University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-23
NEWSPAPER week
Third Annual Meeting at The
State University.
scRIBES REGALE COLUMBIANS
Many Interesting Experiences RecIted
s.hool Now Has 1870 Students En-.
rolled-Dr. Talcott Williams Of
New York Gives His Idea Of
the Future Newspaper.

the Future Newspaper.
The birth of a rev journalism-this
xas the spirit of Journalism Week al
Tho University of Missouri, attended
nv more than two hundred newspaper
men from Monday, May 6, to Friday,
Nav 10. The visitors represented
nine states and s%ixty-one counties,
outside of the 1870 students in the
School Of Journalism. under whose
AUSPICES the meeting was held. This
was the third annual week" and had
a larger attendance than any.
The keynote of the many speeches
was public service. The press as an
Interpreter of the news and a guide to
popular opinion-this was the ideal of
the newspaper. To be a common car.
rier of news was not enough. About
thirty speeches were made during the
week. three of them by women. The
topics included the city daily. agricul.
tural Journalism, editorial policy.
country journalism, Industrial journal
ism, the near-city daily, newspaper il
lustratiOn, advertising, and office
equipment.
In addition to the regular meetings
in Switzler Hall. popular lectures were
given at night and at assemblies of
the students. Incidentally, two meet
ings were held separately-the Mis-
souri, Press Association, and the Past
Presidents of the Association.
The first address of the week was by
Robert H. Lyman, of the editorial
staff of the New York World. He
gave a practical speech on the making
of a city daily, illustrating 1t from his
own experience. He said there was
no place on a daily paper for IN
trained men.
THE city editor" he said, has too
school of Journalism. The reporter is
the life of the newspaper. A man is
fortunate il he learns the vital impor-
tances of the rejection of the nOn-es-
sential. The plain, simple fact is i'm
portant and elusive; it is also gener.
ally-overdressed, muddled and even
weirdly disguised"
Mr.. Lyman told how the World COW
cred the Titanic disaster and beat the
other papers when the Carpathia
locked. He told how Carlos F. Hurd
threw the story of the survivors in
a cigar box yer the side of the boat
into a tug. And when Mr.. Hurd ar.
rived the editor of the World said:
Here is a check for $1,000: add a
month to your vacation and enjoy
yourself"
". NJ. Ledbetter. city editor of the
st. Louis GlObe-D Democrat. discussed
crime in the newspaper and advocated
the gradual cutting down of the space
devoted to it.
Sincerity on the editorial page vas
named as a requisite of successful
journalism by George s. Johns of the
st. Louis ost-Dispatch.
~"Brilliancy." he said. cannot con.
ceal a cynical. %insincere spirit. If a
paper is seeking to gain admiration
for itself instead of to convince its
readers, it will be ~despised in the long
run.
"A good newspaper should be impair.
tial enough to give even its worst en-.
envy a fair hearing. Newspapers
do no are yellow for they
show a streak Of yellow. One can't
kill or win a cause by lying about it,
Dewitt c. Wing. associate editor of
the Breeders Gazette, discussed the
in agricultural journalism.
He recommended a thorough prepare
ton for the work, even to the study
Ing of the classics.
The visitors were entertained and
by a chalk talk by A. B.
Chaplin, cartoonist for the Kansas City |
Star. He said there were two kind:
Of pictures-bad, from the %standpoin,
of the editor, and good. from the
Of the artist. He showed
that the artist has as hard a task as
any reporter and must be just as re-
liable.
H.. j. Haskell, also of the Star, dis
cussed the character of the ideal edi.
PAGES. hLlOu6 otACi thiu6o, hC
declared ii could have no greater func.
lion than r%eprinting interesting read.
ng from the best things in literature.
Excerpts from a noval by Stevenson or
IN essay from Lamb were just as i'm.
as the editorial itself. He
'aid the editorial page should have no
yet space. 1t was no crime to print q
one day and two columns the
He said the subject matter OF
he editorial was the vital thing, and
hat one couldn't bring success simply
" running the editorial on the back
age in big type. or making the col
INN wider.
Thursday was advertising day. -Four
represented this branch OF
ournalism-George w. Coleman, pres
dent of the Associated Advertising
Of America; Willis NJ. Hawkins
resident of the Kansas City Ad Club;
/. H. Sawyer. president Of the st
.ouis Ad Mems League, and Glen
SUCK. head of the Glen Buck Com