Show Newspapers make a big difference in The lives of a free people everywhere By Arthur II Motley Parade Publications Newspapers arc no longer first as far as is Radio and television distribute the kind of news that could be defined as Newspapers s-till do best what they have always and no other medium has been to equal nor ever Newspapers distribute to the millions of readers every day explanatory not exclamatory news There's no substitute for on the newspapers still have an absolute lock-nut In the great cities of New York and Detroit and elsewhere where long sustained newspaper strikes have taken we have seen television stations-do their to get the news to the people of that community and and admit pub-icly that they no matter how hard they People want explanatory They get a a headline on or then they want to know all about what happened happened all the and they want the trained thinking of trained newspaper people to give them the explanatory news behind the People Read plus news in equal Newspapers are more powerful today than they ever were in the history of newspapers in this More people read More people want Remember that great expose of the Teamster's Union presided over by Senator It went on for weeks How many people in the United States know where this all It started in Oregon It started in a newspaper It started when a couple of reporter's got wind of the local vice ring backed by team ster money They began to dig and dig and dig and the Department of Justice sent a man up Robert to get the information that these newspaper reporters dug This- was where it and it fanned all over the Because this Is happens when newspaper reporters get on the trail and have enough guts to stick with it and work for publishers that have guts enough as the publisher to face up to million in lawsuits on which not one nickel was ever paid In the little town of there was a paper called See page 10 Newspapers Make Difference tinned from page the INDEPENDENT AND A local big shot got licked in a school board election Blamed his loss on the newspaper and start cd the Pecos NEWS right across the street to run the INDEPENDENT AND i out of What resulted was the Billic Sol Estes That is where all started Sol Estes is unimportant as an but wha he but what he-did meant something to every woman and child in It all started in a little town and fanned out from there because the New York HERALD TRIBUNE happened to send an ace reporter by the name of Earl Mazo to cover the Texas gubernatorial primary campaign He got wind of the mess because the TIMES among had talked about He followed Through He got so intrigued that he I followed through and a great j metropolitan began to publish these You know what and in a little bit of a One newspaper Vance dug and dug and dug in a-bout nepotism in Congress The pressure on Congress from back home was powerful j enough so for the first time in twelve they published the payrolls of the mem-bers of This was of importance to every woman and child living under this great democratic system of One a newspaper picked up the New HERALD TRIBUNE one day I and on the front page was a picture of Adam Clayton Powell He was traveling around Europe on government going to night health had a couple of gals with He was studying equal opportunities for women abroad Within a few days other New York newspapers had stories about it and in the li Congress of the United congressmen were demanding that the be cut out of congressional Thalidomide Story A single story bv Morton Menson of the Washington POST on Kelsey of food and drug administration about the drug which was known to deform babies- if taken during brought immediate tion and forced amendments to the food and drug It all oame from one article by one This Is what newspapers j That's why Thomas Jefferson said he would rather newspapers than government I if he had to make a I A couple of years Washington newspapers began a dig- I ging into the Savings and Loan j Association in Maryland they didn't have adequate legislation to protect The scandals they have ered are Millions of j dollars were lost and the land legislature passed leg- j j to prevent this ever happening again In the DISPATCH did a marvelous It took a great sleepy city on the banks of the Mississippi and shook it to its on what was happening in the urban part of St A bond issue was necessary to reconstruct the central city of St. Who did A It sent a whole election board to jail by uncovering fraud at the polls It got smoke-control in this industrial It got reforms in mining safety laws and regulations by hammering on what caused that great mine Marshall Field knew nothing about the newspaper but was an and believed that Chicago needed a fearless forthright newspaper He spent a of money before he saw his dream come That success stemmed from the day a drunken at gun took three teenagers out of a saloon and shot two of them dead and thought he had killed the So powerful was this cop at the coroner's hearing it was dismissed as self But the Chicago SUN didn't dismiss They hammered and hammered until policeman was behind under life Narcotics The Los Angeles Times exposed the flow of narcotics from Exposed it well enough to prove our narcotics division could get together with the Mexican government and close down the border and make it less easy for people to smuggle in these The Chicago Tribune exposed graft in a sanitary several hundred employees-were and the operation Graft Uncovered The Detroit Free Press uncovered graft and corruption in the state capital which resulted in the conviction of sixteen of the members of the state In the Amarillo Globe Times started out on a crime investigation The officials refused to do anything about it They hired goons to threaten the editors unless they stopped they kept at it and won A judge was later disbarred and a reform slate was elected to run the town of j It took the Nashville Tennes- j six of constant I ging to expose the corruption I between management and the I United Mine resulting I n antitrust convictions for L those both labor and 1 jj In New Hampshire here's I what a little the Har- f ner The State Legislature had rushed through a bill giving mem- I bers in mileage I the day they The I Daily Monitor not only I but took it to court rhe law was ruled and The New Hampshire legislature will twice before they try that |