Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1901 — JOURNAL OF THE YEAR 2000. [ARTICLE]

JOURNAL OF THE YEAR 2000.

Correspondence Columns Not to Be Filled Bjr Ilore Writers. My own culture and turn of mind, which is probably akin to that of a respectable mechanic of the ypar 2000, Inclines mo toward a dally paper that will have, In addition to Its concentrated and absolutely trustworthy dally news, full and luminous accounts of new Inventions, new theories and new departures of all sorts (usually illustrated), witty and penetrating comments upon public affairs, criticisms of all sorts of things, reproductions of newly produced pictures and works of art, and an ample amount of ably written controversy upon everything under the sun. The correspondence columns, instead of being an exercising place for bores and conspicuous people who are not mercenary, would be the most ample, the most carefully collected, and the most highly paid for of all in the paper I should prefer, which my kindred mechanic will. This paper will have, of course, many pages of advertisements, and these will usually be well worth looking through, for the more intelligent editors of the days to come will, or course, edit this department just like any other, and classify their advertisements in a descending scale of freshness and Interest that will also be an ascending scale of price.—H. G. Wells, in North American Review.