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This "right," as newspapermen know full well, is one of the holies. It is asserted with high-flown argument of altruistic bend; it is strictly defended. First of all, one is told, H. A. A. assigns the Harvard numbers; H. A. A. therefore has the "right" to them. And if this suffices not, there is the nice financial syllogism. The H. A. A. News makes a neat profit,--1930-31 $2289.75, 1931-32 $11,201.93,--and thus enables Harvard men to have more athletic facilities. What alone makes the H. A. A. News valuable to advertisers and buyers...
Enlightened though many Chinese statesmen are, the Nanking Government got around only last week to issuing a formal decree by which Chinese generals, provincial governors, mayors and all other local authorities were forbidden to inflict on Chinese newspapermen who arouse their ire "summary arrest, torture or execution...
...romantic Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram likes to back lost causes, pat underdogs. Some two months ago he hatched a plan which looked like a sure loser-the forming of a New York newspapermen's guild. He well knew the standard arguments against it. Out of many similar attempts in the past, only those in Milwaukee and Scranton, Pa. had effectively survived. Publishers were hostile. Newsmen, especially in New York, were too proud, too individualistic, too footloose to sign lodge cards. But that was just the kind of set-up that Colyumist Broun likes...
...there is a fly in the ointment, gentlemen. Where is your criticism? You know the Government can make mistakes and this undertaking is too vast a program for any one man or set of men to be sure of. We are certain to make blunders. I rely on you newspapermen to check us. . . . There is no kindness in flattering a wrong cause. I want your criticism as well as your support. It is the best kind of backing and the only request I make is that you be prompt about it. " With almost embarrassing promptness, Editor Pew's speech...
...particular newspapermen who conceived and executed yesterday's coup are beyond consure. No decent words ill them. The usual human instructs of decency, and the decent symbols by which they are expressed, have thus lost meaning and significance. The Transcript says, transparently enough: "The picture men were asked by Charles Whitesido...to limit themselves to pictures of young Roosevelt in a group ...."This agreement they inexcusably violated, and then turned their rebuff into copy quite as inexcusable. The temper of a nation which demands from its newspapers photographs of women in the electric chair presents a curious problem in psychology...