The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-02-23
NORWICH UNIVERSITY
George R. Miner of New York Sun Ad-
dressed the Students Monday Evening.

On Monday evening George r. Miner
Norwich university, class of 1888, and
Sunday editor of the New York sun
gave a talk to the members of the corps
on the newspaper profession. Prefacing
his remarks by a few "reminiscences Of
Norwich in his day, Mr. Miner then spoke
of the newspaper work.
Mr.. Miner said in part, this profess
sion is the only one in the world which
is not deliberately chosen by men as
they start their education and into which
men can accidentally" fall without any
special preparation. Any man can make
reporter of himself in five minutes
and il sometimes takes but a week to
turn out an expert. Add to this the
fact that the average pay is higher in
| this profession than in any other and
that the newspaper worker is constantly
thrown in contact with the leading finan.
ciers. politicians, and professional men
and il is plain 10 see that most at
tractive field is open to the ambitious
worker.
The most notable progress in this pro-
fession seems not to be so much in the
Improvement of the presses and methods
Of type setting as in the moral standards
Of the men and the methods Of repro
ducing photographs. In past years It
was considered impossible 10 become an
expert unless one was a drinking man.
bat now conditions have changed and to
quote the speaker. "We won't have hard
drinking men in the process Of print
ing photographs much progress has been
made. In past years much time was
spent in making the cuts. Now il is bat
Is minutes from the time the picture
to be used is chosen before they are be-
ing produced from the press at the rate
Of 10000 per hour
There are about 10000 newspapers
printed in the whole world and OF this
number the United States has $4,000.
Half Of this 10000 are In English and
the one having the largest circulation
is printed in New York, although IL is
not printed. as one would suppose in
English. but in Hebrew Japan has 900 1
Of the 1000 papers printed in all Asia |
and this fact Is q good illustration ~ |
the statement OF the speaker that civil |
ization and the newspaper go hand in
hand.
The whole talk was illustrated by the /
personal experiences Of the speaker and /
lNosf Wtif feNfttNbN interesting W TUE u
audience One OF the most interesting
was the account Of his first interview
with a noted man. Tho noted man in
this case was General Grant.
40 the end Of the talk on newspaper
work. Mr. Miner snoke briefly 81 the
unprepa redness Of this country for war
and the terrible consequences which
awaited the unprepared nation as shown
bv the several narrow escapes ~ this
country. The benefits 20 b. derived from
military training and discipline were also
mentioned and a point was made Of the
fact that almost the same strietness in
discipline was required IN newspaper
work ~ in the army.
AZ che cl0ae ~ the evening Mr. Miner
Bresented the university = charcoal draw
nc of Granville NJ Dodge and related
sescral incidents IN b.s intimate con
lettion uith NJ Dodge He especially
on thc ciose resemblance he
iad nrfiecd hetween Mr.. Dodge and DiaE.
0rmfr president If Mexico.