Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1939 — Page 11

EDITORS DEBATE PRESS FREEDOM - INCASE OF WAR

“Hear Mencken Air Muzzling * ~ Fears; Hold ‘Off Record’ Talk With F. D. R.

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Ezra Pound, 53, Poet,

NEW YORK, April 21 (U. P).— Ezra Pound, the 53-year-old poet, who is a genius to some critics and a study in confusion to others, was back in the United States today after 31 years in Europe. His stay abroad was not a selfimposed exile, he replied to reporters, although he loves Italy as “the seat of culture in the Occident,” and would rather live in Rapallo on the Italian Riviera than any place in the world. This visit will be a brief one, for the Idaho-born poet who came here primarily to deliver to his publish-

ers 20 more of his “Cantos”—the unorthodox poetry that some commentators have called “incomprehensible meandering.” He said he was curious about his native country and plans to clear up some of his impressions. He wants to find out among other things whether there is a group in this country trying to foment a European war. The impression abroad is that there is, he said. He said he regarded literature of social significance as “pseudopink blah” in contrast to the “practical

isits Native U. S.

Italy.” He denied there was censorship in Italy, declared correspondents were not making the situation clear and praised Premier Mussolini’s mentality. If there is a war, he said, the

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career only five authorities had ever| George Rogers Clark Memorial MORRISONS spoken well of his poetry. While| Commission, the City Council passed here he will be a guest of E. E.|a formal resolution making plans Cummings, a poet who avoids capi-|for the monument,

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Mr. Pound waved aside criticisms Northwest.

of his work. He said that in all his

tal letters.

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WASHINGTON, April 21 (U. P). —The American Society of Newspaper Editors discussed today methods of preserving the freedom of the press should this country engage in another war. The question shared attention with an “off-the-record” discussion between President Roosevelt and members of the society at the White House last night. Thomas E. Dewey, New York District Attorney, and Senator Taft (R. O.), two leading 1940 Republican Presidential possibilities, will address the editors “off-the-record” tonight. The free press issue was placed in the forefront of the society’s annual meeting by Henry L. Mencken, Baltimore editor and critic, who said a that a general war in which the 4 United States would participate was : likely. He said that President Roosevelt would then run for a third term and the situation of editors would be even worse than during the World War when, he said, they were “prisoners in a well run peni- |g tentiary.”

Cites World War Threats oo “Consider the situation of the] newspapers in case war really comes | and that gentleman (Interior Sec- ‘ retary Harold L. Ickes) is put in charge of the press,” said Mr. Mencken. “Don’t ask me what should be done about it. A =

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Harrison Urges Campaign

Walter M. Harrison of the Okla- | homa City Oklahoman, urged that} newspapers immediately start af drive to convince the public there is no reason for suppressing freei§ speech, free assembly and a free} press in the next war. : Tom Wallace, Louisville Times, discussing syndicated newspaper columnists, declared that the “sys-|E tem of political commentating was |@& designed to inculcate in the bush league press the economic ideas and | beliefs of the Eastern Seaboard” but |g he approved syndicated columns /|:H when properly edited. > |B George B. Parker, Scripps-Howar newspapers, declared that columnists have heiped put editorial |g pages on their mettle by providing | competition. i “Any force which perks up the |g thought process,” he said, “is aif gain.” Speakers at today’s sessions in clude: Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby : Houston Post; Edson K. Bixby,!§ Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader; Paul Scott Mowrer, Chicago Daily News; |& W. S. Gilmore, Detroit News; Paul- | mer Hoyt, Portland Oregonian; Basil Walters, Minneapolis Star; Nathaniel R. Howard, Cleveland |§ News; D. J. Sterling, Oregon Journal; Doris Fleeson, New York Daily | News, and Inez Robb, King Features.

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