The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 15, 1918, Page 12

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO READERS IT HAS come to the attention of the Nonpartisan Leader that tioned. Postmasters who are opposed politically to the farmers and- in some localities subscribers fail to get their paper on time, - who attempt to hold up or fail to deliver the Leader are violating and often fail to get it at all. The Nonpartisan Leader is the law, and the postoffice department has assured us that such || anxious to receive notice from readers of every instance of this kind. postmasters will be promptly attended to whenever the evidence is Iy If youhdo not feceivedyour paper githig'l? g rseasrgna})lev %ifirfia, ffik‘%’fi forthcoming. _ /i once the circulation department, Box 575, St. Paul. ' ou to write in if your paper is a few . TRACES DOWN ,EVERY SINGLE COMPLAINT RECE,IVED‘ daysrll‘:tGe?fii(ll:;sd;g: 2(1)'2 :\?1{: };nd have the evid}:ence,p tlll)at it is be- The Nonpartisan Leader has full rights to the United States ;g intentionally held up by the postmaster. But, if the paper is mails as second class mail matter, WITH THE SAME PRIVILEGES ypreasonably late, or you fail to get an issue, you should immediate- ENJOYED BY ALL PUBLICATIONS. Despite this fact, it has 1y ;otify the circulation department of the Leader. Give all the been discovered that in some instances postmasters who are polit- facts you can. Write your name and address plainly; say what ical enemies of the farmers and who disagree with what the Non- t ¥y 1 t th = diat s what Bt S Ehow r’n any issues partisan Leader says, either hold up, without cause, or actually fail e JORusis %?e d e fpape il d facts that tend to deliver the Leader. When we receive such reports from sub- You have missed; and, if you have a{)ny en ‘in:? o t}? 1 S er;t scribers, we immediately investigate. If we find that there is evi- to show thf}t the postmaster has. een violating the law, repo dence that a postmaster is discriminating against the Leader, by them to usin full. On the authority of the postoffice department, failing to deliver it on time or by actually failing to deliver it, we We can promise that any concrete evidence of this kind will be in- ’ report the matter, with all facts, to the postoffice department. WE vestigated by the postoffice officials and prompt action taken. ARE GIVEN TO UNDERSTAND BY POSTOFFICE OFFICIALS HE NONPARTISAN LEADER INTENDS TO INSIST ON ~ THAT EVERY COMPLAINT OF THIS KIND IS CAREFULLY ITS RIGHTS and it is confident that it is getting and will INVESTIGATED, AND THAT WHENEVER IT IS PROVED continue to get a square deal from the postoffice department g%‘é% fiEPI%Sg}I}J{n?(S)]\I‘I%% HAS BEEN GUILTY OF THIS CON- 454 from the great majority of the local postmasters. Complaints ‘ we have been receiving apply to only a few postmasters, but it N THE whole, the Leader has received prompt and efficient makes no difference to the Leader whether one or a thousand post- O service at the hands of the postoffice department. It is only masters are acting in a lawless manner in handling the Nonparti- in isolated places where there has been any complaint about san Leader. WE WILL SEE THAT OUR RIGHTS ARE ENFORC- postmasters, and in every instance of this kind the postoffice offi- ED AND THAT ANY UNFAIR PRACTICES BY LOCAL POST- cials have been prompt in investigating the matter. The Leader MASTERS ARE INVESTIGATED AND PUNISHED. has the right to the mails, which right has never been even ques- , THE NONPARTISAN LEADER. HOMES MAKE PATRIOTS The prosperity and glory of our country depend uwpon the number of our people who are the owners of homes. There can be no such thing in the highest sense as a home unless you own it. There must be an incentive to plant trees, to plant and improve. Home ownership gives a certain independence that is obtained in no other way. | 'Fhe Day’s News—What Does It Mean? i Newspapers’ Barren Accounts of Current Events Signify Nothing Without i i Interpretation—Why Editors Should Be Both Honest and Intelligent HREE vital functions are exer- mission that I call interpretation of the news, along ~ nobody, numerically speaking, reads thé review or cised by the press: publication with that broader and deliberate, reflective treat- the weekly; practically everybody reads the news- of current happenings, selec- ment embodied in the editorial and the “special” paper. - tion of the news the public is article that is not strictly of a news nature. They to get, and interpretation of are alike in that they are personal contributions. . s ndeavor. to build the isclated and. frags: the news. L The newspaper has too. long left the business of mentary chain of news into something like a his- _The hsmudge of the editorial copgtryctive interpretation to the reviews and toricalnr’novement, to link events :cgorging to their b}l]as that w;;rms its wiy mtc:’ weekly journals, engrossed in recording skeleton- significance for a rapidly developing collective so- 5 the news columns—working at j,.4 versions of what is happening this week while: ciety, to point out deeper -meaning in the jumble of dictates of trade, against social progress—is the 4}. oviews are commenting on what happened last political conflict. The man who, after writing central fact about the present-day newspaper. Giv- . TEE : o RERE : AR % Vit the méws editor s Tree hand to.print’the news: week. If this most vital function of the press is- editorials for several years, asked an intimate just {8 i A A to take its properly broad place in stimulating what he thought the-purpose of editorials, besides [ w";‘lfi tdzl “.“quhI;o:fard ;%pplym%hthe plub_hc w'fl; thought -in the democracy, the review must reach the filling of the ediil::)rli'gl page, is hardly repre- i® :’}’: 4}“ & 5 e ofr t}? 10T SIS e Tea L assle D beyond its present megligibly small circle of read- ~ sentative. There are hundreds of editorial~writers S qreedon.io S ITens: 5z 2 ers, or the daily newspaper must assume the task ~ who see deeper and make bold to proclaim the fact, ; Examine all the papers in one city containing . of interpretation. The review now concerns itself so far as they are allowed. They are struggling, . . stories of an event worthy of considerable atten- exclusively with that group vaguely but accurately despite the enormous opposition of publisher and i - tion. Each has its own story, differing from the designated the intellectuals, while the newspaper, reader, to find something permanent, something others in all but the framework of fact, and oc- in an elementary key, deigns to do very little in- solid and real in the flurry of ephemeral news, cagionally even there. It isn’t that some of the terpreting for its preponderant public. Practically” and to make of their profession a means of a more reporters deliberately injected some- ; genuine sort of service. thing not warranted, though they do that, but that the men who wrote the L : Many are the newspaper men who understand the dishonesty nitely in this direction, news will con- Jlini OME, NA0 IenCYe V. YAmRoh: WaAvS of their profession and hope to see public opinion rise up and tinue to be, to the unreflecting, a pour. i of telling it, the result in turn of a d that th t lit s s it Eatnted of lurid, garish, evanescent stuff to i i1 various ways.of observing it. If a eman a 16 metropoltan press give. 1 ‘.un alntec. news, be glanced at at the breakfast_table i critic undertakes to say what the real | . The accompanying %rtlde is from a book written by two re- and forgotten. The newspaper itself | Y- facts are, he is hardly doing more porters of 10 years’ experience, in which time t.hey Work§d has done much to make it that, in I than adding another story to the col- on papers in Kansas City, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Detroit, response to what was no doubt a ? '! lection. My story of an event is my St. Paul and Boston. It is an appeal not only for ° somewhat general taste. It may re- i /i story, and no man in the world could " honest editing, but for intelligent editing also. deem itself by doing the work over possibly have got precisely- the same : = e . | story. It is this aspect of news trans- 'sist largely of interpretation. - PAGE TWELVE h e SRR & 't:;:w:‘,v:m"‘;:r:\'m‘fm1flmtflfi§mfiwfimif2¢mm1m!‘A it R e e R R T TR But the editorial writer does—all too seldom, to Unless the newspaper turns defi- again. The new journalism will con- L3