Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-20 | Page 11 | Editorial Page of Newspapers

Editorial Page j of Jewspapers l Wfltterson Delivers tax Address ' tfpon Tiis Topic Before National ; Educational Association. i j i- louIS. May 10. The National S Editorial n&sociatlon held its final sessions today. 'Tho forenoon was devoted to addresses and the tit-i tit-i to election or officers and com- ! Von of routine business. . l'r Hnry Watterson of Louisville, 'K' fth(J e,i!torlal page," Haying In part: ilpte editorial page is valuable In the ifTrret that il aids the rea3er t0 diSei,t i-. jjjvtp. It should either be reformed ifjabandoned. Under a ceriain spell i rych ilQ3 crept upon the modern news-itrvr news-itrvr it 1 becoming, if It has not al- !Sdv become, a rather useless appen-iK-not even ornamental. (f-Sflntercstedness being the soul, humor 13 the solar system of the 'iSttorlRl pa?e. which Ghould be held KnMect t6 these precepts: Write of a 'Km cothinp you would not siy to his wifi might not say In the hearing recent people, avoid equally Intlma-?W Intlma-?W snd Intimidation, making no sug-T4on sug-T4on you are not prepared to reduce 'Ifla'qvrtlon and to sustain with proof. ''"The' 'leading article" being the rationale ra-tionale of the most important and in-TtiVlIng in-TtiVlIng Pcc of the day's news, 1,'iju'd have a beginning, a middle and Tia nd- should be concise and Incisive; f&fclnc to assist the reader. In his ef-eit ef-eit to comprehend the situation. & 'atlre should keep within the Kouads gf the iirobnble; wit under the Wlraint of senso; and even invective rorr. of adjective and adverb, and IVrlpped to the waist should strike out Pom th shoulder, to hit only above the lst' The pert paragraph should be nl-loVed nl-loVed to die a natural death. No flow- CrTb editorial page thus conceived Itrd executed, thus inspired and partitioned, parti-tioned, could not fail to impress itself upon the thought of the time, at once j,,jver and a feature, an arm of the rvfce and a commercial -asset."