OCR Text |
Show AS THE EDITOR SEES IT. The editor -is popularly supposed to see everything, hear everything, know everything and publish everything every-thing that is going on. But sometimes he doesn't see it doesn't want to see it because, being an editor and trained to weigh all angles of every question, he knows that it is better for the community com-munity if he does not see it. There are many things the editor does. not publish 'because they contain con-tain no element of news, are distressing distress-ing to many innocent people, and their publication could serve no good purpose. Sometimes the editor is criticised for his forbearance, but at least some of his critics do not stop to remember that possibly the paper is just as forbearing regarding an incident or two of their own lives. There are many things to be considered con-sidered before putting it in cold type. Many persons with a few hundred hund-red or thousands of savings are looking look-ing around for opportunities, for investment. in-vestment. There are thousands of such opportunities, 'but many of them .are far from safe. The daily press is full of offers of mining stocks, municipal and building build-ing bonds, and other forms of invest, ment. Some of these are 'unquestionably 'unques-tionably safe and desirable, while others are far from it. The difficulty diffi-culty is to tell the good from the bad. The country is making feeble and spa'dmodic efforts to recover irom its or.gy of price inflation and spending, with but indifferent success. , If a panic or a severe stringency J as many think .will be the case, j in the money market overtakes us, 'these stocks and bonds may suffer serious shrinkage in value or become .scraps of paper upon which the hold-jer hold-jer finds it difficult to realize, j' Local citizens who are looking for ; investment might do well to leave 'their money in the bank yet a little while longer .until the price of these securities comes down. Investing at the maximum of in-, in-, Ration is a hazardous jump in the uncertain regions of finance. It will leave many scars before we return to a rational standard of values. |