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Show NEED HELP Speaker Says Journals Should Be Endorsed to 'Make Good' Lansing, Aug. 1. Hamilton Holt of the Independent, New York, made a plea for an endowed newspaper in his address at tho national newspaper news-paper conference today on the topic, "Can Commercial Journalism Make 'Good,' or Must We Look for tho Endowed En-dowed Neswaper?" The endowed paper would exert a great Influence for good upon tho standards of other papers, declared Mr. Holt, who said he saw no danger dan-ger of becoming reactionary if manned by the right kind of men. "There are mapy college presidents who could edit such a paper better than can many of the $15,000 editors of commercial papers," he said. Mr. Holt's endowed paper must be a weekly, which can circulate all over the land, and exert the maximum influence in-fluence on current events. It would have no politics of Its own. Its motto would be comprehensiveness and accuracy. ac-curacy. "Endowment of $5,000,000 would be sufficient to carry out this plan," said the speaker. "I hasten to say," added Mr. Holt, "that commercial Journalism not only qan but often does 'make good.' Nevertheless Nev-ertheless I am here today to make a plea for the establishment of an on-dowed on-dowed paper. "Journalism of the highest order is really a part of the public education, and extension of the university extension. ex-tension. It has the same triDle func tion as tho university the discovery of truth, the dissemination of knowledge knowl-edge and tho championship of worthy causes. "If a journal Is to have an eminent, emi-nent, enterprising and trustworthy staff, capable of finding out tho facts about current events with accuracy and dispatch it cannot be expected to be set for tho supporting any more than a university engaged in fostering foster-ing all the arts and sclonces and maintaining a faculty of nation-wldo repute." |