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Show i THE CITIZEN 12 than the ninety-danewspaper can 'do I I in its short life. It is necessary for Christian leaders to keep these ideas in mind when they '.iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiMuuiuiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiuiniiiiui? condemn newspapers. And we admit-tha- t ious organizations that extended blessSpry Appointment newspapers are rather a bad lot ings and best wishes and very little when it comes to safeguarding the Delights Utah ; money. The American Daily Standof the public and battling The Citizen, voicing the sentiment ard, as it was called, was always rights and injustice; but cerof the people of Utah, congratulates clean, truthful and unbiased, says against wrong paper cannot make the administration of President Hard-c- . the publisher in his last lament; and tainly a. ninety-daing on the selection of William Spry he adds with a certain fierceness of much head against the evils that beas commissioner of the general land scorn, The Christian leaders of the set our communities and the nation itself. The ninety-daoffice. paper, so to town have failed us utterly. We predict for Governor Spry as The publisher does not delude him- speak, kneels down and says its praycommissioner of the general land of self overmuch. We can detect signs ers devotedly throughout its existence, fice, the success that marked his brilof adequate understanding when he but its existence is brief. liant administration as chief executive says that the paper tried to meet the Usually, it is not against the great or even the great aims that of Utah. His administration was a wishes of those people who professed wrongs model of economy and efficiency and to be dissatisfied with newspapers as the Christian Daily inveighs. It minimizes crime and scandal news, and he himself attracted nationwide in- - they are. terest because of Qualities of even a In that sentence he probes deeply when the hour of death comes the publisher says it always was truthful, higher degree. He met every crisis the psychology, of the newspaper pubwith calm courage and unwavering lic, among whom the Christian leaders but was it? It is truthful to minimize crime or scandal? Of course, it would faith. Threats could not intimidate are numbered. be necessary to define our terms prehim nor violence deflect him from the Everyone has dreamed of running a course dictated by duty. No other newspaper according to his special cisely if we were to get anywhere in Utah Governor was called upon- to plan. The financier would so conduct the discussion of truth in newspaper meet such sinister forces as those it that the front page would be crowdpublishing, and yet in newspapers, as in lietrature, there is a norm of truth. which strove to drive Governor Spry ed with statistics; the baseball fan When Christian leaders think they from his position in the celebrated would have only box scores on the Hillstrom pase. front page; the educator would devote are conductng a newspaper as Christ We dwell upon these familiar facts most space to lectures on philosophic would conduct it, they are conducting it as He probably would conduct a because republics are wont to be unand scientific subjects; the. literary, gechurch. grateful. The people are accustomed nius would fill the pages with fiction, The scriptures do not always minito forget the executives who have tidballads, sonnets, triolets and book reed them over great crises or wTho have view's; the doctor. would tell 'us all mize . crime or even scandal. What were the writers of Scripture faced odds that the commonwealth about preventive' medicine and might And what but sublime reporters? might live and be strong because re- even discuss sex hygiene and social rules did they follow? They have spected. It is no slight, achievement diseases as frankly as these subjects to preserve the pillars of the social are discussed in medical journals', and much to say about, the greatest crime and political organization when Vio- the miniter of the gospel and church in all history the illegal execution of in detail. lence and Anarchy are in arms. leaders would try to conduct a paper Jesus Christ. They report it Governor Spry is as well informed as Christ would conduct it if He were They tell many things about the last on the land and reclamation questions present in the flesh among us. In day before the execution. They do not as any man in the country. It was point of fact, a worthy clergyman, try to minimize the betrayal of Christ nor do they minimize the quite to be expected that Senator Fall some twenty or more years ago, start- by Judas, betrayers suicide. would think of him as soon as the ed a newspaper in Kansas and anThe reporters of the Scriptures narnounced that he would try to conduct question of appointing the land comrate the story of Mary Magdalene and missioner came up.- Senator Fall and it as Christ would conduct it. the governor have been associated in We fancy that Kansas was a more the scandal it caused. The new testament writers even tell the work of reclamation for years, and, favorable field for such an experiment being western men, they will under- than Chicago, but our recollection is us that Christ was so maligned that stand the western problems which that the paper did not. outlive a twelve He was called a wine bibber. have seemed so baffling to most of the month. Every day a newspaper relates the eastern men called on to deal with What is known as the reading pub- story of a wayward woman or of a them. lic is made up of all classes. Every prodigal son. Christ Himself told Never has the work of the Interior such stories. True, He always told newspaper is better than the vrorst them with a good purpose, and therein Department under a new administrawho read it and worse than the best tion begun more auspiciously. He differed from many of our newswho read it. Because a newspaper papers. satisfies no one wholly everyone conThe old and the new testaments are Why The Christain demns It at times and yearns for a filled with stories of wrongdoing and Newspaper of his own. there is not a little scandal. has paper Chicagos "Christian Daily A newspaper that lasts for ten years The sacred writings are true to life. passed away. For not quite ninety days it sifted and filtered the news to has a chance to do more good than They have a fascination beyond that an uninterested and unresponsive pub- has a journal that survives but ninety ot artful poetry, fiction and drama. lic and then ceased publication. days. In the ten years it is very apt The human and the divine element The pjiper was sponsored by relig to do more good, with all its faults, are so mingled that they take posses y OBSERVATION PLANE Of . y y , - i - - Fails -- 0 sion of all our faculties. The are for all classes, not merely Christian leaders. They saints and .sinners, for philogjj! scientists, educators, carpenterjj chanics, actors, poets, artists, . i 'K j and lawyers and merchant thieves. They do not give thejM a treatise on the subject matter profession. They tell us only essential about the civil laws, have little care for exact science they do not tell us anything tech: about Christs work as a carpenfet'S Manifestly, the Christian oajhr:'.: fc Chicago was not conducted as would have conducted it. The ft 1 tian leaders of Chicago failed it terly because it utterly failed u tbi Pi newspaper. Unconsciously they acted to it as the general public in B acted. No doubt they enjoyed th- bibles and wondered why they crv not enjoy their newspaper. Thei son lay in the fact that the paper r' so unbiblical. This is not to say the daily ne papers are without stain. On the trary they do not measure up to tian standards. They make light of justice and ignore chronic wroi. They bow to big interests of all kic and maintain silence when they shoj be' shouting from the housetops, in one respect, at least, they are cal they are filled with human inki Cfc WINTER FLOWERS . To and fro through the sunny and over I tend my flowers; I; Geraniums, flaming with scarlet fire, I Hyacinths sweet as a dreamed desinj And jonquils raising their cups of g( The winter sunbeams to catch a J hold. honw'-Ove- Down in the r ; street the people beneath my blossoming windoj I glass, And some of them smile, and sob they sigh; but all of theiuglaa as they hurry by, Wistful glance at the flower swerj pane where the spring-titblossoms have bloomed again. f But ah, how little the people kno; who raise their eyes fnm thj street below, They are little lost bits of Youth an Spring, I keep in my vindotf blossoming; Memories golden, and heart dreamy gay, flowered fresh ov.l of Yesterday. , To and fro through the sunny hour Over and over I tend my flow, rs; Geraniums, flaming with scarlet fifc Hyacinths sweet as a dreamed desitt 8 And jonquils raising their cups The winter sunbeams to catch hold. By Martha Haskell Clu |