Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1935, Page 22

ROGERS MEMORIAL AID HERE SPEEDED Living Testament to Be in| Form of Assistance to Han- dicapped Children. 1 Emphasizing that the Will Rogers Memorial, for which funds now are| being raised throughout the country| will be for “handicapped and under- | privileged children,” Maj. H. M. Cun-| ningham, field representative of the‘ memorial commission for this area,| last night said the realization that| such a “living memorial” will be es-| tablished has given “a new impetus| to the campaign for funds here.” “Reports from Southern States, from the District of Columbia, and| nationally,” he said “show a whole-| hearted interest to perpetuate the memory of Rogers through a living memorial to carry on the work that was 5o close to the heart of the living Will Rogers. | “In view of the fact that such a| worthy cause is to be \mder(nken,] many contributors have expressed the | desire to increase their contributions,” | | “career of public isefulness” a power- | THE SUNDAY - 8TAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, DECEMBER 7, 1935—PART ONE.. Victor Lawson Lauded by Biographer Man Who Was Co-Founder of Associated Press Refuted Belief Newspapers Had Sordid Motives. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 30.—Victor Freemont Lawson had an audience of nearly a half million newspaper read- ers and “threw the world on a screen,” but it was said he himself remained invisible. This week, however, a full-length | word portrait of the famous Chicagoan who with Melville E. Stone founded ' the Associated Press and for 49 years was publisher of the Chicago Daily News, is presented by Charles H. Den- nis, his associate as editor for 40 years. | Dennis’ biography will be published | Tuesday by the University of Chicago | Press, under the title “Victor Lawson | —His Time and His Work.” | Dennis honors “this extraordinarily modest man” as a newspaper man who | led in bringing on a “new day of spacious, self-reliant, self-respecting | journalism.” In offering Lawson's life story Dennis calls the publisher’s ful rebuttal to the bellef that the press has “sordid motives and unclean methods.” ‘The News was published somewhere L Maj. Cunningham said. | on Fifth avenue, behind a tree, when “In my contacts in various com-|in July of 1876 its editor, young Mel- munities I have heard most interest-|ville E. Stone, came to Lawson for @ three-quarters of his estate for this work. As editor and publisher of the larg- est American newspaper Lawson used his breast pocket as one of his prln-' cipal editorial files, there he stowed | scrap after scrap of paper bearing memoranda. On some of Dennis’ notes he would write “For Sunday dinner,” meaning he would fish them out then for discussion. Rigorously independent in politics, Lawson never would permit his edi- tors to answer the attacks politicians made upon him. When William Hale ‘Thompson, newly-elected mayor, sought to make peace, Lawson told him: “I have no confidence in either you or your chief supporters.” Demanding concise writing, Law- son studied words diligently, Dennis recalls, but one nonsense-phrase de- lighted him. It was: “Yes, we have no bananas.” Supporters of Benjamin Harrison for the presidency one July morning found the Midwestern mails full of | the agency Lawson set out to conquer. | post cards with the cryptic message Its backers included Charles A. Dand, | “One a day.” | ing stories from children who have| rescue. | Whitelaw Reid, James Gordon Bennett | A story was current that Hnrrlson] asked their parents for pennies to| Debts were so heavy it was doubtful | and Charles R. Miller, publishers, re- |had said a dollar a day was enough | place in contribution boxes that are| available or to send a token to the| banks or newspapers so that they may | have a part in the local campaign due to their love for him on the screen. “It is hoped that the thousands of if the newspaper, seven months old and the first penny newspaper in the | West, would live to tell anotherstory. Lawson, who was 24, assumed its debts over the misgivings of the Law- son family lawyer, who thought it a spectively, in New York of the Sun, | Tribune, Herald and Times. | Lawson raised a war chest, closed | his desk, and set out to canvass the | country. He was elected president of the As- Will Rogers' friends in Washington | bad investment. At Lawson’s death in | sociated Press in 1894, second year of will materially aid in the local cam- 1925 his paper brought what was re- | the duel, and three years later, in 1897, | advertising,” Lawson was equally re- putedly the highest price ever paid | could write that the rival concern | sourceful, Dennis writes, in building paign for funds. “Every single penny subscribed will be used for the memorial. Due to his love of flying and his interest| in aviation, the expense in connec- | tion with collecting the funds is being borne entirely by the aviation industry.” Additional contributions acknowl- edged as having been sent to The Star, which is receiving funds for the me- morial, are as follows: - $50.00 1.00 25 5.00 | 25| for an American newspaper. Dennis gives the figure as $13,671,- 704.30, and says higher bids were re- jected. From 8,365 copies the had come to have, under Lawson, the in the country. Lawson retained Stone, later gen- eral manager of the Associated Press, as his editor, and each took out $25 a week for salary. Stone also had a one-third interest in the profits, and sold his interest to Lawson 12 years later for $350,000. Lawson paid Stone another $100,000 for his promise not to engage in the newspaper business in Chicago for 10 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 Catherine L. Berry. A. Rogers_ G. E. Miller_ Mrs. A. H. Safford. S MISS NYQUIST TO SAIL FOR NAVAL PARLEY Qnly Civilian Employe of Navy to Be Sent—Leaves Tomorrow. Miss Irma C. Nyquist, the only civil- fan employe of the Navy Department to be sent to the London Naval Con- ference, will leave Washington to- morrow for New York, from where she will sail aboard an American ship. . Miss Nyquist, a confidential sec- | retary in the General Board, which advises Secretary Swanson on naval policies, attended the naval confer- ence at Geneva. She has been with the General Board since February, 1929. Prior to that time she was in the office of the Secretary of the Navy. Her work here has dealt with mutual problems between the Army and Navy. Miss Nyquist is from Massachusetts, | where she was born at North Easton, April 9, 1905. SCENIC FILM. TO BE SEEN Virginia Movietone Travelogue Here Tuesday Night. Virginia's historic and scenic won- ders will be seen here with the show- ing at the Willard Hotel Tuesday of the Virginia Movietone Travelogue under auspices of the Virginia State | Booiety. Representatives of various Govern- ment agencies and prominent -citizens have been invited to the showing of the film. Made by Andre LaVarre and produced by the American Auto- mobile Association and the Virginia State Commission on Conservation, the film is valued highly as an adver- tising medium for the State, _— BANKER HELD BANKRUPT CARSON CITY, Nev., November 30 (). —George Wingfield, Nevada cap- italist and Republican national com- mitteeman for this State, filed a vol- | untary petition in bankruptcy today | and Federal Judge Frank H. Nor- | cross adjudged him a bankrupt. Wingfield, president of 12 Nevada ! banks which closed in 1932, was as- sociated with the late Tex Rickard during the gold rush days. by spending winter CHALFONTE HADDON HALL Sern comfortably here by the sea where we take a genuine interest in mak- ing people feel at home. Atlantic City is accessible and these Boardwalk ho- tels are surprisingly inex- pensive. Living costs are rising rapidly elsewhere, but Chalfonte-Haddon Hall rates have not gone up yot. Write for them. Leeds and Lippincott Company years. As Stone prepared to sail for FEurope a few months later Lawson came to see him and said: “I feel ashamed. Chicago needs you.” Then Lawson tore up the contract. He would not accept a refund, how- ever, of the $100,000. Automatic typewriters clicking 60 Words a minute; bulletin news from all corners of the world—these com- monplace marvels of the modern newspaper are part of Lawson's fame. It was Lawson who led a small group of fellow publishers in a successful revolt against private distribution of news, an uprising which ended in the | creation of the Associated Press. He was officially entitled “founder of the Associated Press” by its di- rectors after his death. Middle Western newspapers traded news through a co-operative system, but the principal source of Eastern | news, in the middle '90's, was a private | concern. When the mid-Western publishers found it impossible to make terms with the Eastern organization, Lawson |led them into battle. Dennis, telling | 20d child welfare of the league at | this story from Lawson's letters, calls it “the fight for the democracy of the press.” “A corporation organized for profit * * *” Dennis says of the Eastern men, “set out to monopolize the news service of the American press. “Its clients, the newspapers, were to have no voice in its affairs.” There were towering figures behind eneral MODEL A63 Model A67 Foreign Reception Metal Tubes Sliding Rule Tuning 30-Day Trial -Trade in Your Old Set 579.50 | had been “exterminated entirely.” | | Writing to his stanch young sup- | porter, Adolph S. Ochs, then of Chat- | News | tanooga, Lawson described the fight |sales and put coppers in circulation. as one for “the preservation of the | |largest circulation of any newspaper | independence of the American press.” | He decided as early as 1898 that | Americans “must know the world.” By the following Summer he had 90 | | correspondents in Europe and the | Orient, American eyes to see and re- | port the news of the world. | A faithful church member who read and marked his Bible, Lawson “tithed” throughout his life. He gave religious and charitable institutions about $150,000 a year, Dennis finds, and left | Lawson required analysis of some ad- for any working man, and the cards | immediately caused political turmoil. | When interest was at its peak Law- | son announced the cards had been his way of announcing his morning edi- | tion henceforth would sell for 1 cent. Regarded as “a master of the art of circulation. Finding pennies scarce for his penny newspaper, he induced Chicago merchants to hold 99-ent Years before telephones were in or- Jdinary homes, druggists had them. Lawson made the druggists his agent to accept classified “ads.” Lawson's flat insistence that only honest claims be made by his adver- tisers brought many national prod- ucts to change their formulas. Told vertised goods, a foreign diplomat once | exclaimed: “He maintains a chemical labora- tory to prevent him from earning rev- enue, ‘incredible’.” |COMPULSORY JURY WORK FOR WOMEN TO BE TOPIC Voters’ League to Discuss Bill Recently Passed by House. Policewoman to Talk. | Compulsory jury service for women | will be discussed by the District of Columbia League of Women Voters at a meeting to be held at the home | of Mrs. Louise Ottenberg, 1613 Bu- | chanan street, at 8 p.m. Tuesday. A study of the bill passed by the House, which provides that no person shall be disqualified for jury service be- cause of sex, will be made. | | Capt. Rhoda Milliken of the Wom- | an’s Bureau will discuss the new Dis- | trict law relating to sex offenders. Judge Fay Bentley of the Juvenile | | Court will be the speaker at the meet- | {ing of the department of government | the Women'’s Club at noon tomorrow. Grocers to Celebrate. The Progressive Grocers' Associ- ation, Inc., an organization of 100 Washington stores, will celebrate its first birthday next Saturday night in its new warehouse with a banquet at the Press Club auditorium. Electric {ARKANSAS RECEPTION NEXT FRIDAY AT WILLARD The Arkansas State Society will | hold its first reception and dance of | the Winter season in the ball room of | the Willard Hotel next Friday eve- | ning from 9 to 1 o'clock. | Former Gov. Charles H. Brough will speak on the celebration of the Arkansas State Centennial in 1936. Jake O. Rhyne is president of the | society. Lester L. Gibson, Erwin H. Shinn, Mrs. Sam M. Wassell and Mrs. | Ben Cravens are first, second, third | and fourth vice presidents, respective- | ly; Miss Mildred Caudle is secretary | and Hugh Brewster treasurer. Plans Censorship. Poland will censor all films. Sensational 0!!-' BURNER Offer 25 R DAY BUYS A QUIET MAY With Fuel Saving Ther-MAY-lator | PAY FOR IT ON ELECTRIC BILL Columbia Specialty Co. 1636 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. WmAmdahda- car it can trust, America knows what to do=buy it just as fast as the factory can produce it. And that is happening in the ease of Pontiac—built to be America’s most dependable car . WNUTT ASSALS ‘BOGIE MONGERS' Indiana Governor Sees Landslide for Roosevelt Next Year. A vigorous attack on New Déal eritics, whom he described as “bogie mongers,” was made at the Women's National Democratic Club Friday night by Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana. Insisting the Roosevelt administra- tive policies are directly responsible for improved business and industrial conditions throughout the country, the | Indiana Governor said the Democrats’ political enemies “will soon be stran- gled by their own insincerity.” He predicted an almost unanimous Demo- cratic vote for Mr. Roosevelt's nomina- tion and an overwhelming landslide in the presidential election. “Conservatives will be in control at the Republican national convention,” Gov. McNutt declared, “and qne of their own tribe will get the nomina- tion. The resulting campaign will be the most bitter in the history of the Nation.” Denies Constitution Is Issue. Contrary to popular belief, he said, the Constitution will not be an impor- tant issue. The hue and cry of Re- publicans that the President’s pro- gram is encroaching on their consti- tutional rights is merely a ‘“smoke screen which they have raised while they fumble for an issue,” he told the Democratic clubwomen. 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