Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1925, Page 4

ATTAGK ON PRESS BRINGS NEAR RIOT Speaker at Patriotic Confer- ence Calls Washington Papers Pacifistic. | ch that the press of Wash- Ington subsidized and that news- papers print more on the pacifist side of a question invelving national de- fense than they do on the other side Mrs. Fred L. Volland, who represented herself to be from the Daughters of the American Revolution, precipitated a near riot at the national patriotic conference at noon today. Mrs. Vol- land’s statement came at the conclu- sion of an address by A. Cloyd Gill. a Washington newspaper man, in which he advocated greater defense neasures. Her attack was immediate- I repudiated by several women, who ose in dlifferent parts of the hall and denounced her onslaught on the press of Washington. Frank L. Peckham, commander merican Legion in the District of Columbia, attempted to calm the two factions and said that, while Mr Gill was right in his assertions re- garding the need for better defense. 1y laid too much stress aircraft in a national ging of th emergency Mrx. Potts Defends Press. Noble Newport Potts, presi- National Patriotic Coun- statement defending the £ the city from the at- unannounced” speaker statement follo National Patriotic Counc at the morning session of the National Patriotic Con New Willard Hotel subsidy of the press by pac terests and to the effect that the pacifists are able to obtain more space in the press than such an organiza- tion as ours, representing the whole- some patriotic sentiment of the com- munity. On the contrary, of Washington ‘has devoted to our patriotic conference column upon column, both in advance of and dur- ing the session of tie present pa- triotic conference. “We could not” have anticipated a 1er resnonse from the newspapers Jth in and outside of Washington. Particular apnreciation i& due to The Washington Star for its invariable and splendid efforts to give to the people of this community good, clean, accurate, patriotic news in every one of its splendid issues.” While Mr. Gill was referring to the work Coast Guard several | women said to be wives of Navy officers. left the room. Patriotism and the urgency for an | adequate national defense are bound together in the minds of true Amer- icans, speakers declared at the meet- ing this morning. Declaring that the war is not vet | for the thousands of American | soldiers still in hospitals recovering from war wounds. Capt. Paul V. Collins told the conference this Na- tion has less to fear from in the way aganda than from Amer ications. ~ Today's ~session conference was devoted to a diseus sion of the attitude of newspapers | toward patriotism | Capt. Collins said the press of to- | day is not.expected to take the lead | on public questions, but to follow the | lead of pablic opinion. He added that newspapers of today have gone | from Being “one-man™ affairs, 85 they the days of Greeley and| . to ‘mediums for the express | sion ef the thoughts of their readers. | The newspaper which does not ex press the opinion of the reader is not | & success.” Capt. Collins added he publications of today, he said, should not dwell at such length on the hor- | rors of war as on the dangers of slackerism’ and pacificism ds Gen. Mitchell. newspaper man, told mee that Brig. Gen. Wil- Mitche®l exhibited a brand of that should make Amer- when he told the House stigating committee that is not prepared in the and not the uniform in the ifuminating words of Mitchell, Mr, Gill said, adding that with the aid of the press Gen, Mitchell's words were given wide dissemination. ricans talk :a zood air service,” Mr. Gill told the conference, “but do not have oné.”” He said a poll of ‘the flying flclds of the United States showed this ation to have but 36 airplanes ade- quate for fighting purposes. Press Has Been Fomest, ss of the United States has al- ways bee t, H. West of the American Defense Society said, even though in his opinfon the tendency day is to follow public thou than to lead it “should be masters of the pu! servants.” Mr. West reviewed briefly the history the publication of newspapers in the ted S declaring that the liam patriotism is think Nation The man apoke Gen OPEN SATURDAYS TILL 10 P.M. | Admiral Moffett declared a great mistake Georgetown Packet was the first paper published in Washington, beginning in 1789. Other speakers were Mrs. Vylla Poe Wilson of the Washington Post, A. M. Adams of New York and Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, president of the council. Commissioner of Education Tigert will preeide at the afternoon session of the conference, with Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, president of Howard University, among the speakers. Urges Navy in Afr. Urging a navy in the &ir and a avy on the sea, Rear Admiral Wil- liam A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, told the council last night that aithough air- craft will not replace ships, use of air fighting machines would add to the defense of the Nation. He sald the aircraft situation had been ex- aggerated, thereby injuring the serv- ice’ which is being developed by both the Army and Navy, and ex- pressed faith in the rigid airship. Answering criticisms of the Air Service, Admiral Moffett said there are today 140 planes operating with the battle fleet and that the British today are ahead of this Nation only In aircraft carriers. Aviation - not go to sea and fight without ships, War cannot be abolished by lative action, Maj. Gen. John A. Le- jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, declared. This Nation should have a Navy equal to that of any other power on earth, Gen. Lejeune added, saying tbat if the time ever came when the United States aban- doned all means of national defense, would be made, Others on the speaking program included Frank L. 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