Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1925, Page 1

WEATHER. Weatler Bureau Forecast.) “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 (. s, Unsettled today; tor h change in tem northwest winc s, “at 1 srrow, (air; nog perature; .uoder- temperatures noon vesterday; ), at yesterday. page T he iy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION Entered as second class post office Washington, matter D ic and service will start immediately. WASHINGTON, D. ( SUNDAY o MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1923.— ONE HUNDRED PAGES. FOREIGNISSUES DUE FOR SENATE AIRING FEAR LEASH ON .5 Johnson’s Move for Data on Paris Agreement Reflects Others’ Misgivings. wian uno D COURT QUESTION MAY GET OUT ON FLOOR Debate on Isle of Pines Treaty Continues, With Vote Possible During Week. OLN. United - Senate the BY G. GOULD LINC uring recently ed and | World War, | plan and| the extent| Ds the possibly on the debated and may for Data. of 1p of and the League of Na- to a finish during the vesterday t on the plan, assadors Johnso Hir Asks nistr and the by rent wes Logan of United the representa- wers a copy of 1 referred to tions commit- will find not Borah of committee, resolu- resolution State to and the League Usual Forme Republican leaders in nelined to op- of the Jol n res- n was called to the lution reguests Sec- | transmit to the Sen- eement, “if nc interest which is branch ations publ executive g foreign rel that tue re into th d, in the tment of the repa- | wards nators are r be ad- ob- Likely. s Favorable Report said, Wed rld Court d Willis will ported one form re t is the aid docu- aceept Shipstead of rier iber the Sen ester sat The ed its ried and Court | r i court » Way to Get t v member of con de to do e shall vote Swanson which e Wor id dowr d pro- i Court by th President Senate 1 the Pep called up nittee shall urt, in view r Shipstead Further he tended to move solution if | who favor mber (Continucd on I'age 4, Column 1.) | by | founa To Write Wilson’s Life RAY STANNARD BAKER. MRS WILSONNAMES BIOGRAPHY AUTHOR Ray Stannard Baker to Have Unfettered Access to All Records. By the Associated Press Woodrow W he awaited Ison’s life and raphy and compilation of papers Baker of Amherst work will may require is ready Stannard 1lthough the it it Ray Mass., immediately seve ears before tion Mrs, Wilson, in making the former was fortified by the edge that Mr. Wilson himself ably would have selected Mr. for work had he lived ge It »r among Mr. Wilso the last letter his final illness came upoh him, it was addressed to Mr. Baker, p tically promising him access to precious papers which comprise nside story” of the great war, peace at Paris and Mr. Wilson's itself. The letter never w It was dictated on January when Mr. Wilson already was ginning to fail, and on February he died. executor Text of Letter. L “Every latter read as foilows time that you disclose mind to me you increase my admira- affection for like to promise until some step to tion and “I always intimate a least taken my keeping it you that with regard to my perso; ‘orrespondence and similar paper shall regard you as my prefer: creditor, and shall expect to afford the first—and if necessary ex- lusive—access to those papers. But 1 have it on my that you should know th not made the smallest beg aceumulating and mak the papers have rather have your them than that of w, and I trust th¥t think it unreasonable ask you to~ accept in lieu -of others you make or even 1 have at cessibl. we 1 would ation of e 1 kn will not I should promises would be the practical, value Pray accept assura qualified confidence regard int you o present would be without 1ces of my and Baker Apprised of Plans. Wilson said that, un- til after she had completed arrange- ments to do the wor! not aware of the existence of the un- letter material hands,” said the entire and doct as President, »f the greatest war and the p: Mrs. vesterday sent The Baker's rins rs to be placed Mrs. private in Mr. Wilson, con record in let son’s se cludes two history—the which the presidency, and other inn; There are n own memorand unients. Wilson's written in used in making his note: written by him on his own These notes will indi- origin of many of illuminate many ny of Mr. sometimes which he ind many typewriter ite the speeches (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) letters authorized biog- of ! the great war President—will be done | begin al for publica- her de- President’s knowl- prob- Baker long s papers was he wrote before and the the the life facilitate I am glad to promise ed that these | Jo Men &f oiuers wiiklcombien fowds todey S s et (o) un- affectionate . Mr. Baker was nts of Mr. Wil- in- events in| Part of thiz record is the immense private shorthand, his his SCHOOL OFFICIALS ‘HIT PLATOON PLAN; ‘MUZZLING' DENIED | Committee Stadying System Scores Some Advocates as Obstructionists. BALLOU IS DEFENDED; CO-OPERATION LAUDED Proposed Plan Declared Unfitted for Local Schools, at Public | | | | | sal to intro- stem of educa tion in the District public schools played their trump card before the Board of Education’s special platoon investigating committee at a public hearing yesterday afternoon in the Franklin School First obtaining a denial from Miss Alice Barrows, platoon school expert of the Federal Bureau of Education, that she had been forbidden to speak on the platoon plan in the District because Superintendent Frank W. Ballou is opposed to it, the opposi- tion forees, led by school administra- tive officers, then proceeded to sub- rge the committee with arguments to show the disadvantages m and the unadapability schools for its Opponents of th duce the prope platoon s designed of the sy of the Washington introduction. Advocates Are Scored. The platoon committee, itself, in a statement read at the outset of the hearing by Ernest Greenwood, chair- | man, eradicated any suspiclon had been cast on Dr. sult of the charge that he deavoring 1o suppress information +| concerning the platoon plan, and de- plored “the apparent effort on the part of some of the advocates of the platoon system to Influence the work of the committee. Miss Barrows, by her appearance ore the committee In support of the platoon plan, indicated that she |had not been “muzzled” by Commis- ner of Edu ion John J. Tigert, |us charged by Prof. William C. Rue- diger, dean of the teachers' college of &e Washington University. She tically evaded a direct ques- {tion by Chair n Greenwood as to | whether she had been forbidden | Dr. Tigert to speak in Washingto: but said: “The policy of the Bureau of Education is not to enter into a controversy in an local issue We do not believe in going Into cities and talking on the platoon system unless school office education are definitely in favor of | the plan. We do not persuade.” was en- | dipie Comments on Charges. Dean Ruediger's charges, ater denled in a letter to ~“(Continued on Page 6, Column 2.) 'DEATH OF BABY HEIR " BY POISON PROBED Chemical Analysis Reveals Drug. Father, Remarried, Demands Thorough Inquiry. pLe yoody | Ry the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis. State, county and civic January 17 authorities | determine the condition surrounding the death of Roy Haufchild, 3% o0ld heir to property valued at $1 [Teft in trust for him by his mother. |who died In October, 1923. The child me i1l Monday and died Wedn, After threc autopsies and a chemi- cal examination of the vital organ Dr. E. L. Tharinger, coroner’s physi- cian, announced today that he is ready to sign a death certificate that the child died of polsoning. The father of the boy, Arthur Hauf- child, who has remarried, demanded la rigid investigation of his son's death. Interest of the chemists and path logists centered late today about box of salve. Examination of salve showed that it contained large amount of polson and Tharinger declared the same poison was found in the body of the child in large quantities. Haufchild declared that the salve was part of his first-aid kit, carried in his automobile and had been placed in the basement. He recalled that his son had been in the basement Mon- day. a Centenarian Gives Rum and Tobacco As Elements Breeding Longevity| Quietly laughing at Father Time, sleeping soundly of nights and en- joying “tip top” physical condi- tion, to use his words, Am- brose Hines, whose father wa Revolutionary War soldier, himself has from childhood into maturity the interna- tional family, tonrorrow will cele- 100th birthday Httle room the 1208 Pennsylvania talked to newspaper men last night, and showed a group of young men what real mirth a centenarian can put into his eves, and what a hearty ring can put into his laugh. His hearing is not so good. He sat down in a rocker, and just reveled in memories. The set questions were asked him. But he didn’t answer them in the set form. For instance, a leather- luaged reporter shouted at him: “Do you like a little nip now and then?” “Oh, ves,” his voice and had a reminiscent tone. like a good drink when I e it But you can't get it now “How about smoking?” ‘I smoke 1i an engine,” said “To what do you attribute your. own a and America who seen grow her robust in his his brate In clean Hotel West, avenue, he at was quiet of get he long life? rules of conduc “Rum and tobacco, plying to the first. “Haven't any he replied to the second. Hines was born January 19 in Portland, Me. His father lived to the age of 93, and his father was born in a.little New Hamp- shire town also. His father's father w an immigrant, he thinks, although he is not quite sure. The Indian wars, the Mexi- can War—he remembers that well ——“they wouldn't take me for it,” he said; the Civil War, the World War. “When did you marry?” he was asked. Not until T was 30," he replied. “I had too many giris to decide on until then.” “Are girls any different today from what they were In your day? “They look different, but I don't think they are. “How's your heaith?” “I can eat mince pie at night, go to bed and sleep like a top. 1 feel fine.” His parting shot was the snap- piest of them all “What are you, Republican?’ “I'm a Democrat,” he fired out, with decided force. “And I'd be shot before I'd vote for a Repub- Jicgn.” What has been your set tr he said, re- 1825, a Democrat or that | Ballou as a re- | by | .{annou and boards of | ar- | 000 | this | Dr. | =\ FIVE CENTS. = /2y (o LIFE TERM SOUGHT FOR GIRL KILLER Dorothy Ellingson, Broken by Crime, Held on Murder Charge. he Associated Press. FRAY life Sllingson TSCO, prison Calif, sentence 16 years old, who confessed shooting and killing her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, in their {home here January 13, will be asked { by the State wr case {for hearing { Po Judge ced today an for Do- the next Thursday Lazarus, it was by Miss Theresa assistant district at- before ce J Merkle, | torney A | The announcement by bore out recommendat coroner's jury, which brought in its report this afternoon after it found | “evidence sufficient to warrant filing {of a murder charge against Dorothy | Eningson The jury recommends that | trial be held to ciear up certain crepencies in testimony of wit | The jury further went on record | favoring enactment of iss Meikle ons by the also a as legislation regulating the sale and possession of | fire-arm | The girl sat weeping through most of the coroner's inquest, at which her father and her 24-year-old brother, | Barl, appeared as witnesses. She did not take the stand 5 | Questioned as to his knowledge of | the presence of insanity or nervous | disease in either branch of the fam- ily, the elder Ellingston said be knew | ot no such instances. He corroborat- ed the son's testimony that was possessed of willful disposi- tion and for the last four vears had been virtually incorrigible. She was a ward of the Court at the time of the the father sald A reconclliation between the ac- | cused girl and her father and brother followed the reading of the findings of the coroner's Jjury. Both father and brother previously had announc- {ed that they would take no steps to ald in the defense of the daughter |ana sister. Confronted by the two in her cell, her knees at their feet, sobbing, and begged their forgiveness We will o to any length to help | ner” Barl Ellington said after the interview. Juvenile shooting, | |ELEANOR F. EGAN DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS | Writer Was One of Four Women on Advisory Committee of U. S. at Arms Conference. By the Associated Press W YORK, January 17..—Mrs. | Eleanor Franklin Egan, writer, and wife |of Martin Egan of J Morgan & Co., died here tonight after a brief iliness. She was the author of a number of books, the latest of which was “War in the Cradle of the World." She was also a frequent contributor to magazines and had traveled widely Her literary career began in New York when she was barely out of her teens. After establishing herself as a prom- {ising writer she went to the Orlent, where she was married to Mr. Egan, who was then correspondent of the Associated Press. She was one of the four women |the advisory committee of the Americ: delegation at the Washington arms con- ference and had long been regarded a {an authority on far eastern questions. | She was with Gen. Maude's army when the British forces took Bagdad during the World Wa 60,000 MINERS TO STRIKE Decision Follows Fiery Appeals by Representatives of 12,000 Ousted by Union. By the Associated Press. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., January 17— Tentative plans for a general strike among the 60,000 mine workers of district No. 1, United Mine Workers of America, next Wednesday afternoon unless & special convention is granted by the district officers were approved | here tonight at a dramatic session of the general mine grievance commit- | tees. | “Action of the united bodies followed flery appeals by representatives of the 12,000 employes of the Pennsylvania Coal Co., ousted by the union for their unauthorised strikp. Dorothy | the girl threw herself on | IF DEMANDS ARE REFUSED | comes up | 1 GIVE NOTICE THAT Z I'EQDI(P:QTQ @~ Y BRING UP. b (¢3’ ;TEAPOT TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—38 PAGES. General News—Local, Natlonal, Foreign. Serial, “The Ark of the Covenant,” Page 19. Around the City—Page 20. Boy Scout News—Page 20. Army and Navy News—Page 22 Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 22. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 22. At the Community Centers—Page 23. Veterans of the Great War—Page 24. D. A. R. Activities—Page 25. Schools and Colleges—Page 27. Current News Events—Page 27. Spanish War Veterans—Page 29. Radio Programs and News—Pages 30, 32 and 33. Fraternal News—Pagge 31. January | Financial News—Pages 34, 35 and 36. W. C. T. U. News—Page 38. PART TWO0—20 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. Washington and Other Society. Tales of Weil Known Folk—Page 4. | Notes of Art and Artists—Page 16. | | | | i News of the Ciubs—Page 17. District National Guard—Page 20. PART THREE—10 PAGES. | Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6, 7 and 8. Reviews of New Books—Page 9. PART FOUR—4 PAGES, Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Features. The Rambler—Page 3 PART SIX—8 PAG Classified Advertising. The Civilian Army—Page 7. Girl Scout News—Page 7. GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 PAG World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION— Mr. Straphanger: Reg'lar and Mrs.; Mutt and Jeff. NURNI SHATTERS ) MONETER PAGES, Fellers; Mr. Overcome Handicap of 150 Yards. sociated Press EW YORK. ing feet of Paavo Finn middle distance star, stretched their way to a world indoor record in the 2.000-meter the fea- ture of the Fordham University Atn- letic Association games in the 102nd Regiment Armory tonight. Nurml's m; of 5:33 will decorate the record books of marks together with the other epoch-making records he established and broken during American campaign. This was third successive in as many nights. He ran in New York, on Friday in Chicago and In New York again tonight But Wiilie Ritola, Finnish teammate of the peerless Paavo, forced his rival to split honors with him for the eve- ning when Ri of distance broke the By o January 17.—The f Nurmi, peerles special, world race ars into the ground and world record for the mile race, negotiating the distance in 24:214 beating Hannes men’s mark of 24:291-5 established at Madison Square Garden February 12, 1913, Promoters of the meet, in an en- deavor to force Nurmi to exert him- self to his fullest tonight, handicap- ped the field up to 150 vards and forced Nurmi to start from scratch. His three rivals were given 75, 125 and yards, respectively, but Nurmi ran them all down and then v his heels at the fleld in a lead 5 yards at the finish. " (Continued of CLUBMAN SLASHE Philip Corbin Severs, Arteries of Wrists. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., January 17.—Philip Corbin, Yale graduate and a member of several prominent New York and New England clubs, late today sev- ered the arteries in his wrists and cut himself about his head at his home here, according to attending physicians, who said Corbin probably would recover, S SELF. MARK |Forced to Extend Self to on Thursday | ola raced a crack field | five- | Kolehmai- | JUST A8 EVERYTHING WAS GoING /Z)) ALONG SO NICEL"( N FASCISTS' REFORM CARRIES IN ITALY Electoral Bill Passed Without Evidence of Storm Long Forecast. B the Associated Press. ROME, January 1 h the adop- tion of the electoral reform bill to- |day the Italian Chamber of Deputie Facist =olini government of Premler Mus- apparently had weathered an- other gale, which failed to wreck the Black Shirt ship of state. At its final meeting the Chamber | went over the electoral measure ar- | ticle by article, after having approved it in principle by a vote of confidence given the premier last night, and eliminated from it the provision for {plural voting. ~Premier Mussolini consented to this elimination because |a number of Faclst' deputies, repre- | senting workmen’s constituencies, ob- | jected that the provision would have |the effect of reducing the suffrage powers of such voters. Otherwise, the | bill went through virtually unaltered, Keeping the provision for the single | constituency system and other essen- {tial features as sponsored by the head | of the government | Prophets Disappointed. The obvious peaceable adjournment of the Chamber, without the breaking of the expected storm, caused discom- fiture mostly to the dozens of foreign correspondents, who had rushed to Italy a few days ago to be on hand to describe the wreckage of the Mus- solini regime. The impending disaster had advertised widely for more than a month by the would-be politically | Weather-wise, who thought they saw on the horizon signs of a break-up. The opposition press began by re- porting disorders which, the Fascist claim, were intended to reflect dis- credit on the Fascistl. Then, at what | was considered the psychological mo- ment, the famous Rossi Memorandum was launched to the accompaniment of considerable stage thunder, thus working the public both in Italy and abroad up to a crescendo of excite- ment. been Fall Predicted. The campaign hecame so intense that Premier Mussolini stepped in with a counter-attack by virtually suppressing the opposition press and taking extraordinary measures to preserve order. At about the same time, the premier made a speech in the Chamber, threatening to anni- hilate the opposition within 48 hou This move on Mussolini’s part was terpreted by the opposition as indi- cating that the storm had broken, consequently the much-advertised fall of the Fascisti was described in a | nent The session of the Chamber, ever, came and went without spectacle of Mussolini's falling, so the special writers have hegun to trickle out of the country, one by one How long the political atmosphere will remain tranquil is an open con- jecture, but impartial observers are inclined to lay wagers that Mussolini will remain at his post for many | moons to come. For the first time since Premier Mussolini presented in the Chamber of Deputies his measure dealing with secret societi the Observatore | Romano, the official Vatican organ, comments today on the bill, denying See w Column how the |Moscow By Cable to The Star and New York World. BRUSSELS, January 17.—All Moscow is going to see a stirring new play, a description of which is given in Le Soir by one of its correspondents just returned from Russia. The title Is two initials which stand for “Destruction of Europe.” The piece opens with a scene in which American business mag- nates, surrounded by awe-struck stenographers, announce that Europe at present, constitutes a danger to civilization and decide to destroy it that they may exploit the new urope set up on lines approved by them. In the play France has become Fascist, but has had enough of peace and is now imperlalistic. A Fascisti lead- or at-a sitting of the Chamber of L] adjourned its present session and the | number of cable dispatches as immi- | Alcohol, Valued At Half Million, By the Associated Press. ST. PAUL, Minn,, January 1 Three carloads of alcohol, said to be valued at $500,000, and which are alleged to have been taken secretly from a Philadelphia dis- tillery, were seized here tonight by the Federal prohibition enforce- ment agents from Minneapolls, headed by Maurice Silverman, act- ing prohibition director for the Northwest On January 8 Sflverman sald he received a tip that the alcohol had been shipped from Philadelphia to the twin cities he shipment was traced to Elk- hart, Ind., by the Minnesota agents, who followed it to Chi- ago, where the men Wwho at- tempted to unload the alcohol were_arrested. J. P. Brandt, who was in charge of the agents, left the train at Hudson, Wis., and rushed by au- tomobile to Minneapolls, where he obtai a warrant from a United States commissioner authorizing seizure of the liquor. Brandt went to St. Paul and the liquor was placed in a warehouse. It had been consigned to three different addresses here. IRGINIA NSRO to Plar for Action on Blue Ridge Project Bill. The East's first great n project Is slowly dving gressional pigeon hole. in a con with which to set up the machinery necessary for the creation of Shenandoah National Park the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, which was introduced nea twe months ago, must be brought from the public lands committee to floor of the House within a very few days or it will passing this Congre: its sponsors. Faced by these facts knowledge that the park may ever lost unless it is authorized this Congress, Senator Claude Swanson of the Virginia o'clock Tuesday | quick and decs the proposition before mediately. in s, according to with be for by A delegation for 10 morning to ve action to b Congress im Vigllance Is Promised. A thoroughly anxious delegation o business men, bankers leaders, headed by Gov. E. Trinkle, will come here from Vir- ginla the same day and go into con ference with thelr leaders in Con gress. From that hour on will maintain a special here to bring to bear every ounce O pressure within its reach to immediate action on the measure thai means life or death to the first outdoor playground ever planned in the East by the Federal Government. The bill was introduced in House by Representative Henry W Temple, chairman of the Southern Appalachian National Park committee which selected the site in the area in the East” for the creation o a national park, & day or two this session of Congress con vened. It was referred to the public lands committee and there it has re. mained, unacted upon, ever since, de spite protests from Harrison of Virginia, a m committee ber of the Hope For Early Action. chair the Nicholas J. Sinnott, 2d, committee, has ative man of the gently to his attention he the measure right of way, because of its ple of the entire Eastern the United States, but it was one of the first reach his committee this session® To be assured prompt action Congress, according to those have been in closest touch | situation, the bill really ne reported out to the House nesday. After that, it is s | be necessary to invoke mous consent rule or the rule, in order to shove the bil through before rch 4, when Congress dies—t Congress | first conceived the idea of the park. It would be almost useless, accord ing to Members of Congress, to voke the unanimous consent rule in the case of the Shenandoah National Park bill. Despite the orth, the West and not section also because by who by 1d, it may “specta most the Members are oppo: from North ( their own State though a small muster up enough votes to unanimous consent to consider legislation immediately. had offered. minority, they could Obstacles In Prospect. According to members of the South ern Appalachiun National Park mittee, gress would probably necessitate go all of the work that has al done, and (Continued on Page . Column 1.) to _See Stirring Drama Depicting Destruction of Europe Deputies calls for the destruction of Berlin and the invasion of the Soviet countries. In London, the few remaining peers are shown eating their last meal. One of them takes a monocle from his Dlate, revealing that the meal con- sists of fellow peers who have gone on before them. Meanwhile, the Moscow govern- ment has not been idle. A tunnel has been constructed under the Atlantic from Leningrad to New York, and the red army crawls through the tunnel and lands triumphantly on Broadway. The American workers welcome their liberators enthusiastically and capitalism succumbs at the end of the performance, while the band plays the internationale hymn and the audience cheers wildly. “ - % (Copyright.: 1925.) L Seized in St. Paul BY NEW PARK PERIL Delegation to Meet Tuesday tional park | The bill asking Congress for $10.000 the the | tand slight chance of | the as called a special meeting 30 plan ng and _public the fact that the of the!ayna South stand solidly behind it, some of | | arolina | ed because the Virginia site was selected in preference to an area Al- | | | 0 n e the State committee f force t big n Blue Ridge Mountains as “the outstanding t after Representative | has been largely | attempting It is believed that when Represent- se- riousness of the situation called ur- will give only importance to the peo- of measures to with the ds to be | Wed- the unani- 1! 1| this that | while bound by 3 o 1| block the com- failure of the bill in this Con- at_considerable | | | This growtn | the | importance i forma | cause | the guarantee of t 1ot PRESIENT WARNS EDITORS 0 AVOID PROPAGANDA EVIL Prescribes Divorce of News and Business Depart- ments for Success. URGES CONTINUED APPEAL TO HIGH U. S. IDEALISM Minimizes Danger of Capitalistic Press in Address at So- ciety Dinner. The pathway to success can journalism ltes in of propaganda, news from d continued appeal he ideal of the Amer people, President Coolidge declared last night in speak ing to the American Soclety of News paper Editors Avolding for the most part refer gove problems, Mr alked shop” with the aking from the viewpoint in the nawspaper bus his predecessor, bt as watched the growth the American ¥ he declared, had given United States best papers in the world."” Mr. Coolidge made it plair entertains no fears to fluences of what netimes ca a “capitalistic press.” Says Fear Unfounded. policies business motives to a ence mental Coolidge editors, s of one not ness, as was one who development “the new as P people £ the commercialism ¢ id. “They pers are gr rning large ¢ men of wea such control support ose who than the whole ever, that the er the newspapers men of wealth, bu sincerely trying to interests. There will be little casion to worry about who owns newspaper so long as its attitudes c public questions are h as to pro mote the ‘general we which is actuated by the purpose of genuine usefuiness to the publ rest can never be too stron cially so long as its strength is for the support of popular gover ment.” contr fear that may te terests papers, rather erest of ns to me. olle press d to c own general, It see real tes how- ntrolled e the pub ser Text of Address. President Coolidge's speech f follows “The in rels and t recognized onship between govern- e press has always bee a matter of larg Wherey despo the sources of public are the first to be brought its trol. Wherever the of liberty is making its one of its highest accomplishments as d; on abou under is wa press. It has 1 metives instinctively, oftent pressly, that truth and inseparable. An absol never rest upon anything verted and distorted relationships nes ex- are and upon ards set up and maintained by It has always fo ecessar attempt to dom entire education and It thrived on ignorance. it sought to train the few, it wit purpose of superlor has naf instruction Whil to give th 2 mis! the ma abso- facility for Men have been Jutism, not that they ness to the truth, but that they be the more ingenius advoc defenders of false standards and hol- low pretenses. This has always the method of privilege, the meth of class and caste e method master and slave “When a communi advanced so t gins to take on that ed under ar mi | a republic, the processes of educat ortant, but the reversed under im become even more method is necess: all the more necessary tem of free governmen t ple should be enlightened, that should be correctly informed, than is under an absolute government that they should ignorant. 1 republic the institutions of learnt the cons and way subservient to The principles which be law s the the; their square are in no overnment enunciat authority upon whether with the wish ¢ ty, but whether with the everlasting these conditions the press. before been made an instrument concealing or perverting the must be made an instrument for true representation and tI and logical interpretation position of a mere organ, bound to servitude, public prin to a dignity, not only of independ ence, but of a great educational and enlightening factor. They attain new powers which it is almost impossible to measure, and become charged w commensurate responsibilities y depend for they truth. which had for ir sound From the cons! Says Propaganda Dangerous. “The public press under an autc is necessarily a true agency propaganda. Under a free govern ment it must be the very reverse Propaganda secks to present a par of the facts, to distort their relations and to force conclusions which could not be drawn from a complete and candid survey of all the facts. It has been observed that propaganda seeks to close the mind, while education seeks to open it. This has become one of the dangers of the present day “The great difficulty in combating unfair propaganda, or even {n recog- nizing It, arises from the fact that at the present time we confront so many new and technical problems that it is an enormous task to keep ourselves accurately informed con- cerning them. In this respect you gentlemen of the press face the same racy | perplexities that are encountered by [ legislators and government adminis- trators. Whoever deals with current | public questions is compelled to rely ! judgme upon the information and ts of expérts and specialists. Unfortunately, not all experts are to be trusted as entirely disinterested. =7 {Continued.on Page 5, Columa 3) Rreatly