" No Editorials"

During the New York pressmen's strike, when the metropolitan dailies were published in combined form*, they carried no editorials.

"Now you can see,"; exclaimed the public ironically, " what the newspapers think is important! The editorials go, but the comic strips and the scandal stories stay." "Now you do not see," answered the newspapers. " We have been printing combined papers. News is news; it belongs to all of us. But our opinions are individual. It never would do to print Republican editorials in a paper carrying several Democratic journals among its printed titles-- or vice versa. We combined our acts; we could not mingle our personalities."

*Each paper was printed with its accustomed type, headlines, etc. But, instead of its own name, there appeared the heading: THB COMBINED NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS--with the names of all the New York dailies following.