New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-30
u. S. Newspaper
Powers Pledg &c
Aid to Harding.
American Association Gives
Assurance of Support to
''FellOw Publisher'' in
Presidential Problems
Sanity Big Need, They Say
Most Officers Reelected i'm
Convention; N. Y. Tribune
Man Is Named Treasurer

icSiueHC harding was assured the
support of American publishers "in the
difficult problems that confront him"
in resolution adopted yesterday by
the American Newspaper Publishers
Association, which ended it's thirty
fifth annual convention, at the Wal
dorf-Astoria.
Referring to the President as "a
fellow publisher who had been called
to high responsibilities in time when
great sanity and poisc, as we'll as un-
deviating patriotism and Anne ricanism
are called for at the seat of national
government" the resolution continues:
Since we met in convention year
ago President Wilson has completed
his eight historic years as President,
and another great American. Warren
u. Harding, Senator and publisher, has
become Chief Executive. Having every
confidence in his high patriotism and
io1ty purposes, knowing his train
ing IN statecraft and his capacity
to serve and lead a sound public senti-
menu TINS association expresses to
PRESIDENT Harding on behalf of the
American publishers our assurance of
support IN the difficult problems that
that tae Ship of State will be- sa fe1,,
steered through troubled waters ;nto
safe harbors." INV
Officers Are Reelected
Inc convention reelected the follow
LEO o,nG 3:l President, Thomas R. Will
1 p",l pIt.esourgh Press; vice-president,
aul patterson, Baltimore Sun. and sec,
| rotary, John Stewart Bryan. Richmond
| News-Leader
~, howard Davis, business manager IF
me ne" York Tribune, was elected
treasurer, succeeding George H Iarke
OF The World. He was also annointod
TO the committee in charge of 10
bureau of advertising of the associaS
| ton. WIG "osocla-
Named on the board of directors ara
D D., T.. Atklnson, Toronto Star; q. r.
- naKer, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Frank
D. p.. peIi' Savannah News; e. H. Butler.
d bunalo News; Hilton U. Brown, In
olanapolls News; Harry Chandler Los
angeles Times; Hopewell L. Rooe ers
chicago Daily News, and Charles II
taylor jr, Boston GIobe.
onoer authorization of the associ-
atlon' President Williams appointed a
committee to negotiete with the four
International unions in the PRINTING
trades new arbitration contracts to bc,
come effective May !, 1929. Those
named on this committee follow:
CHAIRMAN, Victor II. Lawson, CHICAGO
Dally News; Irwin kirkwood, Kansas
11ity Star; q. II. Baker, Cleveland
flaln Dealer; E. Lansing Raw. St.
Louis Globe Democrat; W. J. Pane
Waterbury Republican,; Anon G. car car
Ter, Fort Worth Star Telegram; Aucu st
5: Crane, Elizabeth Journal; D. B.
Plum, Troy Record; Marco Morrow
Topeka Capital; E. Z. Piper Portland
Oregonian; Erwin Wardman, New York
Herald; Charles D. Atkinson. Atlanta
journal; c. P. j. Mooney, Memphis
Uommercial-Appeal; A. w. Peterson,
waterloo Courier; W. S. Jones, Mime
apolis Journal; Charles H. Taylor jr.,
boston Globe; NJ. F. Hanson, Duluth
Herald; Chris H. Rembold, Cincinnati
Times. Star; Roy Howard, Scripps- Nc
Rae League, Cleveland; Frank B.
Noyes, Washington Star; Ralph H.
Booth, Grand Rapids Press; Bradford
Merrill, New York American; D. E.
Town, Chicago Evening Post; Frederick
|. Thompson, Mobile Register; Frank
E. Gannett, Rochester Tmes-Union.
LAWS HAS ADVERTISING AlQS
Besides Mr.. Davis, the Bureau of ad-
vertising committee includes Lafay-.
cite Young, jr., Des Moines Capital;
Harry Chandler, Los Angeles Times;
William Findlay, Toronto Globe; Elem
ing New Newb0ld, Washington Star; David
3. Plum, Troy Record; S. E. Thomson,
Chicago Tribune; Louis Wiley, New
York Times; John B. Woodward. Chi
cago Daily News; D. D. Moore. New
Orleans Times Picayune, and William
F. Rogers, Boston Transcript.
committee was also appointed to
consider suggestions for departm
alizing the activities Of the association
in such way as to include work now
being done by the National Associa-
ton of Newspaper Executives, the In
ternational Circulation Managers AS
ISOLATION and kindred bodies. On this
committee were named Gardner Cowles,
Des Moines Register; Marcelus Foster
Houston Chronicle; A. W. Peterson,
Waterloo (Iowa) Courier; Daniel
Nicoll, New York Evening Mail, and
Joseph B. Finan, Cumberland (Md.)
Evening Times.
Resolutions were adopted opposing
the movement to obtain acceptance Of
national advertising as local business
at local rates, declaring that the asso-
citation is the proper organization to
pass upon national recognition of ad-
vertlsing agents and providing that the
association urge the continuance of the
government regulation requiring news
papers to make semi-annual state
| nlents.
Mr.. Williams, who presided during
the threeday convention, declared it
was the largest and most prophetic of
further accomplishment in the history