HAPPY JOURNALISTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 225, 29 December 1920, Page 6

HAPPY JOURNALISTS.

FLEip; STRJCET: M EMOIUKS

.. LONDON, Nov. 4. Lord NortMliffe presided over, a . luncheon ill honour of. Lord and Lady; Burriluini.'given two days ago as a mark •or appreciation ;of thp.services they had rendered |n connection with the Empire Press of .which. Lord Burnhum was president.. ,Wfa ■ -.: • • i Lord Northctftfe, 1 in happy yem, t«;d some early reihiniscenccs of his own which occasioned merriment. He; re-called-the day, when„ as a reporter, the Daily Telegraph was one ot -the; '•unfortunate journals that received my work, and it thought so ill of it ) that it djd not keep me very long. (Laughter.) ,Npt«i<the Jew* X learned *. meat deal from the D»dy Telegraph. During the timei was .reporting for Sir John (then Mr) J.c there w'is a: great eontroversy.in:the. United, Mates, and Great Britain about an, elephant called Jumbo.' (Laughter.) I learned a great deal fromiho late.'Loin Oiuru-, ham in the, handling, ol the Jumbo incident. There was not much left M Jumbo when tho hat finished with, it- .', I learned much from .the, brilliant stall ullie Daily Telegraph-then had-~lrom George Augustus.P?.#fel| W| with m beady eye and witijw/wfcistcoat, • and ,*aid, "Young, mam .-get out ,ofFleet street; ftm-no place>r any- 1 body.'' (Laught*!''.} J niighl remark that the old geutleimm had done e'x.tremely well in Fleet street, tumseli. . (Laughter.) ■ ,-. , • ; ' The first' Lord Burnham was a, rare type of journalist who has left in his son one who (flmMwej "When 1 was working at., tho. Daily

Telegraph,'' 9m ■ fx>rd NorthdiiTn,.' he, used to be called Mr "Hurry; and some, of the older, men/used. t« (shake heads and say, 'What wilt ho. do \mh the Dailv Telegraph W. We know what, ho has done with it: ' (Cheers.) I £aii hardly conceive a,more difficult propowfcion than an , old-extablishtHl newspaper liko that assailod by sonus of the. young vipers I have let loose .at lunvi (Laughter.) I ; .canity this for Lord" Utirnham, as lor..thts.-lato Mr-Walter,, pf the Times, that .'when,l wa» a re-, porter in Fleet street there were only two uowspapcrs.thatywid a hying wage. When 1 hear of linotype operators wttli incomes of £SOO t0,,£1000-a year,,and when I know of MievVery proper rate of remuneration ps«Mu reporters, and, editors, I remember that I had to write a very long column for a well-known-niornrafc newspaper for which I receiv-t, I lone guinea/ fWmer.) I can hear frdni the laughter that you think it wm probably more than it was worth..; (Heiipwed laughter.* I am writing my Hurv (Laughter and cheers.) l { am Sir mine .'.Monsters of the Fleet street Deep.' (Laughter.)