The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-17

than print news of such a sort
 On the third page was the column given to music: amusements. He said he thought 1t necessary that with the list of theatricals at the theaters the situation of the theaters should be given in such large city as New York. He then read the first an announcement thus: Academy of Mu- sic, Fourteenth street and Irving Place. S:15, The Great Divide, with Henry Miller and Edith Wynne Mat thison. Crude melodrama admirably acted Now, if you want to go see that. you may"
 He said he thought it far better to rehearse the thoughts of the banquets of the country, which were often of vital importance, rather than fill up the paper with accounts of a butcher killing his wife, and so one of the columns on this third page was head ed The Postal Board.
 We won't dwell upon the obit- Iaries," he said leaving the page People have to get married and die."
 He laid great stress upon column headed: Special Notices" such as is maintained by the London Times and Post and where matters of immediate social importance or subsidiary public interest can be put where they will be sure to be read by all. Curiously enough at the head of the column there was the statement that the number sold yesterday" by the paper was 9sS.
 The editorial page was taken up last. MT. Harvey showed the necessity of often having long editorials but he said they would be read when it was real ized that in them was contained all that would be ever said upon the paper upon the question treated of. He said the ideal paper should not be the parti- san paper Why should our papers," he said, print editorials headed: Vote for Taft and saying that everybody should follow Taft because he Is the greatest man in the country. They should prove editorially that Mir. Taft Is the man for the place. They should provide their readers with convincing arguments to bring others to the same point of view"
 Mir. Harvey called attention to cor rection made in the news of the day before. He said the papers of the country are too afraid of taking back what they have said. One of the most obnoxious features of the present news paper" he said, lis the maintaining of a spirit of omnipotence, suspicion of mystery as to how news is obtained. There is no mystery about 1t. It is in- famous to refuse to take back an er- TOT. No paper can expect to be per- fectly accurate. Not to admit them when the occur is 10 be immoral, inde- cent, ungentlemanly.
 He then read a criticism Of his pa- per as published edltorlally in the New York Times, in which 1t was said that MT. Harvey gave his readers little knowledge of men as units, of human nature. He answered his critic by H. frustrating from the news of the day selected, February 29, when columns were given to murder of an ex-crim- final by saloon keeper and of a bit of scandal cabled over from Paris. Both these matters were concerned with human nature but 1t was foolish 10 suggest that they be included In an ideal paper. In that connection he took occasion to say: Tt is fact that cavlegran. simply because 1t is a ca- blegram and expensive, costing possi- bly, ten cents word is almost certain of being published in a newspaper in New York. Any idiot in Paris can get what he wants in a New York paper when news of much greater value at home are crowded out simply because they did not come by cable.
 Then followed his answer to the Hartford Courants editorial headed; An Abuse of Hospitality already re- ferred to- The editorial he read entire. It criticised Mir. Harvey for having ac- cepted a Yale lectureship and then coming here with paper criticisng two recipients of Yale degrees. Taft and Roosevelt, one of them a member of the Yale corporation. MT. Harvey said he did not consider his paper criticised Mir. Taft; he had urged his nomination for presidency. As for Roosevelt what he said about him as connected with Augustus Caesar had been just the semblance suggested by Mir Roosevelt himself That is an H. lustration," he said holding up the Courant's editorial, "of a suggestion I made the other night, namely, that one of the most essential elements of a journalist is the ability to apprehend a correct point of view in regard to a subject. I hesitate to think 1t, but I