The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-10-12

WALTER H. PAGE ANDTHE FORUM

WALTER H. PAGE AND THE FORUM.
In the New York HeraM of Sunday
is an article of two columns length
touching the Forum and Walter H.
Page, its editor. Accompanying it is
a capital two-column cut of Mr..
Pages thoughtful and handsome face.
The sketch of the man and the analysis
of the magazine of which he is the
editor are done by discriminating
hand. Its proper position among the
periodicals of the day is assigned the
Forum in this article. This is the
opening paragraph:
The question being recently put to
Walter II. Page as to what was the pur-
he promptly replied: "TO provoke dis
GUS interest, in which the magazine is not
partisan but merely the instrument"
This terse and decisive phrase not only
defines the scope and character of a
periodical which occupies unique field
among American magazines, butt throws
almost a descriptive light upon the
young and wide-awake man who has
brought it to a comfortable and infucn-
tlal success.
For several years after leaving North
Carolina, now about ten years ago,
Mr. Page held a business connection
with the Forum. For three years past
he has been its editor, and the Herald
says "he is solely responsible for its
success. For five years after its
establishment it lost money heavily.
1t is now not only at the front among
contemporaneous publications, but is
very handsome property. Discussing
its character and purposes, the article
which we are quoting says:
1t is not a magazine which in any
sense runs itself. 1t is not made up of
the bushels Of contributions heaped upon
the editorial desk monthly. The several
articles which appear in its table of
contents each month are, with few ex-
ceptions, conceived by the mind of the
editor, and obtained by him from au-
thorities upon the subject, or from dis
tinguished controversialists upon one or
the other side OF question under public
discussion.
Under this energetic management the
Forum exhibits a spirit of enterprise not
cOmmO n ~ found among magazines OF its
scope and nature. No expedition is too
expensive for it to undertake, provided
that the end to be accomplished is sui
tcently useful.
With regard to the question of currency,
long before it reached the present acute
stage the Forum began the publication OF
a systematic series of explanations OF
money and finance, many OF which have
been republished in pamphlet form and
used us tracts, so that the ticancial
students OF every part OF the country
have come to look to it for the most
authoritative information of this nature.
This sentence contains high praise
of the editor of this world wide-known
magazine:
His object is to promote helpful and
broad discussion, and in this field he has
probably accomplished more than any
other one man.
Mr.. Page, as everybody knows, is a
North Carollnian. He is a native of
Cary, Wake county, and is 81 years
old. He was educated--in part-at
Johns Hopkins University and was one
of the first fellows Of that institution,
having won the Greek fellowship under
Prof. Gildersleeve. He has held con-
nection at various times with the
Boston Posi-, Springfield Republican,
New York E0ening Post, New York
WorM, and one of the Brooklyn
papers. He came back to North Caro-
lima early in the Sos, established the
State Chronicle, afterwards sold it to
Mr.. Josephus Daniels and returned to
New York. He is a very able man
and highly cultivated one beside,
and has been fortunate in finding the
opportunity for the exercise of his
gifts in particular line of endeavor
where they show for their worth. We
are very proud of him and of the fame
he has won and is winning, and proud
that the justly high position which the
Forum occupies before the world is
due to the genius of North Caro-
lnian.-Charlotte Observer.