The Forrest City times., 1914-05-22

sociation, delivered an address Mon day, May IS, at the Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo. His sub ject was "The Practical Side of the Ideal Country Newspaper" He was one of the speakers for Journalism Week at the University. other speak CTS of the opening day being James Keeley, of the Chicago Tribune. Gov Cox of Ohio, and Herbert Johnson cartoonist of the Saturday Evening Post.
 Mir Hodges told how he started in the newspaper business as boy. by obtaining a lucrative position in a country printshop at the extremely munificent and princely wage of sl per week, payable Saturday night if the boss showed up." He declared that there are three elements in all sue, cess-learning, honesty and stickto ttiveness.
 After discussing at length practical questions concerning the equipment of the country office, and the makeup and ideals of the country weekly, Mir
  Using rates, declaring that "every newspaper should have a fair, uniform rate and charge it alike to all ad- vertisers."
 General Publicity.
 On the general subject of publicity, he said:
 Your Press Associations in Mis- souri should have, if they do not al ready have, a legislative committee of responsible publishers to look after matters of interest to the people and to the newspapers during the sessions of your general assembly, It is better that the laws provide for too much legal printing than too little the peo- pie cannot be too well posted on the general statutes of the State; there will be fewer violations of the laws, which saves the state and counties money and trouble. In Arkansas we have an amendment to our constitu ton providing for the initiative and referendum. which was voted upon end adopted by the people by a large majority
 -Four proposed amendments and five proposed acts were voted upon at the last election, and only one of them adopted. the amendment limit ing the session of our general assem- ply to sixty days, which saves the state biennially over $100,000. The re. cent legislature in Arkansas appro- priated S76000 to pay the newspapers for the l. and R. printing. more than S1,000 per county, but it was worth more than that to our taxpayers A new revenue law had been enacted by the general assembly; it was referred to the voters and defeated about three to one. An objectionable election law was initiated, referred, and killed by a four to one vote. A legislative com mittee will look after various matters for your association that will repay you many times for the expenditure necessary to keep the committee on tn ground at each session.
 Practical School of Journalism.
 Missouri newspaper men and women should make the practical side of newspaper work bring larger returns than we do in neighboring states be cause here you have the first and by far the most practical school of jour nalism in America. At the head Of this wonderful school you have man whose every thought is practical whose lessons have been learned in the school of knowledge and experience Your MT Williams. everywhere known and honored as Walter Williams of Missouri, originated the idea of teach ing men how to make newspapers be bore turning them loose upon an in noCent and unsuspectng public, an idea which has since been put into practice by some of the foremost col 1eges and universities of the land For my part, I heard of Walter Will Hams before I ever knew of the Uni versty of Missouri was located here His Columbia Herald put your city on the map-a publication which was ac- knowledged to be the handsomest and most worthy weekly newspaper in America for many years. Such men as your honored fellow townsman are being recognized the world over; prac, tical men are coming into their own New Jersey has recently sent her Walter Williams to the Presidency Nebraska has given her Walter Will Hams 10 the nation as our Secretary of State. Roth of them are students statesmen. scholars, not politicians a. the term Is commonly used. It is alsc pleasant to reflect that about half O the Presidents cabinet are men who al one time have been moulders of public opinion through the medium of the country or city press,
 Every newspaper worthy of the name is always trying to do something for the benefit of the community from which 1t derives its support. Usually 1t succeeds sooner or later, although it has taken a good while to make people haIipVa thpv don't aI Iu-avs IrpOv- ,-b o i.