New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-03-25
aftermath. of the great war there is
Talks to Newspaper Men.

aftermath. of the great war there is
no doubt.
Talks to Newspaper Men.
There is a newspaper man President
in the White House, and the CORE
>~pondents in this town already have
come 10 a realizing sense of ii.
Special correspondents who trav-
eled with President Harding during
the campaign for election, and who
camped alongside his front porch dur
ing the weeks of the home stay, told
their fellow craftsmen that they prof
values, by his directness of approach
to a subject which had news possibili-
lies III II and by his keel apprecia-
tion OF The value of a scoop" albeit
he tried his best to see TO il that, so
lar as anything he said was con-
cerned, no favorites We're played in
the scoop matter.
On the day that the P~resident-elect
arrived in Washington, just ~ hours
before his induction into office, he
called the newspaper men together for
a little talk. lie outlined the course
mat he intended 10 pursue with ref
erence tn the press. lie said that he
WAS Il newspaper maj himself and
that he never could get away from
looking AT things as a newspaper
man, weighing the possibilities of
news values in each ease, and also
trying 10 sense the effect OF certain an
houncelncnts on the public.
Asks Cooperation.
In this talk Mr.. Harding asked for
the cooperation of the correspondents
in his work as President. lie asked
this simply and with evident sincerity.
lie minated that he knew all about
the press as a molder of public opin-
ION, mt in direct language he asked
that care he taken To interpret Alright
the meaning which lay within any
presidential pronouncement. In other
words, he asked the men who write
to be careful that they did not misun-
derstand him.
Mr.. Harding asked for no favors
from his colleagues of the craft. He
said he knew that criticism must come
and that blame must come, but that
all he wanted was fairness and an
avoidance. if possible, of a m~isinter-
probation of meaning which some
times laid a fault AT Il door where il
did not belong. II was a plea for a
square deal.
II is something for the press Of the
country 10 have a newspaper man In
the White House. Presidents who
have not been newspaper men time
after time have had within their keep
ing information which 1t would have
been a good thing for them to give to
the public, and which had in 1t all the
elements of news, and yet il was
withheld simply because Of the lack
of appreciation of the actual values In
the case. Mr.. Harding knows news
values and, perhaps as well as Mr..
Roosevelt did, he knows that n chief
way TO reach the people of the country
is through the press.
1t Is the intention Of the President
TO meet the Washington correspond
ents In n body at certain set times. II
is also said Ia be his intention to give
individual correspondents proper op-
pOrtunity to see him when the nature
OF their errand justifies separate in
teryiews. This was the way In the
days of the past. Cleveland was not
inaccessible. Harrison was inacessi-
BILE TO n considerable extent, but Me-
and Roosevelt, and Taft during
the first part of his administration. al
most always could be see at proper