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...Views," but it does give indications of being a better paper for "News." It remains to be seen whether the New York public will welcome at 5¢ an evening paper distinguished for its news chiefly. If not, the burden of the mistake will be borne by Mr. Curtis' pocket-book...
...greatly augmented by dinner, theatre, and dance, or the "first cost practically the last" if he deems himself a conversationalist of sufficient ability to make an evening of movies attractive. The social worker actuated entirely by charitable motives will of course govern her preferences by her escort's pocket-book; and, after seeing everything in New York in the service of mankind will be a most capable "What's what in New York", able to suggest those amusements equally suited to his disposition...
...impartial presenting of events--facts alone--in the news columns. Some periodicals have carried this reform to the advertising pages; they investigate the truth of what they publish. And why not? The day has come when one looks askance at the garish appeals to one's pocket-book, when reliable advertising has become a tremendous factor in a manufacturer's success. The reform is in its first stages, for there is much of the old time trickery still in evidence; but the progress that has been made, and will be made, proves the new meaning of the old adage...
...outside, world, to be sure, but all classes are there. You have your millionaires' sons, your week-enders, those who merely make the campus a G. H. Q. for their social activities; but you also have sons of butchers and bakers and candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears...
...most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...