The Washington times., 1923-04-28
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PROSPECTIVE
OFFICERS
Papers Read Before Society
Convention Stress Truth and
Accuracy in News.

Delegates to the annual conven.
lion of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors. concluding their
two-day gathering at the Willard,
late this afternoon will elect twelve
directors, four each for terms of
three, two and one years. Admins
trative officers subsequently will be
balloted for by the new board.
Those put in nomination at the
conclusion of the morning session
were as follows:
For three-year term: Casper s.
Yost, st. Louis Globe-D Democrat;
John Cohen, Atlanta. Journal; La
fayette Young, jr., Des Moines Capt..
tai; Charles w. Danzlnger. Pitts
burgh Telegraph; C. p. J.
Mooney, Memphis Commercial Ap-
peal; T.. s. Beck, Chicago Tribune;
Frank I. Cobb, New York World.
For two.year term: Harvey Ing,
ham, Des Moines Tribune; Ralph e.
Stout, Kansas City Star; Edgar b.
Piper, Portland Oregonian; ]. 7.
Spurgeon, Washington Post; H. r.
Gait, st. Paul Dispatch; j. T. vii
liams, jr., Boston Transcript; George
Miller, Detroit News; Willis J. Alb
bolt, Christian Science Monitor.
For one-year term: David e.
Smiley, Philadelphia Public Ledger;
c. II. Dennis, Chicago Daily News;
r.. w. Booth, Grand Rapids Press:
Frank s. Baker, Tacoma Lodged;
james N. North, Fort Worth Star
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Tribune; Joseph Pulitzer, st. Louis
Post Dispatch; Harvey e. New.
branch, Omaha World Herald.
As to the Truth.
Six papers. some touching upon
the technical problems arising in
the editorial part of a newspaper
plant were scheduled for the morn
ing and afternoon sessions today.
While Col. Luke Lea, of the
Nashville Tennesseean, carded to adj
dress the delegates on, Truth and
Accuracy in the News" was un-
able to attend the convention, these
subjects were exposited In an In.
formal floor discussion.
Opinions differed as to where the
for accuracy should
lie with greatest weight--upon re-
porter, editor or copy reader, the
latter being that functionary who
reads and perhaps revises copy
handed in by reporters and writes
h headlines.
Some speakers held that in many
instances newspapers do not at
present employ enough reporters
with sufficient educational back
ground to enable them to cope with
stories Of a scientific or highly
character.
Paul Bellamy, Cleveland Plain |
Dealer, maintained that discretion |
should be employed in assigning re-
porters. Youngsters should not be
stnt out to interview big business
men or scientists, he held.
Some of us try to operate a hot |
house plan in developing reporters, |
which is bound to produce uI1-
fortunate results" he said. He in.
against the diversion of
many potentially good reporters and
copy readers from the newspaper
game by frequent unanswered at
tacks by periodical publications
upon the integrity and accuracy Of
the daily press.
C.. w. Danziger, Pittsburgh Ga.
Times, stoutly defended the
on the score of efforts
to be accurate.
I'VE are up against HerclIlean
task in this respect" he told the
when mistakes are en-
in the Bible and encyclo.
pedias, how can we expect to main.
tain strict accuracy in q daily pub
lication. The magazines, with thirty
times the period of preparation
are full of plumbers. those
of technical nature as well as
other types"
Will Dine at Willard.
Charles Med. Puckette. New
York Evening Post, read a paper
on Distinctive Character in a |
discussions by Edgar
b. Piper, Portland Oregonian, and
John 8. Cohen, Atlanta journal,
THE Readers Part in
the Editor was the
subject Of a brochure by j. T. Will |
liams, jr., Boston Transcript, and
was led by Grove Patter-
son, Toledo Blade, and Marc A.
Rose, Buffalo News.
Three other papers will be read
this afternoon.
At 1880 p. IN. the editors will dine
in the Willard ball room. President
Harding and John w. Davis, presi-
dent of the American Bar Associa.
ton and former ambassador to the
Court Of st. James, will be guests
Of honor and speakers. The Presi.
dents subject, one close to his
heart, involving as 1t does his whole
career. Is Journalism" Mr.. Davis
will speak on THE Press and the
Constitution"
The banquet will conclude this
years convention.