The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-02-10
DR.. PARkHURST
after 4 BACKER
Hs Is Looking for Somsons TO
Start an Ideal Newspaper.
WANTS 3 OR 4 MILLIONS.
He Would Run the Paper on Rock Bottom
Principles. and Print Nothing but
important News.
WANTS 3 OR 4 MILLIONS.

New York, Feb. Io.-Dr. Parkhurst
wishes some man with millions would es-
tablish a newspaper to be conducted on
lines considered by the minister TO be
ideal"
II have been entirely misrepresented
by the reports in the press recently. said
DIR. Parkhurst. II am going to edit no
daily. but i am hoping that some man
will come forward with three or four
millions OF dollars for starting the ideal
newspaper.
THE Journal have in mind is one that
will tell the truth and print only the Inn
portant and necessary news Of the
world. 1 would have a daily newspaper
employing men so carefully trained and
experienced in news gathering that when
one Is interviewed he will not be misrep-
resented.
I'm my own experience when have
sometimes declined TO discuss some par
tcular subject, / have read an extended
report next day of an interview with me.
and every word was imaginary and false.
The statement given to the newspapers
few days ago that had a syndicate OF
capitalists behind me and was about to
publish a daily newspaper illustrates
what / mean, and proves the necessity
for the ideal journal.
What l did say was that l wished
knew of some man with three or four
millions of dollars who would establish
such a newspaper.
PLAN ONCE CONSIDERED.
at Is true some wealthy men were con-
siderng this proposition two years ago,
there was delay, and finally the en-
terprise was abandoned. But this does not
change my views on the subject am
more than ever convinced that there Is a
broad field-an absolute necessity-for the
ideal paper. II Is only a question OF time
when capital will be ready TO invest In II"
Here is DR.. Parkhurst's description or
what the ideal. up-to-date newspaper
''I would have IL conducted with as
much enterprise and wide reaching ta-
cilities for presenting the important news
best Journals OF the world today. The
ideal paper must be enterprising, other
wise il Is dead before II is born.
be accurately given. 1t should be no
more tampered with than the market re-
ports In all papers, regardless of the
editors private opinion of the prices,
they have to be truthful Now, when
the same accuracy Is observed with re-
gard to other matters as Is % onsersea ra
going TO know what they are reading.
often hear people say. i find this ana
that I'm the paper, therefore Know IL Is
not true.
'of course such statement is MEX
aggeration. and yet there is large eie-
"The ideal paper, of course. must con-
tain the news. What would this ideal
paper do. for instance, with press reports
which come in when there Is no imme-
date way OF verifying their accuracy
and thus get printed?
CONDEMNS PADDING"
"It is one thing to be liable TO error,
as anybody is: IL Is quite another thing
TO deliberately pad your news when
you are going to do II for purpose ana
because the carrying out OF that purpose
will pay.
'It Is unquestioned. or rather an as
that ahe Repe are o
or five or six papers. and III man wants
to know what Is going on he has got to
read them all. and then he has got To
strike a mean average between the lot.
After ALL you cannot pin your faith on
any one paper. and you must strike an
1t is the law OF averages the reader has
got to respect.
How would such a paper classify the
news? What should il leave out?''
II do not know that ! would necessar-
ly exclude a paper from identifying it
self with given party. ! am not sure
that would but the object of a partisan
paper now iS not to tell the whole truth.
but TO tell only such portions OF the truth
as will be favorable to the party repres-
ented. II, for example, YOU are repu-
blican and want to get the whole tEuth
you have to get IL by reading something
besides reading republican paper.
FAvoRs HIGH PRICE.
'The ideal paper will cover all the
ground covered by the New York papers
II would be equal TO any OF them I'm re-
sources 1t would be very foolish to un-
dertake to run n paper in any other way.
Ii would be dead before II was born.
Now let me give you an idea. In the
summer l read the London Times. In
way it Is a slow paper. 1t has not the
enterprise that some OF our New York
papers have At the same time, when
/ read the London Times, feel. as a rule,
that ] am reading what II true. have
not got 10 read another paper the same
day I'm order TO find out what II going
on in the world. l recognize the fact
that Il is not as enterprising, but ! get
more out of II than do out OF the New
York papers.
''One OF the most unfortunate things
that occurred to the reading public was
the cutting down OF the price Of our daily
papers Now. had 10 pay six cents for
the London Times ] would gladly pay
six cents today for good paper here.
7 said at the time were going TO lose
lust as much I'm quality as we have gain