Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — “ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT.” [ARTICLE]

“ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT.”

Is the motto of newspapers, but just what is news? There is two sides to everything. One side may be old stuff, the other side may be news. What’s • news to one may be old to another. It’s been acknowledged you can’t please everybody— Wilson tried that. There’s no news in a “dog bites Billy Sunday,” but let Billy bite a dog and that’s news, something we’ve all been expecting. The fact that the president had turkey Thanksgiving fails to thrill us, but we would like to know if he had-sugar. Good fortune is a:ways good news. There’s no news in “Sheridan r.rs strong offense,” but to read “Rensselaer offers little resistance,” that’s news( almost scandle unfit). thing strange or unheard of is alwaysnews. “Mexico ’ kills another American makes the front page, but really isn’t what you’d call news. We are fed up on it. “America sends Carlisle and York into Mexico,” would be easier to take, sound more American and scare hell out of those greasers. That would be good news. “Franklin wins economy test” is gtjiff we’vg read for a dozen years, but it’s always good news to the man a Franklin. He likes this absolute monopoly on economy; he admires his judgment, and he knows Franklin owners are efficiency experts with something to tell to others. We always have the latest news for autoists. THOMPSON &c KIRK.