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a better newspaper for having swal- lowed the Herald, if it only can digest it These disturbing chang © simply evidence that this is the of ma chinery and of bigness. When a mar quires a newspaper, the newspaper als acquires the man. The man has t keep it going and that, under present conditions, is enormously expensive APRIL 3 321 It has to have size to compete with the “While there is Life there's Hope’ other papers, and it has to have ad LIFE PUBLIO NO COMPANY vertising to pay expenses, But there Cramtas Dana Gisson, President Le Roy Mut is a limit to the amount English Ome! Ren Pilg at ad ls ee that the advertisers can pay for. When there are more newspapers than the advertisers can of them presently have Munsey has got such PRESIDENT ELIOT. of is credited with a propensity to shi Harvard, has had a b the life out of its inhabitants, Dr day and has su 1a very Eliot at ninety is evidence th considerable celebration of it, at least, of the human stuff at pres gbers af he cy th He was ninety years in charge of mundane concerns is dur- regulate pretty well which of hi old. That in itself is not so remark- able enough to stand the racket of dozen shall stop and which shall go on able. Other people are as old as that. current life the Herald stops. The World. Dr. Eliot's sister is ninety-seven the Tim What is remarkable is not that he has lived to be ninety, but that he has es, the Tribune, and the Ameri can are left of course, we shall lived vigorously and vitally all the way up to that age and is still vitally alive and doing. To be merely alive OMEBODY once said, “Never love at ninety is no great exploit, but to be a President!” It was not had ad. vice. The Presidential office is so great R. COOLIDGE is still the leading that age is something worth talking and exposed to such vicissitudes. that | Republican: eandidie “for Pree a vigorous influence on human life at about it is best to keep an attitude of dis : dent, with Hiram Undoubtedly Dr. Eliot was made in passionate observation on its occupant al Democrat knows whom the first place of extra strong and <6 long as he is its occupant he will vote for Mr. McAdoo is durable materials, but he has never le dvice at le as timel s dura pterials, Advice that i te as umely 1S on the stump, giving out to various c ast er let them stiffen or be cr to spaper ! ne was theo rast oe er) i gst uss i Never love a newspaper Time wa wudiences sentiments appropriate t ome torpid. le remembers the past. whe ders of newspapers forme COME toed Las NES TER f Rewspapers_tOrw their location. Just now he is warning the South against Wall Street. ple in New York discuss Al Smith and His recollections of it, and particularly very strong attachments to them, and t of noted men that he has known well. have a newspaper die. or change hands are very interesting. But he is no was a sore affliction to old readers, wh great pr the times that have felt that when such shifts happened flown, His concern is about what — they had lost an old friend. But nowa- comes next. He is still one of the days who dares to love a newspaper great forward-lookers, occupied with — especially in this city of New York progress, solicitous that it shall be since Mr. Munsey has done such great wisely directed, and confident that it strokes of business in buying and sell- his great merits as a politician and an accomplisher of useful things. Besides him New York has another possible candidate W. Davis both of tlemen there are objec tions. Governor Smith is a ¢ bolic Mr. Davis is a practicing lawyer and will get somewhere. ing. amalgamating and burking th After a long life, spent in one of the journals of the town? Who will dare most conservative communities of the — to set his affections on a paper that may has worked for some great corporations In experience, ability and character Mr. Davis is probably the best-equipped United States, he is still what he has — pass out of existence next week man for President that the Democrats always been, { the boldest spirits The Herald, under the Munsey have, The fact that he has practiced we have, never afraid of change, al- trol, had come to be an_ intere law.in New York adds: if anything. t ways impatient of stagnation, a seeker newspaper. Its polities represented ipualifications to. discharge th s of the Presidential o e. But men, and still, never an advocate of — writers. It wore the clothes of the old West and the South are not likely after new truths, new methods, new — nothing indispensable, but it had good change merely for the sake of change. Sw nd was likable ow it goes tO to think so. Governor Smith is one of He has been a builder, not a destroyer; the Tribune, which means, one must the most useful and popular men in a great builder, not afraid of new plans — suppose, that so far as appearance and public life, but the West and the South even though they involved pulling some- quality go, it disappears altogether and particularly the Ku Klux. are thing down Well, we must bear with it. The — likely to shy at a Catholic, So it goes This is a very hurried, racking and Tribune is a more engaging expositor Solid obstacles of prejudice block the tumultuous world. It carries nowadays — of Republican politics than Mr. Mun- road to the most competent candidates @ tremendous amount of machinery and — sey’s Herald was. Possibly it will be E. S. 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