The Republican journal., 1915-04-15
THE COLLEGE AND THE PRESS.
A Newspaper Institute this Month at the
University of Maine.


A noteworthy feature of the News.
paper Institute, the meeting of news
paper men which is to be held at the
University of Maine on April 23d ano
Oath, is that it is to be wholly practical,
as every speaker on the programme,
with the two exceptions OF DR.. Lucius
H. Merrill and Robert j. Alley, presi-
dent of the university, can boast of long
experience in the newspaper business.
Yet the two mentioned men are none the
less capable of speaking on the subject
DR.. Merrill has prepared extensive ma
terial for publication, while DE- Alley
has long been a student of newspaper
problems.
The first session OF the convention will
take place Friday afternoon, April 23d,
and will be featured by an address on
National Advertising for Weeklies" by
a man we'll known in tn national adver-
Using field. Following this a round table
discussion will be begun by w O. Fuller
of the Rockland Courier Gazette, the
president of the Name Press Associa-
ton. Mr.. Fuller will preside at the
afternoon session, and will speak on the
business methods employed by the Maine
publishers, and the possibilities of im-
provement in that line. He will be fol-
lowed by Charles H. Fogg of the Times
Publishing Company of Houton, Me.
M. togg will discuss the Independence
of the Job Shop" his belief being that
a weekly paper should be self-support-
ing, and not dependent for existence on
it's job printing. Following him, Jessie
H. Ogier of the Camden Herald will dis
cuss advertising rates prevalent through
out the State. M. R. Harrigan of the
Bangor Commercial, or some member of
the staff of that paper, will conclude the
list of Afternoon speakers.
Friday evening dinner, prepared by
the home economics department of the
university, under the direction of Pro-
fessor Frances R. Freeman, head of the
department, will be held for the insti-
tute. DR.. Alley, president of the uni
versity, will preside at the banquet and
will open the after-dinner speeches by a
discussion on the subject, 1.-The Press
and the University" 1t is hoped that
former Governor Plaisted, now of Au-
gusta, will be present to respond to the
toast "The Press and the State" Also
it is hoped that United States Senator
Burleigh, publisher of the Kennebec
Journal, will be able to be on hand to
answer to the toast ''The Press and Fed
eral Affairs" The subject, 1.-The Press
and Science" will be discussed by DR..
Lucius H. Merrill, who will speak Of the
difficulty that science now has of so Of
fering its discoveries that the public can
easily understand them, and the fact
that the press usually seems unable to
do justice to the work of science. The
principal speaker of the evening will be
DR.. Talcott Williams, director of the
Pulitzer School of Journalism of Coium-
bia University. He will discuss "The
Press and the Public.
| The Saturday morning session will in
clude an address by DIR. Williams and an.
other talk on national advertising, which
has for its subject National Advertis-
ing for Small City Daiies." George W.
Norton, editor of the Portland Evening
Express and Advertiser, will discuss the
problem of improving editorial depart
| ments, and the methods of handling
news. The latter talk will be in the
form of table discussion. which will be
likewise handled by city editor Smith of
the Bangor News and others.
The University of Maine Press Club.
which has become very well known since
it's organization in the first part of the
year, will represent the university in act
ing as hosts for the visitors. Working
with the Press Club there will be re-
ception committee including w. B. Reed
of the Bangor News, M. R. Harrington
of the Bangor Commercial, if he is able
to be present, and A. H. Brown of the
Old Town Enterprise.