Guilty Conscience

Guilty Conscience?

Said Thomas A. Edison: " I wish that the newspapers would print more of the kind of thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than it organized a 245-mile endurance motorcycle race, open to all. The largest publishing concern in the world broke all distribution records during 1922. The largest publishing concern is the Government Printing Office, Washington, and it put out more than 55,000,000 bound volumes and pamphlets--an increase of 6,000,000 over 1921. The Louisville Courier-Journal, made famous by the late Henry Watterson, by no means confines itself to the narrow bounds of Kentucky. Hear it fight North Carolina's battles:

" Each time the President goes on one of these golf-hunting trips of his to Indian River in Florida, newspapers report that: ' President Harding is passing through North Carolina.' Why is it that the President persists in ' passing through' the Old North State? Why is it that he doesn't stop off there?"

F. Opper, cartoonist for Mr. Hearst and originator of the " Happy Hooligan" series, has dropped into the habit of portraying Uncle Sam in skirts.

The New York Globe described Hiram Johnson as "the Eamon de Valera of California."