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Show I I i ' I EliCr cf CjCen Str."f;rd Trlis to UI:'j Tress Ass:-. Ass:-. cialioa ca llic KcTrsjapcr PROVO. Utah, April 20. The Utah Press association met in Provo this morning with a fairly large representation representa-tion of the various Journals of the State. The feature of the opening session was the paper by "William Glasmann, editor of the Ogden Standard and Mayor of "his city, on "Newspaper Publishing as an Art. as a Profession, as a Business." Mr. Glasmann's production was very well received. ' He said In part: "The artistic is closely related to the monetary. The composing-room and pressroom are not to be expected to turn out paragons If there Is a struggle In the front office to make the income equal the outgo. For a number of years style has been sacrificed to utilty and economy, and in this practical day the tendency to disregard style is not without, with-out, its merits.' Yet at neatness and simplicity, there should be some effort, although beyond the well-established rules of style, embellishments are but a matter of taste, and what appeals to one as artistic Is looked upon by another anoth-er as without merit. " "In my short newspaper experience I ran recall . how unpardonable would have been the offense If the foreman had dared to disfigure the front, page . with such heads as are now to be seen In every paper, but gradually we have grown familiar with hanging heads and side lines, and our aversion Is turned to fondness. "The newspaper business as a pro-. pro-. fesslon is a high calling, requiring character and the exercise of honesty of purpose, fairness and integrity. There must be forbearance In the treatment of enemies, andt yet aggressiveness and fearlessness in .the defending and the maintaining of the best Interests of the public. "A newspaper to be successful in the true sense of the word must be a power for good In the community in which it is published, as well as pay dividends on stock. To be such a paper it must have character and principle. The newspaper man is probably the most abused man in each community. It is natural that it Is so. A live anJ wideawake wide-awake newspaper tries to publish every Important event of the day, and not an issue Is published but what something is said that displeases or offends some one. "The sensational newspapers, commonly com-monly called yellow Journals, are now having their day. The. newspaper is Just what the public wants It to be. If the public wants a divorce case lengthened out to five columns with big scare heads, In preference to a two-stick two-stick Item, the newspaper is going to 3ve It. The newspaperman even with a soul and a conscience Is human, and will to. a certain extent bow to the wishes of the public, for by so doing be sells his papers. The yellow journal is on trial. It remains to be seen if the yellowest of yellow Journals, the New York "World and the New York Journal, will supplant the conservative New York Herald and Sun. which latter two papers place In a stick with a pica head what the Journal and the World use in a column with a forty-point scare head. "The business manager who can Justly Just-ly discriminate between news and advertising ad-vertising has mastered the first point in qualifying himself for a successful newspaper manager. To assail the editorial edi-torial column. Is to attack the honor of the newspaper as well as its editor, and I am pleased to say that the rule among Utah papers is to hold their editorial columns above suspicion, and, outside of a few 'tweakly" sheets published In the larger cities, whose sole object appears ap-pears to be blackmail, I doubt if money could buy even one editorial of the Utah daily or country press. Yet, notwithstanding not-withstanding all this, the editorial department de-partment of the newspaper of today Is influenced and practically conducted from the business office. For Instance, recently I stood in the business office of a big daily, and the editor asked what view to take upon a certain matter, mat-ter, and the business manager replied, "It will hurt to take either side of the case. Hence you had better saw wood." Every' editor in the United States, with possibly a dozen exceptions, must consider con-sider what effect his editorials will have on the business department, and the smaller the city the more dependent must the editor be." i |