Evening star., 1939-04-09
Editors Meeting Here
Will Discuss Public
Criticism Of Press
April 20-22 Sessions
Will Be Devoted
To Censure
Nv tie Associated Press.

0v tEe ASSOCldteQ fTeSS.
William Allen White of Emporia
Kans., announced last night that
, the forthcoming meeting here of
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, of which he is president
would be devoted ito an honest at
tempt to make some sense out of
the public criticism of the press"
In statement released here, the
noted Sage of Emporia' said most
editors and publishers are honestly
trying to tell the truth accurately
without bias and to print both sides
OF every controversy"
"Yet we realize" the statement
continued, that many readers feel
we are unfair, and we are honestly
vasking ourselves at this meeting,
why, with all our honest endeavors
and with all our genuine enterprise
the American press is under cloud
. Of criticism.
1T is not large cloud, but we
want to know why there is any cloud
on our horizon The pScgTam will
be a two days question mark about
the American newspaper and the
American scene"
- Meeting Opens April 20.
The editors will gather at the Ma
tional Press Club on the afternoon
of Thursday, April 20, and conclude
their convention with breakfast
session and business meeting the
following Saturday. Between times
in their analysis of the American
press, they will cover a variety of
subjects, ranging from reader COM
plants to the foreign situation.
The editors annual "off -the-rec-
ord" conference with President
? Roosevelt will be held Thursday
evening. The first days activities
are scheduled to begin with an ad-
dress by Arthur Hachten, National
Press Club president. to be followed
by speech by Mr.. White.
The afternoon will be devoted to
an editors round table presided
over by Grove Patterson of the To-
ledo Ohio Blade.
"Shop Talk" Breakfast.
Following a shop talk" breakfast
Friday, three successive groups of
Seditors will speak on Kicks From
Readers, How Dealt With and Han
died" "Apportionment OF Space" and
Accuracy in the News Report A
discussion of Women's news will fol-
low
Mai. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of
the Army Air Corps, will make an
"off f-the-record' talk on world mill
tary aviation after luncheon and
the editors will then undertake a
clinic on the foreign situation, with
~Harold Peters, United States Eu-
ropean correspondent. leading the
discussion.
Mr. White announced the after
noon would be left open for hair
down" discussion of criticism of the
press and that the discussion would
continue until everybody has every
thing off his chest
Annual Dinner Friday.
Speakers for the annual dinner
Friday evening will be two Repub-
licans, District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey of New York and Senator
Robert A. Taft OF Ohio, and two
Democrats, Solicitor General Rob-
ert H. jackson and Senator Joseph
v. OMahoney of Wyoming.
A program announcement said
this was not intended to be a de-
bate, but that each speaker has
been asked to state frankly what he
believes are the basic principles of
public policy which should be fol-
lowed in America"
After the Saturday morning
breakfast the convention will con-
clude with a committee report on
schools of journalism and discus
sion and adoption of resolutions.