Canadian printer & publisher . John Douglas Graham was born in Wolverhampton in 1871the son of the late Mr. ThomasGraham, , who was theproprietor of the daily andevening paper, Express andStar, and two weeklies, theWolverhampton Chronicle, andthe Midland Counties these papers circulate overa wide and thickly populatedindustrial district, includingthe whole of that famous coalarea, Cannock Chase. Duringthe war, the Express extendedits great influence considerablyby its vigorous propagandawork. Patrick J. Hooper, the editor of Freemans Journal, wasborn in Cork in 1873. He joinedt
Canadian printer & publisher . John Douglas Graham was born in Wolverhampton in 1871the son of the late Mr. ThomasGraham, , who was theproprietor of the daily andevening paper, Express andStar, and two weeklies, theWolverhampton Chronicle, andthe Midland Counties these papers circulate overa wide and thickly populatedindustrial district, includingthe whole of that famous coalarea, Cannock Chase. Duringthe war, the Express extendedits great influence considerablyby its vigorous propagandawork. Patrick J. Hooper, the editor of Freemans Journal, wasborn in Cork in 1873. He joinedthe staff of Freemans Journalin 1892, and has since beenconnected with that paperexcept for a brief period in1897 when he was on the staffof the Irish Times. After manyyears service in the Londonoffice of the Freemans Journal,and in the Press Gallery of theHouse of Commons, he wasappointed London correspon-dent in 1912, and in July, 1916,was transferred to the positionof editor. He was called tothe Bar at Grays Inn in an obstacle of unproductive territory, with which the news-papers themselves had been unable to deal. But when aproposal was made to the membership of the Canadian PressLimited, at its last annual meeting that it accept a subsidyfrom the British Government for a cable service between Canadaand the Motherland the newspapermen present had almostunanimously decided against the acceptance of that subsidy. Dislikes Subsidies Sir Roderick Jones, managing director of Reuters Agency,also characterized Government subsidies as the last expedientto which newspapers should resort for the establishment ofcable services. He supported Mr. Donalds proposal to aim ata penny-a-word cable rate though he was not sanguine ofrealizing it in the near future. Alternative Resolution G. E. Fairfax, chairman of the Australian delegation, movedan alternative resolution to the one before the conference. Itseffect is practically that the Empire Press Union should use itsinfluence to obta
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