The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-04-23
Sees WHERE PRESS
May HEAL WORLD
hlanager of the A. p. Stresses Inter
change Of News
EDITORS, HEAR MIR. STONE
:: 1aker Believes Inter- Communica,
tion Will Insure Mission of the
World League.

oPlnent OF lntercommunlcatlOn prom
ises a chance that the League of
Nations may accomplish it's object of
insurins world peace, Melville E.
Stone, general manager of the Asso-
ciated Press, recently returned from
bers Of the news association at their
annual meeting and luncheon here TO-
day.
Mr.. Stone doubted if anybody knew
whether the leagne project would
succeed, but said the representatives
OF the associated powers had ad-
dressed themselves to the formation
of an organization, intended, if pos
Slble, to prevent recurrence eof war,
which he said had reached a point,
through the advance of science, where
future conflict would we'll nigh
mean hlman annihilation.
Closer Together.
BY the modern process of inter-
communication, however, the nations
We're inevitably brought closer to-
gether, he said, extending mems vi
sions and giving a little promise"
that the failure Of thee Congress- of
Vienna 100 years ago might be fol-
lowed "by something like success"
1t was Il mistake, mr.. Stone said,
to imagine that there had been an
unpleasant or angry situation between
the peace ENJOYS Of the associated
powers, who had brought to their
task sincere desire to solve great
problem Despite the German hopes
OF differences among the conquerors,
ne added, they had added they agreed
70 principle.
Describing visit to the devas-
tated regions Of Fr: .ce, Mr.. Stone
declared il had been "torn by the
most mabgn and outrageous savagery
the world had ever known" To bring
about its rehabilitation, he asserted
extension of long time credits by
American manufacturers was essen
tial, q scheme which he said could be
carried out through tne banks with
the, federal reserve system to fall
PACK upon IN case of emergency.
An Extended Service.
In keeping with the an-American
spirit of the meeting, inspired by the
recent addition of 25 South American
newspapers to the Associated Press
membership, MIR. Stone stated that
this extension Of the service gave as
surance Of the anity of the Western
Hemisphere. In like manner in earlier
days, he said, the organization had
been 4 material factor in cementing
the relations Of the Northern and
SoAthern sections of the United
States, union which made possible
the national spirit evidenced in the
Spanish american war and re-em-
phasiZed IN the world conflict.
Knows the High Lights.
Mr. Stone spoke Of the peace con-
ference leaders. many Of whom, he
said. i: had been his privilege to
meet. He described some of the char
acteristics Of Premier Lloyd gorge,
Clemenceau. Nen;Zelos and Hughes.
Or Cienlenceau, whom he had known
for forty years, ne said:
when ! went over there first in
June ! wcnt up TO see him one day
and said, Well, you speak English as
well az YOU did forty years ago. He
said i don't speak English. l speak
American
Election Results.
The members of the Associated
Press az ;heir annual meeting here to-
day reelected FIVE directors whose
three-year terms had expired. They
were:
Ebert Il. Baker. Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Clark Howell, Atlanta Constitution.
Charles Hopkins Clark, Hartford
Courant.
Charles A. Roo,:, Pittsburr Dis
patch
'. S. MeClatchy, Sacramento Bee.
The nembers also elected F. p.
acLennan, Topeka State journal, to
ill the vacancy caused by the rcsig-
nation Of Oswald G. Willard, New
~,
InE in two years.
Messrs. Baker, Howell and Clark
were nominated by the nom mating
committee. Messrs. Rook, McClatchy
and McLennan received their nomina-
Sons from the floor.
Advisory boards and committees
we're elected as follows:
Eastern DiVislon-Ad dvisory board:
Alexander p, Moore. Pittsburg, Pa,
Leader, chairman; Jerome d. Barnum,
Syracuse, N. Y, Post Standard, sec
retary. Directors, Richard Hooker,
Springfield, Mass, Republican; Arthur
}. Staples, Lewiston, Maine, Journal;
Joseph Bancroft, Wilmington, Del,
Every Evening. Nominating commit
tee: f. II. Butler, Buffalo. n. Y,
News; William J. Papc, Waterbury,
Conn, Republican, secretary. Auditing
committee: William b. Bryant, Pat
terson, N. j., Press uardian.
Central vision-Advisory board:
Ralph II. Booth, Saginaw. Mich, News
Courier. chairman; Eugene Lorton.
Tulsa, okla, World, secretary. Drec-
tors: p. r. Burton, Joplin, Mo, News
Herald: Robert f. Wolfe, Columbus,
Ohio, State journal; p. S. McGlynn,
Moline, ILL.,. Dispatch. Nominating
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