Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-17

necessary and should he the last line
of defense.
Returning to newspaper work, Mr.
Moore said there should he no pity
expended on Senators and Representa-
tives who have to run for office ire
quently. expia lining that AN editor
has to run for office every day"
Mr.. Cooper declared he did not
know OF successful journal which
has not somewhere at the heart OF the
enterprise "a throbbing idealism,
which may be embodied in the per
sonality of the editor, of the mana2-
ing editor. or better still, in the en-
tire staff"
In introducing Mr.. Copper. Casper
s. Yost president of the society. de-
clared The Associated Press is the
worlds greatest gathering pr
ga MIA ton. ii comes nearer to the
sta ndard of facts and fairness than
any individual newspaper"
Right Rev. James +. Freema n.
Bishop OF Washington. delivered the
Invocation. Those At the guest table
were: DIR. George r. Gluten. presi-
dent Of Colgate University: Fra nix B.
Moves. presden, Of the Associated
Press and The Evening Star News
paper Co.: F.. H. Baker of the CleVe-
land Plain Dealer. DIR. Finley, Secre-
tary Of war Davis, Mr.. Yost of the
St. Louis Globe Democrat, Charles Il.
Dennis Of the Chicago Daily News,
MIR. Moore and Bishop Freeman.
Election Delayed.
Election of officers of the society
could not he held YESTERDAY because
a lack of a quorum of members OF
the board Of directors, which selects
them Four members of the board,
whose terms had expired. were re
elect ed = follows: Casper :. Gost, st.
Louis Globe Democrat: r. ;. BECK
Chicago Tribune: Arthur NJ. Howe,
Brooklyn Eagle, and h. {. fiopWooa
Of the clevelan Plain Dealer othef
members of the board are George r.
Miller Of the Detroit News, Edgar =.
piper, Portland Oregonian; Joseph f.
Pulitzer, st. Louis Post Dispatch:
Thomas j. Dillon. Minneapolis Fri
bune: W. j. Abbott. Christian Science
Monitor: d. +. Smiley, Philadelphia
Public Ledger: Charles h. Dennis
Chicago News. and Ralph f.. stout,
Kansas City Star.
While protests against the attacks
made on the press of the Nation were
made by Paul Bellamy. chairman or
the press integrity commute ot the
society, yesterday afternoon. the
editors declined to make any answer
to their critics and decided to let
their publications stand on theI own
merits A request from Mr.. BeiiamF,
who Is an editor Of, the Cleveland
Plain Dealer. that the society either
adopt a policy regarding replies 10
crjticisnas Of the press or that the
committee be discharged was also
ignored.
Attacks Article.
Though "baitins" Of the press ny
destructive minded critics iesseneo 10
a noticeable degree during the ias'
YEAR. MIR. Bellamy declared to he un-
inst the yituperation of the press
which occurred in an unsigned article
In Harper's Magazine last June.
This article, he protested, put all
kinds of newspapers, good ana DAD
apparently into the same ciassinca
ton. charging that their editors nau
left all ethics behind and were clat-
terinx down the primrose path, nav
ing subordinated everything TO circu-
lation."
referring to the campaign when
The Evening star and Cieveiana pa
pers made last Summer against the
sale of indecent, salacious aZlnes,
Mr.. Bellamy pointed out that neither
4 newspaper editor nor magazine
proprietor would think of taking such
a situation as justification for an AT
tack on all ma gaines. Jumping them
into one evil group and making little
effort, II any, to distinguish. let us say.
between the Century Magazine and
most prurient publications in imita-
ton Of the French style"