Image 7 of The Birmingham age-herald (Birmingham, Ala.), May 16, 1910

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I NEWSPAPER ENDOWMENT DISCUSSED BY EDITORS New York May 15Is there a place in the United States for an endowed news paper Is there need for such a paper Recent reports that Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller are at least contem plating the provision of funds for the establishment of a national newspaper or newspapers which are to be conducted on i fin absolutely nonpartisan and nonsec tarian basis uninfluenced by any other consideration than the public good has aroused much public interest in this sug gestion With a view of ascertaining the viewn of the newspapermen of the country men who are peculiarly fitted to express an opinion on such a subject which will be worth listening to the Publishers Press has secured the opinion of some of the leading editors of the United States as to the necessity for or possibility of suc cess of a newspaper endowed either by private or public money Some of the fnoet Interesting opinions expressed fol low By Harrison Gray Otis editor and pub lisher of the Los Angeles Times and Mirror j I have your letter of the 1st inst stat ing that the suggestion has been recent ly made