Excerpt from The World War: An Editorial Record of American Participation

History is a chronicle of events with the comment and interpretation of the historian. The daily newspaper is a history of the day, a chronicle of its occurrences, with comment and interpretation in its editorial columns. The events so recorded are for the most part of ephemeral interest, and the editorial comment upon them seldom has any greater permanence. But in the events of the day history in the larger sense is always making. Time is but a succession of days and all history is founded upon diurnal things. In the events of each day, therefore, there is, or may be, matter of lasting interest, and during the last four years the daily newspaper has been the chronicler and historian of prodigious movements of undying import. But the issues of a newspaper have no permanence in themselves. They go out to their readers today and tomorrow they are waste. The impressions they make may be lasting, but their words are lost, save for the bound files preserved in the newspaper offices and in the libraries, and an occasional clipping for a personal scrapbook.

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