Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-21 | Page 1 | Journalists Talk About Newspapers

Journalists Talk About Newspapers Several Essays Regarding the Production Pro-duction of the Press Read at the World's Parliament. ST. LOUIS, May 20. When the- second sec-ond session of the world's press parliament was called to order today to-day every .eat was occupied, representing the greatest assemblage of journalists from ull parts of the world ever , before congregated. The opening session last night Included many friends of delegates and visitors of honor, but today the convention was attended almost al-most solely by accredited delegates. John Ferguson of Ceylon, the flrirt ppeaker. told of the resources of Ceylon, the progress of newspaper work there ?vd the evolution of the dally paper from the weekly. "William Hill of the Dispatch. London, spoke of the tendency of the modern newspaper to cumbersome proportions, and advocated a trimming of the size and a more careful selection of the news matter nnd other contents of the metropolitan daily. Mr. Hill protested aalnsrt the flaring headlines of some of the moral dallies, both "English and American, and deprecated what he termed the "typographical demonstrations," demonstra-tions," built possibly, he said, upon the Idea that he who "runs may read " "The Province of the Magazine" was the subject of an address by Dr. Shailer Mathews of Chicago. Dr. Mathews said that the development of lltr-rary culture was the distinct province of the magazine.