Evening star., 1925-07-08
JOHNSON ELECTED
PUBLISHERS HEAD
Chattanooga Man Is Chosen
BY Southern Association
at ConNention.
BY the Associated PressA

: BY the Associated PressA
ASHENILLE. y. C.. July P).-
Election of Walter e. Johnson of
Chattanooga. Tenn, as president, and
an address by Adolph $. Ochs, pub
Usher of the New Yor sTimes and the
Chattanooga Times. featured yester
days session of the twenty third an
nual convention of the Southern
Newspaper Publisherse Association
here.
! Kent Cooper, seneralN manager of
the Associated Press. arrived yester
day and last night was, present at
an informal conference W publishers
and executives of Soutb bern news
papers.
Considerable interest WIS attached
70 the report on the compl Rfnt of the
Federal Trade Commission regarding
relations between advertisin E agencies
and publishers. The report was made
by James F. Finley, attorn ey of the
association.
Other officers elected werec Secre-
tary-treasurer, Wiley l.. Morgan,
Knoxville tTenn) Sentinel: directors
Alabama, Victor H. Hans, IN. Bir-
minGham News; Arkansas. J. Parks,
Fort Smith Times Record Florida,
Frank B. Shuts. Miami Herald;
Georgia, John II. Price. .ttlanta
Journal; Kentucky, H. Gionnolia Lex
"A. n.
meyer. New Orleans Item m-Tri, bune;
Mississippi, Frederick Sulens, lack
son News; North Carolina, job n A.
Park, Raleigh Times: Oklahoma, IT, X.
Gaylord, Oklahoma City Oklahon van;
South Carolina. Robert Latham,
Charleston News and Courier; len
nessee, c. p. j. Mooney. Memr s1is
Commercial Appeal: Texas, NJ. E.
Forster, Houston Chronicle; Virginia.
L nkk
West Virginia. W. G. Terrific, Clark g
burg Exponent.
Last night Kent Cooper generah
manager of the Associated Press a
held a conference with the publishersS
and he will meet the publishers of
North Carolina in convention here
this afternoon.
Adopt Code OF Ethics.
The publishers yesterday adopted
code Of ethics As presented by the
chairman, w. NJ. Clements. and a
committee representative of every
state in the association.
The report with regard to crime
news, matter that was discussed
extensively at a conference tonight,
said: Since publicity is the greatest
deterrent of crime, we must expose
fearlessiy and without favor the
names OF lawbreakers. but we should
protect the names of members OF
their families and other associates.
No story justifies needless damage
to good reputation or wanton pain
to the innocent"
The code adopted will be given
wide publicity, the committee said
in order to give the public little
insight into the much maligned and
misunderstood profession and busI-
ness of publishing a newspaper
The publishers decided to continue
their support To the printers school
at Macon. Ga, but 1t will be operated
privately in the future. A resolution
indorsing the National Journal lists
Home in Florida, offered by c. E.
Hosmer. was referred to the resolu-
| t1onS committee.
The closing session of the conyen-
ton will be held today following an
address by Russell T. Edwards, di-
rector of the educational section
American Tree Association, on
Forestry and Its Relation to News
paper and Other Industries: The
Washington Assignment" by 7. Fred
Essary, president of the Gridiron
Club and Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, and selection
of the next meeting place will then be
made.