Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1937, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1937. 2% A—7 - PUBLISHERS ELECT JAMES STAHLMAN New President of A. N. P. A. Third in Family to Head Nashville Banner. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 23.—James G.| Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville | (Tenn.) Banner, was named president | of the American Newspaper Publish- | ers' Association today at the annual concluding the election of officers, golden jubilee convention. T | of the press” had been “unwitting | | parties” to the obstruction of justice | through untimely articles. Paroled Convicts Blamed. Naming misapplied parole of crim- | inals and deceptive prison sentences which “say one thing and mean another” as two “major menaces of our country,” Hoover told the pub- lishers: “Every special agent of the F. B. I. | who has died in gun battle with criminals has been sent to his death by a gun in the hands of a paroled | convict.” | “If I were a publisher I would | apply the same principles to crime | that newspapers have applied to medi- cine. Certainly the average Ameri- can newsaper subscriber is better equipped to evaluate his health be- | cause of the campaigns of education SAMUEL H. KAUFFMANN TO ADDRESS AD CLUB Assistant Business Manager of Evening Star Will Tell of News- paper’'s Responsibility. Samuel H. Kauffmann, assistant business manager of The Evening Star, will discuss “The Responsibility of the Newspaper for the Advertising It Accepts,” before the Advertising Club tonight at 8:15 o'clock at the Willard Hotel. The lecture is one of a series conducted by the club for the benefit of its members and the students of high schools and business schools of the city. James W. Hardey, chairman of the THE NATIONAL FURNITURE CO. 7th AND H Your Furniture Dollar Is Worth 15% More at-the National Here's the plan—select your merchandise—add it up— and then pick fronr our enormous stocks anything else you Stahlman represents the third gen-| which have been carried on by the eration of his family to be connected | skilled men of science and medicine in with the Banner and “the Banner |the columns of their newspapers.”, family.” \ But from cub reporter through the newspaper mill to the publisher’s chair, his associates on the paper called him “Jimmy” and so does al- most every one else after they have been with him a few minutes. “Without a free press the last vestige of liberty in this country would soon disappear,” he said today “A free press and a free people are insepa- rable.” “Freedom of the press is a human right which few people understand,” | he added. "It does not mean the right of a newspaper publisher to| print what he pleases in his news- | paper. It is synonymous with freedom | of speech. It means the right to| criticize as that right is guaranteed | under the first amendment to the Constitution.” | Wants Newsprint Mills. | Stahlman's enthusiasm has made | itself felt on many committees of the Southern publishers’ organization, particularly that on newsprint manu- facture from Southern pine. The work of this committee, of which he has been chairman for sev- eral years, culminated recently in the selection of a site in East Texas for the start of a Southern newsprint project John S. McCarrens, publisher of the [ Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer, was || elected vice president. E. H. Harris of the Richmond (Ind.) Palladium- Item was re-elected secretary and Walter M. Dear of the Jersey Journal, | Jersey City, N. J, was re-elected | treasurer. | Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse | (N. Y)) Post-Standard, retiring presx-j dent, was named to the board of di- | rectors to replace McCarrens. | Five other directors whose terms || expired were re-elected. They were ||| Norman Chandler, Los Angeles Times; | Howard Davis, New York Herald- || Tribune; F. I. Ker (CQ), Hamilton || (Cntario) Spectator; W. E. MacFar- ||| lane, Chicago Tribune, and Charles H. Taylor, Boston Globe. wish that amounts to 159/, of your purchase. All electrical and nationally advertised goods not included. Lecture Committee, will preside. After Kauffmann's address a question-and- answer period will be held. Sports jzzékets THE LEWIS & THOS. SALTZ Showing of Sports Jackets embrace the Finest Imported and Domestic Fabrics, especially woven for sportswear. Hand Tailored in Smart, New Models for this Season. Of finc Shetlands and Camel hair, they mirror the Glowing Colors of the English Spring Countryside. 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NOT CONNECTED WITH SALTZ BROTHERS INC, They are co-operative, helpful, forthright and honest, he said, and nothing would please him more than § front-page column in every news- paper in the United States giving the status of crime and criminals in the community. Speaking last night before the Ad- || vertising Bureau of the American | Newspaper Publishers’ Association, | Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau | | of Investigation, praised the press in || general for what he called its “co- || operation, earnest assistance, forth- rightness and honesty.” He did add that “a small minority * MMMMMMMMMMMMMM (DGW‘-) THE FIRST-STOP / AFTER SHE SAYS (/24 ! (] E A\ LN CERTIFIED PERFECT DIAMOND 3 Certified “Perfect” Diamonds in this gracefully styled white 1or natural gold mount- ng. 3-Piece Glider Outfit Choose Something Extra with the $1.79 Free Bonus Included $11.95 Large Certified “Per- fect” Diamond sur- rounded with 3 smaller Diamonds on each side. 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