The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 14, 1918, Page 17

THANK You! (From The Public, New York) : What is the matter with thé farm press of the Umted States? Bcores of weekly papers with. circulations equal those of the big city dailies flourish in every secti - of them convinces one that they talk—their tips on feeding, bree the farmer’s mental pabulum is he go for the articles and edito part of a great economic and sense of striving, shoulder to s der with his fellows, for the advancement not only of his own interests, but those of society? There is the sharpest contrast between the dreary shop-talk of the average farm journal and ‘the intelligent, alert discussions that fill our labor press. The answer must be that the farmer is' getting his political and. emotional satisfactions from the general mag- azines, and that the farm journals are neglecting a great field. For the Nonpartisan League of North Dakota has demonstrated that farmers have the same ‘‘cosmic hunch’’ as wage earners, and that they will read and support by the hundred thousand, a farm journal like The Nonpartisan Leader. It is a joy to come on this ably-edited, exuberant, intensely-alive sheet after scanning the pages of the average farm journal, the editors of which seem to fear that they will be in hot water if they print anything more controversial than a bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. “valuable ‘only for their shop- planting, and poultry. Surely onfined to these. Where does that make him feel himself - ical -force, that give him the How the K t Press Works Reporters On Ms.ny Big Newspapers Unable To Get True Reports of the League Into Their Papers Isaac Russell, author of this contribution to the Leader, has been a newspaper and magazine writer of prominence in New York for years. Readers of the big national magazines are familiar with his name. He khows the newspaper and magazine business from top to bottom. He knows how news is ruppressed; how political or economic movements of the people are misrepresented at command of publication executives subservient to the Big In- ‘terésts. He tells here some interesting instances of how' the re- porters and the press of New York handled A. C. Townley’s visit to New York. In his letter sending us this contribution, Mr, Rus- sell; now employed on one of the big independent New York papers, said: ‘‘The Leader has some of the fine old punch in it _ that used to mnake me enjoy reading and writing for some of the big, national magazines. - But I saw all the fire die out of those publications suddenly, half a dozen years ago. Good luck to you. You have a great job.”” < I welcomed him to “our side,” and I watched for him in the reportorial row at the Townley mass meeting at Cooper Union. In his report there was something I wanted to watch closely. Would “his paper “let him get bv?” The other reporters didn’t matter. They were dealing with something to which they had no intellectunal introductions —a strange, unknown world whose dangers to them they knew nothing about. : PAPER SUPPRESSES ACCOUNT OF MEETING By ISAAC RUSSELL When we people of New York heard A. C. Townley and then read the news- paper accounts of what he said, we -were fairly swept away by the sense ‘that the “east at last had delivered fair play in the press.” 3 That kind of a message went back to the people of the northwest. There was one fly in the ointment, however. At a meeting in the Broztell hotel with A. C. Townley a newspaper reporter attended from a newspaper on which I formerly worked. He was do- ing precisely the work I formerly had done. I knew this man well—six years ago, .- But this man’s report would be of the country. But a'reading . 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WW:sSowk “WHERE YOUR SHIPMENTS BRING MOST MONEY”’ First Class Cafeteria in Connectlon - — e e e e A A T N LS D S AL when he was one of the most unalert of the reactionaries and one of the best upholders of the gang—the old gang in plutocratic control of the world. Yet he asked Townley questions that ' now showed he was awake, and an alert sympathy for. the situation in which Mr. Townley’s crusade was fit-- ting itself. And I remembered that since I was summarily removed from that paper he had been “coming along” by meeting the same experiences I had met. He was getting the same kind of an education in this world’s affairs. And I knew it would never do. When I < was “fired” out of hand and off the bat from that paper, he had quietly re- : marked something about “radical ten- dencies” and worse, and I had put him . down for one so stupid that he would -always do the work of the gang. _Townley, nationally, and the Dillon So when he came ‘to the Townley * gathering, showing a new spirit, a wakefulness to the world of today that - 'was not in conformity wi__tgh I;is old self, : quickened with sympathy, aflame with conviction and truth, even disguised under a completely narrative style. It was with some sadness therefore that I read this reporter’s paper next morning—the paper -that advertises that it prints “all the news fit to NOT ONE WORD ABOUT THE MASS MEKTING < WAS IN THE | PAPER. This particular paper was its old self again—it was practising complete suppression where it could not practise ‘distortion- with success! Then from the editorial pages broke forth a great wrath, ‘It was a wrath directed ‘at Carl Beck,-locally, A. 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