Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1937, Page 5

CRITICSOF PRESS AREHELD UNIST Strong Policies Seen as Cause—Columnist Probe Urged. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 21.—The men who make the Nation’s newspapers were cautioned today by Jerome D. Barnum, president of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association, that newspapers must “continue free of governmental restraint” if they Mre properly to perform their function The publishers took their papers apart to see what makes them tick in an all-day, closed-session, shop-talk meeting. Barnum, Syracuse publisher, told them that liberty and freedom go hand in hand and that criticism of the press frequently comes ‘from sources that do not want full and tree discussion.” “Criticism of the press, particularly ~In the past year,” Mr. Barnum said, "may be attributed to the aggressive policy of papers in presenting all sides of great public questions, despite pres- sure politics and powerful and organ- ized propaganda from many sources.” Criticism Unfair. “It comes,” Mr. Barnum added, “from advocates who willingly would subvert freedom of the press and free- dom of speech to their own special pleadings. “Regardless of editorial opinion, we know that criticism of ‘all newspapers collectively’ is often unfair and un- warranted.” The trend in pictures was held to be away from the one-print picture A Which tells nothing and toward a series of pictures on the same subject which tells the whole story in the general discussion. There were other questions and other problems, but word from the closed session had it that “no conclu- fmons were reached; no resolutions were adopted.” Mr. Barnum will open the golden jubilee celebration session tomorrow morning, at which Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri will be the vrincipal speaker. Columnist Probe Urged. Thorough investigation of the $-ejudices and connections of syndi- cated political columnists was urged bv Waldo Cook, editor of the Spring- ficld (Mass.) Republican. gram. Standing neapolis Tribune; Frank THE EVENING STAR, The new board of directors of the Associated Press as they assembica at the general offices in New York yesterday. Seated, left to right: Philadelphia Bulletin, E. Lansing Ray, St. Louis Globe-Democrat; Frank B. Noyes, Washington Star; Kent Cooper, general manager, Stuart H. Perry, Adrian Tele- W. J. Pape, Waterbury Republican; Frederick E. Murphy, Min- E. Gannett, Rochester Times-Union; Paul Patterson, Robert McLean, S Josh L. Horne, WASHINGTON, D. C, Spokane Spokesman-Review. Rocky Mount Telegram. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1937. Baltimore Sun; Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution; Robert R. McCormick, Chicago Tribune; L. K. Nicholson, New Orleans Times-Picayune; J. R. Knowland, Oakland Tribune; Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Houston Harte, Standard, John Cowles, Des Moines Register; George B. Longan, Kansas City Star; One director was absent, W. H. Cowles, San Angelo —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Labor !pon(mued From First Page.) ing a meeting of his union's Executive Board Hepburn Sees Early Peace. The premier, in Toronto, said he expected an early move toward set- tlement of the strike and added that further action would be taken today by a workers’ delegation, which told the premier it directly represented more than 1,000 who wanted to go back to work at General Motors’ terms. Out-and-out strikers are in & minority, the delegation said. I The company has offered wage and hour concessions to the 3,700 em- ployes affected by the 14-day-old | strike, but the Oshawa local cf the United Automobile Workers of Amer- ica, a C. I O. affiliate, has gone unanimously on record as refusing a | peace without union recognition. | The workers’ delegation discussed | the strike with the provincial execu- | tive for an hour yesterday and plan- ned a possible return to Toronto to- day. Want to Go Back to Work, Is Claim. Noting the rise of such columnists to a position overshadowing news- | papers’ regular anonymous editorial | writers, Cook told a gathering of | paper men who formerly worked | the Springfield Republican, Union nnd News: The present situation is a specxal! wroblem * * * shall regular editorial | pages be virtually abandoned * * * to | r. battery of nationally famous dis- yensers of sparkling comment and wolemn opinion, most of whom are domiciled in New York or Washing- | ton? “If the newspaper-reading public | vants personalities behind the com- | raent the public must be served. | What Are His Biases. | “Yet after you have satisfied your iosity a5 to the personality of the Lolumnist, you begin to look him | er critically. Knowing him and | his record, you probably discover that | be held different views formerly. | “Some one tells you stories about him that are prejudicial. It is one | ¢hing to appear omniscient anony- | mously and another thing to maintain the illusion of omniscience under a by-line. “What are his natural predilections, prejudices, inheritances, cultural al- | liances and financial connections? What is his annua) income for the | %yndicate? His earnings depend on the | number of papers on his list, and the | question arises whether he becomes market-conscious in writing on con- troversial economic, labor and social | subjects.” o Finances o (Continued From First Page.) “$n addition to taking care of the projected new borrowings of $418,- 900,000 to make up a deficit. Treasury officials said no decision on how to obtain this latter sum would be made for several months. The President said in his budget message he would “use every means et my command to eliminate this deficit.” The study of closing loopholes in | existing tax laws, aimed at bringing g$he Government's income closer to §ts expenses, and thus doing away with the need for some borrowing, is Mo be completed by November. | Mr. Roosevelt said the Treasury would offer suggestions for such new or additional taxes as may be neces: sary if revenues are not adequate. Should the Treasury decide addi- $ional taxes are needed, the problem of which taxpayers should bear the extra load will confront it. If the income tax were changed, sentiment probably would develop both for jacking up the rates on upper- bracket incomes and broadening the $ax base to obtain more from middle- income groups. Informed persons expect laws msyi be revised to make a larger proportion of capital gains taxable. Some authorities have expressed he belief a general sales tax would be the only new type of Federal im- post which would provide substantial Fevenue. y Officials of the Federal Reserve oard said the $418,000,000 deficit . Roosevelt estimated for the next fiscal year will not be large enough ~#0 have any major inflationary effect. One authority said the budget was gpeassuring to the board because it “They said most of the strikers want to go back to work, but can't get a secret ballot on the question,” the premier announced. “They realized they had been hoodwinked by these American agitators and led up a blind | alley.” | He called John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. a | “fascist dictatorship from outside our own country”—in reply to a charge | that he (Hepburn) was using fascist methods—and “absolutely” guaranteed police protection to any strikers who wished to return to their jobs. The provincial executive’s insistence on sitting in at any parley between representatives of strikers and Gen- eral Motors, cast doubt in some quar- ters on the possibility of a renewal to- day of negotiations by a committee representing the U. A. W. A. The meeting originally was sched- | uled for yesterday afternoon but was delayed, at the union’s request. Hugh Thompson, C. I. O. organizer, who has been leading the strike, said the union could not assemble its committee in time for yesterday's appointment. Hepburn conferred with Harry J. Carmichael, general manager of Gen- | eral Motors of Canada, for an hour | and announced last night his in- sistence on joining any negotiations. He asserted the original employer- strikers conference date was obtained by union “misrepresentations” to the company. Police Keep Order. The premier has stationed a reserve force of 400 officers at Toronto, 32 miles away, but thus far Oshawa’s local police have kept complete order. Agreements were concluded in two other C. I O. Candian disputes last night. Forty of more than 100 Montreal garment manufacturers signed a rec- ognition pact with the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, sending 2,000 of the city’s 5,000 gar- ment strikers back to work today. The strike went into its seventh day for the others. Full recognition to C. I. O. miners’ locals at Fernie and Michel, British Columbia, was accorded in an agree- ment signed at Fernie by the Crows Nest Pass Coal Co. One thousand miners there had threatened to walk out. / MAY DELAY FORD TALKS, Bj the Associatea Press. Strong sentiment for delaying col- lective bargaining overtures with Henry Ford until Autumn developed today among members of the United Automobile Workers' Executive Board. Although Homer Martin, U, A. W. president, said no action affecting Ford had been taken, informed persons reported the members believed further progress shouid be made first with organization of Ford’s employes. There was talk that the most pro- pitious time to open negotiations would be when automobile companies an- nounce new models in the early Fall. Martin, cancelling earlier plans to leave for Oshawa, Ontario, where 3,000 General Motors workers are on strike, attended the board meeting this Psychic Message Council 1100 Twelfth St N.W. Corner of 12th and “L” Circles Daily, 2:30 & 7:30 P.M. Grace Gray Delons Reader would tend to retard recent sharp increases in the supply of idle bank gunds. Personal interviews for spiritusl nelp and guidance may e g | | visit te the Council House or Telephone Meuvpolitan 5234 Consultation $1 "Qua/iig THAT OTH CAN | any congressional consideration prob- morning. There was no immedmte’\ word from him as to why he changed | his plans or as to the subject of the | board’s discussions. Seek Employer Protection. Meanwhile Secretary Perkins' cap- ital-labor conference foreshadowed an organized business campaign, informed persons said today, to impose restric- tions on unions and to give employers protection under the Wagner act. In addition, these persons asserted, officers of Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council recently submitted to President Roosevelt confidential | recommendations that labor's legal responsibilities be increased. These proposals were expected to come openly from two groups—the board of the National Manufac- turers’ Association, meeting today in New York, and the United States Chamber of Commerce, convening here next week. Administration chieftains indicated ably would be deferred until wage and hour legislation 1is discussed, which may not be until the court issue is disposed of. Participants in the labor relations | conference at the Labor Department yesterday said questions raised by business spokesmen showed their views. Both those representatives and union leaders raised such objections, it was said, that a plan to issue a summary of conclusions was aban- doned. Secretary Perkins told reporters both sides “agreed to observe collec- | tive bargaining contracts as sacred and binding and to recommend the same attitude to their associates.” The conferees were in accord, she said, that “labor’s success in collective bargaining should be fitted into the pattern of success for industry.” She plans several similar confer- ences and will appoint a committee to advise the Labor Department on standards for cellective bargaining. Suicide (Continued From First PBEE! said: “Good-by, heart of mine. Good- | by.” The note was signed “Mother.” Leo G. Sheridan, manager of the hotel, discovered the body when he entered Mrs. Waterman's apartment with a duplicate key. Mrs. Water- man’s maid summoned Sheridan when she was unable to arouse any one in the apartment. Sheridan said he talked with Mrs. Weterman last night and that she seemed cheerful and asked him to reserve an spartment with a southern exposure for her for the Summer. Residents of the apartment ad- | Jjoining Mrs. Waterman's said they heard her running water in the tub | about 2 am. today. Sheridan said she apparently had been dead for sev- eral hours when he entered the apart- ment. Mrs. Waterman, a policeman said, | M street, 'PREVE 4TION | doctors in his country call on had been despondent for some time USE YOUR CREDIT over ill health. She returned to Wash- ington last January after living abot 30 years in Europe, a large part of the time in Paris. Besides the daughter here, she leaves a sister, Mrs. Hedley V. Cooke, this city; a brother, Campbell Tur- ner, Alexandria, Va, and two other sisters. A native of St. Louis, Mrs. Water- man was the daughter of the late Capt. Thomas Turner and the late Mrs. Harriet Brown Turner. She had lived in Washington many years ago before going to Europe. $1,500 IN JEWELRY STOLEN FROM HOME| John Dolph Reports Robbery on: His Return From Florida Vacation. Theft of jewelry worth $1,500 was reported to police | last night by John Dolph, 5303 Colo- rado avenue, prominent Washington insurance man, when he returned from a vacation in Florida. Police had noticed on April 13 that Dolph's res- idence had been entered but were un- able to determine whether anything was taken Dolph said the loss included a sil- ver set valued at $500, a $500 barpin and a $150 platinum stickpin. | Police also were working today on | the theft of 175 bushels of grapefruit and a quantity of oranges, valued at a total of $280. The fruit was re- ported missing by John Darnell, 820 I street northeast, from his place at Fifth and Neal streets northeast. Three other robberies or hold-ups were reported to police last night. The victims were Anna Ellison, 1323 from whom was stolen a watch and rings valued at $120; Harry Carpenter, 627 Second street, who | said $50 was stolen from his coat pocket, and Bernett Lester, 23, Bos- | ton, a guest at the Y. M. C. A, who said two white men held him up in G place near Fifth street and robbed him of a college ring. and silverware | BEATS CURE SALT LAKE CITY, April 21 (#).— En route to London for the coronation, Premier George Ogilvie of Tasmania explained today that State-appointed | “the people whether they are ill or not,” since “it costs much less to prevent disease than to cure it.” i = ] 00F LEAK NA. 4370 GICHNER . Madrid (Continued From First Page.) in a steady stream, bore the injured | in, Some of them on stretchers made | out of coats. The work of the city was paralyzed. The clerks were huddled in basements of buildings or behind the sandbag | barricades out in front. | A motorcade of 150 children of refugees in the embassies left for | Valencia, where they were expected to | embark for France. BILBAO DRIVE RENEWED. HENDAYE, Pranco-Spanish Frontier, | April 21 (#).—With rain clouds clear= IN BRINGING THE NEWER ER CIGARETTES NOT AFFORD"... Finer tobaccos, plus “LADY A 17 JEWEL BULOVA MASTERPIECE ing and mists rising from the Basque hills, Gen. Emilio Mola's insurgent army renewed thrust at Bilbao today all along the front ringing the capital. The narrow valleys east of the bar- northern its rier city of Durango, last Basque out- | post, formed a natural amphitheater for the battle, which attracted a crowd of women and children from the vil- lages behind the insurgent lines to watch, as though the fight were mimic warfare., On the green slopes of the hills shepherds tended their flocks, leaning | casually on their crooks and seem- ingly undisturbed by the constant roar of shells and bombs. U..S. ARMS BUDGET PERGENTAGE LOW 0f 24 Nations Only Hungary Spends Less, Survey Shows. B) the Associated Press. A survey by American military au- thorities disclosed today that the | United States is spending a much smaller percentage of its income for national defense than any other world power, Of the 24 nations maintaining siz- showed, only Hungary spends a small- er proportion of its budget on arma- ments. President Roosevelt referred in his budget message yesterday to the rela- tively low cost of American defense, and declared nations in an arma- ments race were headed directly to- ward bankruptcy. He said at a press conference later, however, that a distinction should be drawn between nations arming for | offense and those reluctantly doing so for defense. His request for Government econ- omy, he added, did not mean American defense funds should be curtailed. He estimated $953,000,000, or about 13 per cent of the budget will be needed for the Army and Navy in the next fiscal year. Great Britain earmarked 21.8 per cent of its total budget for military and naval expenditures in 1937. chancellor of the exchequer announced yesterday income tax increases to pay for the British rearmament bill, esti- mated at $7,500,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt told reporters he did budget when he wrote his message. 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