Identifier: storyofexpositio05todd (find matches)
Title: The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Todd, Frank Morton Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company
Subjects: Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: New York, London : Pub. for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Company by G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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the Portland Oregonian; and acommemorative scroll on behalf of the Exposition to the International PressCongress, which was acknowledged by Robert B. Bell, editor of the Ashbur-ton, New Zealand, Guardian. S. D. Scott, of Canada, Mirza Ali-Kuli Khan, of Persia, G. E. Uyehara, ofTokio, Kee Owyang, of China, Manuel Roldan, of Lisbon, K. D. Shastri, ofBenares, Dr. Schoop, of Switzerland, Dr. Vassardakis, of Athens, ErnestoNelson, of the Argentine, and Capt. J. W. Niesigh, of Sydney, described thejournalism of their respective countries, and Norman E. Mack, of the BuffaloTimes, told of journalistic aims in the United States. It is impossible to review here the proceedings of all the sessions, and ofthe meetings held under the auspices of the various related organizations.They would fill a large volume. The National Editorial Association, theCalifornia Press Association, the American Association of Teachers of Jour-nalism, and the Federation of Trade Press Associations of the United States
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THE WORLDS INTELLIGENCE CORPS 47 held special group sessions at which questions relating to the particular in-terests represented by these organizations were discussed. Certain observations of the speakers had a bearing on the subject, ofmore than passing interest. Macfarlane, actor, clergyman, author, and NewYork Sun reporter, in the course of his address on the Work of the Re-porter, declared: Journalism is greater than bread and butter. It does not exist to supplyour bread and butter, but to supply a want of the world. And when hesaid that, he said what the economist recognizes to be true not merely ofjournalism but of every legitimate and deserving activity in which menengage as a business, whether those so engaged know it or not.The thine to complain against is not the demand for sensation, r °rce l i ■ r r • i • r i ■ ■ Sensations but a habit of furnishing a false sensation when there is no realone. ... It is easier to write fiction than fact. I know it because I pre-

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