| Show USES BLUE PENCIL Slaughters Press in Topeka CapitalI Capital I EFFORT TO CONDUCT CONDUCTA A CHRISTIAN 1 PAPER Has Use For Dramatic Critics Sends Sporting Editor Out to Report a Bowling Contest at the Y YM IL M C CA A AStock Stock Quotations Dont Go Neither Do Patent Medicine or Corset Cors t Advertisements With Cuts What He Considers News Pit Fit to Head His Leading Loading Story I Topeka Kan March 12 The main purpose of the paper will be to In Influence Influence fluence Its Us readers to seek first the kingdom of God The Rev Re Charles Charlas M L Sheldon who to today t tda day da assumed umed editorial and business control of ot the Daily Capital which He Ie will retain one week will make this announcement a n in his editorial leader outlining his policy tomorrow morn mora mornIng moron Ing The Capital during this time will willbe willbe willbe be a newspaper the word news newa being bing defined ed by Mr Ir Sheldon n as any anything ari thing in the way of current current events venta that the public ought to know for Cor its Us ts moral and spiritual development The Th paper wIlt will be absolutely non and partisan political new 1 I be b given scant notice S SAll All editorial and in itt local mat matter ter will be signed by tern There will be bt no Sunday pa It jt instead a 1 Saturday evening pat pai suitable for Sunday reading May Ma God bless bl ss th the Ore oe L E of f this paper to the glory of ot hio hlo kingdom on earth says the Rev Mr Ir Sheldon in concluding ing his leader The first item on the first page to tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow morrow win will be a prayer written by b Bishop John A Vincent of the Meth Methodist odist church It is fa as aG fob fol follows lows The Leading Loading Story A morning prayer and resolution I will try tr this day to live a simple sin sincere sincere sincere cere serene life repelling every thought of discontent content di and anxiety cultivating magnanimity self control c and the habit of ot silence practicing practicing economy cheerfulness and help And as I cannot in my m own strength do the this or even een with a hope of success attempt it I look to thee oh Lord my Father F ther In Jesus Christ my Savior and ana ask aak for the gift of the holy spirit Editor Sheldon went to the office at this morning and will be beon beon beon on duty dut until the paper gate gote go i to press at 3 tomorrow morning At 10 he had a conference with the correspondents corr of ot eastern papers and promised to meet them each evening at 30 and give out certain in information Information information formation concerning his work At 11 be he met the local force of the paper and gave out the assignments for tor forthe forthe the day S The Local M ws A page will be devoted to local news new and the leading leadin features for tomorrow will be reports of a temperance re revival revival vival and an meeting Mr Sheldon Instructed the police re reporter reporter porter that in case of a murder or other crime to write a bare statement of ot the facts If he had the space to spare instead of following it up with the usual details he would go into a discussion of th the Ure causes leading up to the crime During the conference the sporting editor remarked that there would be a bowling contest at the Y 1 M I C A rooms tonight I think said Mr Sheldon n that that is good clean sport You Tou may nitty print it LL t The dramatic editor asked for in instructions instructions about theatres We shall not want anything of that kind Mr lIr Sheldon eald said One page has hag been reserved for tele telegraph telegraph graph news which ordinarily occupies about three times tim that space The As Associated A Associated Press Pres report is necessarily being blue pencilled with a ven yen vengeance vengeance No Ho Stock Reports The market reports will be cut from four columns to one All quotations In stocks and bon bonds B grain options and ether matter involving transactions in futures have been consigned to the waste basket and only the actual cash prices of grain produce etc will be A notable feature of ot the paper will willbe willbe willbe be the method of or handling advertise advertisements advertisements ments They will be banished from the news and editorial pages and will be bunched in places reserved for them The censorship here Is even more snore vig vigorous orous than in the news columns and a large quantity of this class of ot matter has already alread been cut out including all ll relation to patent medicines The fa ta familiar corset advertisements of the I magazines accompanied by cuts have i sought in vain for space No retail ads from Kansas Kar as City or other I town tradesmen will be accepted ac Mr r Sheldon holding that this would be bean an I injustice to home merchants The 20 suit of ot clothes for tor 1475 style of ad advertisement advertisement advertisement Ii is also barred Change in Style I The Capital will appear with a l change in style and makeup Practically Practically Practically the only feature that will be familiar to its regular readers will be bethe bethe bethe the title headline The rhe first page for instance ordinarily devoted exclusively to telegraphic news new will wilI not have a line of the current news new of the day Instead the page will be given gisen up to discussions of what Mr Jr Sheldon considers con lder the moat moot Important questions now before the world There will wUl be four leading ar articles tides on this page the first fir t being de devoted devoted devoted voted to the famine in India Militarism Is discussed to the ex extent extent extent tent of ot about twelve hundred words the leading article under this head being extracts from a pamphlet on militarism by a Baltimore physician Dr Richard H Thomas who treats the war eagle as asa asa asa a disease epidemic in all latitudes He discusses dl cusses its causes dangers and cure and urges the religion of Christ Christas as the only remedy Kansas Prohibitory Law The third first page pa e story is a col cal column column and a half symposium on the Kan Knit Kansas attn sas prohibitory law lav and is made up of brief statements from leading politicians clans jans and educators of the state all maintaining that the law has ha proved a great success The fourth and last Important article is in the form of a letter to Editor Sheldon from the Y M JC C A of Colo Cob Colorado Colorado rado appealing to the Christian people peoples of the country to home hogie for consumptives at Denver The editorial matter will be switched from rein the fourth to the second page Following the title and the usual busi busl business ness fleas announcement will appear a list of employees of the paper from tram editor down to galley boy which will be kept standing throughout the week The leading editorial will be bean an out outline outline outline line of the papers policy during the week weekS S In the first batch of copy submitted to Mr Sheldon tonight by the telegraph editor was was the accounts of the army estimates submitted to the British par parliament parliament by b the government In a short time it came back with an editorial comment that such news was a terrible comment upon our civilization Mr Ir Sheldons policy is to follow important news stories with editorial matter Besides this comment on the news from London there will be a cartoon depicting the horrors of war At 11 p m it seems that the war news will be the feature of the tele telegraph telegraph telegraph graph page the rumors of early earl peace being considered by b Mr Sheldon as the best possible news that can be obtained A hundred word story stor on the Re Religious Outlook in Kansas City of offered offered offered by a Kansas City CIt correspondent was promptly accepted by telegraph S |
