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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 RE ----a---- Premier Baldwin Stresses The Need For Facts RECOMMENDS THAT ALL SIDES OF PUBLIC ISSUE BE PUBLISHED Outlines High Ideals To Meubers of Press Association Prime Minister of Great | iin, Stanley Baldwin, as the t of the Newspaper Society t h annual dinner recently at the Hotel Victoria, London, an admirable address on William Astle, the presi- s in the chair, opposing h ir Society," Mr. Bald- said: A Daniel A little time ago had I been asked a attend a gathering of this nature h ki have come among you as a Daniel in the den of lions. (Laugh- ter) Not su now. 1 speak tonight as a peer among his peers--I am n Wii life member of the Press Clu So far from being a I have joined the majority and IT am a lion, I have not yet 1 to roar; that may come (laughter), but tonight in that novel capacity I have the honor to propose the toast of the evening. Your secretary was good enough |. to supply me with certain details of your history, from which I learn that you date from very shortly af- ter the great Reform Bill. I date from just the time of the second Reform Bill. The year in which came into being was a very painful year for members of Parlia- ment, for it was the first year in which division lists were published and just before the penny post and the telegraph--two institutions to which we all pay lip service and to which many of us hate in our hearts. (Laughter.) In those days am not going to comment on the fact--there was a 4d. .tax on newspapers, Today we are appar- ently, if I may believe the news- papers, putting a 4d. tax on busi- ness, And at the same time there was a Js. 6d. tax on advertisements --I should have thought a most ad- mirable impost, corresponding very nearly to the income tax after that GIVES GOOD ADVICE PREMIER BALDWIN Whose address to "The Newspaper Society" of England is reprinted in this issue. Llib ain patterns, --_ oe mn THE TIMES HAS ITS OWN TY PE FOUNDRY--HERE IT IS, Here old type is re-cast into brand new up-to-date characters, brass matrices being used newspapers. 1 understand theta few years you sondescended to 3 gatherings, but do re- eiber tai. that distinctive role al kesp Tendon' in i Mo er ce er), and prevent either Ta ineriaring Param of Lon- don or the flamboyant advertise. ments of that city from corrupting the simple morals of the provinces. I am whole-heartedly with you, for I am a provincial, heart and soul. I know there are persons who give themselves airs and use the term incial" in a disparaging sense, implying somehow some dis- ability or limitation in our method or powers or manner of speech, some idiosyncrasy in the way we dress. 1 prefer my Worcestershire tongue to what I hear in London, and the clothes I wear in Worcestershire to those I wear in Londen, wansea Man "What would London be without the provinces, and where would the London Press be? One paper, very well known, which has recently pre- sented itself in a new dress, the Morning Post, goes to Swansea for its editor. There is one paper, which I feel it would be almost lese majeste to mention, the Daily Mail, which went to Portsmouth to gets its great man, which accounts for the militant spirit of that paper and the facility with which it handles every kind of artillery, from 15 inch to the pom- pom. You have a gentleman of great renown, known to most of you, who has just written an admirable book for the laymen--as I am--on jour- nalism, Mr, Spender. Was he reared in London? ot at all, "He came from a city visited from the days of the Romans for the salu- brity of its waters, The Daily News, naturally, as any Liberal organ must do, goes to that home of stalwart Liberalism from the time of Crom- well, the Eastern counties, and I be- lieve the only great newspaper in London that has drawn its editor from a cradle within the sound of Bow Bells is the Daily Herald, which may account for the difficulty which my friends of the Labor Party have in approaching with knowledge and ~~ In The News ROOMY, WELL EQUIPPED GARAGE FOR TIMES CARS : This is not a frill but 'an important and useful adjunct.to an up-to-date newspaper business. Repair bench and wash rack with James Fowler in charge adds pleasure and profit to motor trips whether near or far, 897 Bay St., Toronto Toronto Brick Go. 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THere are, of course, in your pro- fession changes proceedings, and I spippose the ¢ountry newspapers hich represent--not politically, 1 rather mean professionally--the con- servative side of British journalism, have not escaped the modern tend- ency of amalgamation, But though I know so little myself about the Press I have taken the advantage of studying a good deal of literature on the subject and as is usually the case when I know little about a subject I go to those who are aer- knowledged to be experts, And so I would say this, I am told, and here I daresay I am told quite wrong --I always know that what to ex- pect when someone gets up in the House of Commons on the gold question and says "I am told" (laughter)--that the rotary machine will print, fold and count 30,000 copies an hour. And I am also told, and here is my authority, Mr. Spender, in that admirable book of his called "Pub- lic Life," of which I do know some- '| thing--he says what 1 should never dare to say, that the British people have something in them which re- sists all the experiments of the writ. ing tribe, and that political parties exaggerate the effect which is pro- duced on their morals by the use of the pen and the printing press-- very comforting to me, but I should never have ventured to say it, nor, indeed, should I have thought it. Age of Transition : But every age is an age of tran- sition. Statesmen and journalists alike are apt to proclaim that the times they live in are unique, and that the problems they have to face are such as have never been met with before and that the solution, if not impossible, is extremely dif- ficult. (Laughter.) : Just listen to this--I have copied out these words for greater accur- acy, as Mr, Speaker would say in the House of Commons: --"It may safely be asserted that no former period in the history of our coun; try has been marked by the agita- tion of questions of a more import- ant character than those of which are now. claiming the attention of the public. To any ene who regards for a moment the conflicting views and wishes of the commercial and agri- cultural interests, the considerations sl-- which may arise out of the exist- ing laws for the regulation of our currency, the present and antici- pated pressure of the national debt and of taxation, this statement will be sufficiently apparent.' That might have been written this week but as a matter of fact it ap- peared in the opening paragraph of the prospectus announcing the first number of the Manchester Guardian. Gloomy View I gather that Mr, Spender takes rather a gloomy view of that pro- fession which he so worthily adorns, It is true, he says, that the news- paper in a modern community is an essential part of government, and he says 'the Press might get on with- out politics, but politics cannot get on without the Press, because, le says, in the old days politicians did things and the Press commented on them. I see nothing peculiar to the old days in that. (Laughter). He goes on to say that one is an artist and the other a critic, I never made any claim to be an artist, The ans- wer to the second part of that ques- tion is in the afimative, (Laugh- ter.) The rule, he says, in the old days was for the newspapers to take their directions from the politicians and that that is so no longer. 1 quite agree, but let us not therefore conclude that the converse is true. Of course, there is a substantial amount of truth in what Mr. Spen- der says, but I do not think the picture should be all shadow, It is quite true that many newspaper proprietors think in terms of cireu- lation, but we politicians are also very liable to think in terms of ma- jorities, and if we do sometimes complain that you publish certain aspects only of the truth, yet it is equally true that truth is: many- sided, and it is not as easy to tell the whole of the truth as is often supposed. There are no two per- sons who would give an identical version of the same incident, and when I remember the fallibility of Parliamentarians I sometimes mar- vel at the high quality of a great deal of the work of the Press, Real Democracy If democracy be a reality, if its interest is to be aroused and its intelligence quickened, you cannct have on the one hand too good a Press and you cannot have too large an audience, (Cheers.) There was never a time when the production of opinion was more energetic, and its free flow more un- impeded, its effectiveness more certain than today, The millions of silent voters might feel that they indeed have but little part to play directly in the government of the country, but it is true to say that they have the power, and this is in- herent in true democracy, to express (Continued om next page) 4d ---- I J] PLUMBING in the New "TIMES". BUILDING fs was installed 116 Brock St. East. by kinds, 'Phone 726 Specializing in-- Hot Water Heating and Steam Heating Plumbing in all its wvari- ous branches, carrying a full line of up to date plumbing fixtures of all equipped for large build- ing contracts as well as for ordinary dwelling houses, We are agents for the We are fully Williams 0il 0-Matic Oil Burner Specializing in ; Hot Water Heating, Steam Fitting, Etc. , another winter comes. Install 2 WILLIAMS OIL-O-MATIC HEAT- Do It NOW! 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