New Britain herald., 1925-02-07

showing how to make out balance sheets and statements.
 The policy which g paper pursues in regard to such controversial ques- tions as labor. morals. and politics often determines its financial success and hence haa to be rather cautious ly chosen. Profession of Journalism edited by Bleyer is a collection of essays on such questions as editorial policies, newspaper morals, dramatic and literary criticism. and personal experience of editors.
 The Brass Check by Upton Sin clair is an impassioned arraignment of the editorial policy of most of the newspapers of the United States, es- pecialIy the more conservative ones. He feels that the press Is absolute ly sold out to capital and rotten to the core. The very intensity of his attack weakens his case enorm ously but it Is only fair to look at his side of the matter and take some of the criticisms to heart.
 When we speak of newspapers we think usually Of the more prominent dailies in English. It is surprising to find what large number of thriving journals arc printed in for eign languages for circulation among new immigrants. Robert Park has made a very careful study of the whole subject in his book The Im- migrant Press and Its Control. After discussion of the backgrounds of immigrant culture he shows where many American papers fail to reach foreign readers, either because their material is too local in character or too difficult to read.
 There are also over two hundred negro weeklies in the United States which vary from unlmportant publi- cations of very local type to some quite influential journals. It is in teresting that they are all weeklies because of the impossibility of com petiNg with the widely read metro- politan dailies. Detweiler in his Ne gro Press in the United States an- alyzes their appeal and influence upon race problems.
 |. Besides material on journalism in general there are some very enter tainipg histories of individual papers. Richard Hooker in The Story of An Independent Newspaper tells how the sspringfeld Republican was founded by Samuel Bowles who in 1924 left his position as editor of the Hartford Times and took his press up the river on flatboat to Spring. field.
 Although serving a very small community, the policy of the paper even then was to give all the foreign news that could be obtained and thus turn the eyes of its readers outward upon the world" Later in its career the Republican got some excellent free advertising at the hands of corrupt judge and a cele- brated speculator who had the edi- tor thrown into jail for too free ex- prcssion of independent opinions.
 The New York Sun has also had a very interesting history which is recorded by Frank O'Brien in the Story of the Sun. It flourished es- pecially under the leadership of such great personal Journalists as Mitchell and Dana. One of the most spectacular events in the newspaper world was the great moon hoax which fooled the public with sensa- tional, supposedly scientific discoY- cries about the nature of the moon. Mitchell's Memoirs of an Editor which recently appeared is particu- larly delightful both for the person. ality of the writer and the light which he casts on the newspaper world of his day.
 The New York Times and the Evening Post also have entertaining records. The New York World which fiourished under Joseph Pulit- ger is naturally a part of the very Interesting setting for Mir. Dietz's new biography of Pulitzer. The Kansas City Star claims the glory of first publishing the very excellent editorials by William Allen White which have recently appeared in book form.
 The more humorous side of Journalism is reflected in Irving Cohb's stickfuls which in Cobb's own inimitsble styles gives the