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NEWSPAPERS AND THE NEW AGE

THE GREAT VALUE OF READER CONFIDENCE

Was

FROM TURMOIL TO CALM. LORD READING'S GREAT RECORD.

1926

THE BRITISH ELECTRICITY.

BILL. CRITICISM BOTH IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT.

LONG-LIVED ENGINEERS. REMARKABLE RECORDS.

A STUDY IN ACHIEVEMENT, When Lord Reading rolinquished the

The Graphic asks the question:-Does Lord Chief Justiceship of England at the

MORE CAREFUL DRAFTING

any single profession make for longe 75 PER CENT OF PEOPLE READ beginning of 1921 to succeed Lord Chelmsford as Viceroy of India: there

REQUIRED:

vity The death of that eminent veter- NOTHING BUT NEWSPAPERS.

were many criticisms of the appoint.

Inside as well as outside Parliament, Sir Bradford Leslie, In his "p5th CHICAGO-A new type in American

ment, especially from that considerable Journalism is on the way, in which one may be optimistic enough to think thatting which held that his compatriot says a louding article in the Financial year, draws attention to a remarkable Mr. Montagu, then: Secretary of State News, criticism of the Electricity Bill groupt of other distinguished engineers the newspapers will take their true place. as a social, intellectual, educative force, for India, had rushed Parliament into has been active, and the Government have who have already passed man's allotted. said Walter A. Strong, publisher of the cubstitutional reform for which India far recognized the influence of them sp. It seems to point to the fact that Chicago Daily News, in delivering the was unripe. It is known that Lord objections as to concede additional time engineering despite its ardours and en- convocation address at the one hundred Reading himsel! had serious misgivings for the debate on the second reading.durances, tends to make life long as The Graphie selects several striking and fortieth convocation at the University as a writer in the Daily Mail, but these That attitude has been well-advised. It well as interesting.

were dispelled by Lady Reading and also is not desirable that a measure of this

Sir Bradford Leslis was probably the of Chicago.

by Lard Curzon. Certainly the diffi-national importance, because cast in an examples, among them the following:-. "Newspapers and the New Ago his subject. A growing zeal ameng news.culties of the Indian situation were such official mould, should on that account be

na to daynt the stoutest heart. The reckoned one to be forced through with doyen of living engineers. Born in 1531. papermen of the more earnest type to

son of Mr. C. R. Leslie, RA, bẹ wna build sounder journals in the same atti. Duke of Connaught, speaking at Delhi the least altoration of the original he was in his o3th year. The second Leaving tude that actuates research in the great universities brings higher education and as an old attached friend of India, draft. Rather is it desirable that, pre- higher journalism to a common ground. deplored the fact that he found the trail sented for the free criticism of Parlia- educated at Mercers' School making them servants of society, said of Amritsar (where General Dyer had mentary and publie opinion, amendments at 16, he was apprenticed to Mr. J. K.

taken such drastic action) everywhers

him in railway service in the West of throughout the land estranging those who which are constructive, and do ast dei. Brunel F.R.S., and was employed by England, afterwards in work concern- should be friends; and he appealed to troy the principle of the Bill, should be both Europeans and Indians to forget weighed upon their merits

ing the Great Eastern steamship, launch- and, where necessary, forgive:

On public grounds we have from the But there were many elements in ENLIGHTENMENT AND LEADEESHIP.

Indian public life by no means disposed first supported the co-ordination to which in 1838. In that year Leslie began "If there is a higher education, se

to accept this statesmanlike advice. The the Bill seeks to give effect. But that his notable career in India with the there is also higher journalism," Mr.

at its support does not imply that there are not building of two bridges over the Kumar river. He also designed and constructed Strong asserted. Both are founded non-co-operation campaign" "was

s deltaic upon principles of enlightenment and height, and for the first time in the criticisms which have weight and point. Leadership; both have an ethical mission history of modern political agitation in The best of the criticism has not been the Corai River Bridge, on

India the masses of the people were dee factious. It has been provoked rather

This formed his first paper to the In- in that high sense of a search for truth."

laternational duty of newspapers in ly moved. Mahatma Gandhi, who had by the fact that, while the aim and in-branch of the Ganges. interpreting world affaire is" one of the made common cause with the Mosleh tention of the Bill are good, the draft-stitution of Civil Engineers (1879):

have suggested misgiving. malcontents over the Turkish Shalafating leaves blanks and loopholes which question, was credited with supernatural

- As drafted, the Bill may be compared powers by the whole countryside, and it was believed that his Taj was about to a mirror which has not a true sur

face. It presents a reflexion of the in- tended scheme, but presents it out of to be established.

focus.

Much of the opposition could more careful have been avoided by

Strong.

A few suggestions as to how newspapers and universities may work together for the benefit of a new age were offered.

press,

greatest responsibilities of the American

"it was stated. Answering the question, "Why print so much crime news!" Mr. Strong com- mented to this university audience That is a fair question. Once a newspaper exceeds the fact, romanticizes or colours the story until it assumes distorted, even heroic proportions, it his failed in its

trust..

THE STORMY YEARS.

The contrast between the conditions of five years ago and those under which

The pontoon bridge over the Hooghly was completed in 1974, and the "Jubilee' bridge over the same ziver was designed and built by him. It was opened in 1887 by Lord Dufferin,

Dr. W. C. Unwin, F.R.S., is in his esth year. An Essex man, son of W Jordan Unwin, LLD., long the prin

And a new principle must be Lord Irwin now takes control is obvious drafting." A Bill which, while it fails to cipal of Homerton College, he was

adopted trol the exploitation of crime and to answer fully the just criticism on this

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Regarding the international obligation of a newspaper, this publisher said!

But seriously, it is the duty of a newspaper to interpret, to clarify public events and lead the public conscience in terms that can be understood easily.

`INTERNAZIONAL VIEWPOLŠT.

"By way of illustration some such quality may be claimed for the system of correspondence from foreign lands- very significant movement of the Ameri- What can press of the last 30 years.

satisfy advocates year of Lord Reading's tenure his alarms the supporters of private enter Following apprenticeship with Sir W

period a managersbip elsewhere, Un-" win became an instructor in the patience and deliberation in making up rise is an example of hasty rather than Fairbairn at Manchester, and a short his mind were mistaken for infrmits of dexterong construction.

Royal School of Naval Architecture," of purpose. But it was courage, though THE PROMISE OF CHEAP POWER. not the recklessness of the gamester,

Happily, if public interest is put above South Kensington; next, Professor of which led him to press that the tour of

Parliamentary tactics, these initial Mechanical and Hydraulic Engineering the Prince of Wales should not be fur

From every point of view it would be lege, Cooper's Hill (1879-88); after- ther postponed and that he should see faults of the measure can be made good. at the Royal Indian Engineering Cof India, restless as it was, in the winter of

regrettable were the scheme to be launch wards, for twenty years, Professor of 1991-59.-

There were provincial governors who ed in an atmosphere of alarm and dis Engineering at the Central Technical Col strongly urged that the Mahatma should trast. The public realize that the whole lege of the City and Guilds of London. arrested and tried before the arrival success of the scheme depends upon the Elected president of the Institution of of the Prince, snt the Viceroy held promise of cheap power being translated Civil Engineers in 1011 (then 3 years different views, and the marked failure into fact. If the power provided under old) he later still became president af intention will fail, and the desiderated great international movements, what poli. Mr. Gandhi to secure a general boy. the scheme is not cheap, then the declared the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. tical scientists and others, owe to the cot by Indians of the royal visit had a

units per head per annum to 500 units his beautiful garden. You might, per- farcign bureaus of American newspapers great effect in lessening the belief in his increase in the use of electricity from 118 and in summer-time it is a joy to visi is quite beyond determination.

When soon after the departure of the per head will not occur. Instead, there chance, catch Sir Francis playing the can newspapers among them, I am proudince the Mahatma was arrested and will be ivit encumbering the ground, like organ, no oft-time diversion. From the Sir Henry Mance, telegraphist pioneer to say the Chicago Daily Fee-recog tried there were none of those ebullitions wood, which has failed to strike root; frat his horoscope, was cast for engineer

Precautions against those risks are nized such an international duty, the of poular resentment which had been an-

Exeter man.Appointed a member of the was a discredited force. At an earlier and world affairs would be in this year, e there would probably have been necessary, and so far as they can be no Persian Gulf Telegraph Expedition, 1998, too dense to contemplate" without shame. And further in this year 1926 widespread disorder. His doctrine of bodied in the Bill they should be put into organized by the Secretary of State for non-co-operation was no longer, followed the Bill. The public are not averse to this duty remains for the future one of when the second general election of cancelling the legislative restrictions on graphic communication between England

Kad not some of the leading Ametis

power.

a

new and barren creation of oficial man.

Sir Francis Fox lives at Wimbledon,

ing.

ignorance of our people concerning Europe ticipated, for by this time Mr. Gandhi | chinery at once expensive and obstructive.and. inventor of the heliograph, ia în

India with the view to establish tele

Locarno, the World Court, the per- province did the Swarajists secure na but, with war and post-war experienceraferea, at Port Karachi, and engineer

can presa... mancat seats on the League Council, the French Cabinet, the English manufactur ing and labour subsidies, the underlying economic values of the pound sterling the-franc and the mark-what do they

mean?

"They mean much more in their effect upon the world's solvency, financially. politically and spiritually, than the American public is aware of. It is the duty of the American press to face the facts, whether or not they lead to bank ruptcy in any of these departments, be- cause it is only by our realization of the expanded responsibilities of the United States, the creditor Nation of the world, that, poesibly, we can avoid the serious effects of an economic and political war which would be far-reaching and subtle in the demonstrations of its disintegrat ing, influences on the structure of our present civilization.”

actual majority.

Their participation in the debates has helped to reveal the unreasonableness of their demands for sweeping constitu. tional advance at this carly stage, and the strained relations between Hindoos and Mahommedans has shown that Lord Reading acted in the best interests of India when be restrained further advance pending a trial of the existing machinery along the lines of British and Indian co-operation.

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AN ADAPTABLE MIND. The Inancial situation has improved owing partly to retrenchment, partly to wise finance, and partly to a series of good monsoon seasons. A great political and economic grievances has been brought to an end by the abolition of the cotton Excise duty.

Lord Reading has shown remarkable powers of adaptation lata in life For instance, a feature of his term of office especially potable in the case of a man who first saw Calcutta as a runaway hand in a merchant ship has been the careful attention given to the ceremonial at taching to the public and private ap pearances of the holder of the greatest office under the Crown outside Great Britain.

still fresh, they desire that the proposed co-ordinating control shall be a business. affair, and not primarily an extension of bureaucratic power, sheltered from: ze sponsibility.

VESTED INTERESTS.

It is unfortunate that the Bill, as framed, should have conveyed the latter the generation and distribution of impression, for the capital sunk in electricity is vast, and has built up a great new national industry which has prospered and done good service, despite legislative lets and bindrances. The aim being to strike of felters and allow ex pausion a free field, nothing is to be a suggested treatment of gained by

mere "vested existing enterprize as a interest."

Every industry is a vested interest, from huckster's barrow and stock-in- frade to the largest concern khown, and the business of Government is to ensure that honest enterprise, big and little can be carried on in security. The talk about hostility to vested interest is clap- trop. In this instance the Government's only reason for entering the field at all is to assist enterprise on the large lines. called for. An intention not to operate with private enterprise, but to supplant and suppress, would do harm. all round, and no good to anybody. It would merely cut one of the most pro- mising lines of investment at the root. LARGE AND VAGUE POWERS. We have alrendy, on a preliminary its defeats its "failure. to provide for survey of the Bill, pointed out some of

Co-

Bir Strong stated that "one of the frequcat observations of the critics of newspapers who do not take the full view of the situation is to the effect that

There is too much advertising.*"'*.

Their remarks are often prefaced by the sympathetic apology that 'Of course advertising is a necessary nuisance," he added. Quite the contrary 1 Advertis- ing in this generation, this new age, bas Similarly, although he had seldom established a place for itself in the handled a gun, he has become an excel- economic scheme by which increased prolent shot at a tiger. duction and distribution have been estab Lord Reading's patience and strength lished in the buying markets of the of purpoar when once bis mind was made There is a vital reader intereat in the have yielded a rich roward. His ad- Eministration can best be summed up by advertising contents of the present-day sying that the angry sea be breasted has newspaper, and it is governed by the same matter. Render confidence is the founda. in, and that he has known how to make the due, publicity and responsible, audit moral principles as applied to editorial been calmed, that fortune has favoured

the best use of fortune. tion of advertising, values,

country.

Obviously with this growth of interest on the part of the reading public, the in- ereased use of telephones and telegrapli called the university spirit. If I under communication, specdier methods of de stand the university spirit of to-day, it livery in circulation, far greater distribus to seek, with free mind and unquench tion areas in the rest metropolitan able zeal for the facts; to place in the cities, there case the necessity of creat ing and reaching a new reading public To his effort, assisted by far reaching agencies, there is due much of the con fusion in viewpoint and much of what critics call-miedirected ambition.

NEWSPAPERDOM'S DESPONSIBILITY.

hands of mankind that greatest equip ment for his own control knowledge of himself, his past and his inner nature,

"In naense, newspapers are already research institutions, working with a mccb zeal and bonesty as the natural scientist but under different conditions

and electrician to the Government

Mance's heliograph. (invented in 1589) is still used Persian Gulf Telegraph Department.

Bir Alfred Yarrow, who is 84, isa Londoner. Longevity is in the family; his mother died at 95. Bir Alyred is an "old boy" of University College half years to Messrs. Haverhill, marine School. Apprenticed at fifteen and engineers, during five years he went through

all the departments.

Sir John Thorncroft, who is 83, and, has abiding fame in marine engineering and naval architecture, and Colonel

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of the Electricity Board's finance; its conferment on that body of large and vague powers without corresponding re sponsibility; and the lack of guarantees that when property is inken over there shall be equal dealing. These are grave defects, and it would be idle to suggest that the scheme will be successful and workable unless they are removed In- tentiona may be good, but they are not- enough. They should be in the Rill. There should be no blank cheques

It is an error in the Bill to make the Electricity Board subject to their own missioners Full Ministerial and Par linmental responsibility for the doings of the Hourd should be preserved As

All this indicates that the Bill must undertakers. the Board should be the business authority, subject to the Minis be amended. It would be a false and fer to whom they are answerable. misleading victory to force through the Thirdly, it is of supreme importance Bill as it stands, for to throw the supply that as between the Board and other of electricity into the melting pot of parties, the right of appeal should be Party strife is an entirely different thing Eut to tome purely judicial tribunal for a national need What is, after all. not to the Electricity Commissioners, from providing sanely and at least cost To her such right of appeal is not a purely business and brientino question fought not to be clouded by the heats of

prejudice. (Continued at foot of next Column.)

It is important to remember that 13 and confronted inevitably and constantly technical advisers, the Electricity Com- per cent of the people who can read, readbydend-unes. It is a tank whose very nothing but newspapers, and the remain difficulty thrills some of us. We most mg 25 per cent. devote to their news approximate results comparable with papers a very large percentage of the those obtained by men of far greater time given to reading of any kind. With leisure and freedom from interruption. sich figures in view one may better com I am sure that we of the press gain prehend the great responsibility placed by our increasing insight into methods like that of your own great university in upon the press.

With all that even a moderate at barmonizing a large group of men and count may credit to newspapers in being women in a newspaper organization into educational mediums, there is opportunified effort. It is groups, not indivi- nity to enter upon a new stage of service duals or stereotyped systems or paper to society. It is in this that newspapers structures or even monumental explosions need to absorb something of what is of efforts, which do the real work of the defensible.

(Continued et foot of neat Column) * world."

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