THE DAILY PRESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LIX, Issue 9214, 5 November 1908, Page 6

THE DAILY PRESS.

NEWSPAPER ENLARGEMENT,

"A new reoord in..English daily journalism has been created. by tho Daily Telegraph in issuing a paper eousistiug of twenty-four pages. To produce a daily new.spapor of twentyfour pages like the Daily Telegraph is an achievement of which the proprietors have every reasou to bo proud." Why should the proprietors bo "proud" because thoy have loaded a 24-page newspaper on the long-suffer-ing newspaper reader? asks Oastou's Circular. What security havo we that somo competing paper will not increase the pages to forty-oight. Our capacity for newspaper reading is not inexhaustible, neither is our waste-paper departmout. Wo hope, thorotoro, there will be no more developments to signalise the great achievements of the newspaper men. We advise a dovolopmout in "another direction. Make tho newspaper smaller aud well withiu tho compass of tho average reader, aud he may bo able, perhaps, to digest his news, aud will find it quite suffioieut tor his requirements. But twenty-four pages Tolegraph size ! Wo really have uot tho time for this form of dissipation. Thoro'aro oulv twenty-four hours in a day, not all of which are suitable for reading. We need to sleep now and thou, aud timo to eat, or to see a mau, and therefore we protest against this avalauche of column matter. There are wise men on tho staff of tho Daily Telegraph, but wo do uot caro to imbibe their wisdom morning, hoou and night. We liko to look at things that aro not eushrihed in the Tolegraph, and to feel influences that are not tho eroation of this mighty orgau. Wo suspect wo aro taking tho enlargement of tbe Tolegraph too seriously. Who did road more thau a fraction" of this paper in its uueularged shape? We cau ouly recall ouo devoted reader, aud she was a student iv tho palmy days of Sala. We kuow that sho read her treasure six times, from title to imprint. But it was the samo old Telegraph that we bad left behind on a previous visit, aud was theu about six years old.