The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1922, Page 24

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922. ~ year 1921. A Word About THE WORLD HE NEW YORK WORLD is more than a first- class newspaper. It is the most independent, the most courageous and the most disinter- ested publication in the country. It is free; it is bold; it is scrupulously honest; it is the one paper in the United States that actually devotes itself to the public service. All essential occurrences THE WORLD presents in compact, accurate form. It is concerned with facts rather than with opinion or detail. What every man and woman, wants to know, THE WORLD tells— and in the fewest possible words. THE WORLD does not confuse virtue with dul- ness. It is written to be read. It is neither ponderous nor self-important. It tries to be right and is most of the time, but is not afraid to admit error. It is interested in people and believes in humanity. It is friendly. It has common sense and a sense of humor. Therefore it is lively and entertaining. THE WORLD is never content with merely giv- ing the news. It abhors injustice and dares expose it. It can be depended on to defend the oppressed. The consistent foe of misgovernment and corruption, it is feared more by political tricksters and spoilsmen than any other journal in America. THE WORLD is clean. It does not pander to vice or to crime. It is fair. It has no purpose to serve save to tell the truth. It is intrinsically honest and believes its integrity is conceded‘even by those it has attacked. The characteristics set forth here are rare in an individual and still rarer in a newspaper. They are stated without boastfulness, for they are no more than a record of facts. They represent the spirit breathed into a.journalistic entity by the ablest, most far- sighted personality that American journalism has pro- duced. His thought, his message, have been held in- violate by his successors. THE WORLD is conducted by a group of men who are devoted to the ideals it stands ‘tor and whose hope is to be true to the faith that has been given them. WORLD men know that they serve a paper that is free and brave and they are proud of their connection with an institution that has no other cause to serve but Truth and the Right. HE WORLD has received from time to time, for publication in its columns, communications directly from T GENOA, THE WORLD was represented by JOUN MAYNARD KEYNES and FRANK A, VANDERLIP distinguished men in America and in other countries, such as the late Pope, the English King, the British Prime Minister, Jan Smuts, the President of the French Republic, the Prime Minister of the French Re- public, the President ot the German Republic, the Prime Minister of Italy, the King of the Belgians, the Prime * Minister of the Australian Commonwealth, the Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, the Primate of Eng- land, the Emperor of Japan, the Prime Minister of Fereign Ministers of Japan, and George Bernard Shaw. The complete list of men active in public service who have found ‘VHT WORLD a helpful pulpit and have used it is too tong to print here, ‘Columbia University Bestows Its Highest : Journalistic Honor on HE GOLD MEDAL for the most disinterested and meritorious public service rendered by any American | newspaper during the year 1921 has been awarded by the Advisory Board of Columbia University to THE WORLD for its exposure of the sinister menace of the Ku Klux Klan. Service” is given to THE WORLD specifically for its successful effort in destroying the influence of this oath- <=) bound and un-American secret organization of terrorists, and it complements in a fitting manner similar honors® conferred upon THE WORLD by vote of the student bodies of the schools of journalism of the Universities of Syracuse, Wisconsin and Illinois, all three of which elected THE WorLD “First in Public Service” during the’ It is timely to review briefly THE WORLD’s notable achievements during the past year. Some of Its Achievements The Ku Klux Klan expose for which THE WORLD has been awarded the Columbia University medal took place in September, after an investigation lasting months and costing thousands of dollars. About a score of representative American newspapers printed THE WORLD'S Ku Klux Klan articles, which broke the secret power of that organization. In December, 1920, THE WORLD started its own campaign for universal disarmament. Its efforts toward this end were in large part a contributing factor to the International Conference on Limitation of Armament which was called in Washington by President Harding. THE WORLD brought H. G. WELLS to America to report this Armament Con- ference, and he produced a series of brilliant articles which were printed by. more than thirty prominent newspapers of America, Europe, Canada, South America and Japan, which associated themselves with THE WORLD in the publication. In New York, THE WORLD brought into being the Lockwood committee, fur- nishing the initial evidence for its investigation, which landed building trades grafters in prison and saved the people of New York City about $280,000,000 in rents by loosening the grip of profiteering landlords. During the Christmas holidays, when unemployment was at its height, THE WoRLD launched a “Give a Job for Christmas” campaign which made many families happy by making them self-supporting again. This work was continued well into the year 1922. THE WORLD obtained from EMMA GOLDMAN, deported Anarchist leader, an ex- clusive series showing the faults of Soviet government as it is operating in Russia. Leading American newspapers from coast to coast joined in the publication of this interesting and informative series. . THE WoRLD sent CHARLES MERZ through Japan and India, where he gathered material for two notable series of articles on Oriental problems and conditions. These found wide publication in participating newspapers throughout America. During 1921 THE WORLD in a series of articles revealed the inside story of the failure of the National Thrift Bond Corporation, which had placed in jeopardy the savings of more than 11,000 small investors. THE WORLD'S revelations brought home to the banking authorities of the city the necessity of protecting these investors, and as a result a plan was worked out by which they will all get back 100 cents on every dollar they had put up. t ‘ _ THE WoRLD is regularly used as a text book by the current event classes at the United States Military Academy at West Point. It is also a text book for the English classes of the Julia Richman High School in New York City. Three times have members of the editorial department 6f THE NEW YORK WORLD been honored by Columbia University for the best reportorial work of various years, * the awards being granted in 1917, 1920 and 1921. Place an Order With Your Newsdealer to Serve It to Yuu Every Day 4 { This award of ‘First in Public the former, editor of the Economic Journal, London, author of “The I Peace” and “A Revision of the Treaty,” and Fellow and Bursar of King’s College, Cambridge; the latter, ex-President of the National City Bank, New York, and one of the most profound students of economies inf\ America. Notwithstanding America’s course with reference to the Genoa Lconomic Conference, its deliberations will affect every nation of importance in-the world, and it is to the credit of an American newspaper that its daily despatches from the one-time commercial metropolis of civilization were signed by economists of international authority, ' Those Who Make THE WORLD BLY edited, THE WORLD also is ably written. A Its Editorial page treats fairly the issues of the day, local, national and international, with con- tributions among others by rank I. Cobb and Walter Lippmann. Its special features include as regula departments “It Seems to Me,” conducted by HEY/ WOOD BROUN, who also writes on the drama; the famous “Colyum” called “The Conning ‘lower,” by TF. P. A.; DEEMS TAYLOR’S music reviews, art notes by HENRY TYRRELL, books by E. W. OSBORN, and others. The paper is bright, well written, ACCURATE, and usually first with the news. THE WORLD has long prided itself on the in@ teresting and comprehensive manner in which it pre- sents the news of the vast community in which it is published. On its staff are to be found the best equipped reporters in America. No less efficient is the way in which the national news is covered by its representatives in Washington, where Charles Michelson is chief of a large staff, and PEE WORLD is in other parts of the country w represented by 800 local correspondents. Canada, Mexico and Central and South Americas are watched by trained eyes for news developments important to World readers. @ re far toward bringing in thi untry of the THE WORLD has about a better understandir problems that beset the peoples of the Iastern Hemi- spbere. JAMES M. 'TUOHY, who has general direction of THE WORLD’S foreign news, stationed in London, where is maintained a staff of five. Vhe strength of THI WORLD'S Inuropean staff lies in its personnel. In the list are included Lincoltd Ikyre and Verdinand ‘Tuohy Paris, Arno Dosch- Fleurot in Berlin, Beatrice Baskerville in Rome, Samuel Spewack in Russia, and staff representatives in Vienna, Geneva, Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen, The Hague and Brussels. Farther Fast staff repre- sentatives are to be found in Japan, China and India, Among ‘THE WORLD'S special Muropean cons tributors are MAXIMILIAN HARDEN, the well- known publicist of Germany; Andre ‘Vardieu, leader in French politics, and A.G. Gardner, celebrated London editor and publicist. Complementing ‘THs WORLD'S own -foreig: service are the despatches of the Manchester Guardian, the foremost liberal newspaper of Iurope. These despatches are the exclusive property of THE WORLD in the United States. yomic Consequences of the