Many pertinent observations might be made about that great paper
the; New York Times, but perhaps the observation with the most sardonic sound to a British journalist is that the paper celebrated its centenary with an issue of 589 pages. Our own Times on the same day ran to ten. No one will, out of unworthy envy, stint congratulations to the paper which Henry Jarvis Raymond started on September 18th, 1851, and the Ochs family stimulated and sustained in more recent years. Its slogan " all the news that's fit to print " is almost too familiar to quote, but it ranks in journalistic ethics with C. P. Scott's "comment is free, facts are sacred." But principle alone is no basis for a paper's success in this evil world. The combination of principle with efficiency is necessary, and if any explanation of the admira- tion the New York Times has succeeded in commanding, far outside the ,ounds of the United States, is needed it is to be found in the consistent and sustained professional competence of its staff.
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