The Function Of The Press In Society

News Is Like The Tilefish Which Appears In Great Schools Off The Atlantic Coast Some Years And Then Vanishes, No One Knows Whither Or For How Long. Newspapers Might Employ These Periods Searching For The Breeding Grounds Of News, But They Prefer To Fill Up With Stories About Kurdled Kurds Or Calvin Coolidge, Until The Banks Close Or A Hitler Marches, When They Are As Surprised As Their Readers.

Inconsiderate To The Last, Josef Stalin, A Man Who Never Had To Meet A Deadline, Had The Bad Taste To Die In Installments.

If The First Requisite For Writing Well About Food Is A Good Appetite, The Second Is To Put In Your Apprenticeship As A Feeder When You Have Enough Money To Pay The Check But Not Enough To Produce Indifference Of The Total.

The World Isn't Going Backward, If You Can Just Stay Young Enough To Remember What It Was Really Like When You Were Really Young.

A Louisiana Politician Can't Afford To Let His Animosities Carry Him Away, And Still Less His Principles, Although There Is Seldom Difficulty In That Department.