Cañon City record., 1910-01-27

Another remarkable difference be-
tween Europe and America Is found
in the newspapers, and their chief
difference is a fundamental one: that
OF the attitude OF the people TO the
newspapers. They are not accepted by
the masses. Hence there Is nothing
like the advertising in them that there
is in American newspapers. Big dry
goods store advertising is almost un-
known. The clothier is not an i'm
portant advertiser. as he is with US.
and the theater is not so universally
heralded in newspaper advertising as
with us.
The other side OF the question is
that European newspapers are not so
good as ours. They are. In way. ar
istocratic. Names DO not count Three
young people perished on lake In
Portugal and the newspapers chron-
icled the fact without giving their
names. A man killed his sweetheart
In England-no names. But let duke
or a count or an earl appear and he
gets in with all his titles.
In American newspaper ofices.
there is n traditional loathing cf the
society column. But in Europe. the so
ciety reporter has most OF the paper.
Also newspapers glorify themselves
which Is perhaps why the people
take httle stock in them.
A great earthquake. killing hun
dreds OF people. occurred in the south
of France. a Paris papers opening
story OF the event began thus: 'Leav-
Ing Paris at $40 this morning In my
new 40-horse power six r l. A. T.
car. arrived at the scene OF the
earthquake. 110 miles. Mt 1i:45."
There were three good lines OF space
used before the story OF the quake be-
gan. A boy who would turn In
story like that would be informed by
wire to get In his "4o-horse power
siI" and keep right on going.
Another peculiarity of the Eu-
ropean papers is the character OF the
advertising. The sage femme"-llter-
ally wise woman"-flls many COL
umns of French papers with her dis
course: though the sage femme"
probably is not entirely different in
character from the lady known tothe
wild free cowboy OF the departed
West as the sage hen"
The European newspapers are very
small compared with ours and do no,
use big headlines. as we do. One has
to hunt for what he finds and there Ia
little except local news In them.
American news is neglected. unless Il
is oficial. We get more general news
| out OF the Gazette. ten days or two
weeks old. than we get out OF the big
papers. and the Gazette is not much
OF general newspaper. A paper like
the Kansas City Star has more news
OF all the world-Europe. Asia, Africa.
Australia. Amerlca-than all the big
papers in Europe.
Big cities become provincial New
York is becoming provincial and con-
cerned with Its own little affairs.
Chicago Is one OF the worlds cosmo-
poll. so in Europe the great city dali
les are much more local than the
Emporia Gazette Moreover Paris is
France; Rome is Italy: London is
England; but Chicago Ia not America
and none OF our great cities is or ever
can be America.
30 our newspapers are cosmopoli-
tan. And we have in America what
they lack in Europe-nationaI week
lies that really in big way represent
organs and trade and professional
Journals. But there is nothing like
Golfers Weekly IN continental Eu-
rope. nor the Outlook. nor the fnde-
pendent. nor HArper's nor the satur-
day Nvening Rost. nor Success.
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