Elizabeth City, Dec. 19—W.O. Saunders, for more than 16 years editor and publisher of the newspaper The Independent, has accepted a position on the staff of Collier’s The National Weekly, and his services will be at the disposal of that great national periodical from now on.
Mr. Saunders was in New York last week and accepted the position with Collier’s to become effective at once. Returning home Saturday, Mr. Saunders went back to New York Tuesday of this week. He will be home again next week and will be home frequently, promising that he will always keep close to The Independent and that the new connection he has found shall not mean the loss of his personality in the editorials and special articles that have always made this newspaper an extraordinary local newspaper. The fact is, Mr. Saunders has given a large part of his time to Collier’s this year without sacrificing The Independent; his new connection simply means that he will give more time to Collier’s. It doesn’t mean that he will make New York his home; his home will be Elizabeth City, just as Raleigh was the home of Josephus Daniels while Mr. Daniels was for eight years in the Cabinet of President Wilson as Secretary of the Navy. Like Mr. Daniels, Mr. Saunders will leave most of the details of the management and editing of his paper to his employes.
From page 5 of The Goldsboro News, Saturday morning, December 20, 1924
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