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Wiggins to Ban As Wiggins to Ban as The itieletiftellt:et J.LRe.,1:194teiPrees InteAusUonal f;.GEORGE 'Cooseienee' of The PoOt Wiggins• • • Voted or Integrt - By Chargers 111.lhoberts , In journalism the last 21 the newspapeg are:Am-Var. Waishlagton Poet-Staff 'Writer yetis as managing 'editor, ionsio P -.. 'The ideal journalist, the executive editor and editor • Nig Ideal newspaperman," of The Washington Post. who stibscribe Walter James Russell Wiggins said It has been this sense of Lippmanit's dictum that in a speech- a few months journalistic --integrity that "there, alWays• has, to be a ago, "is a man who never set the tone for the paper certain. :distance between forgets which side of the through two decades. "Noth- high - pith* offleials " and footlights he's on, who never ing could be more alarming newspaperitien." Wiggins • forgets that he is a reporter, or dismaying to me," he has : never':: been recluse a recotinter, a narrator, and added, "or I think to any -from officialdom, yet' he has not an actor, Who never for- journalist responsible for a never been .a crony. He has gets that he is an observer newspaper or any part of it, known Hubert Huipphreyes and not 'a mover and than to encounter repeat- long ago as theday he shaker." • edly the suggestion that the Served . an • Humphrey's • This has been the guiding reader knows from the news World War II „draft hoard pinciple of Wiggins' career columns what the views of. • See WIGGINS, AC• C01.4.'• 0 ntegrity at Post WIGGINS, From AI The Wiggins lifivary is fers "the temptation of su- jammed with , books on biit he has never called him gar-coat every disaster,. and anything but "Mr. Vice Pres- every conceivable subject; gild every triumph." If GoV,- hie appetite. for reading is kient" since he attained that inormans. But' he has been eriunent , can enforce ,,se- ee. crecy, he wrote, it "then can no stay-at-hoarse editor, for • manage M the news to Its "y3 •s wit and wisdom, and be traveled to;eal continents Hgeht...lesi the power of his taste. It will speak with one torship, appealed to Pres- to oadenzbr .1AS judgment voice and, however much -and increase his knowledge that voice may. err, -there eats Kennedy and John- •• of the facts. gar. • While he has been a will be none to say it White House guest, he has - Ha has been, Indeed, "the Wiggins has been a not been a White House mai- soul and conscience and staunch supporter of the Ad- driving force" at the paper, ministration's position on Yet his integrity, the word as Katharine Graham, The the Vietnam war. And like that mbst sprang to the Post's president; ptit it yes- many other - Americans, he minds of his fellow journal- terday. has been traibled, of lite, , ists yesterday, once led Mr. The Wiggins passion for both by the problem of dis- Johnson to say that "I have knowledge Covers the spec- sent and by the tendency to More regard, respect and trum from Sovie t-Ameri- picture the Nation as in a ,reverence for Russ Wiggins loan affairs 'to the District of state of decline. :than for anybody except my Columbia ghettos. He has Difference and Tolerance father." that sense for news that turns a dropped phrase or "While we concede and xpert on Jefferson two into a front page story. defend, the right of dissent, The post of Ambassador The triumphs and tragedies it is eqUally important •to ac- Ot the United Nations will of man he mixed with the knowledge end support the e his first venture into gov- humor of life, in words for right to conform," he said in wit, though there have The -Post and in• song for a recent speeeln- "If one is een offers before. The Gridiron Club of which Precioui to a Minority, the ay he remarked that "I had he is past president. other is sacred to a major- Presidential commission Russ Wiggins, first Of ell, ity. They are not'long found fence before — in •the United has been devoted to the car- singly and separately, but istates Army Air Corps. I'm eer a journalism which, in exist in a complementary re- siccepting this one in the his case, .goes back to a tlationship, -the existence of . lame spirit." country weekly -in •Minne- each making' more y secure James Russell Wiggins (or sota in 1922 and today in- the perpetuation of the . R. Wiggins -- he disdains cludes the ownership of a other. The preservaddon of he alternative of J. Russell) similar weekly In holabatly4. both depend -.-upon, snejced tame to The Post in 1947. ties and minorities -extend- -Know e never had a college edu-- People's Right to ing to each 'other that de- n, a fact that doubtless His passion, if there is a cent deference and tolera- amazing to the many who single one aboVe all others, tion without which no so- him': as • a scholar of is the people's right to ciety or origins es diverse as ours can long survive." meriean history, a Jeffer- know. In the pursuit of this nian expert, a man of objective he often tangled The f the Wiggins lath tte with the government, includ- prose, a reminder of the ie use of the ing a notable battle that he writing of the Founding wage. led in which Secretary of Fathers he so much admires, When he came to The State John Foster Dulles k is perhaps an unconscious rod it was a small and was forced to withdraw an Struggling newspaper. He embargo on the right of lave its news pages tone American newsmen to go to end integrity and in his tarter years as editor he gave As Wiggins wrote in a pref- passion to the editoriai page ace to a 'second edition of Ws well. He has that capacity tiffs book,- '41reeedera or Se- for indignation that-so well crecy," "one of the worst *erves a newspaper, and consequeneei of secrecy Is eat also'can serve a diplo- the - license it .Confers upon fast- deceit." Secrecy, he said, of- a By Jim McNamara—The WashInston Poet President Johnson just before announcing a change in U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations. He appointed J. R. Wiggins as the replacement for George W. BalL umbilicus to his deep-seated not Promise freedom from belief in the future of ,the the toil and anguish and Nation those men founded;` ardor ofdemocratic govern- Last 4th of July he spoke ment in the qpulent world at 'the Independence Day of the 18th century. It did celebration of the Sedgwick not promise it then and it Historical Society in the cannot promise it now. town of Sedgwlck, Maine. Those who know that our in- 'Incurably Optimistic' stitutions promise us not the freedom from problems but He pronounced himself the freedom to work at "incurably optimistic," de- their solution will go for- claring that "we are beset as ward in the spirit of opti- we have often been beset by mism that has been an difficulty." And then he Con- American tradition - since cluded this way: 1776." "The Congress that met in James Russell Wiggins, July of 1776, and the Decla- now nearing 65, sprang from ration that they framed, the backbone of America. promised freedom, but it did He has never lost touch. .
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