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NEWSPAPER PIONEER.

THE CLASSICS.

LORD OXFORD'S PLEA

A 'GENIUS OF JOURNALISM.

FOR CULTURE.

The following review of "Joseph Lord Oxford and Asquith, whe Pulitzer, Ploneer of Journalism." A hoax on Manchester in 1913, when a civic reception was given is president of the Classical AB by Don C. Spitz is written by C. H. to a party of distinguished Chi-sociation; urged the importance of nese mandarins, who turned out the classies in education in a Bretherton In the London Observer. One day the colour-printer of to be English business men, was speech at the association's gather rocalled at a meeting of the City ings at Edinburgh.

the Sunday edition of the New Council recently,"

His address delivered to thu

York World, feeling that it nced- A discussion took place on the members of the association was an rofusal of the art galleries com-appreciation of Joseph Scaliger, ed brightening, gave one of the mittee to offer facilities for the the great 16th century scholar, the characters in the comic supple- Hilditch Chinese collection in pioneer of modern scholarship, who ment a brilliant yellow dress. The the city art gallery."

could be said to have created the science of chronology.

The name of Mr. Hilditch has

serial child thereafter became always been associated with the

At the association's dinner in the known as, the "Yellow Kid," and hoax, and "some councillors evening Lord Oxford said he always the cheap, senaational and enter, alleged that for this reason the found in moments whether of deg committoa" had shown unfair pression or of exaltation one af prising form of journalism 88 The World prejudice against him.

his greatest pleasures in refresh., "yellow journaliem." £2,250,000 OFFER. This was denied, and it was ex-ing his memory of his old classical as its pioneer for years, but ulti-

a recreation, a plaiped that Mr. Hilditch had studies. It was agreed that two experts should consolation, and an inspiration mately a more moderate newspaper

as well as a great one. make selections from his colloc which had never failed him. tion for. oxhibition in the art

Too Utilitarian?

Of this modern American jour- gallery, but had refused to ac There had been a growing, and naliam, "Joe" Pulitzer, the mat cupt their choico, as he did not as he thought a disputable, and who made the World the great think it fairly represented his even dangerous, tendency to look

treasures.

There

epon education from a utilitarian Lewspaper it became may be justly Alderman Todd, chairman of point of view. He himself had no acclaimed the pioneer. the committee, said they wanted fear that the study of the classics, have been wealthief and more quality and not quantity.

Both Latin and, Greek, was in any

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If it ware true, as the owner claimed, that an offer of £2,250,-danger of losing its hold upon the powerful newspaper proprietors 000 had been made for the col, best intellects of the best and most in the United States, but he still each succes-ranks аз America's greatest lection, he would advise Mr promising men on

sive generation, but one could not'

If Mr. Don Seite: Hilditch to accept it."

journalist. An overwhelming vote en-regard without some amount of darsed the action of the com-apprehension, the growing ten- would sift; edit, and render down dency, perhaps natural and inevi- the incredible mass of instruction, table, to look upon other subjects critisism, analysis, and badinage -the study.for instance of science

with which he inundated It was not until ten years in all its various and beneficent, as afterwards in 1924-that Mr. well as maleficent, applications, harassed his various managers, Hilditch disclosed details of the the study of history and other com-editors, leader-writers, and miscel- hoax.

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He then informed the Daily sorb the ambitions of their younger laneous lieutenants, the result would be a "Treatise on the Whole Chronicle that the, revelation men and women. could not be made carlier "with- He was for two years chairman Art of Journalism" that none of out creating bad feeling." of a commission which examined the fraternity of ink, from the

In August 1913 an exhibition the present position and prospects.

of Chinese art had been arranged of the two ancient English uni-highest to the lowest; could afford in the city to which Mr. Hilditch, versities, and he knew that there to ignore.

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who is un, F.R.G.S, and a well, was a growing, tendency, evidenc- Like some other aliens who known collector, was not invited. ed by the comparative numbers of have risen to wealth and fame in "So I determined," he said, those who went in for the various the Land of Opportunity, Pulitzer to play a little trick in return, schools and triposes, to choose is often referred to as "a pocr with the co-operation of three those subjects in preference to emigrant lad." In fact he came other Manchester men, whom I classics,

of well-to-do bourgeois parents in The Place of the Classics. Hungary, his father a Magyar- dressed up in emperors' robes and jewels of many dynasties from my collection."

Were the classics, apart from Jew, his mother an Austro-Ger- They posed as Ying 'Sung, a their intrinsic interest and their man, and had received a consulting lawyer: Ma Kwang, educative faculty and ought they to education when he arrived in New medical professor, and Wung bepat, into a secondary placeYork, an emigrant indeed, but an Yen, art expert.

was an unhesitating emigrant fired with the ambition These dignitaries" arrived on negative. It was quite true that to be a soldier. the scene at 3 p.m., and maintain-Latin, which was once the lingue In a Northern cavalry regiment ed the farce for six hours, during franca, the common language of and thereafter as a jobless ex- which their authenticity was all educated people of Europe and service man, the young hungarian never suspected. They inspected the language of diplomacy, had had his fill of war, and it left him the museum, went to the Town passed for that purpose into an convinced advocate of peace for Hall, Free Library, Fire Station, secondary place. Its place taken the rest of his life. At the time Y.M.C.A... Art Club, Midland for a considerable time by French of the Venezuelan Boundary dis- Hotel and the Hippodrome,

the World alone 01 and in future he predicted, without pute We had most of the fun at the Art Gallery, where all the any hesitation or doubt, that it great American newspapers de-

would be taken by English.

nounced the jingoes, and threw oil notables were gathered," said. But that did not in the least af-on the troubled waters. Later Mr. Hilditch. They made al

fect the importance of continuing Pulitzer approved the war great deal of the visitors who had to give, in our educational system, Spain. He thought it would help so unexpectedly come among if not a primary, at any rate a pre- the circulation of the World, them." He declared that every- body concerned enjoyed the joke ogative place. to the study of which was then feeling the inten- sive competition of Hearst's New Latin and Greek, when it was made known

The hope was theme

They could not know English or York Journal.

Worldis6 use English unless they had some not realised, and the

never again favoured adequate knowledge of both those owner

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Mr. Hilditch has spent over 30 languages. yours in assembling his collection. He would wish to make a practi- This was one of the few ocea. of Chinese works of art, and this al appeal that, in the teaching of sions on which Pulitzer permitted year he converted a building in English, particularly, educational himself to swerve from the very Victoria Park into a Chinose authorities should follow the ex-definite, and, on the whole, clevat- Palace Temple, (with the intonale set by the great scholars ofed ideals which he thought should tion of leaving it open in per-the past in the domain of Latin be Democracy's, and endeavoured poluity to the inspection of and Greek and make it a really avith voice and pen to make De- public which was formally

spientific study:

[mocracy's, both in the St. Louis, opened by Lord Leverhulme.

He recalled that in his school Post-Dispatch-his first great At this ceremony Mr. Hilditch days at the City of London School, newspaper success--and later in was attired in a Chinese costumenter Dr. Edwin Abbott, who, he the World. · and announced that ho WAS

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The man of neat never became the slave of his own; be 500 years old upon the images. resented this complaint, for not opinions. Like Northcliffe, his the central figure among the only was his shop full of cus- newspaper instinct was uncanny, doitios being a massive repre-tomers at the time, but one and Once he declared that the paper! sentation of Buddha, the face of all, littered at the boy's remarks. was getting dull, and insisted that] which, by an arrangemont of With anger in eyes, therefore, it was because nobody on the staff: electric lighting, can be made to but honey in his voice, tho got drunk. A brilliant but vin- Indeed, I will give him forty-tion but his beloved World, and glow redly..

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himself, no matter from what Bohind the temple is a private"Tell your mother," he observed, and the paper promptly recovered chapel, which contains most of that next time I kill a bullock its former dush. Pulitzer had. an

Joseph Pulitzer paid dearly in distance, into Its activities and the gems of the collection, in-without bones in him I'll make abiding faith in the power of the the last twenty years of his life direct its political courses. With cluding the empress's robing her n present of a joint." The editorial page. So we find him for the gigantic montal and his death America lust a very room, with silken robes om-boy departed, and the butcher writing: broidered with designs of pro-rubbed his hands contortedly Confucius date.

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together, for the other customers had laughed frankly at his ro- partee. Two minutes later the boy returned. "Mother's co- pliments," he remarked, "and she says next time you find a sirloin with a shouldor-of mutton bone, in it she'd like to buy the whole carcass as a curiosity."

physical efforts that had laid the human and vivid personality, as I will forgive dullness. in foundations of wealth and suc-well as a great newspaper man other articles, if you will only coss. With nerves broken and Rothschild once said of him that manage to have one leader, aight gone he ransacked Europe if he had stuck to finance he would strong, striking, "and" respect- for doctora, for distractions, for have been the richest man in the 'commanding. After a white quiet. His secretarice road to

people will be educated to look him, he listened to music; went world. Pulitzer, however, lived for that lender, and, therefore, driving, sought comfort in the and died a journalist, and as such the man who writes it should son. But he had no roul distrac-posterity will remember him. Louch no other thing that"day"