The St. Paul echo., 1927-03-05
PRESIDENT DAVIS OF NEGRO PRESS
ASSOCIATION ADDRESSES SESSION

propaganda on the Negro press, un-
carry their matter, and unload their
der the guise of news, should be sat
upon and their stuff passed to the
waste basket.
News Bureaus.
These institutions must be regulat-
ed and made to understand that IL
they want to sell us their news serv-
ice, first, they must furnish us news
that is news, and not office-made SEN
sation and stale junk, fortnight
old. Second-They must stay out of
the advertising field. They cannot
expect us to buy their news service,
if they beat us to the business in the
field, taken at ridiculously low
price, and then palm it off on us as
news.
n. A. A. G. p.
This Association and all others
like it, who feel degree of self
Importance, not warranted by the
services they render, that they are to
affiliate with the Association, or even
answer a letter from the President
or any other official who may send
them an invitation to attend and par
ticipate, that in future, they may pass
their matter to the white papers,
where they place their job work and
their paid advertisements.
Unless these people come down on
the ground where the people live and
service can be rendered them, we
should not handle their releases at
all. If they are going to keep up
their policy of giving all their job
work to, white union printers and
their paid advertisements to white
papers, our manhood impels us to
pass their stuff to the waste basket.
Religious Releases.
The Church, Y. M. C.. A., Urban
League, and other social and re-
ligious organizations must also un-
derstand that the press will not give
free space, unless they come down
among the people, so they can render
the people better service. We can
not afford to act any longer as the
placard to carry the message of in
stitutions that are antagonistic to us,
not by reason of the purpose of their
movements, but by reason of the
over-educated, fool-heartedness of
the men in charge. The day for
boosting egotists, self-appointed lead
ers and over-educated parasites has
passed, and it is time for the Press
Association to manifest it's manhood
and independence by exposing fraud
and Misrepresentation everywhere.
Our Officers.
Some of our officers are neither
efficient nor faithful. In fact, not one
OF them has functioned according to
the Presidents standard Of service
during the past year. The Core
spending Secretary, who has always
been the soul of the Association has
failed to keep up his standard of eff
cheney and industry during the past
year.
The Field Secretary has used the
Association as a background to re-
fleet his own importance, and If the
Association has been benefited by
any service he has rendered since we
left Philadelphia, it has not come to
the Presidents attention.
Important Questions.
The Association in an address to
the public should stress it's position
on the following questions: 1. Dis
franchisement in the South; 2. Seq
regation in public Offices; 8. Lynch
ing Law: 4. Jim Crow Cars; 4. More
political recognition for our group;
5. Reduction of representation in
congress in proportion as American
citizens are denied the right of suf-
frage; 6. Prohibition; 7. Larger
representation in the Consular serv-
ice; 8. The elimination of the photo
graph discrimination on applications
for positions in the Classified Serv-
ice; 9. A plank in the platform Of
all political organizations through
out the states, and larger oppor-
tunity for labor in the industries of
the country.