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Show Truthful and Accurate Newspaper Indispensable to the World of Today By FRED A. WALKER, New York Publishers' Association. A day without a newspaper would be an inconvenience, and a week without a newspaper would be a catastrophe. Whatever happens, the public pub-lic looks first to the newspapers for information and this is the greatest tribute that can be paid to the truthfulness and accuracy of the press. Some people unkindly and untruthfully cast reflections on the dependability de-pendability of the news as it is printed; yet those who have to do with the making of the newspapers and who have a real acquaintance with the detail of news gathering and distribution know that there is no activity of the human race in which speed and quantity are factors that is so accurately performed as the collecting of the world's news and its distribution through newspaper columns. The newspapers are the eyes, the ears and the mouth of the world. They perform the functions of seeing, hearing and telling for 2-i hours of every day in the year. Upon the publicity afforded by the newspapers denends the nrnsneritv of a thousand different forms of activity and the return on millions of dollars invested. Indescribable chaos would result if the newspapers were suspended. |