The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-03
Director Of School Of journalism al
Columbia Says That Circulation
viii Have Much to Do With
Naming President.
HAS BECOME WATcHMAN
Watchtower Of journalism is His AP'
peIIation for the New College
Building Recently DedI-
Gated.

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nresidential campaign will be won by
tbe circulation of newspapers and not
by the circulation of money, Iailotl
Williams, director and organizer ~ -
its opening years OF the school u
journalism founded by Joseph fu-
liter in the Columbia university
said here. Mr.. Williams spoke at the
dedication Of the Jay H. Neff hall OF
the school of journalism in the Uni
yersity of Missouri on Wednesday.
.Two score years ago the news
paper still waited for it's issues on
parties and public men," Mr.. WIZ
liams said. ''The world has changed.
The many rule. The newspaper rur,
nishes the only universal reaaing OIL
the many The newspaper no longer
waits on men or on parties.
Mr.. Williams, himself one OF the
Oldest and best known newspaper
men in the country, took for ms
theme, "The Newspaper Mans New
Task"
.sThe newspaper man has become
the Waterman of the republic on the
walls of the future" he SAID. me
new home of the school OF journal
ism in the University of Missouri we
dedicate today is the watchtower OF
journalism in which the Watchmeh
of the state will be trained.
.aThose who go out from this build
ing will accurately chronicle yester-
day; they will shape, record and re-
veal the public opinion of the day;
they will instruct society in the great
school of the newspaper; they Will
share in the leadership Of parties
and of political movements.
1.-TWO journalists are today the
candidates for president, named by
the two parties which divide the des'
tiny of the republic. For years, as
editors and proprietors, they have
not only been printing the news OF
the day, but considering the broad
future of affairs as no men do in any
other calling.
"The newspaper mans new duty
is to foresee the future and its issues
to prepare the public for them and,
like the prophets of the past, to be
watchmen on the walls of our Israel.
Such a duty in his field was dis
charged by Jay H. Neff, after whom
this building was named. He fore
saw the needs of the farmers in the
corn belt. He did not, like his early
predecessors in the field of agricul-
tural journalism, follow the routine
Of the farm, satisfied with the com
monplaces of traditional cultivation.
He organized knowledge of the mar
ket. He met the needs of a specific
region. What had been inert scien-
tific discovery, he spread as a living
inspiration and instruction for the
farmers daily task"
News is standardized today, Mr..
Williams observed. He said that no
one newspaper in the war just over
had conspicuously outstripped organ
lied news. Local news of the lesser
routine order takes less space" he
added.
Penetration, the gift of express
sion, the unfailing instinct alike for
the interest and the interests. not of
the few, but of the many" Mr.. Will
liams said, will be needed more
than ever by constructive journal
ism. It will not suffice for the trained
man merely to know news and edit
news, but to understand news; to be
able to unrayel financial riddles; to
know where the facts can be OBJ
tanned; to appreciate their influence
upon the public and to guide public
opinion into wise channels by being
wiser than the opinion of the many"