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it, but I don't believe that it sells the newspapers. I don't believe that this stuff that get out of the news conferences sells the newspapers. Advertising sells the newspapers. That's what people buy the newspapers for - to read the ads. At any rate, I don't think it's this press conference material From Washington that sells the newspapers.

I think the news from Washington is not gathered at a press conference, but is established by fact - a debate took place in Congress today, he said this and somebody else said that; the Department of Commerce issued a statement that here after they would do this, that and the other about something.

I know that the newspaper men think up all kinds of reasons for these press conferences. They feel probably that had there been this type of reporting in the early 1920s there wouldn't have been scandals like Teapot Dome. But that risk of a Teapot Dome happening is an ever-present risk in any government. The dishonest man can appear. Even with all the press coverage, these scandals in the Justice Department and income tax division in the 1950s went right on. They were discovered by the internal policing of the Treasury by its own inspectors.

Anyway, to get back to 1933, I just wanted to mention that I had been surprised and rather shocked to find this