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Pierce Munsey of Denver, Colorado, recently retired after 40 years of the printing trade, having begun as apprentice printer and punctuated his printing career as reporter, editor, advertising manager, and publisher. Mr. Munsey still keeps his hand in the business as a frequent contributor to his home-town paper.
“Remember mush will burn if you don’t stir it,” the veteran editor warns and he sees “the community without a newspaper which keeps things moving, gradually decaying.” The elderly editor gave all newspapers in general, and the weeklies in particular, a sound rolling-over-th e-coale for failing to keep communities what be call-,, ed “stirred up to accomplishing something.”
No one argues with the gentleman. He has lived long enough to know more than the rest of us without his years.
"The newspaper has a moral obligation to the community, and h is not to be published merely to make its owner a living. Beyond the news it ghes the paper owes ‘a fair and careful analysis’ of news that may affect tne community welfare,” Mr. Munsey declares. This justifies the editorial, be continues, and requires that the editor nave an open mind and ‘guts’—following public opinion when it is right and opposing it when it is wrong.
The old gentleman is probably right. However, he is throwing a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of the newspaper in the community when some of the responsibility should be cast upon the organizations, the churches, homes and individuals. The newspaper is willing to take its share.
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