Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-14
HARDING T0C0NFER
WITH WEEKS ON HIS
CAMPAIGN POLICY
Defends Looking Back
ward" in Speech to Ohio
Editors Association.

! MARION, Ohio, August IA con-
| ference with former senator John w.
| Weeks of Massachusetts. a member of
the republican campaign committee.
| was the chief feature of Senator
Harding's engagement list for today.
| Mr. Weeks has had long experience
| in the management of political cam
! paigns. and it was understood that
various questions of policy were up
! for discussion in his talk with the
nominee.
| speech is to be delivered next Thurs
day to members and former mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature. On We'd
nesday. however, he will visit a lum-
! Germans picnic at a park here and
! may make brief address.
Address to Editors.
Senator Harding. in an address made
yesterday before the Ohio Republican
Editorial Association. took occasion to
insure an adequate domestic supply
of print paper pulp and fill other home
demands
He also advocated an editorial poll
icy mot partisan. but patriotic and
made plea for honesty in ali bust
ness relations.
Back to Clear Vision.
i suppose some people wall say L
am looking Backward" said Senator
Harding after declaring his faith in
the old-time standards of patriotism
and morality. but if we may look
| backward to clear our vision we may
look forward more confidently. 1t is
good to look back to make sure of
the way righteous mothers taught and
face the front with renewed faith.
Something has been said lately
about looking to the sunrise of tomor
row. not the skyline of the setting
sun. Every hope in life is of tomor-
row. and we could not live yesterday
again if we would, but the glory of
10000 morrows was wrought in the
wisdom CLEANED on yesterday. In the
horizon of republication there is no
mirage to lure the American caravan.
but we mean to go securely on over
the proven routes of triumph.
Text of speech.
The text of the speech follows, in
part:
great changes in the newspaper BUSH
ness. The prolific inventors of print
ing machinery and other appliances
have borne their share in it. The free
rural delivery, the advance in educa-
ton. bringing new multitudeS of
readers. have all had their influence
in the developments and evolutions
which have followed.
I'm the days of thirty or forty
years ago there was a bitterness and
acerbity about political discussion
which caused the fact:onal newspaper
to multiply. if not to flourish. 1t was
not difficult to start a newspaper in
those days.
But now it costs real money to
equip a newspaper plant-to install
linotype machines, fast presses and
type in quantities-and it costs for
tune to buy news print paper. The
high cost of printing has had it's way
with US.
journal of Opinion.
1.-THE changes have been great. but
question whether they have all been
in the nature of improvements. The
old-time paper-going back to the
last half of last century-waS usually
real journal of opinion. 1t reflected
the convictions as well as the opinions
of it's owner and editor, and it was a
real molder of opinion in it's infiu-
ence upon it's readers and the COM
munity it served
The editors were not always great
writer's. but they were generally
patriots. and honestly DESTROYS to
render service. And they were
generally partisan, and they preached
times it seems to me that the trans
ltion from the party organ to the
independent newspaper. so-calie,:,
has not been an unmixed blessing.
The partisan newspaper, in it's edi-
torial expression. uttered the con-
sidered views of a large element of
our citizenship, while the 'indepent:-
emit paper is often the organ solely
of its owner, or it is colorlessly
neutral.
Temptation to Talk Shop.
There is temptation today to
blend shop talk with politics, because
know how intimately you are think
ing of the problem of news print the
cost of which has added so excessive
ly to the expense account of every
newspaper. Men speak of immediate
relief, but the problem is too big for
that.
Permanent and ample relief must
causes. 1t is obvious that we must
have forest policy which shall make
us Self-reliant once more. Forest
conservation is a necessary accom-
paniment to printing expansion. and
a matter of common concern to all
the people.
'Three-fifths of the original timber
in this country is gone. and there are
eighty million idle acres in which we
ought to be growing forests for the
future. which. with added protection
of our present forests from fires is
| a matter of deep concern to publish
ers in particular, but all of construc-
! tive America as well.
One Service for Press.
But I want to turn your thoughts
to a service in our columns. There is
one service for the American press,
not partisan. but patriotic. for which
there is call today such as we have
never known before America needs
a baptism in Righteousness and a
new conservation in morality.
ut was stated the other day that
a reflex of the war has been so re-
vealed in broken obligations and be-
trayed trusts that the bonding COM
panies are called upon to meet such
losses that the whole schedule for
| fidelity policies must be rewritten. If
my information is correct, the Sc
curity companies have never been
called upon to meet so many and
such heavy losses in all the history
of that business.
Need Old Standards.
Call it reaction if you like, we
need the old standards of honesty.
the lofty standards of fidelity. If I
could call for but one distinction, 1
would like ours to be known as an
honest people. We need the stamp
of common. everyday honesty every
where.
IF governments and their diplomats
in Europe had been honest. there would
have been no war If everybody con-
cerned had been rigidly honest peace
might have followed the armstice with
in ninety days. If We could only be
genuinely honest with one another, we
could put an end to industrial and So
cial unrest and If we were only honest