In part the explanation is that Mr. Baldwin, following the
tradition of Cabinet Ministers and such like, made his communication only to the Tine. The Times is a receiving house of important communications, and it is certain that any communication published there will spread outwards to the extreme circumferences of British civilization. In the United States such an announcement would have been made simultaneously in a great many organs. Here newspapers, which have to make use of information after it has been published in the Times, arc usually inclined to give it less emphasis than they would have done if they themselves had been the first channel of communication. We are not going to apologize for our odd national methods, which we prefer anyhow to the rehearsed clamour of a professional chorus. All the same, we think that in the case of Mr. Harkness's gift Mr. Baldwin would have done better to secure simultaneous publication by making use of the Press Agencies.
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