Show GOING TO ELECT A MANAGING I EDITOR DITOn E. E G. G Lewis LOWIS wis of ot Si st Louis has hai bought the Star Slat and Chronicle and on January next he Is going to let the rs t to that paper elect th their lr managing editor Ho is 16 going going- to give every subscriber sub scriber a n. vote ote on general policy policy policy-at at l least s such such questions as can cart be decided definitely in advance ud and ho Is Js going gems to havo have the l ideal paper of r tho ho people On Ort paper Mr Ir Lewis h has s aetna personal motive in jn his Ime method Some months ago ho he was as accused of u using tho United States malls malts fraudulently and had to defend a a. avery very cry costly suit by 1 tho the government As S Asto Asto Sto to tho ho tho merits of ot that suit ull wo we aro are not well enough to have havo an opinion But the thc animus Ho was unkindly reported in the other papers The Star and Chronicle seems to have hae been a 3 losing investment In for some soma years can and the tho com coin of the tho two to papers mentioned In the name Is of or tho the didn't flourish ono proofs that they sop sop- epI 1 I ar But Rut we wo ilont have an any even the smallest faith In itt tho the scheme suggested by y Mr I Lewis In truth every paper in is managed by its ita sub subscribers Every paper in which business principles prevail pre has y re regard tc gard gald for the tha sentiments and opinions and desires of or tho the people who pa pay for or it Tho The shrewdest editor In the tho countr country Is IG that man who makes t hl his readers bellevo the they aro are consulted 11 In the tho conduct of or their paper The faculty of oC so 50 convincing con them is In In valuable It is ono one of the secrets of oC the tho success that his readers write to him They Lend loiters letters to his hin papers He prints some mc of ot vine the letters let Jet and nd has his men write editorials suggested b bv b. them It wins the conO confidence enco and anti goo good will 0 of the readers and helps tho the business s. s But But th there re must be constantly controlling controlling- force forca In th paper Like any other business its direction must l le he e confined l to a J. J small number preferably one Wo We dont don't believe c the tho plan ilan of a general command command com cornS mand marid mand mandor of or tho the by its subscribers Is good Tho Tha best pl plan n Is that successfully followed follo b by hi present present- day Oay publishers When the tue paper can no not got get cl read read- ers and ad hold them tho the management nt and the artl- artl I torl tonal l authority is changed A pow now man Is given tJ i mis 1111 chance When Then Stanley Stanle Waterloo was at It the tho head of or the theold theold theold old Chronicle It nourished When hen tho the publisher didn't earn care for his subscribers it failed to pay Long ago the old Chicago Herald was published pub in the Interest of or tho time and people and It flourished flour nour magnificently When a mistaken control forgot for fur got the people it lost standing Horace Homco going a little tittle farther back mado mudo men believe ho he was writing t to them and expressing their renti- renti monts It should be the thc effort of every publisher When hon they succeed In that tho they mako make their paper successful ful When the they fall au to hold hohl tho the confidence and Interest of ot time the people the they lose loso mone money Mr Ir Lewis has a fortune Ho ma may be he able to h publish tho the Star and Chronicle at Rt a 3 loss Doing so will provo nothing except that a man can have havo any sort gorl of paper ho he has the money to buy with No o one ono will object to his is scheme for it will willbe willbo be bo interesting interesting- And no one will bo ho hurt by It And after while whilo ho will como come back to hiring men who t know how to run the paper and making them responsible for re results With now newspapers papers aa us with everything o cleo else In business bus bus- iness Incas that is the thc b best st wa A |