Evening star., 1946-04-24
A So THE EVENING STAR, Washington D. c.
O.S 70 Call On Press Body Of Musso|ini
10 Aid New Programs, Reported Spirited
Publishers Are Told South From Milan
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, April 24.-W. G
Chandler. president of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association.
IN a speech opening the general
sessions of the ANPA's 60th annual
convention, today reviewed the war
time role of Americas publishers
and declared they would be called
on again Ito inform and inspire the
public for mutual good
President Truman has called for
conservation of foods for the un-
derfed victims of global war" he
said. Next month we will be asked
to support the recommendations of
the Presidents highway safety con-
ference.
You will soon be asked to CO.
operate in the program of the Amer
lean Forest Products Industries, Inc,
In its tree growing project, financed
Chiefly by lumber, pulp and paper,
and forest industries
Outlines Aim of Convention.
Mr.. Chandler outlined the purpose
OF the convention, which opened yes
terday. as follows:
The chief purpose of this meet
Ing OF publishers is not to sound a
clarion note for free expression of
free press-the facts on past per-
Torrance speak for themselves.
Our function is not to decide
what newspapers will print. but
rather to seek ways and means for
assuring publishers the facilities for
printing that which needs to be
read"
He continued:
Some publishers present have OBJ
served the conduct of publication
in other lands. They have seen the
publication of news and opinion re-
stricted or denied through control
Of vital materials. Only in Canada
and the U. S. A under war condi-
tions have publishers been supplied
with an amount of neWsprint suffi-
cient to safeguard the public in
terest.
British Still Limited.
Even the free press of Great
Britain was and still is arbitrarily
limited to a fraction of the space
needed y inform a literate democ-
racy
Wherever a government controls
the raw materials of expression, that
is. the paper on which thoughts are
recorded there can be no sure
means Of free expression. 1t is the
good fortune of those Of us in North
America that We have these ma
terials."
Mr., Chandler also praised the
work of the neWSprint manufac-
turers in the United States, Canada
and Newfoundland, without whose
intelligent, far-signted programs,
he said, the present success in re-
lleVing distress cases of newsprint
shortage. so that publication will be
continuous, could hardly be possible
Report on FEC Attitude.
Mr.. Chandler, who also is presi-
dent of the Howard news
papers, mentioned the newspaper
campaigns in behalf of the sale of
War Bonds and War Saving Stamps, !
collections of waste paper, house
hold fats and scrap metals as some
of the wartime problems met and
solved by the publishers of daily
newspapers functioning through
this association"
The ANPA press communications
committee reported that the Federal
Communications Commission at
titude against newspaper ownership
Of radio stations is one that should
have the Watchful attention of pub
fishers"
1t was one of Is standing COM
mittee reports made at the con-
vention.
The committee advised publishers
that although a projected investi-
cation of newspaper ownership of
radio stations had been called off
by the FEC several years ago. 1t
is evident that the thinking of the
present commission is along lines
that brought about" the issuance
Of the original order.