Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-02-07
ALL RECEIVE QUICK
SURVEY Of TsIt. CHIEF


Then tho other editor took his turn,
, with leaders, reports from Germany
and Washington. the situation At Sa-
| lonilii, and many others. all OF which
received the quick survey Of the chief
Here was the owner and proprietor OF
the London Times the London Daily
Mail, the sunday Despatch. the over
: seas Mail, the London Evening News.
Answers, the Manchester Mail and
countless other riodicals--compr.Sin
the sn-callcd "Northclinc press" the
greatest aSscmhiaEe OF newspaper
ownership ever seen in England,
headed by the "Thundercr." known as
The "ETg lishman's Bible" and the tradi-
tional exponent Of British policy-oc-
cupying himself not alone with tho
management and larger policies Of this
organization, but with the editorial de-
tails and even with the text and phrase
oloSy of leading articles. His TWO adj
visers. Godfrey Robinson, OF the Times.
and Thomas NARROW. OF the Daily Mail,
have fun authority freely or frequently
exercised. to censor their chiefs work
Lord Northclife is very quick in his
estimate OF men and things When
reference was made 10 Lord y. who
has hcen much in the public eye of late.
he said:
Yes, ne is a good advertiser"
Then when reference was made 10
Lord y. who is supposed 10 be directing
a very large branch of the government,
he said:
why. ne is finished"
Finished? How SO? He's directing a
department.
Not a, all. Blank il running: the
department: Lloyd George ia looking
after ammun,ons. ard Lord Y is
Gnishcd.' yes found out lie is past
event..
III. talk now turned 10 the coInpui-
sorry military service bill, which the
government has just put through Ia
Lament. many asserting IT WAS really
the work Of the "Northclihe press
Why. ii was as plain as day" said
the embodiment Of the Northcliffc
press Here is row OF houses" he
went on pointing 10 row of ina SinarT
houses on The paper pad before him.
Now. in this first house lives young
married man who wants TO serve his
country, feeling that his coumtry's peril
is his own. So he gives UP his job and
cu!ists Right next door. in that
house lives another young fellow. who
is his mothers darling, and who doesn't
SO he does not enlist, but stays at
home-yrs, and gets the other fellow
Job. Now those very rows of houses
are in every street i'm every city, town
and village in the country. TIA; is an
actual concrete example OF the Situa-
ton whicii confronted us. And so ] in
vented the phrase. single men first.
and that carried it. 1t has been long
struggle: we've been at il many months:
il went slowly at first, but gathered
force as il Went along. until it became
overwhelming and practically uni
ycrsa!. and Single men first carried II
through. and it's ended, yes, ended
we will have our army. an army equal
10 our needs. with the country behind
it. ANA were just beginning tho war
IDEAS crowd EACH OTHER
TO FIND EXPRESSION
LORD Northcliffc speaks calmly. with
! out demonstration, but with positive
ness. and with ideas which crowd each
other TO find expression.
Your American Civil War gave MS
some lessons on how an army had to
b" raised in Il great emergency he
went on. What did Lincoln do when
lie needed men" He called for them:
. issued I; proclamation calling them TO
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