The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-28
NHS PUBLICITY CORPS EMPLOYS MANY NEWSPAPER MEN

Jointly viii, Joseph L. bishop. editor
Of the Canal Rgeerd Through these
formation concerning tho canal Is
given out Photographs IT the rate of
distributed. and tables OF all Kinds nre
compiled; all 70 enable the American
thief. behalf.
The Department or Justice has no
regularly organized publicity bureau.
ing after the needs OF the newspaper
men has dovolNed upon John Suter, tho
confidential secretary OF the Attorney
General.
Secretary su,er has been in the
service for twenty ave years. He
lhen ne received a commission with
another newspaper man TO assist In the
conference. the beginning OF tho pres
ent Pan American Union This orsau-
ration has for It's purpose til. further
ancc of the commercial triendlincss of
the nations or the Western Hemisphere
This publicity wa attained and the
successful was Suffers work. in fact.
that he was soon afterwards appointed
TO assist In the preparation OF an all
position At Chicago. This work last
cd for three years. The exhibit was a
success ana Sutcr returned to news
pepper work with reputation a pub
licity man
When it WAS announced that Attor-
ney-Ccneral McRcynolds was looking
for confidential secretary who knew
newspaper men as well us executive
took the POSITION and ee establishe ED him
self almost from the first. Some time
ago he was elected to the standing
Capitol-onc Of the highest gifts with
In the powers of wspaper men, Then
he was chosen president OF the Ma
tional Press Club.
Trickcd by Correspondent.
One OF the first things which Suter
did on entering his new position was
n. u. rod Of attif
which the government contemplated
tiling.
he told mo, That ono SG Of the = news eve,
papers TO whom 7 gave this In adj
vance broke confidence with me on the
matter OF the release |, OF course. had
vouched for the integrity of the news
paper men. and it was unusually hard
/ department after the release was
4 broken"
! But Suter is an optimist
hereafter" lie said. There is no rea-
son why men shouldn't be able to have
/ advantage of my position again"
Suter,s is the most difficult publicity
/ job in the government service There
! are constantly being issued In all parts
OF the country reports of Uncle Sans
activities in courts OF law. 1t is essen
tial that Suter must answer all corre-
I spondents' questions accurately from
the newspaper mans viewpoint. Yet at
the same time the premature announce
ment OF a suit may play havoc in the
n,, NY, where II l. to BE- fled Stocks
with reports emanating from the De-
\ partment OF Justice.
And this department is prolific
~ n, has thought that publicity
think that when the newspaper men
come TO realize what 1t means to the
m mi w who Siyes out informat9n they
y n %
have taken up the idea of winning the
things they say so frankly. When they
don think that certain things ought
their reasons. The result is that be-
tween the correspondents and the pub
closer relation to-day and better un-
derstanding than ever before
Post-oTcc Publicity.
The Post Office Department. estab-
lished publicity bureau originally to
impressions-or true Impressions. at
times 4 certain man was sent to the
penitentiary for fraud in the Post once
reau came into existence. Another
Suter-Jessc by name---who is not a
Department OF Justice, has served in
TINS post since 1909, and through his
efforts the publicity department Of the
postal service became an instrument OF
vital good Information concerning
any project which the department had
taken up was issued freely Jesse
Suter himself went out of his way to
una things which men wanted to know
and succeeded in preventing the circ,i,
iation OF false stories which start with
Il report that somebody said so and
;. The Departments of Commerce. Labor.
/ Treasury and Interior have no organ
ized publicity bureaus nor do they en-
ploy any Individual who is regarded as
partments expect to have their bureaus
before long.
Copyright. 1918, by John Elfreth Wat
! kins)