The Princeton union., 1909-02-11

FdilO In JAN because OF q c1mpaign
story he never saw or heard of. and
this under a law more than eighty
years old, the public will take tie true
measure Of the case. It will serve q
good purpose, however, IL it discour-
ages the publishing of these reckless
fakes during campaigns.
Man of Wide Information.
AS for Joseph Pulitzer, the public
knows little about him, except that he
has founded new kind of journalism,
which many people regard as bad; that
he endowed a college of Journalism,
which most newspaper men regard as
q joke; that he is man of great in
tellectual power, of keen mind. wide
Information and retentive memory, and
that he spends much of his time in Eu-
rope. But that is only small part of
Pulitzer. Like most notable men, he is
an anomaly He built up great proper
ties, amassed fortune, and just at
the time he was i'm a position to enjoy
life fate struck out his sight and tore
to pieces his nerves. SO that he had no
capacity for enjoyment left Somebody
has said that the great work Of the
world has been done by invalids, and
If that be true Pulitzer is explained. I
suspect, however, that, like all other
sweeping statements, the idea that the
race has been carried forward by sick
people is about two-thirds phrasemak-
ing to one-third truth.
Another anomaly of Pulitzer is that
while he prints very noisy colored sup
plements he cannot himself stand
noise A London paper told with great
glee how the American editor took an
English house and was disturbed first
by bugler and then by a peacock.
Pulitzer sent one of his men to buy or
both bugler and bird, but without sue
cess. Then he moved.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1917,
Mr. Pulitzer came to the United
States in 1864, Immediately enlisted In
the Onion army and served till the end
OF the war. His parents were well to
do and had educated him by private
tutor, but the father lost all the prop
erty. and the boy was practically PEN
niless when landing i'm New York. He
slept more than one night i'm the pub
lie parks. After the war he went to
St Louis and became reporter on a
German paper, rising ultimately to the
position of managing editor and part
proprietor He was member Of the
legislature and became a spellbinder
of parts, speaking in English and Ger
man with equal facility. He had been
q supporter of Carl Schurz and Joined
the Greeley movement in 1872. going
as delegate to the Liberal Repub-
lican convention at Cincinnati. After
that he was a Democrat
Founded New journalistic School.
In 1878 Mr. Pulitzer bought some
afternoon papers in St Louis and COM
bined them in the Post-Dispatch,
which was successful from the start
In 1883 he took over the New York
World. a rundown paper of little
standing, and brought it to the front
in the same brilliant and sensational
manner 1t is bat just to say that Jo-
seph Pulitzer Is the founder of the
new school of Journalism usually
known as yellow, of which William r.
Hearst is a later and more glariHg dis
ciple-
In addition to his newspaper tri-
umphs. Pulitzer was elected to con-
gress. but resigned after few months
owing to broken health. 1t was at
about this time he lost his sight and
became little more than nervous
wreck Since then he has Travelled
about the world or has lived at one OF
his many homes. his one desire being
TO flee from the noise maker. Until
within a few years at least he kept In
close touch with his papers, sending
them unsigned cablegrams on all sorts
of subjects and bringing them up to
his own views of great questions and
policies With his corps of secretaries.
who read him papers, letters and books
Of French, German or English litera-
ture each day, he kept in touch with
the world from which his blindness
ISOLATED him. These secretaries were
his eyes and hands. The mind that di-
rected all was his OWL
Pulitzer has has sent scores of poor
young men to college and gave 81 .ON.-
600 to found school of Journalism in
Columbia university, with the promise
of second million when the school
was in working order.
W. *. Vanderbilt once said, Joseph
Pulitzer Is the most intelligent man
ever met" 1t required an intelligent
man to start the modern illustrated,
featured and display head newspaper,
and that Joseph Pulitzer unquestion-
ably did.
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