Evening star., 1936-07-13
DUTIES Of PRESS
! TOLD BY BARNUM
Economy of Scarcity Hit by
: Loeb at Affairs In
: Stitute.
lRr the Associated Press.

: CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, July IL.
THE duty of the American press to
see that the public is thoroughly in
Formed on the national election cam
paign was stressed today by Jerome D.
Barnum in an address at the Institute
of Public Affairs.
z Barnum is president of the Amer
acan Newspaper Publishers Association
and publisher Of the Syracuse, N. Y,
Post-Standard.
I'VE now face national election"
he said. Many think it will be the
most momentous since the Republic
was formed.
' 1T is the duty of the American
press, in the maintenance of its trust
to keep the peoples rights for free
.press, to see that the American public
is thoroughly informed on all the i'm
:portant issues of this campaign, as
well as all of the important utterances
and activities of the candidates.
: New Force Described.
= "This duty has double significance
snow in the molding of public opinion
~
different force in avenue OF commu-
ynications between the rivals and the
public.
: THAT new force is the radio. 1t
ebrings the public in intimate contact
with the voice of the speaker, with an
unusual appeal to emotion rather than
Ito reasoned Judgment resulting from
the printed word in the newspaper.
:. Millions who will turn the dials to
:campaign orators may form quick
superficial opinions for or against men
sor issues Immediately following the
conclusion of the addresses.
) Then the great responsibility OF
,.the newspaper comes into play, for
aafter the voice has died away, the
newspaper prints the speech, or ade-
suuate summaries of it, as straight
snews service to readers. Then the
peditor, reading the text, will be able
nto give his readers cool, deliberate,
hmature Judgment of its arguments"
= "Deliheration makes for accuracy
Tin Interpretation and the newspaper
seditorials will be studied by the
sreaders for their guidance in forming
Etheir final opinions on the matters
(which they have heard over the radio
: Welcome Chance to Serve.
{ "Our newspapers, in justification Of
stheir constitutional liberty welcome
I this opportunity Of service to their
..readers in the forthcoming campaign
sthat the wheat shall be separated
sfrom the chaff: that propaganda shall
not overcome fact; that truth and
performance shall prevail over prom
Z ise and reputation, so that each citl-
! zen can make for himself clear and
conscientious decision.
Regardless of the outcome of the
national election, the American press
: will continue its unselfish fight for the
perpetuation for freedom OF press and
freedom of speech"
. Today" the speaker added, I'VE
can say with assurance that the daily
.press has more power in the shaping
tof public opinion than any other
force in America"
Harold Loeb, New York attorney,
pictured America as a poor" country
! in an address to the institute today
and appealed for a scientific attack
: on an economy of scarcity.
! Representative of the Continental
Committee for an Economy of
Abundance, Loeb said:
I'VE lack things that men desire
and that they need for a decent life.
And yet we pretend that there Is no
/! work"
I'VE have never had enough to eat
in this land of ours during any year
of our history" said Leob before the
opening round-table discussion of the
! American political scene, which later
In the week will hear from leading
! Democrats, Republicans, Socialists
and Communists.
: DIR. Kendrick Speaks.
: DR.. Benjamin B. Kendrick, his
torian of the University of North
Carolina, who sketched in the back
! ground of the current political scene
before the same round table, observed
that since the early days of the Ma
ton Democrats and Republicans have
been shifting their stand upon a
I rigid Interpretation of the Constitu-
: ton, depending upon whether they
: were in or out of power"
: William L. Chenery, a native Vir-
sginian. who now edits Golfers Maga-
zine, told of the problems that con-
sfront one who must select reading
smatter on the basis of It's probable
ssppeal to some 100000 readers.
a linden tho loo dorcbirN Nf cro,ror
CLARK Of New York, consultant In Far
Eastern affairs and former editor and
publisher in China, the round table on
changing Asia was opened with dis
cussion of modern China.
! The Chinese people during the last
as years closely resemble the period
rof the Hebrew nation when Moses led
them out of the wilderness, said DR..
IT. 2. Joo, associate general secretary
for the China National Committee,
who foresaw the march leading on to
the promised land of a new China.
Municipal, Federal and State rela-
tions were discussed before the round
table on local government by Howard
p. Jones, executive director of the Ma
stional Municipal League, and by Nor
ton l.. Wallerstein, executive secre-
tary Of the League Of Virginia Mu-
inequalities.
Thomas Jefferson officially sponsored
the employment of Federal funds for
sgrants to the States for just such pur-
poses as those made under the emer-
sgency relief programs of the present
administration in Washington, said
Wallerstein.
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