The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-22
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS CRITICIZE
PREACHER SAYS WORLD WOULD
Benefit BY TRUE KNOWLEDGE
OF THAW CASE.
NEW YORK, FEB. 22.-The TWEEN

can Newspaper Publishers associ.
alton at the Waldorf tonight attract
ed over 800 publishers from all parts
of the United States and Canada
President Herman Ridder of the New
York Stats Zietung read letter OF
regret from President Roosevelt.
! Sir Charles Marcit. deputy speaker
of the lower house of the Canadian
parliament, offered On behalf of the
city publishers a message of sympathy
and good fellowship. He paid trib.
ute to the enterprise of the press OF
the United States and spoke Of the
good feeling between Canada and the
United States, abiding to King Ed
ward and President Roosevelt as the
two great peacemakers of the world
The association on postal affairs sub
mitted report today, which after re.
| ferring to the postmaster generals re-
port about weighing mails. says
Department Makes Mistake.
"From the figures given it is evident
that the newspapers, daily and weekly
are per cent of the total. The relig-
LEGATIONS combined do not constitute
Is per cent of the total, and conse.
quently they are not serious factors
in the postal problem. The magazines
/ instead of swapping the mails as has
been supposed, proved to be an incon.
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one-fifth.
"The extent to which the country
weekly figures in free county circula.
ton is not disclosed, but it is estimated
that the contribution of the govern
ment on that score may be put at
100000 per annum.
THE sample copy, which has been
described by the postal commission as
! the fountain of the gravest abuse,
| costs the government S309,320 per al,
mum.
| These figures indicate that the post
office department has made mistake
in attributing most Of the abuse to
! the circulation of sample copies, or
else the count of sample copies is
wrong.
| Congress will probably create an
other body to take up the work inaug-
urated by the committee. and it is
probable that study of the proposed
coGe may suggest notifications which
will clear away out Of existing COM
plications.
"Some of the proposed changes are
distinctly advantageous, but the leg
| islation of them in the report show
ed a lack of tact, provoking needless
antagonism. The present statute is
uncomfortable Every effort to apply
it provokes irritation and puts the
postoffice in a position of censorship.
1t is believed that after the subject
has been threshed out by another
period of inquiry and study some
! substantial gain may be obtained for
the government and for those interests
that disseminate current public in
formation Or treat current topics in
| relation to literature. the sciences,
arts, or some special industry.
| HC ilC" oiIOuiu Uio
pose of the standing charge that legiti-
mate second class mails is responsible
| for the postal deficit.
| I'm view of the fact that the work of
inquiry is to be continued on larger
and more intelligent basis, your con,-
mittee asks that it be continued
! Rev. Frank P. Hall, pastor of the
Church of the Divine Fraternity (Uni-
versalisD in this city, spoke on the
topic. Fit to Print" He said:
There has been a great deal said
about the publication of all the facts
in a certain trial which is attracting
public attention now.
| Il believe if the truth were told
that not half the facts We're told If
it We're all told we might find that
! there are who make it the pleasure of
their lives to drag down little girls,
and then when they have started them
on the way to hell, push them on in. If
this is true let us know it, and then,
having the facts, why, you and I to-
] Seln0T as newspaper HleI anu HILLS
ters will endeavor to raise such a pub
lie brainstorm as to make the lives
of some of these men somewhat less
interesting and playful than they
have been in the past
The speech was loudly cheered.
At the business session the follow
ing officers were reelected:
| President. Herman Ridder of the
New York Stats Zeitung; vice presi-
dent, Medill Mccormick of the Chica-
go Tribune; secretary, Ebert H. Ba-
ker of the Cleveland Plaindealer;
| treasurer F. P. Call of the New York
Commercial.
S. p Weston of the Seattle Post
Intelligencer. Chas. Hernick OF the
San Francisco Call and Chas. Tay-
lor, Jr., of the Boston Globe. were
elected members of the executive COM
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