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AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS AND REFORM
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ficient plan for the city's benefit, he could count on the heartiest help and cooperation of the Star.

"Those to whom this trusteeship has fallen recognize the heavy responsibility and obligation now theirs. In meeting this responsibility and this obligation they are depending on his associates on the stafif who are in complete sympathy with his ideals, and who will have the active management of the paper. It is the one aim of the trustees and associates alike that his spirit shall direct the Star's policy, and that it shall continue to fight, as he would have it fight, for righteousness and justice and the common good, and for the greater, nobler city of his dreams."[1]

  1. Biography of William Rockhill Nelson, 182, 183.