Show Editors Disco Topics I i f 4 4 KAt LI 4 4 a hr I 1 h 2 1 JF t I 1 i JJ r Iy p pc 4 c 4 I 4 t 4 I PROVO t 1 y DEM I Q 4 U Jt 4 Cra ij T 1 5 fW 4 tON J h 1 t fUl I 4 UPPER 4 i li 1 of 4 Off y 4 4 T T I is 11 i sw E T t or OF s 4 4 c li bs 5 4 vii lIP SorE SoME r 1 I Fr il i j I 4 lN t q I 4 of C Cr f r H I 4 WIE WHO 4 i OF J r 4 tIC RECORD C 4 NCe ISN E WE N 4 4 4 1 Cry NO NOI 4 I rl j 1 f l rr HE gentlemen who rustle the fe feI fee fea I THE I I the tive italic space who know the He e eI I I 1 box from the shooting stick who a quota quoin and even deign t I tl pull put the Washington foregathered fOle at the he Kenyon yesterday afternoon They were the thought of the state slate the men who tell the people how they ought to think Will who do more worK wonc f fr tr less 9 money than any other class cIa cla of it I people eople on the habitable globe pobe The he object of the meeting was w s to hear addresses dd 9 from President pelt Felt iud Hwd Wil liun llam Buys on subjects in which the th Pre s 8 association is La interested The at attendance was flatteringly large Ed itom from man maD many different counties were I present and listened with close atten I tion lion to the words of their confreres confrere Mr I Felt Fet spoke I He paid special attention to the part advertising and part cash 1 that are being constantly sue sub submitted I to the country lIe newspaper Mr I Felt ett cited an aJI instance that had bad come under his hi observation ob where a cycle offered a wheel for tor I Ic J c h fl and advertising The value of the bicycle was stated to be The offe was accepted and the editor subsequently learned that ha he h could have hue bought the identical wheel wh el r for tor US 15 cub cash Favors Newspaper Trust I I I T think if any kind of ot a trust were I allowable Mr Felt went on It should be oe the newspapers especially those known as country newspapers We set seta lleta a price fo for our apace space the same as the local dealer in commodities and gen generally generelly our own wn own local merchants pay th t Pro price set Bet hot but the eastern El tern shark orates comes mes along and soon we e are showing th the tho JI kind of discrimination against I our best beat be supporters the local met mer thant If we could only organize organise our Pires Ie against these the e sharks so that their agents nt could not come in and say So so has ball given me this rate and ad H Jf you can t meet it Ill Ili leave you out oute We e should establish a rate and hold to toI I it even en if we have to stuff the adver I thing D pages pg with our ow own n matter Mr F Fet t thought it certainly should be possible P to form a combination strong enough to keep leep the eastern ea tern med mod kine advertisers out or 01 force them to P pay y better prices Another matter to Weh he called attention was the lack lacke of ef e pert shown the association In th tot of reception committees and nd delegations to congresses and other outside the state The Ther r said aid Id he had and called Governor wens Wells attention to It It and had been aured red that no discourtesy courtesy dl was intend fd ed H Re Be felt wt sure sur that proper I a would be given the editors editoR here bere I A by y Editor Buys Buys editor of the Wasatch Waatch towed Mr Felt His Hla subject I I I wa The Relationship of the Country to the Press Association A I Tj Mr 1 Bun Boys felt that this relationship was wasI as asI I I I ery v strong ite He believed ved the members of 01 J the he a n at Hi should be brotherly I J in ail an things to help each other oth r out and to work together for the com corn commo moi mo good goodr Mr r Buys believed that country ed editors edItors were prone to allow the business end of their th lr papers to go to seed Th They y paid frequently more attention to thought mo than n they did to ad advertising advertising The speaker warned his hearers against this policy poney and declared that when the business end of a newspaper news newspaper paper was allowed to go to decay the usefulness of that paper was nearly at atan atan atan an end He compared the strictness with city newspapers conduct their business offices to the laxity of I Ithe the country methods to the great die dis disadvantage advantage of the latter hitter City Papers vs Country Ci Papers Mr Buys denied that city cit papers in interfered interfered in any way ay with country countr pa papers pers peta The circulation and patronage of a country paper in to its immediate vicinity or more nearly so than Is ta that of ot the city paper and for that reason the country editor must use greater care and discretion in the se so selection lection of his news The editor of a city paper selects his news and writes his editorials for the general reader for tor the people peo Je of all aU classes and condi conditions conditions conditions while the publisher se so selects selects bets his news and writes his editorials with Ith special reference to the community ty in which he lives A country pub publisher Usher lisher who cannot make his paper in interesting interesting enough to the people of his community to be sought after in prefer preference preference a ence once to or in addition to a city paper had bettor better go KO out of f the business fo for fO his services are more needed in some other line legislative Report When the applause which followed Mr Buys remarks had bad died away the association began the transaction of business bu left over from the last meet meeting leg inK The first tint thing in order was w s a 8 report from the committee on legis legislation legislation legislation lation This report was made by Mr Buys It was based on the bill hill present presented ed by the editors edi at the last legisla legislature legislature ture to require the publication of all allws laws ws passed pashed by the legislature min minutes mm utes of meetings of city Ity councils town trustees and county re requiring requiring quiring the last named to purchase their stationery and other twisted printed J mat matter matter mattot ter tot in the counties the t reside re ide and fixing a maximum rate of 1 per words worda for ruch uch pub publications Mr Buys reported that the tile bill was passed pas by the na with only three votes against it Then it I went to the house and was referred to the commit committee tee on en judiciary which made an un unfavorable favorable report on it it owing to the violent opposition ion of D H Morris the representative from Washington coun county county ty He hoped for better luck next time After a 8 brief informal discussion the ther j report r port was ordered Iliad and a 8 num number numb her ber of oj copies of the bill printed for I distribution among amo the editors of the 8 st statA te th the Dally Daily Hotel I Reporter started tart a 8 discussion about out a bylaws bylaW by DY asking a lie ne ld find finda a copy of ot them President Felt ex that the original constitution and bylaws were in the hands of E EG EG EG G who is now in Alaska On II motion of Mr Buys the president was authorized to appoint a committee of three to draft a new constitution and andset andset andset set of bylaws b laws for presentation at the next business meeting Annual Outing August 17 The question of an annual outing was brought up by President Felt He said arrangements could be made for Aug 17 at Castilla Springs and sug sugg ge g l that this date be chosen The president stated that it would not be he bea hea a mere junket but would be a H means of bringing in e the association association tion as 8 a 8 commission would be paid on alt all tickets ets sold and a on sales at the resort Editor Dresser of Mercur Was aIn aln I Castilia Castilla Ca He thought Saltair v ud be bea bea a better place Mr Felt replied that he too had thought of ot Saltair and had I gone so far as to talk to Manager Bateman of or the Salt Lake Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles road about it I was decidedly snubbed by Mr Bateman he went on He acted as if we were beggars begga ask asking asking asking ing for free transportation and I for forone forone forone one want nothing more to do with Air Mr Bateman Batman Thereupon Mr Dresser Dres er withdrew his hilS objections to Castilla and after a afew afew afew few minutes discussion it was decided to have the annual outing at that place Aug 17 iT McBride of or Provo William Williamson son of Murray and Buys of Wasatch were named as the committee on ar arrangements arrangements arrangements The last question taken up was the entertainment of the Kentucky Press association which visits vl Salt Lake Aug 7 and remains until lug ug 9 Mr Felt said arrangements had been made to give the Kentuckians a recital at atthe atthe atthe the tabernacle a run ruit out to Saltair and to Lagoon Lagroon a visit vI to he Salt SaIt Pal Palace Palace Palace ace and possibly po a trip to one of the mining camps In addition the San Sanitarium Sanitarium management ement mana had generously thrown that institution open to the visitors On motion of Mr Harris two corn com committees were appointed one each on reception and entertainment The first named will consist of William Igleheart W R H McBride of Provo and James Dunn of Tooele The other will be made up of P H Lannan E A Littlefield of Ogden and M IL A Wil Samson of f Murray The rhe rh association to meet again at the Kenyon on the morning of Aug 8 S to assist a t t in tho th entertain entertainment entertainment entertainment ment of the visiting vl editors The rhe next regular meeting occurs at th the Kenyon Kenon Oct 27 7 Those present yesterday were D P Felt Pelt Juvenile Instructor W R p Mc Bride County Democrat Jay Tarvin Harris Dally Daily D ly Hotel Reporter N B Dresser er Mercur Miner Kiner E B A Littlefield Utah State Journal John Bountiful Clipper C M jt A Wil WI Murray Eagle Tames Samoa Dunn Tooele Transcript J T B Graham Graham Bingham Bulletin J R H Wallace American Am Fork Advance E B Diehl Diehi Mammoth Record |