Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-02-27 | Page 4 | Public Just a Great Baby

PUBLIC JUST A GREAT BABY professor W bthomas of chicago university writes a most interesting article on the psychology of the yel low journal he discusses the natural in man the savage instinct of children pleasurable shocks our interests in disasters playing up a murder trial scandal bongers mongers as reformers our lost faith inthe in the printed page and so on he says the great bold that aho yellow journal has on the masses Is to be explained by the fact that the popular mind is essentially childish thero has always boen in the populace as in the child a greedy interest in materials representing the elemental omo along with no necessary regard to their artistic presentation primitive epic and ballad literature stories of adventure fable gossip arid the modern cheap magazine aro expressions of interest children and the ma aboa love stories and always more stories and when one Is finished they bay now tell another in this sense ati least the remark of dr chalmers is true that the public Is just a great baby in democratic america with its treo schools and immigrants we havo a great population that has really just learned to read and which though lettered 18 childish or that which amounts to the same thing from the psychological standpoint savage and to these tho yellow journal gives end less stories both real and make be lieve