MODERN NEWSPAPER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 3

MODERN NEWSPAPER

LORD HEWART'S TRIBUTE "Do we always think as gratefully, or indeed as justly, as wo might of the amazing ability, diligence, -caro and learning, the wit, the humor, tho skill, and the versatility, the dutifulness, the courage, the conscientiousness and the sheer hard work which go to the making of the b'est kind of newspaper?" asked Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England, in an address at the New Athenaeum in Liverpool.

"When we take in our hands a really first-rate English daily newspaper, do we always reflect upon the recurrent miracle of the leading articles—so aptly chosen and to-day so happily named, the rapid harvest of WO know not how much brilliancy in school and j university, Low severe a training in affairs, how fine, a character, and how wise a mind? ... Or when wc look at the telegrams and reports from nil quarters of the world, the work of the foreign department, the work of the reviewing staff, the work of the sub-editors, the work of thc reporters, and not least the work of the Jaw reporters, together with an infinity of work besides, are we not sometimes a little inclined to take everything for granted, to think that somehow the newspaper automatically produces itself, and to forget that every issue of that journal which moans so much to us presupposes and depends upon the daily initiative, the daily industry, and the deliberate organisation and correlation of tho daily industry, of a vast unseen band of highly skilled and conscientious artists? To conceal the art is, no doubt, u work of art. But there are occasions, and perhaps this may bo one of them, when a. debt which is not always visible, and is never claimed, may at least bo gratefully acknowledged."