[President Heber J. Grant]
Joseph M. [?] Cannon called and said that a couple of editorials had been handed to him by the direction of the First Presidency.
I said, 'We have not sent any editorials over for you, Joseph.'
He said, 'I was told you did.'
I said, 'Who wrote them?'
He said, 'Joseph Fielding Smith wrote one of them.' Broyher (sic) Joseph Fielding Smith happened to come into the office at the time and he said Brother Bennion requested a couple of editorials from Brother Widtsoe and himself and that he wrote them.
Joseph Cannon doubted the wisdom of having Church editorials, as we rely on Gentile patronage, etc., and thought that everything of a Church nature should be in the Church Section.
We told him we did not think it would hurt our subscriptions if we had some good Church editorials.
He said of course anything we wanted he wanted. He stayed quite awhile.
I could not help feeling that perhaps he had heard we had decided to release him, but we did not tell him so. ...
[Diary of Heber J. Grant, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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