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

(Continued from First Page.) ed newspapers. Mr Harvey was wearing a pair of spectacles at the time with big black-rimmed lenses and he looked quizzically about the room at his auditors as he spoke the last sentence.
 There is nothing scientific, noth- ing sane in the method of developing a tendency to get a superficial knowl- edge of the news of the day only, but that is the only result at present when there is so much padding in the papers that must be waded through to get at the kernel of the news. We do not get news. It Is in great part gossippy frivolities, not bearing on what most concerns the average read CT and his affairs.
 You will notice that my paper is marked to sell for two cents. To please the eye and save the sight 1t must cost that. much. A good ap- pearance with good type and paper necessitates that price.
 You will notice that this is not an employment agency newspaper. There are at present In New York two or three papers that print the legiti- mate matters of the employment agencies to the extent of ten or twenty pages quite frequently. That matter should be left to the employment agency papers or the agencies them selves.
 As for the size, I am not prepared to say that four pages would cover the news of the day always. It might take eight infrequently. But I am sure that four pages was enough upon the day that I selected"
 Mir. Harvey then took up some of the general features of the paper. He showed that the upper left hand corner of the front page was the one on which the most important news should be placed since that part of the paper was most conspicuous when it lay on the news stands. Conse- quently he said he put the article which had to do with the throwing of various bombs at some kings and thing in the left hand column, con- sidering it the most important news item of the day. He showed that the article about the Oriental bank was given like conspicuousness because 1t interested those who had their money in that bank certainly and n- directly every New York bank de- positor since there were so many banks there and all of them were un- der suspicion at the time" The third "spread-head" was saved to exploit a beat" or scoop" as he said. IL was in the case in hand an exclusive interview of importance with President Roosevelt in Wash ington.
 Nearly every article on tho page was mentioned one by one. the im- portance or it's relative news value being explained The article about students saving patients from a burn ing hospital will be of interest to our Connecticut readers" he explained making reference to story of the recent Grace hospital fire. Perhaps 1t was a slip. but it caused quite tit tie about the room when he turned the page without mentioning one article, that headed Five Babies at a Birth
 But there was one more feature on the first page. that in the extreme right-hand column. headed: Spirit Of the News" Mir. Harvey explained Il as his idea that there the news-inter- preter should analyze what the news columns printed. The man who wrote the column should be of clear insight and infallible conclusions. He should be able. furthermore, to express his convictions with force enough to win all 10 them
 MT Harvey then turned to the last page amid the cyclonic sound of many rustling papers as his auditors follow ed him. It was one for advertise ments only, and at once the business editors and advertising men sat UT in their seats and began 10 take not lee. "I believe I have put my ads ir so that they do not wreck my paper completely, as I am apt to doubt some of our papers are. A fourth of a col umn here would be worth a full page in an ordinary twenty-four page paper. The ads must be restricted You must not accept ads that do moi