Broun v. World

Heywood Broun, most liberal of colyumists, and the World, most liberal Manhattan English-speaking daily, fell out. Mr. Broun wrote two vivid attacks on the Sacco & Vanzetti prosecution. The World printed them.* The World then advised Mr. Broun (casually, he says: pointedly, they say) to write about something else. He wrote two more pieces about Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti. The World refused them print. Readers asked why. Ralph Pulitzer, son of the late Joseph Pulitzer through whose genius the World grew famed, signed a statement. He caused the statement to be published at the top of the space daily allotted to "It Seems To Me" by Heywood Broun. The statement was headed REGARDING MR. BROUN. it ended: THE World THEREUPON EXERCISING ITS RIGHT OP FINAL DE CISION AS TO WHAT IT WILL PUB LISH IN ITS COLUMNS OMITTED ALL ARTICLES BY MR. BROUN. (Signed) RALPH PULITZER.-- Editor the World

Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World! . . ."

Mr. Broun is contracted to the World until 1931 for his exclusive services in newspaper writing. Most brilliant writer in the U. S. field of personal journalism he is defiant for its prerogative. Dispa sionate observers saw no compromise.

*These attacks attracted attention. The staid New York Times editorialized: "If we are to measure out condemnation for cowardly bomb-throwers, we should not overlook men like Mr. Heywood Broun who asks in the World whether 'The institution of learning in Cambridge which we once called Harvard will be known as Hangman's House?' " *The World has not been sympathetic with the Sacco-Vanzetti prosecution.