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Show PRESIDENT COOLTDGE PRAISES NEWSPAPERS OP COUNTRY Washington, D. C, Jan. 24. President Pres-ident Coolidge's tribute to the American Amer-ican newspaper which he delivered at the dinner of the American Society of Newspaper Editors was a sincere recognition re-cognition of the services which newspapers news-papers are giving to the nation as a whole. American newspapers, the President said, are particularly representative re-presentative of the practical idealism of our people. They are the best newspapers in the world. They print more real news and more reliable and characteristic news than any other newspaper. Then with a fine appreciation appre-ciation of the struggles for excellence and fairness which daily and weekly goes on in the editorial offices of all the papers great and small throughout through-out the union, he said: "I beleive their editorial opinions are less colored color-ed in influence by mere partisanship nf selfish interest, than are those of any other country. Moreover, I believe be-lieve that our American press is more independent, more reliable and less partisan today than at any other time in its history." This is a tribute so well deserved that there is not a newspaper in the country no matter how humble its circumstances cir-cumstances but what is justified in carrying these words of the President upon their editorial page, not boast- ingly, but as an nonest aiiiii.u. from him of the sacrifice that they are always making for the good of the community and the nation at large. |