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Show l at . a '.,'. ; . ran to ' :i. raul IVpuy, the f ' r r 1 ;.' v- r of the ItUe Tar! , ha i ret rr. ! from the Unite! Eta'.. 3 with great ai- m!"it' 1 f jr.1 mer'- n w?' e" 1 peth--oit. t. ik!r ; to '. i y cf 1 i eireri -,Cf 3 be rs! I; . . V "One thing that struck me was the frark way. In which the managers of tl j r.ric?n ne?:r''rfrs open, their doors to all comers, even competitors. I found a great deal of fratrnlty av.i no Jealousy. We d- not lo that here. "Being- specially Interested in newspapers, news-papers, I viflted the paper factories .nd found them much larger and better equipped than our. Ia' America they turn out 1000 tons dally. In France we think we have done marvels when we turn out ISO. "V.'e make money on circulation; the .merlnn8 frequently lose on Jhat, but gain enormously on advertisements.' "I think our way of 'making up a paper is better than the American way. There. I think, tha lines are too close together or are too frequent, Jn the details of a printing ofiice.the merj-cars merj-cars are far ahead of us. ' "since my return to Fsrla I have been arranging for the introduction of several sev-eral .Aa-rrlcan features In the Petite Parisian.1 t "..'." ' r "Another thln.I would lika to see Introduced In-troduced here is' a newspaper cuttlnrs (reference) department, which in the American, offices ia a .model arrangement. arrange-ment. The Interior organization of the Amerlcanvnewspapers, aa a rule, ia superior su-perior to ours.. . 1 "Te reportersvtook "my breath away, for In alertness. Intelligence and, tact they cannot possibly be beaten. I noticed no-ticed that tht American papers pay comparatively llttje "attention ' to politics, poli-tics, while In France a paper with no politics could not exist. 'Business flraf Is the AroeriFan'a motto. He wants news In the "papeT arid then,' if he has tha time, ht reads politics' " EXFAlfPWa AlTp CONTSACTINQ; " ' . '' . Philadelphia press. ' "Burroughs Is an eccentric sort of 'exi pansionist7." ' ':s ' ? ' y ! 'In what respect, for instance?" "Well, he always believes in expanding expand-ing his Indebtedness by contracting more debts." - |