The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-07-27
CHANGE IS MADE IN STAFF
GREEN NO LONGER IN CHARGE
FOR NEWS AND COURIER.
States That He was Asked to Resign
From Staff of Gov. Blease-Let-
ter From MIR. Latham.

Charleston, July 24.-Leon NJ.
Green, Columbia correspondent for
The News and Courier, has refused to
accede to the demands of his news
paper that he resign an appointment
recently received upon the staff of
Gov. Blease and says he will resign
as correspondent Immediately. His
resignation will be handed to the
head of The News and Courier's Co.
lumbia bureau, August Kohn, upon
the latter's return this week from a
Canadian tour.
Il resign under pressure, said Mr..
Green. Il can not comply with the
demand made on me. When | was
appointed on the governors staff, I
accepted because of the honor, and L
know that the position was given in
the right spirit. For the paper rep
resented to seek to tell me that I
should resign either from the paper
or from the governors staff was in
my opinion, an encroachment upon
my personal rights.
81 felt that I could still remain on
the governors staff, as 1 have always
sought to give unbiased reports of
official acts of the chief executive of
the State.
"The position taken by the paper
appears to me, and I have no doubt
will so appear to many others in the
State, untenable, for the particular
reason that the position occupied
here for the paper was that solely of
a news correspondent. had nothing
whatever to do with the editorial
policy of the paper. What I have
been sending to the papers Z repre-
sent was the news of the day here
nothing more"
Mr.. Green joined the staff of The
State in the fall of 1907, shortly af-
ter his graduation from the Univer-
sity of South Carolina. Since the
spring of 1909 he has been with the
Columbia bureau of The News and
Courier.
Mr.. Green Gives Out Letter.
Mr.. Green gave out the letter be-
low which he stated had been writ
ten him by Robert Latham, the edi-
tor of The News and Courier. Mr..
Latham said last night that he had
nothing to say, concerning the mat
ter. Mr.. Lathan's letter to Mr..
Green is as follows:
"Mr. Leon M. Green, Columbia, S. c..
"Dear Mr.. Green: I have just re-
ceived your letter. of July 20 and re-
gret very much to learn of your de-
termination to remain on the staff of
the governor rather than on that Of
The News and Courier.
GAS 1 wrote Mr.: Kohn, do not re-
gard it as proper for a newspaper
correspondent to hold two such po-
sitions at the same time; my under
standing of the matter being that the
acceptance of an appointment as one
of a governors aides entails upon the
person accepting it responsibility
of doing all that he can to uphold
whatever the governor. may do.
81 think it should be rule of the
paper that no one of it's staff should
occupy any position which might ex-
pose him to the criticism that his i'm
partiality might be affected, whether
such criticism be well founded or not.
'.It is the desire of The News and
Courier to do every public official JUS
tice fairly and impartially, and in or
der to do so I think the above men
toned rule good one.
1T is true that Mr.. Kohn was at
one time an aide to governor but
that was before I became editor of
the paper.
IT appreciate your offer to look af-
ter matters connected with the bu-
reau until Mr.. Kohn returns, but
perhaps it would be better to con-
tinue the present arrangement until
that time, allowing Mr.. Horton to
cover whatever may happen, as he
has been doing since you have been
away from Columbia.
Let me repeat to you personally
what I have already said to Mr..
Kohn, as head of the bureau, that
The News and Courier appreciates
the general excellence of the service
you have given it during the period
Of your connection with the paper,
and that I am genuinely sorry that
you have chosen to take a stand in
this matter, most important one as
I see it., to which this paper can not
give it's Endorsement.
yours truly,
ROBERT LATHAM"