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’Writing in Henry-Fcfrd'bs Weekly, Doii'rbdrn Intlepend'ent”-
In the Issue of January 28t’i, 1922, Mr. Lewis Harper Discusses
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Under the Caption, “Your Daily Paper: The ‘News’
It Serves You,” Mr. Harpei Writes:
“The native American has not
learned to organize and act as a
group in dealing with the press.
Mauy of the newcomers bring
such a capacity with them or
speedily acquire it over here. The
public utilities were rich, but
wli en their legally fixed rates en
countered the depreciated cur-
recucy of the war period they be
came poor overnight. In this
misfortune of course, they differ
ed no whit from plain individuals
SOME N h W SPAPEliS ARE
STILL SEEKING CIRCULA
TION BY ASSAILING AND
EVEN NAGGING THE PUBLIC
UT1LII 1ES. POLITICIANS
ARE STILL HOUNDING THEM
AND A LT BOUGHT HEY M AY
BE BANKRUPTTHRICE OVER
AND IN THE HANDS OF HA
RASSED RECEIVERS, THEY
STILL PAY RICH DIVIDENDS
TO THEIR ENEMIES IN THE
POKE OF NEWSPAPER CIR
CULATION AND POLITICAL
JOBS.
“HOWEVER, HOSTILITY TO
PUBLIC UTI LITIES IS BECOM
ING SHOP WORN. THE MORE
SOPHISTICATED ARE BE
COMING SKEPTICAL ABOUT
PUBLIC-UTILITY BAITING AS
A PROOF OF PUBLIC SPIRIT
OR INTEGRITY. The people
have begun to notico that news
papers which have valiantly as
sailed the public utilities have
been careful nob to attack any
retail business throughout the era
of high prices. Profiteering in
more homely form has escaped the
scrutiny and criticism which was
heaped upon public utilities. The
newspaper reading public has also
becomo-aware tlrat it is easier and
less expensive to lay the onus of
high prices and other ills, that
the public believes it is suffering,
on the distant corporation man
agements or Wall Street than on
folks nearer home.”
“The best illustration of the
demagogic method of building
newspaper properties is afforded
by the war on the public utility
corporations which lias been rag
ing for 30 years or more. The
writer achieved very marked ci-
culation gains in the editorial
( management of two afternoon
papers, duo principally to an
aggressive attitude toward the
traction companies in those cities.
"The attiLudo was honestly
assumed and the corporations had
invited attack by their practices,
but in retrospect, it appears that
their sins and the circulation
gains achieved by attacking them
wore out of all jgrp portion to the
just balance of news and editorial
treatment. In other words, the
evils attacked were insignificant
compared to those which were ig
nored. Scores of newspapers in the
United States have been made by
fighting the utility corporations.
“Formerly, many newspaper
men regarded such a course as
positive proof of the honesty of a
nespapor or its publisher. The
public utilities were riel) and were
supposed to bo powerful. They
were in fact never powerful, they
only seemed to be, because they
had the support of some pro
fessional politicians—The first to
desert them when they found tho
pickings were better on tho other
side'of the plum tree.
“Tho investors in these corpor
ations were usually absentees and
generally Amercians of the ‘first
lot tier’ stocks. Tho utility corpor
ations were not heavy advertisers,
as they were natural monopolies.
Their owners could exert no such
racial or group prossuro on the
newspapers as is brought to bear
when other kinds of business are
subject .id to attack—on the rare
occasions when other big local
interests are put on tlio editorial
grill.
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BurnishP by tho Georgia Oommittee on Public Utility Information
An election for Mayor and six
Aldermen for the City of Perry is
hereby called for the second Satur
day in April 1922, April 8th, 1922,
to be held at the Court House of
Houston county, Georgia.
Also at the same time and plaee
an election will be held for two
member of the Board of Education
of the City of Perry to fill the un
expired term of S. G, Rogers, re
signed'and W B Sims resigned.
This 27th day of March, 1922.
0. E. Brunson, .Mayor,-
S. P. Crowell, City Clerk.
THE TIME
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to midnight of May 2,1922.
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reseii tative.
F, J. JJobinson,
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