New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-15
Baseball Slugger Cam!
Forget Habit and Bat,
Out Literary Gem,
DIR. WILLIAMS LAUDs
THE NEWSPAprp
Tells Association Press Il
for the General Man, sa
Lays Bare Evils.

After three days spent IN N. a..
unite publishers Of books and rs,,r.-
American Booksellers Associate,
mated its fourteenth annual co,,.
last night with dinner a, II.
Astor. V. NJ. Schenck presided a.,
speakers were President MarcusM NM
OF tho Borough Of Manhattan. DR. p,
williams, Frederick 4. Stokes. pr.s.
of tho American Publishers A,ssc,.1
and Tyrus Raymond Cobb. OF b.,.
fame.
"Ty" Cobbs speech seemed to CON.
great relief after the work Of Ii.
three days. He was invited asam,J
person because Of book just with.
him on Dustin En-" and was +,
duced as 1.-THE greatest thief In IN, b
ness, with a specially ~ bases"
Il think there's very sericu, i
take" Ty began. II can't see WIZ Il
want to mar my evening by making :,
uncomfortable. think the name, \
mixed I'D, and the man they var
speak IL that 800 hitter OF the lns,l
world, Irwin Cobb.
II suppose there must re a sacrto
every game and that I'm the Jolly t.--s
hut I feel like young pitcher oyr
Detroit. The boss put him IN. His \
one walked. The next hit one. 3 4
When the smoke cleared up there Il
,our runs. The manager said: Are 4
nervous No says he. the only To
have is can't keep my limbs 4
shaking
You know how people In De,ros
Philadelphia. the City OF Brothery n
where they have TO have three hr,}
policemen 10 keep us from being nc.
slept in a hotel there and that's
time YOU should have heard me TAI \
cause that's the only time ] ever III
Demosthenes. ! stood up before I,
crowd. and was making EN- SOB az ,,
moved. and just when ] was osi'-l
the greatest orator In the "o'l z
roommate broke IL all UP.
Now. I can't talk about oas't
continued "Ty," because oaseos q
game of action and a lot Of sxclari,
and things, and l feel modest ani
pull the EXPLANATIONS.
Frederick a. Stokes said that ne
legged book trust was the one phase
book business that was too timf Y
iect at the convention and had n1
ceived as much publicity as Y ousa
have.
There must be new laws 10 pm
us individually in our business an
readers in their books he sad Z
cannot work in combination. BV
forget that recent litigation-its az
issue. Let US see that the real Nol
for US. publisher and seller alike
get more Americans TO look ooo"r
Or. Talcott Williams said thai
School OF Journalism purposes 70 ec
the lack Of accuracy, which is me
criticism Of the newspaper OF TO-DAY
20 acouaint students with the oer
erature. including the best seller WIZ
always seller.
III the American newspaper mas
it's work IL Is because ii IS MADE 'u
general man" he said. III errors q
into IL IL is In the effort to lay oaFs
evils Of society and the government
A letter from DR.. Charles W. :
president emeritus Of Harvard UnlvsS
was read. In II he said:
"A newspaper or magazine mus
near at a certain hour or on It's appo1
day: hence publishers and the prs
business in general are particular
IN. power of trades unions. Pront ~
ing is no panacea: but IL is apphca"
a great variety Of industrial es's'a
ments. No plan will work we'll no'''
which expects employees 10 snare ~
or relies on inducing them TO take y
in the corporation. II seems 10 me
publishers and printers have ma~
gain from experiments In pront sAi
and that IL is reasonable 10 eNpec'
they will make such experiments