Evening star., 1941-04-13
Editors Convention
To Discuss Papers
Role in Defense
Officials of DoiIies All
Over Country TO Meet
Thursday ard Friday

AT llle dllllUdI COIlNtllIlOIl Vi lllt
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors to be held at the Willard Hotel
Thursday and Friday.
The editors, representing daily
papers all over the country, will dis
cuss their problems in the current
crisis, on and off the record. with
high Government officials. and they
will hear addresses by prominent
members of their profession. Cues
tlOnS of the moment also will be
threshed out in forum discussions.
Lord Halifax, the British Ambas-
sador; Col. William j. Donovan, just
back from confidential mission in
the warning countries for President
Roosevelt, and others are scheduled
to address an Off -therecord BAN
quet at 7 pm. Friday.
Registration of delegates will be-
gin Wednesday afternoon and the
directors will meet that night.
Census Director to Speak.
The society's president. Tom Wal
lace, managing editor of the Louis
Vile Times, will call the cOnven-
ton to order at 10 am. Thursday
in the small ballroom on the tenth
floor Of the Willard.
The Newspaper and the Com
munitv" wlIl be the opening topic.
Mayor James Garfield Stewart of
Cincinnati will speak on What
Good City Government Deserves
from the Papers" Other addresses
at this session will be as follows:
The St. Louis Anti-Smoke Cam
paign," Ralph Coughlan. editor of
the editorial page of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch: Campaigns for
Buffalo Mont Curtis OF the Buff
falo Evening News; "Crusading with
Pictures" John w. La Rue, manag-
ing editor of the Cincinnati En-
ouirer, Bond Issues VS.. Sex Ap-
peal" Nelson P. Poynter, general
manager of the st. Petersburg fla
Times; How to Teach Good Gov
ernment on the Front Page OXis
Reichler, YonkerS IN. " Herald
Statesman.
At a luncheon that day, DR.. Vergil
Reed, director of the Census Bu-
reau, will discuss what the news
papers should know about the 1910
census.
During the afternoon session, be-
ginning at pm, DR.. Peter II.
Odegard OF Amherst College, author
81 D,,ko1ip Mind
will speak on "Editors-Educators
or AgitatorS?" A round-table dis
cussion of this talk will follow.
Those participating are scheduled
to include Grove Patterson. editor
of the Toledo Blade; Stephen c.
Noland, editor of the Indianapolis
News; Hamilton Owens, general
manager of the Baltimore Evening
Sun; Jonathan Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh IN. c. News and Observer.
and Godfrey Parsons of the New
York Herald Tribune
Conference With Hull.
An off -the-record conference with
Secretary of State Hull, limited 10
members, Is scheduled for pm.
Thursday. That night there will
be an entertainment for delegates
at the National Press Club.
Fridays sessions will open with a
shop-talk breakfast at $3.50 am,
with Roy Roberts. managing editor
of the Kansas City Star, presid-
ing. Arch Ward, sports editor Of
rIN,,iH will Iicat1cs
Honesty in the Sports Page and
Lloyd Lewis, sports and drama ed
itor of the Chicago Daily News.
will speak on Good Writing, Sports
and Elsewhere
At 10 am. j. Brooks Atkinson,
drama critic Of the New York Times,
will speak on "A Quick Look at the
Alleged Drama and Film Columns"
Ralph L. Peters, rOtO editor OF the
Detroit News, will discuss mo More
Dutch WindmillS."
The Wars Revolution of News
Coverage" will be the topic of an
address by Virgil Pinkley, European
manager of the United Press. Dean
Carl w. ACkerman Of the graduate
school of journalism, Columbia
University, will discuss, keeping
the American News Lines Open"
Defense Topics Listed.
Defense and the Press" will be
discussed at a luncheon by Maj.
Gen. Robert C. Richardson, jr.,
in charge of public relations at
the War Department, and Comdr.
H. R. Thurber, in charge of Navy
public relations.
At a session which may be off
the record, beginning at pm,
Sidney Hillman, associate director
of the Office Of Production Man
agement, will speak on Defense,
Labor and the Press" and Lowell
Mellett, director OF the Office of
Government Reports. will discuss
The American Newspapers and Ma
tional Defense"
While the British Ambassador
and Col. Donovan are scheduled
definitely as speaking at the closing
dinner Friday night, Harry Hopkins,
adviser TO the President, and others
also may speak. Those in charge
Of the program had not completed
arrangements for the banquet yes
terday. Dwight Marvin, editor OF