Show WHAT WE THINK Frank Dixon Every newspaper editor from time to time is approached by someone with the request that certain certain certain tain police and district court news be left out of the paper Sometimes it is the erring individual himself who overtaken in his error by the law Jaw rushes to the newspaper of of- office office fice and endeavors to have the record of his misdeeds suppressed Sometimes he gives us the reason the claim that he doesn't want his mother to find out about his mis mis- misdeed misdeed misdeed deed because of the grief Brie and anguish it will cause her Some Some- Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes times it it-is it is his neighbor sometimes it is his wife sometimes it is his family Some invariably editor invariably comply with wilh all such rey ts and some do not A AAll All true editors who comply c with such requests do so with a feeling of self condemnation that no one but an editor would under under- stand Every editor worth his salt saIL feels that it is the function unction of a newspaper to give the news with with- without wIthout without out fear ear or favor He feels eels that as as- as- as long as he does he is discharging his duty and his obligation as an editor to the readers of his paper and to his community |