| Show nclelpJiin Dililc S Mr Childs always insistqd that his reporters and editors in their statements state-ments of fact should be sure they were correct even if they were beaten jn printing the news Of his staff he once said I dont say much to them for what does not appear in the paper but I hold them to a strict accountability accounta-bility for every line that they do print In that way Mr Childs built up such a reputation for reliability that the Ledger has been known for years as the Philadelphia Bible The Ledger was the first newspaper to print the news of Secretary Belknaps crookedness crooked-ness ExGovernor Curtin of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania went in a rage to the late ex Mayor Morton Michael complaining of the article as a gross libel on the secretary sec-retary It must be true said Mr Michel What do you mean Z roared Curtin I mean said the other that it is in the Ledger and therefore it is true In all the wide welter of sensational sen-sational newspapering which characterizes charac-terizes American journalism of the present pres-ent time Mr Childs Ledger stands like a rock for what is dignified candid and true Boston Transcript |
