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Show ; ; Change in Management of Goodwin's Weekly I As Announced in The Salt Lake Herald i L OODWIN'S WEEKLY, established if vJ by Judge C. C. Goodwin, has been mt taken over by E. R. Woolley and asso- ; ro ciates and Frank P. Gallagher, former EL; editor of the Tribune, will assume the Kp editorship of the publication. m. "In taking over the editorship of lb Goodwin's Weekly, I realize that to mt make it worthy of the fame gained for M& it by the late Judge Goodwin, it is yjgki necessary, first of all, to be of genu- ! HF service to the public," said Galla- J '. gher, in defining his policy. "A jour- ( na w'cn can attain that end justi- H& fies its existence. But, like the author lg or the actor, the editor cannot hope to fir deliver his message unless he can be Hp interesting. p Success Possible. !' K "A weekly can achieve enduring suc- M ce8s and, in its own way, can be as fig,, potent a directive influence as a great life daily. This is evidenced by the sue- I . cess which able editors have won for w Gallagher is Named Editor Of S.L. Weekly 'iB9fllBi FRANK P. GALLAGHER weekly journals in most of our leading lead-ing cities. "There are various ways of trying to make a weekly, as well as a daily paper, pa-per, appealing. Some editors imagine that this object is best accomplished by attacks on persons and institutions, even when the editors have no higher high-er aim than to attract attention to themselves and their publications. Such a paper Is fit only for a barbarous barbar-ous community and the community which accords success to such a paper signs its own condemnation. "iiiiiiimmiiiiiimimiiimiimiiiiiiiiiimm "A weekly journal should attempt the noble task of being a friend to its community. Sometimes it is necessary neces-sary that a friend should speak sharply sharp-ly and evtn pound the table for emphasis, em-phasis, but it seldom is necessary to be bitter or hysterical. Fearless Policy. "This is not to say that entrenched wrongs should be ignored. On the contrary, con-trary, a free and fearless journal will serve the community best by striking ruthless blows when the public welfare wel-fare demands it. But just as an athlete ath-lete in a pugilistic encounter weakens himself by striking at random, so a journal destroys its usefulness by being be-ing aimlessly aggressive. An actor who insists on introducing a broadsword broad-sword battle into every play from a Shakespearean tragedy to a society drama is no more tiresome than the editor who imagines that he must forever for-ever wield the pen of invective. "I have merely indicated in a negative nega-tive way what the policy of the paper will be. Its chief purpose will be to serve the community and after that to instruct and entertain as well as the wit of the editor "may be equal to the task." Salt'Lake Herald, Sunday, January Jan-uary 5, 1919. |
