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...justice to his readers, his employers and his own conscience, Mr. Mapel had a task which few newspaper editors would have coveted. He started with a straight Associated Press dispatch from Washington leading the du Ponts to the witness stand. The evening edition that day carried a story written by one of its own men. It was studiously colorless, except for identifying the du Ponts as makers of "the high explosives that to a great extent enabled the Allied armies to win that great conflict...
...your article captioned "Soul's Helmsman," p. 22, issue of August 13, when you mention the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the late Joseph Pulitzer, founder, and his son Joseph, and review briefly its growth to its present prestige, how could you leave out the name of the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Joseph Sr. and Joseph Jr. for 50 years in the building of this great newspaper...
...refer to George S. Johns, fighting editor, grand old man among American journalists. Thirty-five years "Editor of the Editorial Page" of the Post-Dispatch and at present very much alive and enjoying the position of associate editor of that paper...
TIME is glad to pay belated tribute to able Father George Sibley Johns. Short, genial, brilliant Editor Johns, now 76, still turns out an occasional editorial for the Post-Dispatch. He joined forces with the elder Pulitzer when, as editor of an opposition paper, he conducted a vigorous editorial campaign to aid Pulitzer's suit against his partner, Charles H. Jones. He went to the Post-Dispatch in 1883, served as dramatic critic, city editor, managing editor, editor of the editorial page...
Your splendid story about the Post-Dispatch in your Aug. 13 issue will be gratefully received by many St. Louisans who will be proud to see that paper get a measure of the national recognition to which it is entitled...