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...knows of no union of household help in the U. S. No effort to cover servants has been made by the NRA. Individual employers are expected to act in patriotic spirit, like Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt who last week signed the President's blanket code with sole reference to her domestic staff...
Meanwhile the A. N. P. A. had incurred the wrath of various publishers by its advice to them fortnight ago to refrain from adopting the President's blanket code. The A. N. P. A.'s reason: newspaper publishing "is not an industry but an enterprise of such peculiar importance as to be especially provided for in the Constitution of the U. S. . . . whose independence must be jealously guarded from any interference which can lead to or approximate censorship...
...five-day week for nearly a year, also signed (but not its big brother Chicago Tribune). Said the News in an editorial: "We do not think that the free press argument is a very noble excuse for paying your office boys $13.50 a week instead of the blanket code's $15." Likewise the Milwaukee Journal signed, hired 57 additional employes, increased its yearly payroll by $100,000, roundly flayed the A. N. P. A. for its "plea for special privilege." A cursory survey by Editor & Publisher tradepaper found about 50 signers, estimated hundreds more...
...last week gave preliminary approval to a code adopted by magazine & periodical publishers. The code was drafted by a Periodical Publishers Institute formed in Manhattan to represent 6,800 publications of assorted sizes and hues- most of which are losing money. Prime problem: to gear a standard procedure to all publications, from the Satevepost to the Little Flower Monastery Messenger. Prime provisions (subject to amendment by NRA): 1) The Institute, headed by Stanley R. Latshaw of Butterick Co., "shall establish definite regulations . . . to prevent publication of misleading and/ or untruthful advertising." 2) "Circulation records . . . shall be open for inspection...
...publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police...