THREATENING THE EDITOR
Threatening the Editor 'It is the duty of the editor to print the news, and he must do that even if it is contrary to his personal interests as a business man to do so."—EDITOR MARTIN. ASTRIKING...
...Martin's testimony was summed up in The Survey by John A. Fitch as follows: "Irving Martin, proprietor and publisher of the Stockton Record, then took the stand...
...For years this city has been a closed shop town, with all the crafts well organized...
...They protested, he said, because his paper reported a union meeting where a boycott was agreed upon...
...We have to work up public opinion anew...
...Human sensibilities were more acute when this war began than ever before...
...I've never heard anything in the work of any other singer to give me the slightest cause for jealousy.— Musical America...
...How these employers attempted to force a newspaper to pervert its news columns with accounts favorable only to the employers' side of the controversy was told by Irving Martin, publisher of the Stockton Record...
...I told them,' he testified, 'that a publisher has two functions...
...They told him that, he ought not to print news of meetings opposed to their interests...
...When a million men are suffering in trenches wet and cold and wounded, what are a few children suffering under hard conditions in the factories: Take old age pensions, upon which England, France, and Germany have been working...
...They insisted that the business was too important to wait until the next day, so he went...
...It was the world's ever growing consciousness of a strong social obligation, carefully nurtured through years, and now being blighted by brutal influences, to which Miss Addams recurred in discussing the war's effect upon her work...
...It will be years before these things will be taken up again...
...and for the establishment and maintenance of agricultural instruction for families...
...All organized social welfare activities are put back for years," she said...
...The constitutional objection to State aid for workingmen's homes is discussed and the commission says: "Wherever the State has undertaken such work, profound economic, social and political advantages have resulted...
...All is out of joint, out of character," she remarked, in an interview at New York...
...Recommendations are made concerning local planning boards...
...The whole social fabric is tortured and twisted...
...Either we ought not to have equipped ourselves with these fine sensibilities or we ought not to have to face the horrors now confronting us...
...ASTRIKING instance of threatening editorial honesty with the club of advertising came before the federal Industrial Relations Commission in its hearings at San Francisco...
...It is a too terrible inconsistency against which we should protest...
...The various woman's movements are greatly crippled, but that is only a small part of the harm done...
...An editor is a sort of a receptacle for what goes on in the community—the crimes and the aspirations and hopes of the people...
...In business, socially and every other way his associates are the men who are now carrying on the fight for the M. M. & E. 'I would do anything in the world to keep my associations with these men,' said Martin, 'but I must and will continue to publish my paper in accordance with my views of what is right.' " * * * "A Too Terrible Inconsistency" MISS JANE ADDAMS of Hull House, in commenting upon the war in Europe, pointed to the appalling psychological and spiritual reaction of wholesale slaughter upon humanity...
...One Sunday afternoon, Martin said, he was called up and asked if he would come to a meeting of the Typographical Union that evening...
...It is the duty of the editor to print the news, and he must do that even if it is contrary to his personal interests as a business man to do so.' He told them he must follow this policy, even if they considered him 'a traitor to his class.' The committee then said that they 'hadn't known before that he was a Socialist.' "Martin said that as yet no financial pressure has been exerted, and while some advertising has been withdrawn there has been no concerted action...
...Poor Pay County Justice—I'll have to fine ye a dollar, Jeff...
...m Workingmen's Homes THE first annual report of the State Homestead Commission of Massachusetts is declared to be a classic on the subject of providing homes for workers and kindred questions...
...It appears that Stockton, California, is the scene of a determined fight between the labor unions and the employers over the question of the open shop...
...With widows and fatherless children numbered by the thousands in each of those countries, what are a few old people more or less...
...This open shop announcement was followed by strikes and lockouts in most of the organized trades...
...profitable use of suburban homes...
...Individually and in committees, members of the M. M. & E. would wait on Martin, and objected to his manner of handling the news and talk with him about his necessary dependence on advertising...
...It has been easier to get the union news, however, because the union men have al ways been willing to talk to the reporters, while at the headquarters of the M. M. & E., he said, the reporters had been treated with scant courtesy...
...We are trying to learn why such numbers of little children under two years of age die...
...Philadelphia Bulletin...
...But what are half a million new born children in comparison with such a slaughter—the hideous, wholesale slaughter of thousands of men a day...
...She Accepts...
...County Justice—Great snakes...
...Ye ain't guilty, anyway...
...Jeff—I'll have to borrow it of ye...
...He was told by the men that they had heard that members of the M. M. & E. intended to withdraw their advertising from his paper, 11 that were done, they said, they would work without pay as long as that situation might last, and would look to the international union for strike benefits...
...assessment of betterments...
...The method followed has been to verify every story originating with either side...
...Judge...
...Proprietor of a Concert Party (engaging a soprano)—Now I want you to understand, Miss Deerly, that I like my boys and girls to be like one big family—no quarreling, no jealousy...
...He stated that the policy of his paper in the present controversy has been to print the news with impartiality, and with a view to injuring no one...
...In taking the position that he has in this matter Martin has alienated from himself friends that he has known from boyhood...
...The comradeship, the friendliness between nations had been brought upon a basis of mutual under-derstanding further than ever before...
...By mechanical means we had been brought closer together in communication and in sympathy...
...The need of encouraging people to enter the agricultural calling is pointed out, and also the importance of spreading information...
...After that, in various ways, Martin was kept reminded of the pressure that could be brought to bear upon him...
...As committees continued to come to see Martin he tried to make them understand his position...
...Git out...
...He is a business man and an employer, but he is also a purveyor of news...
...In Germany the nation's statesmanship was challenged in the Reichstag because, out of approximately 2,000,000 children annually born in that country, some 500,000, or one-fourth, die...
...He said that they could not see why they should support anyone who did not help them, and thought that advertising should be withdrawn from papers not supporting the M. M. & E. He told Martin further that pressure would be brought to bear on all having financial obligations...
...Charts show that the highest infant mortality is in the congested mill towns and the lowest in the towns and cities where sanitary conditions are up to date and where the people are not overcrowded...
...It was only to git a dollar I was fining ye...
...Some time ago, at a picnic, Martin said that a business man, a friend of his, had called him aside and told him that in this fight the employers were out to win, and would win at any cost...
...He said that he hao built a large addition to his plant a year or two ago, and is still heavily in debt as a result...
...Infant mortality is one of the things which wo are just beginning to deal with...
...Some months ago, however, the employers organized the Merchants, Manufacturers and Employers' Association, commonly referred to as the M. M. & E. Having enrolled in their membership ninety-five per cent of the employers of Stockton, they announced on July 8 of the present year that they would refuse thereafter to have any dealings with any union...
...It is shown that the more congested the population the greater the number of deaths due to tuberculosis...
...The good and bad both come before him...
...Miss Deerly—Oh, that's quite all right...
...the establishment of residential districts...
Vol. 6 • October 1914 • No. 42
