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“Newspaper—A Feast :
For Every Guest ‘l
A Stalwart in the
Journalistic Field
Others Do the
Job Today
By E. T. SHORT
Tmotcu the early history of
American journalism no pa
per gave such stalwart and effec
tive support toward the establish
ment of American institutions as|
the Magsachusetts Centinel, estab
. Jished in 1784 by William Warden
" and Benjamin Russell. Both men |
were in their early 20's. Warden
the older, was the business man- |
_ ager but it was Russell, the editor |
who made the paper an effective
_ medium for the upbuilding of the
government. '
Both men had the highest ideals
for their paper and sought to
make it meet the needs of the en-|
tire community. This thought is
expressed in the last verse of a
Jong poem in the first issue en
" gitled “The Newspaper:” i
A newspaper is like a feast, {
Some dish there is for every guest.
Some large, some small, uomoi
strong, some tender,
For every stomach, stout or slender: |
'l'l;c‘!:;tv;:o roast beel and ale de-
Are pieased with trumpets, drums |
and fighting. !
‘ Por those who Are more puny made, |
: ’: arts and sclences and trade; |
fanciful and amorous blood ]
We have a soft poetic food; !
Por witty and satiric folks,
. High-seasoned. acid jokes: I
Ango;-hen we strive to please the
'rhcru'n jest, a quarrel or a job, ‘
Look over your newspaper
_ tonight and see how nearly it
comes to serving every essen
tial activity and interest— |
_ “some dish for every guest.”
It was largely through the in
. fluence of the Centine]l that Massa
chusetts supported the constitution
. adopted by the Philadelphia con
vention and it was entirely that in
fluence which brought about it's
adoption by that state. Failure of
* Massachusetts to have done 8o
might have turned the scales in
the other direction,
** Another service to the nation
..was the Centinel's fight against
““the free trade which representa
tives of English manufacturers
and merchants sought to set up in
. the United States. Some Amer
~«{can citizens, thinking only of their
own profit, became reprauntatlvn‘
of the English firms and sought tn‘
make the American’'s believe that
.the goods they handled were,
manufactured in this country. As
..the English goods could be sold
-4t a lower price than American
...goods there were plenty of dealers
-*who would handle them.
.. The campaign of the Centinel
--created such an adverse public
_.sentiment against the English
«4raders that the volume or im
_ports was very materially reduced
«~and placed by American goods.
<. Russell had a jubilant style of
‘ announcing the progress of federal
. principles. After the inauguration |
of Washington the Centinel an-|
. bounced the event in this wise: |
‘- Just launched on the Ocean |
of Empire, the Ship Columbia, |
- GEORGE WASHINGTON, |
commander, which after being l
. thirteen years in dock, is at
length well manned and in ‘
. very good condition. The ship l
is a first rate—has a very |
good bottom which the build- |
ers have pronounced sound. '
Some objection has been made
to parts of the tackle or run- |
ning rigging, which, it is sup
posed, will be altered. . . .
A jury of carpenters now have
this under consideration. . . .
May this good ship put to sea,
and the prayer of all is that |
God may preserve her and |
bring her in safety to her de- |
sired haven. i
This interesting sidelight is evi
dence of Russell’s sincerity in sup
porting the government: When the
first session of Congress was called
the country was in debt and with- |
out funds to pay for the printing
of public documents. Russell wrote
. to the department of state and of
fered to do the printing for noth
ing. Several years later he was
sasked for his bill. He sent it
marked, “paid in full” When
George Washington heard of it he
said:
“This must not be. When
Mr. Russell offered to publish
the Jaws without pay, we were
poor. It was a generous offer.
We are now able to pay our
debts. This is a debt of honor
and must be paid.”
A few days later Russell re
ceived a check for $7,000, the full
amount of the printing expense.
Benjamin Russell and his news
paper continued to perform a great
service for constitutional govern
ment until his health- failed under
the strain, He died in his sleep
at the age of 84. His partner had
passed away at the age of 25.
It was with such a heritage that
the American newspaper grew 10
its present great estate. Being di
rected by humans many mistakes
have been made and there are
many who find fault with the man
rer in which newspapers are con
ducted. But in all the world no
eother institution serves the com
munity so well and so unselfishly
Small Business--Big Problem
Withholding of materials for non-essentials, chokinq off of
retail wares, even the draft are putting the “little men™ in the
street. Groph shows small business foilures during 1928
prosperity, 1932 depression, 1939, and expectancy for 1943,
All out war production is responsible.
® Capital Comment
Small Business Man's !
Problems Given Study ;:
Retail Failures Likely i
To Keep on Soaring ‘
Legislative Formula to
Slow Bankruptcies Sought
By PETER EDSON
The problems of the small busi
ness man Are again in the Wash
ington limelight —at least tempo
rarily. The senate committee study
and survey problems of small
business, headed by Senator James |
E. Murray of Montana, is holding
‘hearings to see what has happened ‘
to their baby since they turned it
over to the nursing of the Smaller
‘War Plants corporation.
~ This SWPC, you'll recall, was
set up by act of congress last
June as a part of the War Produc
iuon Board. But gfter these early
October hearings the committee
‘will suspend until—you guessed it |
—after election. Politics still sur- !
vives, even though ia the meantime
’smnll business may perish.
l Currently the Smaller War
Plants corporation has been
i ducking miscellaneous dead
eats thrown in its general di
~ rection because in the four
. monigs of its existence it has
been able to let only three
contracts, alding only about a
dozen of the 169,000 wsmall
manufacturers throughout the
. land,
The National Small Business
Men's association, a leading trade |
organization of the little fellows,
has issued a blast against SWPC
for its delay, and Lou E. Holland,
director of SWPC, has admitted
that the intricacies of procedure
have been more than he bargained
| for.
=| But the 169,000 small manu
|facturers represent only about 61
| per cent of the total of 2750000
| small business concerns. SWPC is
lempnwerrd to aid only the lmnni
‘mnnu{ncturers even when it does
| get going. ‘
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What of the Rest?
Tn the meantime what iz hap
pening to the 72,000 wholesalers.
| the 1,614,000 retailers, the 838000
gervice companies such Aas laun
dries and dry cleaners, the 200.-
000 building companies, the 40,000
places of amusement and the 25.-
000 hotels? They're all small busi
nesses, too, and they wall that
nobody in Washington Is doing
| anything about them except to de
|liver funeral orations after they
pass out.
Even in boom times small busi
| ness firms die like flies, and are
|born the same way. Some enter
| prising citizen of every communi
|ty is always getting the bug to go
linto business for himself, usually
on a shoestring. He opens &
‘ibumryornlmtkm.nduom.
las not folds up before the year
is out.
| Tn 1939 and 1940 recorded husi
ness failures numbered over 1,000
' a month, All through the Coolidge
,'and Hoover booms they numbered |
over 20,000 a year. In 1932 thcy‘
reached a peak of nearly 32,000,
lwith labilities of nearly $1,000,-
000,000,
| But even such colossal failures
! an these are mere chicken feed to
the faflures that are anticipated
for the next year. Wayne Chat
!field Taylor, undersecretary of
| commerce, estimates the number
of retailers mlone which may be
| forced out of business before the
. end of next year may reach 300.-
| 00010 times the failures of 1932.
e Aid Formula Wanted
rl What can be done in the face of
p all this woe?
4. When the Murray commitiee re
| sumes its hearings—after the elec
tion—it will continue sessions for
, a month Itsaimis to conduct an
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. And in no other profession m‘
-gm-filu‘mmflnl
.gmmmmmmn!
-/ are many like Benjamin Russell
\.;mmmmmdmg.
og This concludes the American
.| Newspaper Week series in this
y,ledunl.
!nquiry that will reveal some|
|formula for legislation that wiil '
‘Mlp small business men get out
{of business without going into|
! bankruptey.
The plan which Senator
Murray’'s committee apparent-
Iy has in mind is somewhat
similar. It hopes to set up
governmentai machinery
which can extend the neces
sary credit to the businesses
that must fold up for the du
ration, in the belief this busi
ness can reopen after the war
Is over.
It is probably too much to hope
any legislation of this kind will
be passed before the end of 1942,
‘lt might even drag over and be
left for the new congress.
In the face of that possibility,
the smart small business man to
|day will be the one who doesn’t
wait for Washington but takes
| matters into his own hands, closes
{up his business if that's the hand
| writing on the wall of his factory
lor store, and gets one of those
|nice jobs in & shipyard or jeep
| factory. There, at least, he's be
'| getting something for his over
time.
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® Mind Your
Manners
Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering the fol.
lowing questions, then checking
against the authoritative answers
below:
'l I.ls “Arent you gaining
' weight?” a tactful remark to
: | make to a woman?
‘1 2. It someone leaves a number
l' for you to call and you receive it
. much later than you should have,
) is it necessary to make an ex
planation when you finally put in
the call?
B‘ 3. If you take guests to a movie
) should you make ft a point to get
: | there before the feature begina?
‘3 4. If you see an acquaintance
-‘you haven't seen in a long time
Answer to Previous Puszie 1
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured for
mer prize
fighter,
et auute,
11 Ratite bird.
12 Sense organ.
13 Wood sorrel.
14 Internal decay
in fruit
16 Monk.
18 Snare.
21 Age.
22 Greek letter.
23 Insect.
25 Note in .
Guido's scale.
26 Comparative
suffix.
27 Outstrips.
29 Pair (abbr.).
30 Rodent.
32 One that
stings.
33 Inquire.
34 Alleged force.
36 Enemy.
37 Symbol for
Bctinium
38 He has ap
peared in
a stage play
about the !
sl il [
45 Universal
language.
46 Cravat.
47 Hawalian
hawk.
48 East Indies
(abbr.).
. 49 Mimic.
$1 Compess point
$2 Hops' kiin.
$3 Tidy.
55 Lot. |
56 Baglike part |
58 Not cold.
® SERIAL STORY
Sporting Blood
By HARRY HARRISON KROLL
e ———————A——
OUT ON BAIL
CHAPTER X
Hunter Dent gawped at Sheriff
Anderson. “What do you mean,
sheriff—burn out the seat of my
pantaT What s all this, anp
way ™
Anderson, grinning. unlocked
the cell door. “Come along. You'll
know all in good time™
Hunter followed the officer a
block along the side street to the
court house. In a few minules’
they were with Judge Eikina
“Young man” Judge Eikins
sald, “you are free. Go your
way.”*
“What—what do you mean®™
Hunter gasped. “1 mean, how did
this happen ™
“Your bond has been posted. and
until your case comes up for trial
You mAy come and §o as you
“But—who went op my bond
Judge Elkins ' Hunter still was
dazed.
“Your bondsman wishes to re
main anonymous. You are dis
missed.”
“Well, what do you know!"
Hunter sald wonderingly as he
went out into the free, open sun
shine. He stared all about, at the
sky, the trees, the buay little city.
“Looks good to me!" he multered.
While in jail looking through
his cell window at the slum sec
tion where the stick-up had been
staged, an idea or two had hov
ered in Hunter's mind. He had
thought & great deal about the
questions: Why the money mov
ing At such a time of night, where
was it going, how did Junior know
beforehand the route of the mes
senger, What was it all about,
anyway ? A hypothesis was grow
ing in his mind, Maybe it was
far-fetched. But he was up to his
eyes in the mess, and it was up
to him to do all he could to get
out of it.
From the newspaper Hunter had
the place where the girl, Sally Ki
ker, lived. He was remembering
(Continued on Page 12, Column 1)
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® ANSWERS TO
WAR 20!2
on Page &
1. Yankee is 26th division, sta
tioned at Camp Edwards, Mass,
| at outbreak of World War 1L
| 2. United States recently set up
defenses in these Ecuadorian ter
| ritories, which lie south and
| alightly west of Panama Canal
'| Ecuador granted this country per
| mission to do so in order te pro
tect its coast as well as that of
Columbia, Peru and Chile.
3. Five feet nine inches, 170
pounds. Fighter plane cockpits
lm-a not bhuilt to hold bigger men.
|is it tactful to hay “Why aren’t
|you in the Army ?"
11 B, 1s it necessary 1o say “please”
.| and “thank you" to & maid?
| What would you do if-~
y| Friends drop in during the eve
ning and stay past the time you
{ | had set for your bedtime—
) (a) Yawn?
(b) Keep glancing at the clock?
r (¢) Don't let them suspect you
t | are anxious to have them leave?
E Answers
.| 1. No. Almost slways it is re
-1 | sented.
2. Yes
. 3 Yes
t 4. No.
5 Yes
¢! Best “What Would You Do" so
.ilutlom—-(c).
FIGHTER TO ACTOR
59 Dogma. i
60 Gaelic.
VERTICAL
2 Verily. ;
3 Witticism, <
4 Babylonian :
deity. :
$ Embellish. |
6 Radix (abbr.).
7 Classified |
. 8 Accomplish,
9 October |
(abbr.).
10 Sorrow. |
14 Malt beverage
15 Girl's name.
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| Below are the answers to test
| questions printed on Page 6.
1. Beardsley Ruml.
2. More than 4,500,000
3 Donald M. Nelson,
4 Manhattan,
8. Et tu, Brute. (Thou also,
| Brutus)
8. Fur.
T. Molasses and January.
8. Tokyo. ”
9. “Zoot suita”
10. China,
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OLAURA WHEELER
16 Gone by.
17 Noun suffits
19 Swiss
mountaing,
20 Tract of
ground keph
in natural
state.
22 1t is (poet)s
24 Threetfold
(comb, form)
28 Soon,
31 Also.
33 Playing card
35 Perlod,
of Britain.
39 Stout cord,
40 Kindred,
41 Dregs.
42 Noise
43 Slumber.
44 Locate.
50 Relaxation.
82 Ceresl grain
(pl).
S 4 Light brown,
85 In favor of,
87 Symbol for
; cerium,
58 Hum.
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e G —————
State, local and municipal gov
ernments are lending trucks and
manpower to local salvage com
mittees in transporting publie col
lections of scrap material. 8o
great is the tonnage Lo be moved,
that private facilities are over
taxed,
SWETHE |
AY RUTH MILLETT
A young officer in Anstralis
whe decided from Ns wife's et
ters thatl she was leading & toe
solitary life wrote her the follow
ing adviee: ‘
“Make an offort 16 go places
and see vourr friends as often
you can manage. Doa't get in the
nabit of seeing no one But women.
Invite couples to dinnér Just &'
we &d when | was Al home. f
“T'm afraid you are letting Ni
ehildren !iomé«flmmg
you did when 1 was at home 1
understand thal Decause you Are
sure to waorry aboutl them
since you have lo take ail the re
sponsibility for them. But don't
jet yourself be so concerned about
them that you are afraid to leave
them with someone while you get
out ocoastonally. llf posaible find
a girl who will stay with them
certain afterncons And evenings
;ewqm”-mfl
some free time,
“Don't turn down invitalions
1t you do it often enough you'll
stop getting them. Den't you
dare say you oan't go anywhere
for no better remson than that
you planned to wash that day eor
think the house neads cleaning.
WOMEN MUST PROMOTR
|ownm&'l
l “Fill up as much of your tUme
Las you oan so that you won't be
[too londly.—and when this war 8
[over I'll ase that you have enough
f;m-h-u“u.h“l“’
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S TS TESETEE aTam saa.
One of these boys han been
marrisd and divorced We couiin't
sak for nicer boys than they &ve
in spite of the unfortunate episeds
in the life of one of them.
My father i living with us and
he demands that we send the
boys away and refuse i allow
our daughter 8 have anything
more to do with them Besause,
he says, we know nething about
them. As they have Always been
perfect gentiomen we have ne rea
;mhfi“
i Is she vight In demanding that
we send these bDoys away, with
out allowing them to spend part
of their lsisure time in our home,
writing letiers, listening o the
radio and having sa ovehslonsl
meal with us?— Bewildered Par
ot
that there can’t be any social Nfe
for a woman witheut & man,
Mn-flbmnz
[ are, the women whe are isft
[hind do need some social life
[ Their hushands will find & deriain
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