PRESIDENT AND PRESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 8

PRESIDENT AND PRESS

MR. ROOSEVELT’S ROYALTIES.' Republicans in the United States are commenting unfavourably on Pre-, sklent Roosevelt’s latest break with White House precedent. He has just sold a series of 30 articles to a syndicate for newspaper publication. They consist of matter taken from the first volume of his forthcoming history of the New Deal. No price has been announced, but, according to 'the Republican ‘.‘Hera-ld-fTribune” ofNe'w “Ybrk,".'Mr. Roosevelt’s remuneration, will be upon a scale which is unmistakably based bn the fact that the r.uthor/is 'ihe President of the United States and that the subject is his administration of his great office. According to the’ same newspaper Mr. Roosevelt's remuneration for the newspaper article's will be between £2(1,i)00 and £30,000. Mis salary as President:'is £15,’000. That the President will’ give his receipts from authorship to charity is, in his political opponents’ eyes, no excuse for what is described as ‘'selling, to the highest bidder his own accounting of his tsewardship.” To the" “Herald-Tribune” this is_“sp unprecedented and steep a descent for a President of the'United States as to 'give the"whole'nation pause.”