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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 - Waishlagton Poet-Staff 'Writer the newspapeg are:Am-Var. yetis as managing 'editor, ionsio P -.. 'The ideal journalist, the executive editor and editor Ideal newspaperman," • Nig of . who stibscribe Walter James Russell Wiggins said It has been this sense of in a speech- a few months Lippmanit's dictum that 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 gar-coat every disaster,. and biit he has never called him every conceivable subject; gild every triumph." If GoV,- anything but "Mr. Vice Pres- hie appetite. for reading is eriunent , can enforce ,,se- kient" since he attained that inormans. But' he has been crecy, he wrote, it "then can ee. no stay-at-hoarse editor, for • manage M the news to Its "y3 •s wit and wisdom, and be traveled to;eal continents taste. It will speak with one Hgeht...lesi the power of his to oadenzbr .1AS judgment voice and, however much torship, appealed to Pres- -and increase his knowledge that voice may. err, -there eats Kennedy and John- •• of the facts. will be none to say it gar. • While he has been a - Ha has been, Indeed, "the Wiggins has been a White House guest, he has soul and conscience and staunch supporter of the Ad- not been a White House mai- driving force" at the paper, ministration's position on as , The the Vietnam war. And like Yet his integrity, the word many other - Americans, he that mbst sprang to the Post's president; ptit it yes- terday. has been traibled, of lite, , minds of his fellow journal- The Wiggins passion for both by the problem of dis- ists yesterday, once led Mr. the spec- sent and by the tendency to Johnson to say that "I have knowledge Covers trum from Sovie t-Ameri- picture the Nation as in a More regard, respect and state of decline. ,reverence for Russ Wiggins loan affairs 'to the District of :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, it is eqUally important •to ac- The post of Ambassador The triumphs and tragedies of man he mixed with the knowledge end support the Ot the will right to conform," he said in e his first venture into gov- humor of life, in words for The -Post and in• song for a recent speeeln- "If one is wit, though there have Precioui to a Minority, the een offers before. The Gridiron Club of which other is sacred to a major- ay he remarked that "I had he is past president. ity. They are not'long found Presidential commission Russ Wiggins, first Of ell, car- singly and separately, but fence before — in •the United has been devoted to the exist in a complementary re- istates Army Air Corps. I'm eer a journalism which, in tlationship, -the existence of . siccepting this one in the his case, .goes back to a -in •Minne- each making' more y secure lame spirit." country weekly the perpetuation of the James Russell Wiggins (or sota in 1922 and today in- other. The preservaddon of . R. Wiggins -- he disdains cludes the ownership of a both depend -.-upon, snejced he alternative of J. Russell) similar weekly In holabatly4. ties and minorities -extend- tame to The Post in 1947. People's Right to -Know ing to each 'other that de- e never had a college edu-- cent deference and tolera- n, a fact that doubtless His passion, if there is a tion without which no so- amazing to the many who single one aboVe all others, ciety or origins es diverse as him': as • a scholar of is the people's right to ours can long survive." meriean history, a Jeffer- know. In the pursuit of this The f the Wiggins nian expert, a man of objective he often tangled prose, a reminder of the lath tte with the government, includ- writing of the Founding ie use of the ing a notable battle that he Fathers he so much admires, wage. led in which Secretary of is perhaps an unconscious When he came to The State John Foster Dulles k 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, . 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.