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

ond lecture in the present series of Bromley lectures at Yale in Lampson Hall last evening before a large and attentive audience. The lecture was of a more informal nature than the one delivered by him last Thursday night, it being entirely extemporaneous. MT. Harvey first took up his sample copy of The Bromley Morning News" in detail. He showed what he believed were its advantages These included condensation, attractive makeup, good paper, clear type, omission of all news that is not general or is offensive for one reason or another and an editorial policy entirely independent in politics.
 Mir. Harvey then answered number of his critics, Of Editor Charles Hop kins Clark of the Hartford Courant, whose editorial asserting that Mir. liar vey transgressed the proprieties in criticising Roosevelt and Taft, he said:
 
 sertIon made last week when I said: No amount of practice can imbue a sterile spirit with an appreciation of humour. Mir. Harvey referred to edi- torlals in this paper ana in the New York Times which criticised his asser- ton that journalism could be taught in other places than newspaper offices, He said that his critics simply made statements but put forward no argu- ments. He made the suggestion that possibly some college might establish a training school for the profession of journalism (he used the word "profes- son," he said. advisedly) where trained men of the highest type would teach students. He named a tentative board which contained the names of some of the most prominent men of the day in journalistic work. And he asked wheth- CT it was not to be supposed that with such teachers as these young men could be taught journalism a hundred times better than they could be in any news paper office. On this suggested staff
 
 New York Times; Col. Norris G. Os- born, of the Journal-Courier: Col. S. B. Griffin, of the Springfield Republican; Arthur Warren. of the Boston Herald :, Chester Lord of the New York Sun, for managing editor and Mir Clark of the same paper for the position of night editor.
 Mir. Harvey began promptly at o'clock. Samples of the Bromley Morning News had been distributed to all who attended at the doors He promptly took up the paper and set forth it's many advantages. He said in part:
 ''I have no set speech tonight. have only as text a copy of the pa per you have in your hands. As I said the other night, I will take up at this time the practical side of the question,
 First off, understand that this pa per is one for general consumption. A general newspaper Is not one which deals In financial. literary. agricultural or any other special subjects of that nature. If is sample of the paper that the average man might want, the pa per that he might feel contained all the news that 1t was essential for him tc know. It should he supplemented by another specialized paper which takes up his individually vital topics. If our reader Is a stockbroker, he will buy in addition financial paper published ir the Wall street district. If he is a sporting man he will buy a sporting paper
 Now it is my conviction that the people who depend upon the news papers for their information are fore cd to waste too much time. Be ginning in the morning they buy pap CTS all day long. Understand that am speaking more especially of New Workers just at present rather than New Haveners. There is scarce. ly man on the elevated trains or the suhways but has his paper and who l does not buy fresh one at every | opportunity, each new one made uI of from sixteen to twenty-four pages of which he seldom reads more thar the first two or three. The other pages are disregarded. That simply means that all of our newspapers art | trying to cover all the news of ere ation and the only possible result tha there can be is the devastation of oul | forests. 1 venture to say that three per cent. of you never look at thu last two-thirds of the New Yorl papers. That means a vast waste O material. To accomplish that doel not permit of the use of suitable mediums, proper paper, and good ink They can only give quantity in tn, competition for quality. The resul is only a very badly printed sheet ol very bad paper.
 Constant reading among us cage Americans on the railroad and elevat ed trains and everywhere else be comes an eye-destroyer. The grea increase in the business of our ocu lists of late is laid to the badly print l fCo,4inued on Second papa