Evening star., 1940-04-23
Giants Of Journalism
Being Developed,
Col. Knox Says
Complexities Of Current
Publishing Problems
Cited in Speech

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 23.-Col. Frank
Knox, publisher of the Chicago
Daily News, expressed a belief today
that giants Of journalism" would
evolve from the complexities of cur
rent publishing problems.
They will be men who are Giving
specimens of the survival of the
fittest," able to whip the problems
that beset them" he declared in a
speech prepared for a luncheon
meeting of the National Newspaper
Promotion Association.
Editorial and business executives
of newspapers throughout the United
States and Canada met for conven-
tions of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association and the Pro-
motion Association.
Mclean Re- elected.
Robert Mclean of the Philadel-
phia Evening Bulletin today was re-
elected president of the Associated
Press by the Board of Directors. 1t
is his second term.
The board, meeting with eight
newly elected members, renamed
E. Lansing Ray of the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat as first vice presi-
dent and Stuart H. Perry of the
Adrian (Mich) Telegram as second
vice president.
Other officers reelected were
Kent Cooper, general manager OF
the Associated Press, as secretary;
Lloyd Stratton, assistant secretary;
L. F. Curtis, treasurer.
The board also named w. j. Nc
Cambridge, assistant general man.
ager, as another assistant secretary
Cites World Changes.
Describing the newspaperman of
tomorrow, Col. Knox said:
Born during or at the close of
the World War, nurtured on the
years of great prosperity and great
poverty, witnesses to widespread un-
employment, to mad-minded dicta-
tors, to changes wrought by swift
chronological developments - what
else but giants of spirit, of body, of
mind can lead?'
A mechanical revolution pointing
either to entirely new methods of
production or to astonishing refine
ments of present practices" con-
fronts the publishing industry, Col
Knox said. 1t probably won't occur
overnight, he added, but its advance
bears watching.
Offset printing and facsimile were
among infant processes which he
mentioned, saying they might some
day make great strides
Mclean announced a poll of
the A. P. membership indi-
Gated majority favored liber-
alizing the policy regarding broad
casting of the news report.
This is a clear expression of the
wishes of the membership to make
every effort to develop the advan-
tages of this field" Mr.. Mclean said.
Gaylord Elected.
E. K. Gaylord of the Oklahoma
City Oklahoman was elected to a
three-year term on the A. P. Board
yesterday. and the following were
reelected for a similar term Paul
Bellamy, Cleveland Plain Dealer;
John CoWles, Des Moines Register
and Tribune; Clark Howell. Atlanta
Constitution, and J. r. KnoWland
Oakland (CalifD Tribune.
Houston Harte, San Angelo CTex0
Standard, was reelected for three
year term to represent newspapers
with less than $4,000 circulation.
| E. H. Butler, Buffalo News, was
elected New York State director for
the unexpired term of Frank Gan
nett of the Rochester Times Union
resigned.
Harry j. Grant, Milwaukee Jour-
nal, was elected to fill the uneXpired
term of the late Frederick E. Muir
ply, publisher of the Minneapolis
Times Tribune.