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Show Sf t I f J.M1 Vl'LCl a J ' flblnp I Never Knew Till ' i 1812 a newspaperman N,thanlnl Raunsavelt wns :i into custody for refusing to si0 the source of his Information i&Z ecret activities of some V-'" ;-'-"J1 He was threatened 5 ffSed but stood firm. . . . Thus blthed the principle of the ,5 '.r's duty to protect his news iil s- The first American news-''ki's news-''ki's discontinued by authorl- ;'1ause it published some gos- ,tout the family troubles of the ' of Fnce nrood Broun was a skilled ex-! ex-! Zt of the rapier retort. He di-ix di-ix Crfsome of his most devastating :ments against Huey Long. . i',.ce accused Huey of "murder-tde "murder-tde truth." Long promptly ed (or a retraction .Broun "Huey says that he never :Qered the truth. That's because 5 iT-ever gets near enough to do it y "bodily harm." Along similar lines there's th& T tluslc but the small town gulf gu-lf ittte which conducted a vigorous ; ampaipi against the town ' J anncIL ... One of their yarns m headlined: "Half the Town timcil Are Crooks." . . . The ntrsged politicos demanded an ipjlogy, and the editor prom-gi prom-gi to run one. . . . Next day lit daily carried this headline: -Half the Town Council Are Not Crooks." 4 Ifoot century ago the press was VY : its Mother Hubbard stage. . . . mby-pambyism was rampant. Ed- JJ 3 took a lorgnette view of the N This sidelight illustrates their M .:j fuddy-duddy attitude: One ga- I i ::M front-paged an apology to its 'J ;.:;cribers because a reporter had II; -d the word "trousers" in a yarn r ;a he should have used the word r ;ientionables" ! I f" Ms among newsboys nowadays iisg in the taffy-pull category DS and ;:d compared with the journalistic Ittllj ui-fests during the James Gordon Exai i-aitt era. . . . Bennett was phys-riir phys-riir i; assaulted a half-dozen times tUtt opposition editors who had been liui tiied by Ms barbed-wire editori- i, ii But Bennett refused to di- Ms potent attacks against com- Triors. He merely reported the :sls on his gazette's front page d reaped added circulation. . . . anti-Bennett journalistic bar-:;:t bar-:;:t also blasted his family. The J iderers finally drove his wife and ita out of the country. They '. "Wd to Europe and made infre-;at infre-;at visits to America, while Ben-continued Ben-continued his free-swinging , it of journalism. Joseph Pulitzer's N. Y. World set W iinalistic standards few newspa- 3 have equalled. Yet Pulitzer ar- i "rsd In America a poor, friendless, J -'pi-illiterate immigrant. He spent '--Ms spare time educating him- - ... His enlightened opinions 4e subject of newspapers are 1 -uys worth absorbing. . . . Frix- f "What is everybody's busi- :ii is nobody's business except journalist's. It is his by adop- -"i But for his care every reform be stillborn. He holds of- to their duties. He exposes -'it schemes of plunder. He pro-, every hopeful plan of prog-' Without him public opinion be shapeless and dumb. Our public and its press will rise or together. An able, disinterested, :-spirited press, with trained ' ence to know the right and :;j?8e to do it, can preserve that virtue without which popular foment is a sham and mock- wood has depicted foreign Respondents as overgrown Rover 'i th't R has created the impres-at impres-at these newsboys have a ous occupation. ActuaUy they , difflcult, perilous task with "d. - . . 0. D. Gallagher, msh correspondent, dodged ..J3" and bullets, and traveled 100,- ree years for his news hi',?1011 readers forget five -u,es after reading. TI1I3 tu t:1!nmist W'sest counsel for 'Get Sr S We have cme across: ia?U? tmvn-flnd out what a.Uungabout- Give your ;:rg J Uttle daily jolt on some--Ie yK are gabbing about at !:aemorp P'' and can Sa about Ify ,. Controversial stuff so , MakeaKE u The big idea is 1 'tm soref..themhapPy and iuth ,aren,t as' hard" !n belI ne Iegends would have I 'oss "'sn,n made his gruelling "fta t0Ur (in effort ' "Ufork- SUPPr of Amerl- h( as h WorId Peaoe plans) I Sirit ken ,n bdy but not ' , """PanlUV- RePrters who ac- he as , . hXn were aware that J ideais lficinS his Iife for Anal ti. " As WiIson made (if e plea for worId ad(ifess openly wept. |