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Show MIWSIW'KKS I'lULlC UTILITIES William Allen White, editor of the Kmporia, Kiiiisi'.s, Gazette, classes newspapers as public utilities. "A newspaper," ho says, "is affected af-fected with a public interest, as much as the street cur, tho telephone, thvj gas or electric plant and all other utilities. "An edietor is really a trustee entitled en-titled to his profits, if they are clean and dlecent, to the fullest extent that ' he may make them, but not entitled to make his profits at the expensu of the community. j "Unless he tan give the public ! some valuable thing information, guidance or entertainment he has no right to his profits." i He concludes that "newspaper is J certainly a public utility." I ...... . |