THE PRESS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 23 December 1913, Page 2

THE PRESS

The English press still plays a considerable part in the daily life of the average man or woman. No day -As considered complete some portion of which is not devoted to a perusal of the newspaper. The newspaper, indeed., forms the 6ole intellectual pabulum of vast numbers of readers. It is the poor mail's encyclopaedia.- There is no phase of' life which the newspaper leaves untouched. It panders to the lowest instincts of a. sensation-loving public, it soars into the high regions of divinity and philosophy, it discourses learnedly about science and art and literature, it gives racing "tips," it isa momentary microcosm of,; the world. We accept the press as a mysterious power that works (quite literally) in the night. Of thai? vast^rmy of labor without which no newspaper could ever be delivered at our front door—that army of editors, sub-editors, news editors, reporters, reviewers, compositors, readers, distributors, and a hundred others—we have no conception.: —The New Witness.