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CURRENT NOTES.
T HE advantage of neaspaper men beini
was shown in The Toronto News offi
The fire in McKendry's dry goods store broku
7 p.m. That is an hour when evening stafl
their labors. All the printers had gone ho
was off the typecastng mahin ines. But thi
staff gathered at the office-H. Hocken, edil
city editor, and J. Cowan, commercial edit
printers, seized sticks and began work at on
on long primer, one on brevier. In The
" The senior devil turned up in time to set tb
of the foreman drifted in as the copy was i
arrange the page for the reception of the a
Just as the succinct and complete report of tl
ready for the formn word was eceived that
controL" By this time stereotypers and pres
and an extra was out in the hands of the <
prise was only possible because the heads
their business. A cllege degre is a good
work, but in newspaper offices having servet
" is better.
The political campaign has produced
feature in the eonduct of newspapers. Thi
certain amount of space to some political
controlled by it and matter inserted which i
with the views of the paper as a whole.
column is supposed to ransfer the reponsibi
from the paper to the lessees. Technically,
oli. Without going into hair-splitting d
propriety or wisdom of leasing space not
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advertising, our opinion is that a newspaper lose a large slice of its
individuality and prestig in parting with the exclusive right to
exprss its opinion. Properly worked, the editoral tone and
opinion of a paper is a valuable asset. The leasing ange-
ment impairs this, and when the campaign is over, individuality
and a reputation for sincerity are recovered with difficulty, if
ever.

The Canaian dilies devoted columns to a minute account
ngle copies o cent ot the Czars coronation. The stuff purported to have come by
able. It was prepared for United States consumption, Russia
C. MeCLMAN and the republic being cheek by jowl politically. The ceremony
being unique and gorgeous makes, within certain limits, rea-
able matter. From the news point of view the awful tragedy in
which hundreds were crushed to death wo rth more than tanhe
practca nters oronati p rin oceedings, yet it was squeezed into short spae.
e a few daa af go The Canadian papers should have condensed the elaborate lists
ut shortly before of dignitaries at the function. The long arry of kings and
es are retiring fro prnes us intended for the palates of flunkeys. Why news-
me and the power papers in a democratic community like this should cater to that
tee menembers ot the element is not clear.
tor ; W. Willknson, Mr Pattullo, in The Sentinel-Review, notes with satisfaction
:orand be?ng old
:or-and bseing otto that The Hamilton Spectator made a kindly reference to Mr. J.
te at the ?ses, two L L. ewis when he left that staff to become editor of The Herald,
es own wrds and adds: "Even the Spec. has come under the genial and
le headig, sand one humanizing influences exerted by the Canadian Press Associa-
early finished, and tion_quite unconsciously of course. Its reference to a member
iccout of the fire^. of its staff who is about to take the chief position on a rival
se conflagration was paper, is a credit to it and a good sign of the times." Hear,
thie ire ws under hear. It is to members of the press like Mr. Pattullo, who
esnen were on hand, have used their powers to promote good feeling instead ot
trowd. This enter stimulating acerbity, that we owe the friendlier relations that
of the paper ne now pral between the brethren.
thing in any line of
d a term at the case
The other day a political interview with Professor Burwash
in The Mail and Empire was, owing to the chance use of the
a somewhat novel word chancellor, attributed to his brother. In correcting the
s is the leasing of a error, The Globe dealt with it in this ourteous wa: * 'Of
organization, to be course our contemporary's error was an accident, and we would
may not correspond not refer to the question were it not that the interriew is being
The heading of the circulated throughout the ountry as Chancellor Burwash's."
ility for the contents This, too, at the boiling point of the campaign.
this argument may *
iscusson as to the Yet another reent instance of fair-minded courte ma i
rowedly paid fr as noted. The Montreal Star suggested lately te name of Mr.

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