Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-03-25
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Va tAO sASAN wal tASAS -
no doubt.
Talks to Newspaper Men.
There is a newspaper man President
in the White House, and the CORE
spondents in this town already have
come to realizing sense of ii.
Special correspondents who trav-
eied with President Harding during
the campaign for election, and who
camped alongside his front porch dur
ing tbs weeks of the home stay, told
their te'low craftsmen that they prof
Itch 5y Mr.. Hardings sense of news
values, oy his directness of approach
10 a subject which had news possibili-
TIES IN 1t and by his keen apprecia-
ton OF the value of scoop" albeit
he tried his best TO see to it that, so
lar as anything he said was con
cerned, no favorites were played in
the scoop" matter.
On the day that the President-elect
arrived in Washington, Just ~ hours
belore his induction into Office. he
eaiietl the newspaper men together for
httie talk. He outlined the course
That he intended to pursue with ref
erehce to the press. He said that he
was newspaper man himself and
mat he never could get away from
looking at things as newspaper
man weighing the possibilities of
news values in each case. and also
Trying TO sense the effect of certain an
houncements on the public.
Asks Cooperation.
Ia this talk Mr.. Harding asked for
the cooperation OF The correspondents
in his work as President. He asked
this simply and with evident sincerity.
lie minated that he knew all about
the press as a molder of public opin-
ion, and in direct language he asked
'hat care be taken 10 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 tine 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 mislnter-
/ probation of meaning which some
times laid fault at a door where it
did not belong. 1t was a plea for n
/ square deal.
Ii is something for the press of the
country to have a newspaper man in
/ the White House. Presidents who
nave not been newspaper men time
after time have had within their keep
/ ing information which ii would have
h"en good thing for them to give to
( the public. and which had in it all the
clements of news, and vet il was
withheld simply because Of the lack
4 Of appreciation of The actual values in
4 the case. Mr.. Harding knows news
values and, perhaps as well as Mr..
Roosevelt did, he knows that one chief
way TO reach the people of the country
+ IS through the press.
I 1t is the intention of the President
to meet the Washington correspond
ents in a body at certain set times. II
is also said to be his intention to give
individual correspondents proper OPP
portunity to see him when the nature
of their errand justifes separate in
terviews. This was the way in the
days of the past. Cleveland was not
inaccessible Harrison was inacessi-
Bile to a considerable extent, but Me
kinley and Roosevelt, and Taft during
the first part of his administration. al
most always could be seen at proper
times.