The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-23
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS.
Printed In Many Different Languages
Nay Be seen Here.

ceived from The Chamberlia Med:rin
Company a!number of ne$bpapers
gathered from foreign Iahds. These
may betseenlat thisloffice. s. 81
The Chamberlain Medicine Com pany,
Des Moines, Iowa, manufacturers OF
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy advertise
not only in this country bu in foreign
lands. A copy OF each issue of every
newspaper containing their advertiser
ments is sent to the Office Of tGe ciamT
berlain Medicine Company as proof az
the insertion OF the adyertisemenE
Some OF the papers bear Lames Of
places, which tequire one to recall
forgotten geography or refer 70 the
atlas to locate. Some Of thcm are
particularly curious as they are pub
.ished in the vernacuiar or native
languages which might be lkenod TO
the carefully written notes OF Il Bncrt-
| hand writer. =
Here are the well known Chinese
characters arranged in vertical ii.,es
reading from top to bottom, The lines
arranged from right to left.
| The Burmese language, as printed
is composed principally of "omhi-
nation of circles. Some one wittily
suggested that for this reason circu-
lars would be properly printed in this
language. q
Changalese. the language of Ceyloni
| Is also,a curvilinear. Javanese and
| Siamese are composed largely of vera
tical lines connected by loops at either
top or bottom but rarely at both.
| These Languages bear some reseinbls
ance to the vertical writing now;
practiced in bur public schools.
Thk four hundred million people OF
India have nearly fifty different diaq
lects or vernaculars. The Chamber
lain Medicine Company advertises in
ten of the principal ones as follows::
Bagali, Gujursthi. Hindi, Kanarese,
Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Tamil,
| Telegu and Urdu. The Shinrhi and
| Urdu are written from right to left IN
the Hebrew fashion. The Urdu Is S1
sort of script and is so chaotic I'M
/ shape Lnat it is impossible 10 reuucc
it to the movable type form. Papers
printed in the Urdu language are
therefore first written out by hand
and plate made by the lithograph
teen page daily published at Lucknow
Ii this language. cle!ms circulation
of about 5000. 1t is said that in or
der to handle this circulation 1t re-
quires an office force of about 200;
/ fortunately Ior the managers. Jne
wages paid to natives are only q few
| cents day.
The Chamberlain Medicine Com
pany, advertises in newspapers print
ed in thirty-two languages. Besides
the yernaculars and the well known
European languages, French Spahish,
cPortugese, Dutch, German, etc. the
list embraces number OF languages
which hS until ..4sc orltpa parsttYelY x Teranf. !.
| times POSSESSED no alphabet but for
| which the Roman alphabet has been
adopted. Among these are the na-
| tive Hawaiian, Samoan Tagalog
| philippine Islands), Kaffir, Zulu and
Basuto, of South Africa. There is
| also modern form of the Malay Ian
guage using Roman characters, known
| as Romanized Malay. This is usrd
In Java and the East Indies
1t Is difficult to conceive how the
readers of some of the papers manage
to handle them. Imagine man on
crowded street car trying to read
paper whose pages are. thirty eight
| inches long and twenty nine inches
wide. This is the size of the .'Hitada-
b." Bengali weekly published in
| Calcutta, India Some of the English
| dailies published in South Africa, are
almost as unwieldy, the pages of one
measuring twenty-seveE and one-falf
inches in length and twenty-five
| inches in width.
To an American newspaper man Il
| Is interesting to note the manner In
which the colonial English newspapers
are made up.The y still cling to the
| methods which were practiced in this
country fifty years ago. the advertise
| ments being upon the first few pages,
| followed generally by the heavy eci-
toriafs, then q few meager cable and
telegraphic items, afterwards the local
| news. The local news consists pEinci-
pally of the proceedings of the legis-
lative bodies, town council, school
board, ETC. Contributions BY the
readers are numerous and lengthy
The editorials are generally OF a
more dignitied and serious nature than
American productions. The daily pa
pers devote more space to book re-
views and detailed reports OF scieH.
tific progress than American news.
papers do. Humor Is not so notice.
able and cartoons are used more rare.
| j. than With us. ~
Very few. IL any. of the colonial
/ papers issued a pink sheet" but they
! supply this omission by devoting q
large proportion OF, every issue to the
sporting news. This is especially
noticeable In the American papers
| With few exceptions the advertising
pages would give our eadp writer's the
| nightmare. They seem to have little
conception OF the value of space or Of
4 attractive IIstfhu15 Of fpresenting,eiIneF
the text or the iilustfh htions z "A pleas
| ing relief to this monotony Is Afford
! ed by the faasis'' nf American atlyerfis9