Evening star., 1940-03-31
Thomson and Deuel.
Added 10 Program
Al Editors Session
National Society
To Meet in Capital
April l8 and 19

April IL and l9
A discussion of Cleaning Up the
Long Machine" in Louisiana by
James M. Thomson, publisher of the
New Orleans Item and the Morning
Tribune, and an address on THE
Correspondents Job in the Russo
Finnish War" by Norman H. Deuel.
of United Press have been added to
the program of the 18th annual
meeting of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washington,
April l8 and 10, society officials have
announced.
MIR. Thomson and Mr.. Deuel. are to
speak at session beginning at 10 80
am. on April 10. At the same meet
Ing, Michael A. German, editor of
the Flint (Ohio) Journal, will
present a Summary of Editorial
Improvements Put Into Effect by a
Group of Selected Newspapers" All
general sessions are to be held at
the National Press Club.
The program for other sessions,
complete in so far as present ar
rangements are concerned, follows:
Thursday, April 18.
10 am
Invocation by the Rev DR.. James
S. Montgomery, House chaplain; ad-
dress of welcome by president of
National Press Club, Richard L. Will
son: annual address by the president
of the society, Donald j. Sterling;
report of the secretary, j. Roscoe
Drummond; report of the treasurer,
Dwight Marvin: report of the Mem
bership Committee, M. V. Atwood,
chairman: report of the Nominating
Committee, Marvin H. Creager,
chairman; report of the Committee
on Schools of Journalism, Casper S.
Yost, chairman; address. National
Labor Relations Board and the Edi-
torial Rooms" by Sidney Jackson of
Baker, Hostetler g. Patterson, Cleve-
land.
1915 pm
Shop talk luncheon on Feature
Problems and Angles" with George
B. Armstead, the Hartford Comm
Courant, chairman. This will be a
free-for-all discussion Of features,
polls and syndicate practices, in
which the following will participate:
H. R Pinckard. editor. Herald
Dispatch Huntington, w. Va, "Fea-
ture Surveys and Their Value; w.
G. Vorpe, Sunday and feature edi-
tor, the Plain Dealer, Cleveland
How to Judge Feature Values;
Arthur K. Remmell managing edi-
tor, the News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne,
Ind, "Difficulties I have had:
Marvin H. Creager. editor, the
Milwaukee Journal Value of Local
Features and How to Produce
Them; N. F. Maddever, editor, the
Gazette, Niagara Falls, N. Y,
"When We Lost Our Features
Dwight Marvin, editor, the Record,
Troy, N. Y. "Organizing Editors for
Feature Consideration" w. S. Gill
more. editor, the Detroit News.
Syndicate Sale7manship"; Dwight
Young, editor, the Journal Herald,
Dayton, Ohio, Exchanging Feature
Information DR.. George Gallup,
director, American Institute of Pub
lie Opinion; Robert M. Hall, sales
manager, United Features Syndicate
and Gardner Cowles, jr, the Regis
ter and Tribune, Des Names, Iowa.
3pm.-
At the State Department, ff-the-
record session with Undersecretary
of State Sumner Welles.
$3.50 pm
f-the-record session with Pres
adent Roosevelt in the White House.
Following the White House con-
ference. Eugene Meyer, publisher
of the Washington Post, will enter
tain in his home on Crescent place
for members, their wives and
daughters.
Friday, April 10.
$3.50 am-Shop talk breakfast on
"Streamlining Newspapers" with
Ben M. McKelway, managing editor,
The Washington Star, chairman.
Neil H. Swanson, managing editor,
the Evening Sun, Baltimore, will re-
port on the Suns laboratory ex-
pertinent to develop better meth
DDS of news presentation. Douglas
c. McMurtrie, director of typog-
raphy for the Ludlow Co., Greater
Reader Interest Through Modern
Typography and John S. Knight,
editor, the Akron Beacon Journal,
Running Newspaper Without
Competition"
1890 pm.-Luncheon with Tom
Wallace, editor of the Louisville
Times, chairman. Off-the-record
address by Rear Admiral Ernest j..
King of the General Board, United
States Navy.
2:30 PM. R. Virgins, manag-
ing editor, st. Paul Dispatch and
Pioneer Press, How Editors Deal
with Administrative Problems"; NJ
G. Sullivan, circulation director,
Gannett newspapers, Things Ed
itors Should Remember About Cir
culation," and report of the Com
mittee on Resolutions, Burrows
Matthews, editor, Buffalo Courier
Express, chairman.
pm-Closing banquet, Willard
Hotel.