The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-07-15
YALE STUDENTS DESCRIPTION
OF AN IDEAL NEWSPAPER
Paul Jacob Banker, Of Midd|etown, Ohio, Glass Of
1915, Wins Prize Offered by New York Even
ing Post for the Best Essay on:-"The Ideal
Newspaper" Fifteen Essays Were Submitted.
Selected from the Ne,o York Eyening Post
Continued from last week.

To illustrate this statement: the
present European war may be said
to be due in great measure to the
influence of the newspapers of the
different countries in stirring up
race hatreds and animosities. AS
far back as 1908, Lord Roseberry,
speaking in Parliament, and COM
menting upon the publication in the
Times of a letter from Kaiser Will
helm to Lord Tweedmouth, with the
added implications that it was a
yelled threat at England and was
illustrative of German hatred of
England; said that the Times was
doing more than any one thing that
he knew of to stir up an anti-Ger-
man feeling in England, and that.
in his judgement, there was being a
feeling formented which would ulti-
mately result in war between the
two countries. In the next year (19-
09) Herr Max Won Brandt, a publ
cist of some note, pointed out in a
much-quoted article in the Deutche
Revue that the presses of Russia,
England. and Servia, and to some
extent Austria Hungary, were
spreading a great anti German pro-
paganda, which might conceivably
bring on war. These men were
evidently first-rate prophets. That
the attitude Of the press on questions
of this sort has been great deter
minant in the relations of the coun-
tries now at war cannot we'll be de.
MED. Certainly, the hatred and
well-uigh universal feeling that each
country is fighting.for it's. life against
the operations of preying sys-
tenn" has been the result in great
measure of the effects of jingoistic
press.
In addition to the unqualified
presentation of the truth, it is nee
essary, if newspaper is to have any
readers, that the truth be CARRIED In
somewhat attractive raiment The
newspaper must have a personality
which will appeal to the people.
1t must be popular if it is to have
any appreciable influence upon those
masses who, after all, are the rulers
of the nation. A newspaper which
by the very nature of it's news pre-
sentation makes its appeal only to
the educated upper class may in
fiuence these upper classes very
profoundly, but it will not exercise
any direct influence upon that great
public the reading of which deter
mines the power of journal. The
late Mr.. Pulitzer is said to have re-
marked that he personally preferred
the Evening Post to any other New
York paper; but when he wrote,
he wanted to address public.
and not select committee.
1t il not necessary for a paper to be
flashily sensational in it's presenta-
ton of the news in order to be in
teresting and command a wide ap-
peal. but it certainly is necessary
to present it in style light enough
that the public may understand and
enjoy what they are reading. The
powerful journals all over the count
~ have style and personality as
definite and as much their own as
that Of their individual editors,
and it Is this personality of the pa
pers that the readers get to know
and to enjoy. This, then, is the
ideal to which newspaper should
strive: namely. to tell all the news,
promptly and accurately, and to.
tell it in way that the people will