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Show H J INSTRUCTIONS TO j ,, REPORTERS, i' ! How important it is for the editor V of a paper to hold to high principles H I s Veil brought out by Chas. Phelps H J Cushing in a sketch of the life of Wil- I Ham R. Nelson, who, as the control ling head of the Kansas City Star, tnade his paper a tremendous power Hl I and a great success. HI i Nelson was opposed to yellow Jour- Inalisra: he demanded, truth and evad-ed evad-ed the false. "I sometimes think," he said In an address, "that Providence -is especlal-H especlal-H i y charged to watch over reporters. H j There seems to be something in their H 'j work that brings out the best there H j is in them. In a long career in which II have dealt, I suppose, with hundreds of reporters. I have almost never known one to be false to his trust. Opportunities innumerable come to them to be dishonest; to color news, 1 or to suppress It. But it is the rarest H thing in the world for them to be dis- H loyal. Wo constantly trust young, H little-known fellows with the gravest I concerns, and our confidence, as 1 said, Is almost never misplaced." This does not mean that all report- era, are honest. A comparatively few are unreliable. But the reporter who deliberately falsifies does not remain long on a reputable newspaper. There is nothing more detestable to newspapermen news-papermen who pride themselves In their work, than misrepresentation. The Standard Instructs its reporters to know no friend or enemy, but to tell the truth, and the Standard demands de-mands that kind of service. This paper pa-per also insists that exaggeration shall not be employed to embellish a story. If there are 100 people at a political rally, the reporter must not record 200 as being 'present. Court proceeding must not be suppressed sup-pressed and favoritism must not be shown. All the news fit to print must bo published as a public duty. |