' • ■ ■ J ] FOUR , OCEAN CITY SENTTNEL, OCEAN CITY, N. J-. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1922

f Ll Ocean City Sentinel Primrd ul Publlihad Evrry ThurmU, OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Srminrl Buildmc. 1M-T4« Arbor, Amor. Ocoon dir. N. J .T.mdiooe 13S-3 P. J. EVANS. Editor LEWIS L. DARRETT. C-n«t«l Bo.ioo.. M.n»„r (tan ol ndvirtiiinc copt murt bo at thl» otTic. no: lata, th.n Tuofcloy noon. Thl. rot* will bo otrirtlr odhcrwl to. " _ Job ^prk p-omptlr done br crporioncwl hand. I . ~ • AUGUST "TO, 1922 " ~ Enured nt tbo Pool OBoo nt Orenn City. M. J,' u Mtond clnia null mnttor. FUNCTIONS OF THE PRESS The functions of the Press may lie categorized under three heads: Reflective, Creative and Corrective." Upton Sinclair. "The duties of the Press are to Rive publicity to current events, to Rive voice to public sentimentt.'to educate and direct public opinion, and to check evil fnd wrong." James Gordon Bennett! , "There are three conditions requisite, before the Press can rightfully antl fruitfully, perform its duties and functions. Firstly, it must be Free. Secondly, it must be Free. Thirdly, it must be Free." W. T. Stead. Thus three journalists of international fame, "giants of the race of scribes," expressed themselves relative to the duties and functions of the Press. The first two are in perfect agreement. A^iewspaper is reflective to the degree .that it mirrors and gives publicity to current events, ami gives articulate expression to public sentiment It is creative, to the exjent that it endeavors to educate, and dialct public opinion. It Is finally corrective, a public censor upon evil land wrong. If these are in truth the functions of thOyPress, the truth of Mr. Stead's thrice repeated assertion becomes aelfcatfent and axiomatic, tl must be Free. Furthermore, if the address delivered before the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association, by Mrs. Julia R. HaxarU, the gifted editress of the Swarthmore News, is correctly reported in The American Press, the lady woul.l accept Mr. Stead's dictum without any modification. "Mrs. Haxard described her publication as a suburban one, and of the class of papers FREE IN EDITORIAL EXPRESSION. She spoke of a need for more editorial expression in newspapers, if they are to exert an uplifting influence. An editor should reiterate the , things he believes, anil he or she will have an influence on others." One other quotation from W. T. Stead should be added. "Evety paper should have a personality. Its readers should be able to detect at a glance, if the editor was on a vacation, or unable to be at his desk through sickness. Every P»!*r should Jf. aveVfixed and definite policy. It should be as the needle of the compass! and never as a weather-cock. It should point to the polar star/ W truth, whichever way the wind blows." But to return to the functions of the press. It should reflect ami give publicity to current event*. This function it performs in the main througtijits news columns. A news article must of necessity be to a more or less ilegree colored by the intellectuality, experience, and temperment of the writer. This is inescapable, because' the writer can only give expression to what he sees in a particular occurrence. Notwithstanding, the news article can, and should be impartial, and as faithfully chronicle the misdoings of Handsome Avenue, as it does the peccadillos of Rotten Row. This providing of course it is Free. There is an opinion prevailing, that a newspaper should give publicity only to that which reflects with credit upon the community in which it is published; that a newspaper should look always upon men and events through a telescope, the narrow end of the cylinder to the eye when viewing the good and the virtuous, and the wider end of the tube to the eya, when compelled to g**e upon the had and the vicious; that in fact a newspaper should always be a booster even if it has to be an unmitigated liar. Then how in the name of common sense can it perform its equally, if not more important function, as a corrective agency, an via public , custodian of public ^forals? CUHUHlian UI puunc Biuriil.1 . I

Old Mortality spent his days in the graveyard, cleaning off the moss "which had aeculated on the tombstones, hiding from view the , names engraved thereon. The good folk who hold the above opinion of the Press, wbuld have newspapermen ever carrying around a pail ami a brush, "Whitewashing sepulchres, civic, social and political, and allow their thus concealed putresence to poison the air, and infect the ! entire community with disease. < "The bouse with the green shutters" day and night shut tight, 1 1 in a popular novel of a decade ago, proved to be a den of criminality, 1 mystery, and immorality. The city which is afraid to lift the blinds up and let the sunlight penetrate in, has something to conceal. You cannot purify the water by whitewashing the pump. Publicity is the strongest corrective agency in existence. Publicity is the most powerful curb and restraint upon human cupidity, bias to evil, corruption and graft imaginable; more powerful even than the law, for many a person would gladly suffer a few years in a penitentiary, and afterwards live in luxury upon the spoils of his or her misdeeds, if they could do so without the fact becoming publicly known, * in twenty-four point headline*. 'The pathway of commercial enterprise and speculation is beset with pitfalls," said one. True, and many there are who would not walk ao circumspectly, if there were no newspapers. If there is one factor we fear more than another, it is publicity; feared more even than God or the Devil. Proof ample of this is found in the difficulties placed In the path, of what Mrs. Hazard termed free "editorial expression," by public men. Public men may be at daggers drawn against each other upon many issues, frequently are of rival political parties; but like the Pharisees and the Herodians in the days of Christ, however bitter in enmity they may be one towards the other, they are preparer! to enter into any. unholy compact or conspiracy, against any who would attempt to turn the searchlight of truth upon their conduct. The journal they favor is the subsidised, whether by money or by sentiment, the jlunal whose plolcies and columns they can control. Quoting the late W. T. Stead again, the1 champion of the Free Press; he said: "Follow the representatives of a newspaper for "lay and it will be easy to determine, whether he represents a f ree organ - j of publicity, or the slave of an invisible obligarhy. The former has to dig hard and deep for news. He is received everywhere with studied dignified politness, and pompous reserved. He is sent from pillar to post on a vain errand. To the opposite, the latter is a bosom yonv, and everywhere welcomed. Very useful and accomodating is he, readyto weep or whistle, laugh or groan, dance or play funeral, -as bidden." Fortunately however for the victim of the "free ring out process" down deep at heart the average man loves fair play, and a journal t with the courage of its convictions. His patronage goes to "free editorial expression." Furthermore, there are in every clique or conspiracy, a number of persons, who are implicated and compromised in it against their will and judgement, anil who take revenge by "telling'* tales out of school," and frequently the ostracized reporter, comes into ' possession of better and more sensational "copy," than his petted rival is permitted to know. Experience teaches the journalist, that the folk who are always on their guard with him, unable to meet him frankly man to man as ; I a representative of the press, have .something they wish to conceal, ' and instantly he writes them down in his mental diary, as well worthy of close observation. The instincts of the sleuth are, immediately awakened. It adds the spice of adventure to the game. Many a public leader owes his political and social demise, to the suspicion he created in the mind of the argus-eyed press. • Experience teaches the journalist foreover that when the* -shutters ' are kept shut fast, and matters are conducted in secret conclave, hehind fast shut doors, that there is "something rotten brewing hi Germany." Immediately he brings into operation the implements and weapons of his craft, never resting until he has bored a hole through the shutters, and allowed the public a peep within. Thus in the exercise of its corrective power the press performs invaluable service to the general public. The press stands protectingly between the public and the political adventurer, and political intrigue. —

formulate their specious and cunningly camouflaged schemes, for the j. % I purpose of milking the public. Posaibly they hare something of iluhious commercial rvalue to unload upon the public. possiblV some con- 1 >pirtcy of compromise, with rival political adventurers, wherebj\U>th may irom two different points of co itact bleed the unsuspecting pubfic. | Publicity is the <mly cure fur such eveiis, including profiteerirv. j grafting and civic corruption. With the advantages of specific train- ' iiig for the work, and the inestimable value of well-correlated ex- — perienre and information at his command, the journalist goes in pursuit, investigating motive governing ami informing public moremeids. carefully, outlining the probable policies and future action of political aspirants in the light of past records to gether with the past records. (ami present interests relative to the public, of the persons who are sponsoring and in son*cases financing their candidature, and thereby _ • has save. I the unsuspecting public from many u dose of politico-com- • mereial plebotomy. — Kiujally US valuable a service does a free press perform, in giving . voice Mid inarticulate expression to public sentiment. Bereft by nature of the auilacity to force themselves into the limelight. and seldom with the price of a megaphone in their pockets, the t public are "doomed and damned to mute suffering." n , The average citizen must perforce nurse his resentment, and sense j' "of outraged manhood in utter silence, unable to learn what his neighbor . things or feels. imngs oi lecis.

"I do not care a tinker's. curse what the people think of me, pro- 1 viding I can keep them from informing one another of it," a brilliant politician of a past generation is reported to have said. "It is my ^ purpose to make each man believe that his neighbor thinks of me, just i what my paid servants, tell him his neighbor thinks. In othec, words, as long as I can prevent the public from comparing notes, and learning 1 ^ how strong is the opposition against me, 1 am safe." d True, and in giving expression to the "articulate masses," inform|e ing them what their brothers and sisterAthink and feel, in focalizing ' lg public sentiment and directing it into proper cMRnnels, the free press ' proves itself to be the most powerful incentive to progress, and the r mo9t fajthful servant of democracy. "The pen is mightier than the | sword, when not dipped in subsidized ink." In this wa ythe public press is teaching the public to think— think ^ for itself. Sbm^uricus upheavals, "freak elections," political abnor- ^ nudities comrpflmal and economic revolutions have taken place within recent years:- Never before has the public demonstrated so great an ' independency of thought and action us now . Before the year passe*, j we venture to prediet the "docile and dumb fool public" will be seen e tak'nK off itx belt' even at t,ie "sk of disordering its garments, anil , leading many a would be petty ruler, down into the civic woodshed. LThe lesson will prove as salutory to others as to the recipient; just e as the old schoolmasters found it acted as a very effective check upon the rebellious spirit of other members of the class, to rub chalk on * the switch and afterwards make the penalized urchin stand, face against ; the wall with the insignia of discipline conspicuous. s The newspaper that is unafraid, frank in censure when censure is e desiring, is a far better booster to the nation, state or a community, a than one which pampers to the Hosed shutter, and the locked door regime. j ' The motto "my town right or wrong" is a sentiment utterly unworthy of an American, and. damnable in the mouth of a Christian 11 American. 1 To heal a wound itmust be opened, cleansed and causterized. Cover ] it with a patch of civic adhesive plaster, or conceal beneath, 8 thick " layer of the salve of euphemism, it will fester and send the virus of putrefaction and death, coursing through every vein of the body politic. • Homeopathic medication is highly commendable, if practicable. There are times however, when nothing can save but the knife, ami. ' an amputation alone can prevent social ami civic gangrene. The .lay will arrive when the public will realize that of all ministries of grace at its service, one of the most valuable is the press. 1 Some day public leaders will learn that a representative of the press Visa public servant. V Some day they will realize that he or she who fears publicity, has something to hide. Some day the world will realize that closed shutters invariably defeat their own ends, for nothing in the world excites the ' curiosity of a journalist, as obscurantism. The functions of the press therefore are dearly defined: to give • publicity to current events, to give expression to public opinion, to ; educate and direct public opinion, and to act as a corrective and a curb upon wrong and evil. It is a duty obligatory upon the public, if it V would have efficient service, to render it possible for the press to ! properly perform its functions, ami impossible fir it to do otherwise or 1 less. I

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Si EXPRESSION Of GRATITUDE GIVEN FIRST- PRESBYTERIAN '• a kindly act w ins a ' m:Vn;iFt i. tribute OF PRAISE Dr. Willium Barnes Lower, pastor • of Holy Trinity Presbyterian j Church of , Philadelphia, desires through the medium of our columns - to. give public expression "oT— his i gratitude to the pastor and congreULtfon of the Ocean City Presbye:terian Church, for their generous r ami timely assistance, extended to* him and his congregation in the . circumstances, into whicp a sad t misfortune has plunged them. In March of this year, the entire I plant and auditorium of Holy Trinity Churth, was destroyed by . fire. Rev. Chas. F. N. Voegclin, with the consent of his official board, f placed the matter before the large . congregation a't the evening sers vice last Sunday, and a liberal free- , . will offering was received towards , 1 ; The Ocean City Building and Loan Association meets on the SECONB SATURDAY of I every month at 408 Eighth Street. Have you secured any of the FULL PAID stock bearI ing interest at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum? See R. Howard Thorn, the .Secretary, i who will explain. • Adv.

I the building - fund of the sister L Such an act as this, unquestion-] J | ably docs even more than the most I ( eloquent preaching, to commend I : Christianity to the world, f Apidied Christianity the worVl •'desirest too. long has it languished mmier a purely doctrinal and dog- \ ; malic regime. Dogma has its place ami purpose in the economy I of -the .church: but unleS* dogma ' is c.vemplifiefl in life and conduct, it will exercise a small ami. very r- feeble. iiilTucbpe upon the World, j n , It is to' he devoutly hoped, that' s the congregation of Holy Trinity j s Cliurch, and its distinguished, and; s gifted pastor, will soon be in pos- - session of a new church home. Mrs. Lower ami her two daughts ers. Miss Mary, and Miss Ruth si-Lower, are summering in the city, 1 e at the Bellcvue Hotel, where fhey .1 will remain until September 6th. Dr. Lower is occupying his owrf e pulpit during August, returning to I lj»e city over the week-end. y . o 1 SENTINEL WANT ADS PAY ij 1 * * ■ ' PIPE FITTING and REPAIRING Done by expert mechanics Reasonable Write A. Sentinel Office Are you seeking a Kighft understanding of Truth?; Read "Ths Plain Talk Series" By W. W. WALTER , Top Floor 705 Moorlyn Terrace

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