Evening star., 1935-04-18
NATIONS EDITORS
| TALK PROBLEMS
IN }DAY SESSION
Eleventh Annual Convention
of American Society
Is Opened Here.
ROOSEVELT INTERVIEW
WILL BE HELD TONIGHT
Press Club Banquet Saturday Will
Climax Meeting-Borah
to Speak.

Men who direct the leading daily
newspapers Of the country opened a
three-day discussion this afternoon of
their problems and current affairs as
the eleventh annual convention Of the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors got under way at the National
Press Club.
The 100 editors and managing edi-
tors tonight will have an of -the-rec-
ord interview with President Roose-
velt at the White House following re-
ports to the members on the society's
work from President Grove Patterson
of the Toledo Blade, Secretary M. v.
Atwood Of the Gannett newspapers
and Treasurer e. S. Beck Of the Chi
cago Tribune.
During the meeting. which will be
climaxed with Press Club banquet
Saturday night, the editors will con-
ter with Government officials. foreign
correspondents and one another on
editorial policies, with special empha-
sis on the relation Of the modern
newspaper 10 pubic nfe.
Three-way Talk Today.
They expected to find much food
for thought in a three-cornered dis
cussion this afternoon on The Con-
f1ict Between the Important and In
teresting in Newspapers" among Wal
lace Odell of Westchester Papers,
Fo
rrietor of the Emporia Gazette. and
Tom Wallace of the Louisville Times
Correspondents familiar with Europe
will speak tomorrow afternoon on
The Big News in Europe-What 1t
Means and How to Get It." Dorothy
Thompson, given "a hours to leave
Germany when she ruffied Hitler with
an unfavorable interview, will join this
discussion with Raymond Gram Swing
formerly dean of European corre-
spondents and now associate editor of
the Nation, and Paul Scott Mowrer,
formerly Paris correspondent and now
associate editor of the Chicago Daily
News.
A review in executive session OF
faults of today's newspapers will fol-
low. led by Sir Willmott Lewis of the
London Times, Marlin E. Pew Of Edi-
tor and Publisher. Arthur Krock of
the New York Times. Edison K. Bixby
Of the Springfield CMo) News-Leader,
and David Lawrence of the United
States News.
Earlier tomorrow Stuart H. Perry of
the Adrian CMichD Telegram, will give
the report of a Special Committee on
libel before a discussion of News and
Pictures by M. w. Bingay of the De-
troit Free Press, L. r. Blanchard of
the New York Daily News and Roy
w. Howard of the Scripps- Howard
newspapers.
Creager to Preside.
Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee
Journal, first vice president of the So
ciety, will preside at tomorow's shop
talk" luncheon. Julia Coburn Of the
Ladies Home Journal, J. Roscoe Drum
mond of the Christian Science Moni-
tor and John S. Knight of the Akron
Beacon-Journal will speak
Friday evening the society and the
Press Club will be hosts at a recep-
ton to Vice President Garner, Speaker
Byrns. a group of Senators and other
men prominent in official Washington
life
The editors will hear Donald r.
Richberg, National Emergency Coun-
Gil chairman and acting chairman Of
the National Industrial Recovery
Board, at luncheon Saturday.
Frank H. Simonds will speak on
Europe at This House" and Senator
Borah, Republican. Idaho. on "Un-
afraid" at the closing banquet Satur-
day night. Henry J. Allen, former
Governor Of Kansas, will be toast
master.