The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-06-15
V0MRN SENT OUT FROM TIN
SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF
DAKOTA WESLEYAN.

WO0A4GN SENff OUT FROM TaN
SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS OF
DAKOTA WESLEYAN.
Today completed tne twenty-a.xt
annual commencement exercises q
Dakota Wesleyan U%niversity. and tn
Occasion was quite q memorable ON
from the fact that large classes Il
all departments were sent forth. TIL
total number was sixthy-fve-1!
from the college department. 2:
from the normal, one from tn
School of Music, and % from tn,
School of Commerce.
Previous to the exercises which
were held in the Methodist church
lat 1920 o'clock, the members of the
graduating classes marched from the
college to the church, where they oc.
cupied the seats in front. There
were many people in the audience
a goodly number of whom came from
various parts of the state to attend
the exercises.
DR.. Kerfoot' presided over the
commencement exercises, which be
gan with an organ prelude as play
ed by Miss Marjorie Ford, and a
hymn followed.
j DIR. Samuel Weir, vice president OF
the institution, offered prayer. A
beautiful duet was rendered by
Misses Laura. Saul and Clara Christ
%ensen, entitled Autumn Song" and
1t was rendered in a most charming
manner.
The commencement address was
delivered by Rev. Charles M. Stuart.
DID, of Chicago, the editor Of the
Methodist paper of that city. DR..
Stuart's address was on a subject
which is very seldom discussed in
public talks, and that is with ref
erence to the newspaper work of the
country. The speaker is in the same
business, and therefore, he could
give a very able and learned disserta-
ton on the work of the profession,
the good or evil that the press can
do. Owing to the limited time at his
command, DR.. Stuart did not cover
all the points that his address con-
tanned, but withal, he presented some
splendid ideas with reference to the
press of the country.
He covered most all of the essen
ton points with which the people in
general are not acquainted, empha-
sizing the business department to
begin and then going into the edi-
torial room, from which he took the
multitudinous duties of the manag-
ing editor, and those of a city edi-
tor of a metropolitan newspaper and
laid them bare to to the public mind,
more to indicate what a vast amount
CT work there is connected with the
publication of a big newspaper; what
La problem these two men had to
meet when they had one hundred
columns of stuff" to boil down in
to fifty; how to sift out that which
will suit this or that class; what the
copyholders and the proof readers
had to contend with in presenting
the news to the country without err
ror, and the vast information that
must be constantly at their command
to avoid violence to the truth in a
statement of facts.
DR.. Stuart referred to the COM
ing of yellow journalism into the
newspaper work of the country. He
said that, and without any reflection
to the integrity of the press, all
could not be believed that was in
the papers. But that before passing
judgment and accepting a criticism
of the press the reader should find
the facts for himself and then pass
his judgment. DR.. Stuart decried the
real yellow journal-the one that
~ 10000
sought to impress on the public
mind some statements which had to
be packed with air for them to as
sumo a readable form-whose edi-
tors has little respect for the truth
and whose attack on public individ-
uals were not so much for the public
good as for the benefit of the treas
ury of the newspaper. In reference to
this kind of journalism DIR. Stuart
stated that it vas the people them
selves who can cry down the publ
cation of a paper. and he. gave an in
stance of a southern newspaper
which was made to respect the will
of the p%opulace. and the same paper
was finally forced into the hands of q
receiver, jus. through an indignation
melting held and which denounced
the our Of the paper on a certain
public question.
DR.. Stuart spoke quite interest
ingly of the power of the press for
good OF for bad, and declared that
the course of the papers of the coun-