Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-26 | Page 2 | Newspapers Changing the World

NEWSPAPERS CHANGING THE WORLD. The man who lives twenty years from 1911 will lookN bnck upon the present era with surprise, IT not with amazoment. We live In a tlmo of advancement. Some call It progression. progres-sion. Some call themselves progressives, progres-sives, as If they wore all there were of the world. This is a mistake. The wide circulation of tho newspaper and the magazine has practically put a college professor, a lawyer, a doctor and a clergyman, as well as an editor and au artist, In almost every home. The best work, of tho ablest men In every walk of lifo finds a ready market mar-ket In tho piibllcatlo'ii office. Newspapers News-papers and magazines have supplant' ed, In part, the library, and we fear, arc supplanting the school, the college col-lege and the church much moro than they should. It would have been well if we could have stopped here. No forward movement Is evir made without with-out blunders, with hotheads who I want to go too fast and too far So the yellow press and tho muckraking writer have come, displaying tho ! banner of tho "upllfter." Really it Is the banner of the disturber. But they will not tnrry long. Already the demagogue dem-agogue Is giving way to the business man, tho theorist to the practical reformer re-former and the upllfter to tho organ- , lzor. LoBlle'fl, - - N ! pBji lib1 ,"gfTiiH