Evening star., 1948-04-11
Truman 10 Address
Newspaper Editors
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President Truman. will address
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors when the organization holds
its 26th annual convention in
Washington for three days begin
ming Thursday.
The Presidents address is sched-
uled for the banquet which closes
the convention Saturday night.
Secretary Of Defense Forrestal
and Under secretary of State Lovett
also are on the convention program.
Other officials of the Govern
f1ent and Senators and Representa-
tives also will speak. About $50
members of the organization are
expected to be present. -
The editors will hear discussions
OF world dissemination of news.
world freedom of the press, the
work Of Congress, atomic energy
and the security problems it poses.
and the forthcoming political
campaign. They will discuss such
professional problems as the value
OF the editorial page, schools of
Journalism and getting out a news
paper without printers.
Sessions at StatIer.
The convention will be held in the
Hotel Statler with morning sessions
at 10 am, luncheon meetings at
. 1880 pm. and afternoon sessions
at 2:l5 pm. There will be evening
sessions at $3.50 pm. Thursday and
Friday.
Undersecretary Lovett will be the
luncheon speaker Thursday.
Three editors who have been made
honorary members of ASNE will
address the luncheon Friday on
when Was an Editor" They are
Roscoe Drummond, Christian Sci
ence Monitor; Arthur Krock, New
York Times, and Walter Lippman
New York Herald Tribune.
Secretary Forrestal will be the
luncheon speaker Saturday.
Senators and Representatives will
report on THE Work of the Present
Congress" Thursday night. The
speakers will be Senators Taft, Re-
publican, of Ohio; Eastland, Demo-
crat, Of Mississippi. and Taylor,
Democrat, of Idaho, and Represen-
tatives Monroney, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, and Halleck, Republican,
Of Indiana.
Friday nights meeting will be de-
voted to the political campaign.
The editors will hear addresses by
c. B. Baldwin. manager of the
third party campaign for Henry A.
Wallace; Clarence j. Brown of the
Republican National Committee, and
Gale Sullivan of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Committees to Report.
The business of the convention
will get under way Thursday morn
ing with the address of Nathaniel
r. Howard of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, ASNE president. There will
be reports of officers and committee
chairmen.
A discussion of world dissemina-
ton of news will follow. The speak
ers will be Hamilton Owens of the
Baltimore Sun, chairman of the So
ciety's committee which has been
studying the subject, and Assistant
Secretary of State George v. Allen.
effectiveness Of the United States
Editorial Pages" will be the topic
of the afternoon meeting with
analyses of editorial pages. 4
Friday morning there will be a
memorial to members who have
died.
There will follow discussion Of
accreditation of schools of journal
ism and reports of editors on visits
they have made to journalism
schools. The subject is one the
ASNE has been studying.
: After this the editors will hear a
talk on world freedom of infor-
nation by Erwin D. Canham of the
Christian Science Monitor, chair
man of the ASNE Committee on
the subject. He is attending the
United Nations Conference on Free
dom of Information at Geneva and
will fly back to this country for this
address.
The atomic energy discussion will
be held Friday afternoon. 1
Resolutions Due Saturday.
The Resolutions Committee will
make its report to the convention
on Saturday morning. This is ex-
pected to bring out vigorous dis
cussion.
That afternoon there will be a
discussion of problems of Getting
to Press Without Printers" by four
editors who have experienced such
conditions as the result of printers
strikes.
The banquet which will be ad-
dressed by the President will be held
at 7:30 pm. Saturday and will be
preceded by an informal reception.
ASNE officers for the coming year
will be introduced at the banquet. |
In addition to Mr.. Howard the
present officers are Mr.. Canham,
first vice president; B. M. McKelway
of The Star, second vice president; |
Dwight Young of the Dayton (Ohio)
Journal Herald, secretary. and Alex
ander F. Jones of the Washington
Post. treasurer.
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