Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-12-26

Pnyver NJ the Press is Declining
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..sSOm0 New Ideas Are
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& NJ, VII, 1,s u Alfred Harms
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con Daily Mail, MIC is a passenger on
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81 tnes1S oi't' Nine S
Gle on What he calss The simultaneous
S,svs,,a,s,. Of ths Twentieth Century,
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heeh ths'es ~ y ssss'
rows Iaperss hlther'''.we arg saili.S'liete'ss
al the fringe of journalistic deNelop-
in1ent. OF newspaper illustration, ne
SAYS:
An occasional rs " paper il lustlatioil,
81 il can be PREF rly produced. IS no
suuubt a good rhing and Is Appreciated
as helpful by the eader but many of
the present-day Illustrations are quite
unnecessary, and are merely given 8
Il matter of habit. a, becau Sc rival Jour
mails ussSthem, OF ven for the less ur-
gent reasons that there is Il certain,
amount OF space 70 be decorated and
artists or photographers are To be Kept
occupied. No daily journal, Which relies
principally upon rs Illustrations has
hsen, in any real sense, an oyerwhelm-
ing success
Mr. Harmswortl axes exception TO
the hopelessly clumsy shape of the on
binary new spaper
With the newspapers Of the whole
civilized world before me he says,
zach Week look III vain for any great
ard Impressive stroke of originality or
le.aring Ne still cling 10 the clumsy
ans! awkward shape IN which our news
aI.lrsa are issued. and the man who has
attempted 10 manipulate one Of them
on windy day viii best appreciate
the force pf my remarks BY the use
~ improved machinery It WOULD be pos
5. iple 70 issue the newspaper, Of he fn-
tiire in what $ obvious Is proper from
: small, portable and neatly indexed
Ilblicatlon.
Among the newspapers that are In
nay opinion now making progress, set
ting aside he entire lack Of scomnierc;sll
fl'aralitys are some Of the French jour
sn they have always been noted for
ne hig n literary excel lence The ai,oliy :
itiplis ditorial has never been a partic-
l.lariy strong feature Of the F'ferNh
Tens ~ 1per: 10 Y, ether hand. pure Hit
s.f'iit ire. n me shape Of ht.tion or cflti-
Iseism, has been one OF its chief cilarac-
tsiisties.
The power OF the press IS not what II
l5i.sed 70 be.Sis MIR Harrlls wortf oninr
ien- his. ne SAYS. is especially true Of
lrsnEiand. whsre the editorial eaders
!" nicn was former y read and 1uoted5by
~. men OF Intelligence Is now scarcely
Glanced at The great cry IS for news.
slSut;e even N connection with the dis
ssssta ton sqf news, the pres in Mr..
ia IS worth s usigmsilt has lost repu-
eaflcn: iisssays;
l.atsls., there has begun kind Of in
fs-rnecine warfare between the vaf'ous
sigans 81 the press, by which they very
azsrsely injure thesir owf. positions and
that OF flelrs Iaponents An item IF
s'ews published IN zone paper IS inn1edi-
stely discredited in another, and the
public naturally enough. comes TO the
Isopinion that newspapers are usually in
accurate, and too often dismiss per
fectiy correct statement as mere news
| paper IA X.
| Mr. Harmsworfh pays a high tribute
tc the press OF the United States as be-
ing in one respect. far m advance OF
the press OF his own country.
ne question: he says what 70 put
before them Is one that calls for the
ksenest acumen and best Judgment or
The part OF the newspaper director
Here. undoubtedly, the press Of ths
Tinted states is in advance of that 81
Great Britain. such newspaper leaders
as pulitzer Dana, Bennett, Hearst
Raymond Jones. shilds Msdill. LAW:
son, Russell, Cummings Taylor Hal
stead, Patterson DeYoung, siHgefly
eodkin Greeley, Mckelwsay, Waiter
son and Wilbur Storey have had bu
few collnterparts With US. The instincs
4 tiat tells what Is news. and how tn
Pubic will best take II, is not given z
any writer There is greater art II
feeling the pulse Of the people
Predicting what the Journals of th'
4 Twentieth century Will be, he says:
fee certain that the newspaper
TT the twentieth century VIII be draw
4 into the vortex CT combination and zen
ll.alization. In fact, given the man. th
nj fe.I c,ai. i1v,