Where the News Ends
CHAMBERLIN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN A Contrast in Journalistic Ethics LAST August Camillien Houde, former mayor of Montreal, was releaaed from an internment ramp to which he had...
...The $53,000,000 GM is spending to advertise its interest in future jobs for servicemen would be more than one-third.the amount asked to insure the jobs of the same servicemen and war workers...
...Before long Huck reached the conclusion that these were no genuine products, but kept the knowledge to himself on the ground that, after all, their manners, habits and morals were not very different from those of bona fide kings and dukes...
...Taw Time to Observe Human Riqhf$ I* Now J The need for immediate implementation of a United Nations code assuring the maintenance of human rights is emphasized by a news item which, received far less attention and comment than it desei ed in the United States...
...Young who was s patient in our institution, and who escaped from our custody a few months ago, has been apprehended and returned to this Institution for mental treatment...
...Wage Hikes Won't Boost:, Prices, OPA Head Admits new YORK (LPA).—Speaking to the Commerce and Industry Association, OPA administrator Chester Bowies on October 16 agreed with labor's wartime con...
...Nevertheless, GM for the four-ynar period, 1941-44, has been able to throw $53,000,000 *»f taxpayers' money into advertising to build up its postwar prestige...
...But those 45,000 Poles just didn't exist for this highly selective "news" paper, just as PM'* star editorisl writer brushed aside with the glib phrase, "Old slanders" the vast numbers of Poles who were deported under extremely inhuman conditions during the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland...
...putting their own...
...The editorisl page can tear the hide off Houde, and 1 hope it does...
...Another visitor to the office suggested to the msnsging editor that perhaps Houde should not have received such favorable publicity...
...For Ads—$53,000,000 For Workers—Zero General Motors, long the world's most profitable corporation, is setting aside $150,000,000 for the rehabilitation of its machines during the reconversion and postwar period...
...The price administrator told th* business meg that this wartime experience has indicated that most durabls good* industries can start peacetime production with prices no higher than those prevailing in early 1942...
...A Teoeuafrel Book An unusually thoughtful little book which has recently come to my attention is Peace It the Victory (Harper's, $1.60...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN A Contrast in Journalistic Ethics LAST August Camillien Houde, former mayor of Montreal, was releaaed from an internment ramp to which he had been sent in 1940 for advising people to refuse to obey the national registration law...
...Oswald Garrison Villard makes a convincing plea for a United States of Europe and Devere Allen offers a birdseye view of Latin America...
...It will not, however, set aside on* penny for th* rehabilitation of its workers...
...And Wright offers the pungent comment: "What kind of club did we run that a lunatic could step into it and help run it ? Were we sll so mad that we could not detect a madman when we saw one...
...ten tion that wage increase* can be absorbed i„ -11>t cases without boosting price...
...It is edited by Harrop A. Freeman and contains a symposium of views on questions posed by the war and the peace that is to follow the war...
...Naive persons msy have thought that the right of asylum for fugitives from political persecution wss on* of the right* for which we were fighting...
...He indicated in his address thet many price boosts granted during the war supposedly to meet higher wage* and coats of materials should never have beta permitted since the result was merely to increase already high profit...
...GM has refused...
...GM's workers have proposed that the corporation set aside anothe * $150,000,000 aa a postwar employment security fund for returning servicemen and war workers...
...The managing editor was a tough vtteran American newspaperman and his reaction was instinctive, violent and immediate...
...A* the Control Commission, nominally at least, is international, with British representation, the British Government cannot escape some share of responsibility for this inhuman act...
...On a recent trip to New York I saw an exhibition of a different kind of journalistic ethics...
...But when Houde csme back and drew a big crowd and made a speech, it was a first class story, and that's how we covered it...
...The religious pacifist interpretation of the crisis of civilisation is stated with force and eloquence by one of its most consistent exponents in this country, John Haynes Holmes...
...Lawrence and Missouri River Valleys, the 4th Biennial Congress of Americsn co-ops concluded its five-day centennial gathering in the Morrison Hotel her* last week...
...It was the morning after the Pulaski Day parade of 46,000 Poles in protest against the treatment of their country at the hands of Stalin, a parsde associated with speeches by three importsnt political figures: Thomas E. Dewey, Herbert Hoover and United States Senator Wagner...
...Your traditional old-fashioned managing editor who ehewed a cigar on one side of his mouth and gave orders out of the other had his share of defects and limitations...
...The convention registered a record-breaking 1,200 delegates and observers from nearly every state of th* union and from more than a dozen foreign lands...
...Th* executive diectors of the consumer co-op movements is China, Latin America, and Canada were among the** taking part, a* well as representative...
...Young had tha entire club buffaloed and terrorized until he suddenly disappeared...
...A special feature of th* , Congress was the premier presentation of the centennial pageant, "In the Hearts of Men," staged in Chicago's Eigth Street Theatre...
...1 I was reminded of this, by a very amusing episode, a high light in the two articles, "I Tried to Be a Communist," which the talented Negro author, Richard Wright, recently contributed to The Atlantic Monthly...
...One of the striking features of Mark Twain's description of the epic voyage of Huck Finn and his runaway companion, the Negro Jim, in Huckleberry Finn is the appearance on the scene of two rascally impostor* who give themselves out as a king and a duke in disguise...
...of the consumer organizations of Great Britain, Czechoslovakia, aad several other European countries...
...This is one of the first signs of activity on the part of the Control Commission here...
...Wright tells how, when he was associated with the John Reed Club in Chicago, s new member named Young got up at a meeting and accused another member, Swann, "of being a traitor to the workers, an opportunist, a collaborator with the police and an adherent of Trotsky...
...house in order if they could no longer make foreign rule the scapegoat for everything...
...e. Stanley Jones, famous as missionary and evangelist, contributes a penetrsting analysis of India in predominantly secular terms and emphasises one point that is very important for correct understanding of the much discussed Indian problem...
...Highlighting the ad* is the line: "WE ARE PLANNING JOBS FOR THEM...
...But the brcd-inthe-bones cross-grained integrity that made him demand news as distinguished from propaganda has been an immense asset to the American newspaper-reading public...
...Jones points out, the release of a people from foreign tutelage, however benevolent or well-meant, is a necessary condition for the clearing up of abuses thst will fester snd stagnate indefinitely so long as authority and responsibility are in the hands of foreigners...
...And I have a suspicion that if 4,600 Poles, or even 460 Poles had paraded in honor of the Lublin Committee it would have been page one "news" for PM...
...Urn Can't Toll thorn From too Mool One...
...Evidently in this case it was just as difficult to distinguish a lunatic equipped with a few stock phrases from a prominent Communist as it was to differentiate between Huck's "king" and "duke" and "real ones...
...Some twenty thousand French Canadians gave him an enthusiastic welcome...
...The gist of it, as reported in The Sew York Timet, was as follows...
...These are only a few of the excellent features of a book that deals with many angles,of peace and reconstruction with a noteworthy omission of the hate and revenge motives...
...A letter addressed to an address which was found in his room elicited the following revealing reply: Dear Sir: In reply to your letter, we beg to inform you that Mr...
...A new aeriea of newspaper ads haa started to appear announcing that 100,637 GM workers sve in the armed forces...
...Record Cooperative Congress Draws 1,200 CHICAGO.—Re-emphasizing its opposition te tales taxes, poll tsxes and similar "unjust and inequitable penalties upon the necessity to use or to consume," aad urging the extention of the TVA pattern of social development to the Columbia, St...
...I looked carefully through I'M, the newspaper that prides itself on being not as other newspapers, and found not one word about this demonstration that occurred in the heart of New York...
...While it is both unhistorical and unfair to blame Great Britain for all India's poverty, illiteracy and misery, there is a strong probability that Indians would be more energetic and effective in...
...Under Soviet law crossing the frontier without permission is a capital offense and Estonia has been considered part of the Soviet Union since it was annexed in 1940...
...As Dr...
...Citing textile*, meat packing, paper and pulp sa example* where price increases had been permitted, because of increases in hourly wages or msterisl prices, Bowles said, "Nevertheless, profits have moved a* sharply—so sharply, in feet, as to suggest that th* cost increase* should often hsve been entirely absorbed without unfsirness to the industry...
...The Congress celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first genuine consumer cooperstive store by fsr-sighted workers of the milltown of Rock dsle, England, in 1844...
...The gathering climaxed a yearlong centennial campaign...
...Hkumnki—One thousand Estonians who fled here yeaterday from the advancing Red Army were rounded up today by Finnish police and handed over to Red Army officers, who will see that they are immediately shipped back to await a ruling by the Russian commander in control of Tallinn...
...Our job is to print the news," he rosred...
...Occasionally he would let slip a headline confusing the Baltic with the Balkan states and a snap question * might hsve found him a bit hazy as to the national locations of Bucharest and Budapest...
...Shortly afterward I was in, the office of a Montreal newspaper which abhorred Iloudc's ) olitical views but gave a detailed and accurate accoi nt of his homecoming...
...When - Wright asked Young who had given him authority to do this he solemnly announced: "'I've been asked to rid the club of traitors' and added: 'We must have a purge,' his eyes bulging, his face quivering with passion...
...As he put it: "You couldn't tell them from the real ones...
Vol. 27 • October 1944 • No. 44
