| Show ANNUAL DINNER OF PUBLISHERS Newspaper per Men M 1 Present From All Over the United States at I SPEECH MADE BY CANADIAN REPORT ON POSTAL POST L AFFAIRS AT DAY SESSION New York Feb The annual dinner of the American Newspaper er Publishers association at the AVal Wali tonight attracted over ov r O publishers rs from all parts of the United States and Canada President Herman Ridder Bidder of the New York Staats read a letter of regret from President Roosevelt Sir Charles March deputy speaker of ot the lower house houle of the Canadian parlia parliament parliament ment offered on behalf of the Canadian publishers a message of sympathy and good fellowship He paid a tribute to the of the press of the United States and Canada Canad and spoke of the good feeling between Canada and the United States alluding to King Edward and I President Roosevelt Roosevel has the two great I I peacemakers of world i Report on Postal Affairs I The association committee on postal af affairs affairs affairs fairs submitted a report today which af after after after ter referring to the postmaster generals general s report about weighing mails says From figures given it is evident eident that the newspapers dally daily and weekly are sixty per cent of the total The religious scientific and educational publications I combined do not constitute eighteen per nor percent cent of the total and consequently the theare they are not serious factors in the postal problem problem problem lem The magazines instead of swamp Ing the mans malls as has been supposed proved pro ed Id to be an inconsiderable part of the total less than The extent to which the country week ly figures fi res In free county circulation Is la lanot not disclosed but it is estimated that the contribution to the government on that score may be put at per annum The sample copy which Is described by the postal commission as the fountain of the gravest abuse costs govern government government government ment per annum Departments Mistake These figures Indicate that the post postoffice postoffice postoffice I office department has made a mistake in attributing most of the abuse of the I rate to sample copies or else the count of ot sample copies is wrong Congress probably will create another body to t take up the work Inaugurated by the recent commission and it Is probable probable probable able that discussion and study of the proposed postal code may suggest modi which will clear a way out of existing complications Some of the proposed changes are dis advantageous a but the explanation of oC them In the report showed a lack laek of tact provoking needless antagonism Tha Th statute is Every effort to apply It provokes irritation and puts the postoffice department in a post position tion of censorship New rules are necessary nary sary sar It la Is I believed that after the sub sob had been threshed out by another period of inquiry and study some me sub substantial substantial substantial gain may be obtained for the government and for tor those interests that disseminate current nubile Information or treat current topics In in relation to litera Utera literature ture tore the sciences arts art or some special Industry The new arrangement sh dispose se of the ll e standing charge J ec eco eco o del dd ss man malt Is la responsible tAr for gw tile the deficit In view of the fact that the work of inquiry Is to be continued on a larger and more intelligent basis your committee asks that it be continued News Fit to Print Rev Frank P Hall Hell pastor of oC the Divine Paternity in this city spoke on the topic Fit to Print PrintHe PrintHe He said There has been a great deal said about the publication of f aU all the facts in a certain tain tam trial which is attracting public at attention attention attention now flow I believe if the truth were told we should hould find that not half the facts were told If it were all aU told we might find that not only one but a num aunt number number ber her of men there are who make it the pleasure leasure of their lives to drag down little girls and then when they the have started them on the way to hell push puh them on In If It this is true let us know it and then having haing the facts w why hy you and I together as newspaper men and ministers wilt will en endeavor endeavor deavor to raise such a public brainstorm as to make the lives of some of these men somewhat less legs Interesting and playful than they have been In the past The speech was loudly cheered Officers Elected At the business session the following of If officers officers ricers were elected President Herman Ridder of or the New York Staats SLants vice president Medill Medili McCormick of or the Chicago Tribune secretary Elbert H Baker of the Cleveland Plain Dealer treasurer F P P Call of the New ew York Commercial S P Weston of oC the Seattle Post Charles W V Hornick of the San Francisco Call caU and Charles H 11 HTaylor HTaylor Taylor jr of the Boston Globe were elected members of the executive commit committee tee to succeed su themselves |
