Show DEAN OF THE EDITORS NEW TITLE DESTOWED ON CHARLES A DANA 1ha II eeels Joenanl aoe eleeleys TlilVoU 51 Chp the style at the hnII 011 blest 01 ly shstw 1 III etmee Yelf IAIUKSA DANA of the Hun 1s I still president of the United Ircsa remaining I i maining like Iho r < white cap on n I t IIl E IB mountain after ttl nearly all the other I 11t1 j now hai melted I IlII away lu Opting unsblne Mr Dana li I called the dean of American Journalism and It may be truly old that It was he who lifted journalism to the dignity of a profession Thero arc those who attribute at-tribute to his Influence the fact that the newspaper writers have ben enabled en-abled ul to earn unlades more or lean commensurate com-mensurate wills the InteTllgonro I and ability Involved In their work Mr Dann li I now 78 cars old nnd most of bli long life has been spent In work connected with the writing and editing edit-ing of newspapers Ho worked with I loser OIltIT on the Tribune and was paid 10 n week for work that he afterward after-ward nowed ass worth four time the money It was these early rebuffs that determined his career Ho wn not Impressed with the newspaper back of tho early day and he net to work to leach newspaper men the real meaning mean-ing of their calling and to rstabllih n redo of journalistic etblci which will long tirvle him He had floe pleasure pleas-ure of repaying dreelcyi rouRhncm b y upportlng him for the presidency of the United Stales The date of hie real greatness In the newspaper field u I that = s ic t M I f CHABLES A DANA en which he became the editor of the Sun which has ever since been the favorite journal of newspaper men generally In America Kor many years Mr Dana has not been active In the management of his paper although lie conduct la I animated by his Idea He It I a benevolent man fond of encourage ing Utopian dreamers even If he doe not believe In their philosophy and withal It I perhaps the most picturesque figure In newspaper literature of AmerIca Amer-ica standing u be dot between the old orthodox Idea and the Dew Journalism Journ-alism of the day Joseph Medlll of the Chicago Tribune Tri-bune wu once a prominent aspirant for the deanery but of late yean the Tribune hu fallen below the Standard of the Sun Mr Medlll hu retired from the duties of lit chief editor |