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PAY TRIBUTE—The University Veterans' organization yesterday placed a wreath at the cornerstone of the World War II Memorial campaini in tribute to Veteran's day. Pictured left to right are Robert Henckel, 2nd year architecture; Edward Sachen, college junior, William Lyons, college freshman, UVO president; and Alfred Baktyk, college junior.
Newspapers Depend on Business
Friday. Nov. 12. 1954
Publisher Said—
Columbus, O. — (U.P.) - Richard W. Slocum, president of the American Newspaper Publishers association and vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin, said today that the American newspaper is substantially dependent upon business decisions.
Mr. Siocum addressed a luncheon meeting here during the 45th annual convention of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity. Mr. Siocum told several hundred delegates that the value of journalism as a career "will be determined not so much by those who actually engage in it as by those who have responsibilities for business decisions in journalistic enterprises."
Mr. Slocum said that this is contrary to earlier days when journalism's value as a career depended largely on the man himself, his editors, and factors and decisions within the news and editorial departments.
He said that journalism is not going to have the bright attractiveness and rewards unless publishers and managers "make the right decisions on some very difficult current problems, and are enabled to carry them out through support and cooperation of many others employed in newspaper publishing.
Mr. Slocum said that he did not mean that news and editorial departments should be controlled or influenced in news handling and editorial expression by business decisions or business people.
"What I mean," said Mr. Slocum, "is that editors and those active in journalism must cooperate within money limitations determined on the business side of the operation."
Earlier, Alexander E. Jones, executive editor of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal, warned that powerful forces in the American Bar association were determined to restrict pre-trial newspaper reporting. Mr. Jones said the restrictions, which would cover both civil and criminal cases, would prevent newspapers from making more than a bare announcement of formal charges. He predicted the restrictions would be presented to the ABA's house of delegates next August.
Mr. Jones said the lawyers plan to include the restrictions as a revision of "canon 20" of the ABA's code of professional ethics. Although the code is not binding on either lawyers or judges, several State Bar associations have given it the effect of law by getting their supreme courts to include it in court procedures.
"The legal profession is the poorest possible judge of the right of the people to 'know,'" Mr. Jones said, pointing out that when trials start "two sets of skillful attorneys set out to prove that (1) the defendant is innocent and (2) that he is guilty."
Mr. Jones said that in the case of "canon 35," which forbids courtroom news photos, newspapers in many states, including Ohio, have become subject to the desires of the bar associations.
Mr. Jones said the charge that press practices result in trial by newspaper is fallacious.
"That idle phrase," he said, "is a straw man set up by legal authorities without supporting evidence.
"On the contrary," he said, "the evidence is, almost without exception, that newspapers have made invaluable contributions in establishing innocence of guilt and have worked hand in glove with the courts since this republic was born."
Mr. Jones said that if district attorneys and other court officers are forbidden to make public confessions or facts about persons involved in crimes that revolt the public, our citizens will be denied knowledge to which they are entitled.
Mr. Jones said that improvement of relations between the bar and the press is a matter of mutual education.
Surgeon Convinced Cigarets Cause Cancer
New York—(U.P.)—Dr. Alton Ochsner, eminent surgeon, who holds that there isn't any doubt whatever that cigaret smoking causes lung cancer, volunteered today to help save the cigaret for mankind and the tobacco industry for the American economy.
He would be "perfectly willing to accept a grant from the Tobacco Research committee, organized and backed by the industry, with which to look for one or more specific cancer-causing agents in tobacco tars he said in an interview.
His offer was relayed to Dr. Clarence Cook Little, chairman of the Scientific Advisory board of the committee, who is as eminent as a geneticist as Dr. Ochsner is as a surgeon, in the hope of starting something that would resolve conflicting scientific views which now torment cigarette smokers.
These two represent the opposite poles of qualified scientific opinion. Dr. Ochsner holds that tobacco tars have been proved to be cancer-causing agents "right up to the hill." From being proved, and has risked his scientific reputation in heading up the Scientific Advisory board.
Dr. Little seemed unimpressed by Dr. Oschsner's offer, but said if Dr. Ochsner would make application for a grant for research in either Tulane university, New Orleans, where he is professor of surgery, or in the children's hospital, New Orleans, it would be "given the same impartial unprejudiced consideration that is given to all applications for research funds."
However, Dr. Ochsner's application would have to demonstrate that his hunt for cancer-causing agents in tobacco tars would be conducted under experimental conditions exactly matching the way in which tobacco tars come in contact with human mucus in the case of smoking tobacco. Dr. Little indicated that in his opinion Dr. Ochsner was not unprejudiced.
Dr. Ochsner said he didn't believe the Tobacco industry wanted research based upon these premises: (1) There are cancer-causing agents in tobacco tars and (2) Let's find them and eliminate them so people can go on enjoying tobacco without menacing their health. For that reason, he should apply to Tobacco Industry Research funds, he said—he would only accept the research funds if they were offered.
The occasion for the interview was publication of Dr. Ochsner's book, "Smoking and Cancer." It is extremely rare for a medical man of his eminence (he is one of the world's top surgeons, and a former president of the American College of Surgeons, the American Cancer society, and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.) to write a "popular" book on a medical subject.
He "pleased guilty" to a charge of a spokesman for the tobacco research committee that he is a "prop-agandist."
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"I am a propagandist," he said. "I am a propagandist for health. If one tenth of the evidence which now shows that tobacco causes cancer, were suddenly offered that the Brooklyn bridge were unsafe, that great thoroughfare would be closed to traffic in less than ten minutes.
They also were prepared to hear Mr. Vishikamy propose that the plan go even further than the United States has suggested. They believed it possible he would ask that the entire project be put under the U.N.
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United Nations—(U.P.)—Russia's Andrei Vishinsky appears before the United Nations main political committee today and diplomats believed he would announce the Soviet decision to go along with President Eisenhower's Atoms-For-Peace plan.
Diplomats expected Mr. Vishinsky to voice support for the International Conference of Atom Scientists proposed for next summer and to endorse the general principles of the plan already under negotiation by the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, South Africa and Portugal.
Vishinsky Expected To Approve Plan
Present plans call for the governing International Atomic Energy committee to be organized as a specialized agency having an agreement with the United Nations without actually being part of the world organization.
The committee has debated the plan since last Friday when it was introduced by U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Mr. Vishiky has listened to one power after another pledge moral and material support to the idea.
But diplomatic sources said he would be expected to make reservations or to suggest amendments which could very well make the plan unacceptable to other nations.
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"Heavens knows I don't want another 18th amendment, but it is going to come to that unless the Tobacco industry takes steps to find the cancer-causing agents in tobacco tars and then eliminates them from tobacco products.
"I want tobacco-smoking reserved for individuals who enjoy it and the tobacco industry preserved for the American economy. I don't smoke myself, but only because when I was a boy I promised my father that I wouldn't smoke until after I was twenty-one and then I never got started."
The tests will range all the way from watching the treatment of western diplomats and their families in Moscow to probing Soviet policy on plane incidents in the Far East and Red strategy on Germany and Austria.
American officials from President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on down are interested in. Mr. Malenkov's expressed desire to prevent war and work toward normal relations through diplomatic channels. But officials said the Russian leader's warm words will have to be matched by Russian deeds.
Washington — (J, P)— The United States and its allies planned early moves today to test Soviet Premier Georgi Malenkov's professed view that the East-West cold war has gone too far.
US, Allies Plan To Test Soviet
Mr. Eisenhower has shown his intense desire to do everything possible to avoid any steps toward a possible H-bomb war with the East.