Image 14 of The Washington times (Washington [D.C.]), June 27, 1917, (Editorial Page)

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fWPt EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE WASHINGTON TIMES JUNE 27 19T7 WASHINGTON EDGAIt D SHAW Publisher Entered m econd tlui matter at the Postofflce at Washington PiQ Published Every Evening Including Sundays By the Washington Times Company Munsey Building Pennsylvania Ave Ona Year Including Sundays J3B0 Sir Months J17S Three Months SOc WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 1917 What Is a Good Newspaper Here Is One Answer There Are Forty Others The ablest editor in the United States said There are forty ways of making a good and successful newspaper All I ask is tlrat you adopt and follow ONE of the forty ways Dont try to work forty ways at once A reader asks this newspaper to define GOOD newspaper work Here is one of forty possible definitions A good newspaper attends first to the most im portant work at hand Today that work consists in earnest support of those that must get us honorably out of this war Earnest support and friendly constructive criticism but earnest SUPPORT above all and the less criticism the better A good newspaper feels toward its readers the great body of them not a chosen few who can repay favors as an honest lawyer feels toward