The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-12-14
GREAT, STATE PRESS MEETING
AT UNIVERSITY WAS SUCCESS
IN EVERY WAY.
PROFESSORS FROM THE BIG
SCHOOLS WERE SPEAKERS
Several Prominent Men In State Speak
Also. - Afternoon Paper Issued.
Study Newsprint ProbIems.-Unt-
versity Entertains.

Chapel Hill, N. C.-The first State
Newspaper Institute in North Carolina
and the South was held at the State
University at Chapel Hill, December
z, 8 and 9, the meeting being the Mid
winter session of the North Carolina
Press Association held in connection
and cooperation with the University
of North Carolina. Men prominent in
newspaper affairs in and out Of the
state took part in the program. The
University was host and entertained
all visitors.
The program was chOck full of
meaty subjects of the practical kind
for newspaper men, including a con-
ference on the troublesome high cost
of newsprint paper problem. There
were several great speakers on the
program, including Hon. William How
and Taft: Dean TalcOt Williams, Of
the Columbia School of Journalism,
New York; Dean Walter Williams, of
the School of Journalism Of the Uni
versity of Missouri; and Don SeitZ, of
the New York World. The Institute
had a large and enthusiastic attend
ance of more than 100 editors and
publishers from all parts of the state.
One of the features of the meeting
was the publication of a daily after
noon newspaper. A telegraph service
was secured, the Mergenthaler Limo
type Company, through Mr.. Walter H.
Savory and Mr.. c. c. Rhame furnished
one of their latest model machines,
and the paper was published from the
University printery with various edi-
tors, reporters and members of the
University School of Journalism as the
writing staff.
Hon. William Howard Taft traced
the development of America as world
power and pointed out some of the
dangers besetting these world rela-
tionships.
Dean Walter Williams of Missouri
took as his theme, Journalism, a New
Weapon for Democracy"
IF the press of Europe" declared
Mr.. Williams, had been for a century
free to print the news uncolored by
government influence, if it had been
free to discuss in public the machina-
lions of diplomacy, the world shatter-
ing war would not have come. Certain
national antagonisms were increased
and racial hatreds embittered by the
international news served out by in
spired agencies, the Wolff Agency in
German, the Havas in France, the
Correspondent Wilhelm in Austria.
the Satanic in Italy, the Ministry of
the Telegraph, Frankly Official in Rus
STA, and others in other lands. The
nj
the actual truth-when international
politics and diplomacy were concern
edit was what the governments wish
the people of their own nation and
the governments and people of other
nations to think was the truth. Many
other than Bismarck manipulated the
news. War took place in the open be-
'cause-thanks to an enslaved and COM
placent press-the preparations there
fore were carried on in secret. Gen.
Sorship was an accessory before the
colossal crime of war even if it was
not principle in bringing it about
Censorship and government by the
sword are inseparable"
The speaker showed the obstacles
in the way of the newspapers ade-
ing he said: "The newspaper is man
ufactured out of the most elusive raw
material in the world-truth. In every
newspaper office truth is at a pre-
MUM"
In conclusion Mr.. Williams said:
'Never has the press, despite its crit
ics, it's frequent limitations and low
aims, been so powerful as today This
power for democracy comes not by
editorial argument alone or chiefly
but by the news pages, the modern
force, as we'll"
Mr.. Talcott Williams, of New York,
discussed the influences of the censor
ed presson recruiting in England and
stated that "the American press, by
long tradition. by wise policy, by just
principles and by a sound National de-
cision the United States is neutral in
this war. The government is silent
save on National rights as sea. The
people have no official voice on the
chief issue. But American neutrality
has never been Indifferent to moral
issues without just and impartial
judgment on the acts of men and of
Nations. With half humanity at war,
the American press had to speak for
tn only powerful people at peace
Our newspapers have done their duty
for our land and the world, for our
people and all people, for civilization
and for humanity.
without bitterness, with no parts
anship, defending one cause and con.
demning either party to the conflict
when either departed from the estab-