The sun., 1910-05-22
GERMAN PAPERS and ours
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THING TO SAY AROlT BOTH.

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lilm BETTER Than No Do our Omcaals.
Whsn Mayor GaynOr rosa in the Hotel
AStor last night 70 speak 10 about @o
German newspaper men. their families
and guests 1t the dinner which was apart
of the celebration Of the tWenty-hith
anniversary of the founding Of the German
Press Club the orchestra greeted him
from the balcony with -Thsre'll Be Hot
Time In the Old Town Tonight The
Mayors opening remarks seemed To hear
out the expectations In everybOdy's mind.
-AseyOur menu card dOesn't contain
list of tOasts. began Mr. 0AynOT, who
was the only speaker at the dinner who
spoke IN English. such A. We are usod 10
SEEING | suppose We speakers are quite
FREE 10 say anything We So fit
The Mayor told Of his surprise when
he learned Of tho number ot German
publications In New York. and before he
began 10 discuss newspapers he devoted
much Of his address 10 extoling the citi-
Benship Of the Germans In America, their
honesty IN politics and their small pro
portion Of criminals as compared 10 other
nationAlities
The Mayor was introduced by Toast
master Norbert Cantor Of the SiadtE
''Situag and president Of the German
Press Club IN German, and his name was
greeted With deep throAted -HOchs' and
'PrOsits!- Besides the Mayor there were
seated at the guest table with President
Cantor Count Won Bsrnstorh, the German
Ambassador; Dr. Paul Ritter, the Swiss
Minister: Consul General Frankssn, Ar
thur KOenig Of Milwaukee, eE-president
II the National German Press Clubs;
John Weimann and Dr.. Emmanuel Raruch
Of the MorOsA Journal. all Of whom
made speeches.
Among the guests were also Baron
Hans Won Bleichroeder. who is q visitor
here and whose father h the KAiser's
banker, George Ehre,. Count Guido won
Auersperg. Justice Amend, Major Won
Livonius. the former military attache
At Washington: Joseph Ridder Robert
Blass, Patrick Francis Murphy. Lawyer
Morris Cukor. james Speyer and Theodore
Sutro
There we're toasts in German 10 Presi-
dent Taft and the Mayor and the Germans
ArOee and sang The Star Spangled Ran
ner' IN EnRliah
-0h. dear me- said Mr. Gaynor. when
he finally arose 20 speak. i don't know
how many German Weekliee and monthly
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al your httls cOteries have their favOrite
papers You have cOteries and cliques.
just a. you have them IN Germany, he
cause you too have your differences
Of opinion; but you have decent diher-
ences, not over petty little things.
suppose / ought 70 sAy something
about these newspaper writers laugh
ter They're. at my mercy. but III lci
them down easy. see your souvenirs
are blue pencils and q pair Of ahears
But you ought 70 have added q glue pot
Laughter These pencils are the things
they stick into you and Il they don't
take % your head then they stick you
all over with the glue pot. Laughter
But II doesn't matter because the
neWapaperH can neither make you nor
break you. You are just what you are
after they get through with you - you
we're when they started IN on you. II
DOESN'T matter. I wish I Rnew hoW to
say that in German
-Schadet richtsl- yelled the room amid
laughter The Mayor didn't try the eH-
preston. however. but took up the matter
Of the German preaa of New York and
praised the German newspaper men
present because he zald. the -GeTman
press Ia comparatively free from that sort
a straining with regard 10 certain thing,
the e1aggeratiOn. n which the Mayor
thinks certain Il the New York papers
are guilty.
I'm Germany. ! Understand said the
Mayor. your papers CritiCiSs even the
Kaiaer. and a. the German Ambassador
told mo here tonight German IaTers
have even sugFest-d that the kaiS~r
give his time % music and yachting ard
al thOse other things he ran do forget
what shey all are now instead ~ meddling
Wi'h stit'eamanship, hut I'm SUR your
German papers '0ld him that more deftly
than our American papers say things
about NJ. and probably even caused Tho
Emperor q have laugh. which is more
than can b. aid about the way some "
the Ameriran papers say thirEs about us. >
Laughter
There were English hurrahs for tho
Mayor a. the end II his talk and the
singing oI Koch soll or lrhen' three times
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