The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-05
7I9Ll.o Is9LloRDI IBURNHAM BUR \ 4. on THE PRESS,

Lord Burnham on taking the chair at the annual
/ dinner Of the Newspaper Fund in London the other
evening, was happily able To announce gift of $780,,
600 70 the fund for newspaper workers from Lady
Campbell Clark member of the well known family
I that created and own The London Telegraph, and
herself the widow of its longnoted chief representa-
tive in Paris In his remarks leading up to this an
nouncement his ordship, who has been connected
actively with the press for nearly half a century,
made, some observations upon the growing care and
anxiety of journalistic workers and the heavier bur
dens they are now compelled to BEAR resulting from
the changed conditions of newspaper making In re-
cent years Formerly he pointed out it was the duty
of the newspaper to present photograph OF the
interesting incidents within limited area while now
nothing less than biograph with all the vivid in
eesSant movement of masses in all parts of the world
is required Such an extension of the scope of the
newspaper has enormously added to the wear and
tear of body and mind on the part of those who pro-
duce it. To illustrate these changes Lord Brunham
added:
The other day turned back to the date of the
declaration of war between France and Germany
I think it was July Is, 1870 WE'LL if you will look
that in all from every part of the continent and from
America, you got about two columns of telegraphic
matter.
Now compare that with the morning following
the news of the definite outbreak of hosttes between
Russia and Japan. Why, within few hours you
will find in the papers six seven columns of tele
graphic matter from every part of the world; you
will find lono oonp1 ar4ioloS m, +bo
and fleets of the two powers; you will find accurate
maps, which must have been prepared with infinite
labor, and you will find descriptions of the command
ers of the two services of both the powers.
All this change in the service newspapers now
render the people, as compared with that in 1870 is
rarely erazed by those outside of newspaper Offices
As matter of fact so partial are all to the past
and so apt are most people Of middle or old age to
become prasers Of bygone times that credit is rarely
given for what has been one Of the most significant
features Of the progress of the age. Not only has
this progress been steady, but newspapers Of today
vying with each other in devsing new ways and
of increasing the fulness and completeness of
the daily world blograph they lay on the breakfast
table, in most cases at far greater expenditure toI
themselves and less cost to the reader than the COM
paratively limited newspaper of 30 years ago.
This change, moreover, is not confined to the news
part of the paper The wider vision and the compre-
hensve funess Of these diaries Of world events leave
a heavier burden upon the editorial writer Con-
eerning the latter Lord Burnham, quoting conver
saton of Dean Stanley referred to the leader writer
as a of great intellect waiting for subject on
which to expend all his force-the attitude Of the
crouching tiger, ready to spring While the Amer
ican leader writer is not inclined to take himself so
seriously, certainly the demands Of the cosmopolitan
press Of today, as compared with the merely metro
pOtan press of yesterday or the comparatively pro
vincia press in the days before the Atlantic cable
afford opportunity for the exercise of the best trained
intellect and the command of vastly wider range
of knowledge than was deemed necessary in news
paper work 30 years ago.
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