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Show THE CITIZEN 8 OBSERVATION PLANE iiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiniiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuMiuiiMiiimuuiiiwuiiuiiHniiHHiiiiWHiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiim Radical Hypocrisy About The Kept Press VNE of the favorite themes of rad-ica- l journals, one that permits of loud organ tones and orchestral flourkept press or ishes, is the The Red editors can owned press. write on this subject with fervor and a picturesqueness of epithet when all other subjects fail to stir the almost lifeless sparks of thought. so-call- ed kept press Is evidently the one that is owned and controlled by those who are for law and order and opposed to anarchy, revolutions and revolutionary strikes and who, upon dare to criticise the powerful occasion, i labor unions. The Perhaps a few suggestions on this subject will not be amiss. Emerson once wrote an essay on Compensation.' We forget what most of it wTas about, but there was a general idea running through it that even in this life justice strikes a pretty fair balance and that if the balance is against us in one way it leans toward us in another and, in the end, gives us compensation for our losses and pains. In one way or another every journal is a part of the kept press and none more essentially so than a radical journal. The balance is maintained by the fact that there are all kinds of people in the world and, therefore, all kinds of kept journals. Public opinion can take its choice. Every paper, whether it depends for its existence on subscriptions or or both, or upon the gold of some millionaire with a hobby, or the gold of parlor Bolshevists and cranks ad-vertisi- ng of various kinds and degrees, is owm-e- d and controlled. We have known of journals, capitalistically owned, that were afraid to criticise labor unions even in a friendly spirit for fear of losing subscriptions. In that sense these were kept journals,, kept by the labor unions. Every organization powerful enough exerts some influence, either for good or evil, and usually for both, over the press. It is true that public opinion is largely controlled by the press, and as much by the news as by the comment and special articles; but it is also true that the press is controlled by public opinion. We have been acquainted with several editors in our time whom we would not have trusted in a bank after dark, yet who were trustworthy in their editorial capacities. Why? Because, while they were controlling public opinion, they were controlled by it. They did not dare to utter their secret thoughts in the columns they edited, and it was well for the community, and, indeed, for- themselves, that they did not. Most of the great dailies of the country have what is known as a policy, and the editor conforms to it. In most instances it is a good thing for the paper, for the editor and for if the public. editors, Many left to themselves, would be running amuck and spreading ruin and devastation, some because of their immoral characters and others because of their hobbies and crankisms. Those who boast of their freedom the most' are the editors of the newfangled radical journals and it is al- GET FULL VALUE - FROM YOUR FUELS Coal that does not burn up," that produces only a feeble heat, does not give you full value. Besides a lack of efficiency it also entails a constant round of cleaning grates and fireboxes. Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coals, through twenty-fiv- e years of leadership, have maintained their high standing by their good and1 economical. A qualities. They are clean, smaller quantity of Castle Gate or Clear Creek than most other fuels, is required for domestic or industrial use. heat-produci- ng ASK YOUR DEALER UTAH FUEL CO. most superfluous to say that these journals utter only what their readers pay them to utter. They have less free-dothan almost any other kind of journal. They must confine themselves to the thought and jargon of a single class and, worse still, to the thought and jargon of a single class at a particular time. If, in a moment of mad freedom, a radical editor should say a kind word for the present order of soceity his occupation wrould be gone. If, under the powerful influence of a private still, he should remark that the capitalist was not always so black as painted, he probably would have as many of his readers as could get to his establish ment breaking up the presses and throwing the linotype machines out ol the window. At the very least he would lose his popularity. His jour nal would no longer be kept and he Miners and shippers exclusively of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coals. m would be compelled to place himself in the hands of his friend, the sheriff. We are officially informed by the attorney general of the United States that many of the radical journals which have been founded recently are supported by propaganda funds from mysterious sources. Wo believe It is acknowledged by the Reds themselves that some of the millions which the Bolshevik! stole in Russia were sent to this coutnry to spreud radical propaganda. We have been cousirciued to these few remarks by the tiresome THE POPULAR DELINEATOR OF WESTERN " ROLES WHO STARS ON THE SCREEN A T THE PARAMOUNT-EMPRES- S IN A NEW CHARACTER UNDER THE TITLE OF JOHN PETTICOATS Members of the Saturday Night club will be entertained Saturday evening, December 29, by Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Adams at the Ladies Literary club. self-righteousn- the radical who harp on the mouldered string of a kept press." Like most it is hypocrisy, for none know's better than the radical editor that his of self-righteousne- ss writings are bought and paid for. t- - A Thanksgiving dancing party was home on Douglas avenue. The first of the series was given last Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Jenson. Mrs. Kenneth Luman and her little daughter, who have spent the two weeks at the Hotel Utah, have pat given Wednesday evening at the University club by the social committee. taken an apartment at the Hotel Fifth East, where they will pass the winter. Mrs. Parley P. Jenson will entertain at the second of a series of afternoon affairs Saturday, November 29, at her Miss Josephine Stookey and Miss Afton Booth gave a dancing party Friday evening at the Country club. |