The Savannah morning news., 1900-12-26
THE COMING PAPER
ENGLAND'S GREAT JOURNALIST ON
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IMPROVEMENT is POSSIBLE.
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MAJESTIC DEN EtOPMENr.

tury-SinElr Newspapers Niit Mo-
nopoIIse LarEe Fields with Their
own Telegraph and Gable Lines
aud Special Trains.
New York. Dec. sS.-Alfred Harmsworth.
editor and proprietor Of the London Daily
Man who IS passenger on the Teutonic.
due in New York tomorrow has con-
trlbuted 10 The January number o. the
North American Review an article OF
what ne cnis Tho Simultaneous NcWF-
papers OF the Twentieth Century" Mr
Hsrmsworth expresses che ononion that
In spite Of all the progress that has been
made IN the development of the ueNspa-
I-ers hitherto We are sun merely at the
fringe OF journalistic Developments OF
I newspaper Illustration he says.
An occasional new spaper Illustration.
II Il can be properly produced ls no douh,
a good thing. and Is appreciated as help.
fui by the reader. but many OF tne present
day Illustrations are quito unnecessary.
aud are merely given as matter ot hab-
Il or because rival Journals use them. or
even for the less urgent reasons that
there Is certain amount Of space TO boz
decorated and artists OF photographers to
be KEEP. occupied. No daily journal which
relies principally upon las Illustrations.
has been. IN any sense. an overwhelming
success"
Mr.. Harmsworth takes exception to the
hopelessly clumsy shape OF the ordinary
newspaper
With the newspapers OF the whole civ
ilized world before me-" he says. each
week ] look IN vain for any great inn
pressive strokc OF originality or daring
We stlll cling to the clumsy and awkward
/ shape in which our newspapers are b.
sued. and the man who has attempted 10
manipulate one OF them on a windy day
will best appreciate the force Of my re-
marks. BY the use OF improved machin-
cry 4 would be possible % issue the news
paper Of the future Ia what Is obviously
hs proper form-a small portable and
/ neatly indexod publication
The power Of the press is not what o.
used 20 be- is Mr. Hsrmsworth's opinion
/ This, he Gays. IL especa aily true of Eng
land. where che editorial or leader which
, was formerly read and quoted by al men
4 of Intelligence. is now scarcely glanced
a.. The great cry Is for news But
even ia connection with the dissemina lon
/ of news the press. tn SIR. Harms worth y
/ Judgment. has lost reputation 10 eave.
Lately there has begun a kind of in
| ternecinc warfare between the various or
| gans of the press. by which they very
/ largely iniurc their own positions and
/ that Of their opponents An item Of news
/ published In one paper is Immediately dis
credited in another. ami the public. nat
uraily enough comes 10 the opinion that
/ newspapers are usually Inaccurate and
I too often dismiss perfectly correct state
ment as mere newspaper talk
Mr.. Harmsworth pays high tribute to
/ the press % the United States. a. being
Ia one respect. FAR in advance of the press
/ OF his own country.
/ The question" hc says. what to nut
/ before tho public. and In what manner 20
I pace IL before Them o. one that calls for
/ che keencst acumou and best Judgment
/ on the part OF the newspaper director.
/ Here. undoubtedly. the press Of tho
/ United states is IN advance Of that Of
! Great Britain. such newspaper leaders
/ as Pulitzer Dana. Bennett. Hearst. Ray
| mond. Jones. Childs. Medil Lawson. Rus
sell. Cumming Taylor, Halstead. Pat
I terson. Deioung. Singleriey. Godkiu.
! Greedy. Mckelway. Wntterson and VIII
bur Storey have had but few counter
| parts with Us. The instinct that cells
what is news. and how the public viii
best take it. is not given to every writer
! There is a grca uU in feeling the pulse
Of the people"
PresidctinE what che Journals Of tho
l twentieth century will be- he SAYS.
| u feel certain that the newspaper or
/ the twentieth century viii be- drawn into
the vortex Of combination aud ccnfriilza-
Y lion fu fact piveu the man, the cari-
/ tai. the organization and the occasion.
/ there seems 10 be- no reason why one or
two newspapers may not presently dom
/ mate great sectiohs OF the United States
or almost the whole OF Great Britain. In
/ other words where there are now a mul-
/ titude OF newspapers-good. bad ana in-
] dinereuf-there will then be- one or .w0
great Journals. The method hy whi-h
such Journals would he established wouli
/ BE- precisely those employed in the forma-
ton OF the ordinary trust Possessing its
own cables wires. dispatch boats ana
| special trains. the simultaneous newspap-
cr concern would soon have It's own paper
mills, printing ink factories, machinery,
shops and the like.
THE simultaneous newspaper would
represent a standard OF excellence which
| has never before been attained. and wish
| its vast resources Il would be able 60
carry ont on an unprecedented scale enter
prises outside Of the strict newspaper