniversay ad that as a medium. But there must be not convey as much information as L L-LLL‘7
tspace on ad copy, and explanations to the had slipped my mind. Ithen check- more sincerity and practical mer- 1tLIJioutgh pinited fgorn type set in LL ,LLLLL
nged asa merchant on why ads pull or failed more carefully the exchanges chandising carried on in advertis- Eli gimeiy goghdy: T S tt Of LIL Lilli L
8 effective to be satisfactorily resultful—all ofL and picked up several ads that ”I ing copy than in the past. In oth- L f tto rvoasolne t1 ‘geth. NcIo' 1 (—1 iii ,
,ge of the these things we do and have done. sold eventually to local accounts. er words, newspaper advertising, in L Cit) ,‘t Sptf3a ring 3101 - e n aanaiIdn L LL
so often‘ Page 1 Carries “Newsvertising‘” L That newspaper advertising my opinion, will get a break in 1937, whliléh held 1:11:03“? tignalogl law a L
are ask for “We are now planning a news will geta, break in 1937, and that but it must earn its way in results.” requmn. a news a lei} L0 be eLLgL_ L l
” positions feature to run 011 0111‘ front page a good newspaper speaks for ——Oklahoma State Press. ble for gcounty lepgarl) notices to be L‘ L‘Li 1
separated haCh day to be headed ‘The News itself and, therefore, need not E printed in the county where pub- _L ,L
'om other in Today’s Ads,’ This will give the boost itself blatantly through KEEP YOUR SUBSCRIPTION lished ” l “,L L
important things 0f style, price and‘ house ads, are opinions expressed LIST PAID UP TO DATE The. law appellants cited would LL L51 L
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Wd adver- other interesting information glean- by Ted Tem'wk 0f Blackwell ‘— have prevented expenditures of LL “L .,
iat stories ed from the ads that day, We do when queried by the Sooner “How do you keep your list paid county monies to pay for legal no- L L3,? L
of a page not plan this as a :sop’ to the ad— state Press. in advance?” is a question we are tices which had been published in LL ‘L
g to manl vertiser to get copy, but rather as a :‘0n the subject of the benefits frequently. asked. Our answer is a paper for which the type had LL LL,“ ,
'e no such geh‘hhe, hEWS feature 011 elements to newspapers from advertismg that we find .lt no more difficult not been set in Montgomery coun— L 'r .L
inclined to 0f cons1derable reader interest that themselves,” he declared, ”my ex- than maintaining a credit list, and ty at least four consecutive years L .‘LL L
more than crop up in the ads daily. Price perience for eighteen years has been that the results are much more prior to the publication of such le- ,L L ,
,ing on it merchandise is to be handled light— to km the newspaper, as a product, satisfying. gal notice. , L, L
by those ly in thls page 1 feature.” talk for itself. Of course, a news- In the first place we spare no _—___ 'LL ,1 L
may lool_ John Gordon of Cushing rec- paper of a quality not to talk might effort to make our paper the most If the government income tax 3 ' L
too before ommends window shopping, overcome part of its handicaps by readable and newsy sheet pOSSible. man walked into our ofﬁces tomol‘- LLL.‘ L
among other things, as an aid self-contained advertiseing." Being convinced that we are doing row an asked to see our records, or ,‘LLL LL
_ to intelligent ad selling, and His experience, fortunately, he be- a good job at that, it is easier to asked for an accounting, could we Li L? L',
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year lasL factory merchant-newspaper re- the better type: the Great Falls have learned that our customers , statement? Its not a badLLidea to L 'L , /
lationships the winning of the (Mont) Morning Tribune, the Mus- never put any more value upon our keep up the records so we Will know LL L f
advertiser’s confidence. kogee Daily Phoenix, the Joplin paper than we do ourselves. If what the income is from the dif— L ,
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Page Four THE KENTUCKY PRESS September, 1936 S
points out, lies the ﬁrst approach COURT‘S JUDGMENT SHOULD NEA
to the whole problem. NOT SUPPLANT FUNCTION

, 2&3 This is a move to forstall crime. OF THE MODERN PAPER
-, _ It ought to prove a great deal more —-—— Tl
‘ ,5. ,5; A eﬁective than the present course, The following letter, published in " 1 I
y-gg which takes effect only after the the Lexington Herald, gives a com. the
, ' " ‘ overt act is committed.—Winches— mon sense view of the functions of of 1‘
. ter Sun. the courts and newspapers, especi- intei
————-—~—————— The Sun, in this editorial, forgets ally in conﬁrmance of the news. ' beh"
jj Ofﬁcial Publication Of The Kentucky Press Association to point out that the newspaper, paper’s right to judge the relative cani
- __—___—_ rather than the public school, is value of everyday news. in 1
' . VICTOR R. PORTMANN. . . ' . . ‘ ' . . ‘ ' . ' _ _ .Editor the logical medium of the ﬁrst lilie. Editor, The Herald: dem
. The newspapers have always given Freedom of the press, ltkte free- cont
. . ~ space and prominence to anti— dom of speech, is a cons i utional

Prmted On The {Emil Press’ DePartmept Of Journalism, crime news, and Dr. Glueck should guaranty of the maintenance of the 3:101
UlllVGlSlty OE Kentucky, Lexington advise his Institute that every ef- inalienable right of “life, liberty 62k
—*—‘——'—‘—*‘—— fort should be made to enlist every and the pursuit of happiness." With p Tl
. PRESS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS newspaper in it campaign. The discerning insight Justice Bleakley How
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ier—Journal, Loulilsiville; Keith Hood, News—Democrat, Carrollton; Joseph Costello, — an 'a-Ct 0f contemé’t: 13111: papers mitt

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son, Times, Glasgow; Victor R. Portmann, Kentucky Press, Lexington; Robert cades H- M. MCFal‘land has been W , b . y . man
‘ L. Elkin. Lancaster, Honorary. collecting and indexing all the Wholly 0“ information 012mm“ corn]
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE newspapers published in his home mtg“? the court. To. “Stain the also

Thomas R. Underwood, Herald, Lexington, Chairman; Lawrence W. Hager, town OVer a period Of 70 years- motion under those Circumstances, rect<

Messenger, Owensboro; Warren Fisher, Mercury, Carlisle; George A.‘ Joplin Jr., This ﬁle, composing a stack of the COLIN? l’leldy _WOUId amOunt t0 0:

Commonwealth, Somerset; Harold Browning, Whitley Republican, Williamsburg; volumes more than ﬁve feet high restraint of publication in advance, comi

ADVERTISING COMMITTEE and the index of 4,000 cards with contrary to a fundamental princi- ers<

Joe T. Lovett, Ledger-Times, Murray, Chairman; Robert L. Kincaid, Daily more than 50,000 entries he has ple 0f laW- Observance 0f the prin- papE

News, Middlesboro; Wesley E. Carter, Enterprise, Elizabethtown; Thomas T. ~ 1: es nted - ’. 1 dc ciple in its strictest sense was 95. tr '

Wilson, Log Cabin, Cynthlana; Leigh Harris, Gleaner and Journal, Henderson. JuS pr 6 in a SpeCla ma. V f- . . ~ ‘ y

_ Y . case to the Lanpher Memorial sensial 01 otheIWise, he said, the re- pres
_ l\E\\’SPAPER EXHIBIT COMMITTEE library here sult would be the substitution 0L and
Victor R. Por‘tmann, University of VKentulcky, Chairman; Albert Schumacher, ' ,5 ,5 ::= the judgment of the court for the Whit

Citizen, Berea, Denny Spragens, Marion Fa con, Lebanon. SUPREME COURT OF IDAHO judgment of the press. There is no took

RULES 0N COUNTY PRINTING need to expound .upon the poten- Herk
tlally destructive inﬂuence of such Mini
- . ' BOISE, IDAHO.—The Idaho Su— censorship. As the court remarked, vice
, The best way to deal With propa— preme court has held that a pub— tthe lawovoaifforéig gm arlnéalle iemegy cont
, MEMBER :FW‘A gander says the pI:OL35501.AIS. to sub- lishing company which turns out 1.0 0th éfbllev y a. 1 e ous pu persj
ﬁlm?! Ject it to searching critiCism and daily and weekly editions may not 1C3 1011-. ‘ . ' socn
V analysis. ASk yourself. “Who holds combine the circulation of the two Asserting his belief that freedom In
the Opinion, who utters it, and to qualify for county printing when 0f the press was more important nam
K TUCKY PRES why?" If the opinion stands up un— another publication in the same than the freedom 0f. speech, for, fOHO
der this examination, you may de— count has a reader dail circu— though ”l‘adIO transmission has 811- Eagl
ASSOCIATION ‘pend upon it as being pretty solid, lationy g y larggcl the audilelnceé," tlllie wgtten- ton,
’ for the critical roc-ess alwa s stri s ' , W01‘ 15 ”3009551 e 0 a ” an re- E. 1
“6"”2” ”MM” ”59 lpropaganda of [prejudice agd 9mg- . Th? coult 13a?“ to that conclus— mains for mature consideration and 0010
——-—-—————— ition. 1 1°“ 1“ an Oplnton “based on an ep- thought, Justice Bleakley added: 111.;
GOOD LUCK, GUS! Which is sometimes none of us Def“ from the Judgment 0f the dts— “A government is safe when a ard
—— ought to forget between now and ”.1“ court at Moscow Whmh $115? free press will give to its peOplea J. r
Kentucky’s loss is Virginia‘s gain, November—Lifted Editorial. missed an appeal from. an‘ or 81 clear exposition of its problems and Va.;
but, neverthelss we regret to see| Probably the newspapers are Of the county commissmneis W20 fair criticism 0f its ofﬁcials. COuriS‘ \vani
Gus Robbins leave his native state. much to blame for this ﬂood of awarded Latah county printing 0 should nOt be immune from fail Miss
He, as an active member and ex— propaganda. Too, many editors, in the weekly Star—Mirror 0f MC‘S’ criticism. The inﬂuence of the court ican,
ecutive of the West Kentucky Press their zeal for party favors, and un— , COW' * ,, * FEStS on the CODﬁdeI‘CB 0f the 1330- see,
association and the Kentucky Press I der a sadly mistaken political par— YOUR JOB TOO 131?- That conﬁdence can be main-s F1et<
association has done much to pro- I tisanship, print columns of thinly ’ talllEd only by an honest d150105ur‘3 Reac
mote the interests of the newspan- ' disquised propaganda which, they . . .—_ . ht Of Its proceedings.” . . Cobl
ers and to further the work of ‘know, is far removed from factual Punt Wthh 15 “Ct read mlg In those words the Jurist dlS’ mer,
both organizations. His‘ own paper, | news. Probably, for the beneﬁt of almost as well not be printed. PrOb- ClOSEd his broad COmprehension and Eme:
the Hickman Gazette, has been a their reading public, the newspaper ably not-more than five per cent common sense View Of an issue th?‘ burg
leader in the community lleld; win— editors should be compelled to ap- Of a“. printed mttter 15 “9‘” read- is of far more importance to pulvllc Th
ning many prizes in various state ply the searching criticism and Our Jab ls to print so legibly and as We“ as press than most men mem
contests, and, climaxed, as being analysis Of this news before mark— arrange so attractively is F0 get “331123 ATTORNEY- set 3
selected as one of the leading com— ing it “must” for the composing under the “me Of what ,15 lead.— —— ion;
munity weeklies in the United room. Douglas C. McMurtie, director of THEY MUST BE TOLD ing;
States in 1933. It is with a feling * * * tl’POgraphya ,Ludlow Typograph ____ _ We?
of deep regret that we bid him WAY TO FORESTALL CRIM