Editorial Commentary

 

September 19, 1949, Twin City News-Record

In what I promise will be the last word on this newspaper's birth, I offer a part of the editorial section of the paper, welcoming the reader to its birth.  While it is a pep talk for the Twin Cities, or "Good Towns" as the editor playfully calls them, I find it more interesting to have included the thought processes that occurred over naming the newspaper.  I cannot imagine a name like The Neenah-Menashian, though it DOES have a unique ring to it.  Perhaps if we'd have heard the term "Menashian" bandied about more often, it wouldn't have sounded so far-fetched.  But I DO like that the idea was an homage to The New Yorker.