Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-28
NEWSPAPER or THE FUTURE
VIEWS of ALFRED c. HARMsvORTH
THE BRITISH PUBLISHER.
Believes That Brevity wfn BE Jour-
naIism's Motto I'm the TWEEN
tfeth Century.

Alfred c. Harmsworth, editor and pro-
prietor of the London Daily Mail and of
twenty-nine other publications In England,
including four daily newspapers. arrived in
New York city yesterday from England.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Harmsworth
and friend and servants. and proposes to
spend several months in the United States.
He readily consented to talk to a New
York Herald reporter on the subject of
journalism His meteoric career, from an
obscure amateur journalist fifteen years
ago, working for few pounds week, to
the present day, when he is muti-miilion-
aire, and. though only thirty-five years
old, one of the greatest publishers in the
world, has been without parallel
English journalism Revoiutfonized.
Mr.. Harmsworth has revolutionized the
journalism of England. His Daily Mail,
though only four years old. has the largest
circulation In the world-a circulation
greater almost than that of all of the
other London newspapers combined-print-
ing at the present time about twelve hun
dred and fifty thousand copies per day.
and with political influence correspond
iEgly great.
The reporter asked Mr. Harmsworth
what were some of the lessons he had
drawn from the remarkable experiences he
had passed through.
~ Is a Significant 1act SAD MT harms
worth lhat the Ieauihs Journals OF Eng
iaha' 'he tnled Safes aho ffauGe-I Ii
garo-have not been in any way affected
eltneF by what Gail 'he SIZE ''sea7e,
Which mas troun!eu SO many AlneilcStl
ne "spaper pr9ptteloIS' or ny IEuuGtloIl ION, II,
L!te price Oh tlteli oppoi'sIitS iiit i1oiu ,,
Times has been issued a. six cents daily
LOT nearly nan d cehtutH' anu az mat pIiCe
I. tdISIS SAceeus lou. zen VI 7lAtSet a'5'ss
II sens ABOUT eighly IhouSaflu copies Gay,
ana II Goes NOT vary one huiiuteu topIeS
from Gay 10 Hdy- -
IhHty years ago most Oh us oppoueutS
reduced lheir price 10 TWO cents. Lhdi uIu
not VERY the I1mes al al; Zen years ago
the size dsease' from Whlch me AIheIl-
can papers are now su1erlng, mace rs ap-
psafdice IN f4hsIdhu' we mao me SPScO@-
sl,v,,o ds,-z tt,eI,,n naees while nna Of ia
opponents issued sixteen pages. The only
people who did not know about II were
the IlneS people
Smallest London Daily
-Four years ago continued Mr.. Harms
worth Il came into the market with the
smallest daily paper in LOndon-eight
ra.,as for ono cant fourbt the over
- - -. -
grown L"o-ceHI pdperS-il"SL Vi IHeiH SUI
fering from the size disease with a paper
in which the news was all boiled down into
small paragraphs-ta blOid journalism. |
call it.
Il can say with modesty that the Daily
Mail despite the fact that 1t was opposed
to most of the traditions Of journalism
sDraug into an enormous popularity in
twenty-four hours The English people
were tired of long and sensa tionaI police
and divorce court reports They were tired
of long. dun, dreary house Of commons re
ports.
the tw0-cent papprs were puzzled what
to do Some OF them added yet more pages.
ne more PAGES liltS a,'4eu Iils qOichel Iett
va - number Of nages for, a small nrice we
said we will publish a paper from which
you can grasp all the news in minute
Inc puphc Itheu Ii'e proposition anu T[tE
~ - - - - S<' - -, -
~, t., 7,as,es q IA, ana fracIie7,+I,, ejt-a
oil ciehf
'
boy Printer
81 always had a pre9ilection for news
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VIII d " "i1" 'eLDi ~ ',Si '''S VIZ I'm
stances that decided his cholce OF PROBES
sion. and one OF the earliest toys Of my
rhidAood DAYS was q miniature DrfnfI,sr
r,~ass A. fourteen yyas editing q sch.1I
newspaper, and TWO years later. having
abandoned me idea o. iotieWIhs III my
80, h, -, r nj
rnagazlne writer-free lance. we cal, TN
London.
-0,'''
N.nc+I lhdt tne tFuIt'5oN III t"e pic -
wood pD,u and the substitution e n~ofeee
-,,g.5a wing far the old-fasbi,,na fahoYf,us
hand ts,,rL, would Inevitably l-qd r, rr,Grs
in rha ,1iblc9rfor, If r7e,,,sTar,r,-, ,,,,irt4Inr4
Of in those DAYS abta,ra1 ~ cditor.ql
nnsftiop I'm the office nf rho lllus-ratol J an
fnn News where ! was ahle T., Er,15y- b.
whole business
Has firsf Paper
at one and twenty / issued nv first
io,r,ra1-a weekly r1,bl,ca+for, ,.,Ilad Ar
- II, - -, -, r-,.
S"S'' mn ""9 l''e le"- io'iii"'i'+''l u I-ie
fortunes OF my family. rms pape" was
finally sold to a stock company IL six nil
Iinns of dollars and This year No danlara5
an annual dividend Of s, lm.tg3 Answers
~ tHc h'IAS oi outh@I you HdNS NJ Stl ~
The sunday nsners and iTs ,xissettcs ma
that of many Others of the sane kind, Is
one of the many reasons why 1t Is imposs!-
PIE 70 eSta?iiSh outiuas PdPe: III Eng aia
man 0ri,, ,.arv r,iy do ~ ys III ~
rule Of admitting no man over the age If
twenty-one. Every enploye nts the cnance
of becoming a partner"