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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Dealey is chairman of the board; Amon
G. Carter, president; E. M. (Ted) Dealey,
vice-president; B. N. Honea, vice-presi-
dent; James M. Moroney, treasurer, and
Harold Hough, secretary.
Objectives of The News.
The primary objective of The News, as
its name implies, has always been the
collection of the worth-while events of
the day's chronicle and the distribution
of this intelligence to the public in the
right proportion as completely as possi-
ble, and with the most up-to-date facili-
ties available to the newspaper publish-
ing business. Secondly, it has been the
objective of The News to participate,
through its editorial columns and through
the writings of special staff men, in the
economic, social and cultural develop-
ment of the city, state and country.
It was mentioned in a preceding para-
graph that The News established a repu-
tation for itself by its comprehensive and
firsthand reporting of the activities of
the Mexican War as the United States
forces swept through Texas and on into
Mexico. Many reportorial achievements
have followed. Among them have been
The News' coverage of the era of the
War Between the States, despite the
drastic shortage of manpower and news-
print; the reporting of the historic de-
ate at Cameron in 1892 between Gov.
James Stephen Hogg and George Clark,
which required 14,000 words; the com-
plete report of the Supreme Court deci-
sion of 1897 sustaining the Texas Rail-
road Commission in a report which re-
uired 22,000 words, and the report of the
alveston hurricane of 1900 from Dallas
headquarters, though the sister publica-
tion on the island city was cut off from the
world by the fury of the storm. In the
current World War, The Dallas News
was the first Texas publication to send its
own correspondent to the European thea-
ter of activity. The News maintains at
Austin the largest staff of any Texas
paper and, in addition, it maintains its
own full-time correspondents in Wash-
ington and Mexico City. Outside full-
time correspondents are maintained also
at Tyler and Waco and there are ap-
proximately 200 part-time correspond-
ents throughout the state. The News
has, both in its headquarters staff and
its outside correspondents, the largest
news-gathering force of any newspaper
in the South. While it is the policy of
The News to depend primarily upon its
own staff for its news and editorial con-
tent, it carries the full leased wire serv-
ice of the Associated Press, United Press,
Associated Press Wirephoto, and news
and feature services of more than thirty
national and international organizations,
exclusive of comic and miscellaneous art
features.
Editorial Policies.
Scarcely less important than news re-
porting. throughout the existence of The
ews, has been its expression of its edi-
torial opinion for the political, economic,
social and cultural advancement of its
city, state and nation. The GalvestonNews, in its early years, Set the standard
with its keen analysis of the problems of
the young republic, and later common-
wealth. Through the years The News
has campaigned for a more populous,
better industrialized and wealthier Texas
to the end that its people might maintain
an ever higher standard of living. Carry-
ing out this policy, The News has con-
stantly supported those movements
aimed at better conditions in the Texas
crop-growing and livestock-raising indus-
tries, better transportation in railroads,
highways and waterways, the improve-
ment of both public schools and institu-
tions of higher learning and the general
advancement of city and state in civic
attractiveness.
The News has been especially active
in the betterment of the agricultural
industry of Texas through the mainte-
nance of an agricultural department
which has sponsored such noteworthy
projects as the More-Cotton-on-Fewer-
Acres contest and demonstration farm-
ing and, more recently, the farm che-
murgic movement for finding new uses
for Texas' agricultural products through
the wonders of the modern chemical
science and industry.
The News pioneered the way for city
betterment through practical planning,
and the first comprehensive city plan in
the Southwest was adopted for Dallas
through the efforts of The News. Im-
provements largely sponsored by the
same journalistic enterprise include flood
control of the Trinity River, straighten-
ing and relocation of the channel of the
river through the heart of Dallas, re-
moval of railroad tracks from the busi-
ness districts and construction of the
Union Station. The News likewise is
credited with an important part in the
successful acquisition of Southern Meth-
odist University and the Eleventh Fed-
eral Reserve Bank for Dallas.
While The News' editorial policy has
been directed primarily at economic,
social and cultural advancement of the
state rather than at purely political
matters, it has not hesitated, in instances
which it considered to be urgent, to
throw its support for or against political
factions, most notable probably having
been its fight for the elimination of the
Ku Klux Klan from Texas influence in
the 1920s. The News maintains one of
the largest staffs of editorial and special
writers of any newspaper outside the two
largest cities in the nation. Its cartoons
and its art work in both its editorial and
news columns and the artistic presenta-
tion of its advertising pages have been
among the best in American journalism.
The News has not only maintained a
high standard of editorialpersonnel, but
has made the product of its editorial
staffs available to the public in the
quickest time and in the most readable
orm by keeping abreast of the scientific
and mechanical progress of the newspa-
per publishing business. The organiza-
tion was a pioneer in the development
of a system of special correspondence by
telegraph. It was the first Texas news-
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