John Dewey: “As a citizen-voter each one of these persons is, however, an officer of the public.”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.

That and that only gives reality to public opinion.

Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.