Show COUNTRY EDITORS MEET Utah Press Association Members Mem-bers Gather in City INTERESTING PAPERS READ t i Association Listened to Rsports of Vruious Kinds and Editors Iffc Bride of Provo and Dunn of Tooelo Submitted Pnpero Upon Advantages Advan-tages of the Asosciation and the Power of tho Press Editors Will Go to the Const Next year A quarterly meeting of the Utah Press agsoQlation was held at the Ken yon yealorduy afternoon with u Tnlr attendance Prefddont D P Felt was in the chair nnd M A Williamson of Murray wag secretary Reports were received covering tIme visit of the Kentucky Ken-tucky and Tejcas editors to this city and William puys for the committee on legislation submitted for distribution qoples of the June report Including n 8 13 gppy of Senator Murdocks bill No 110 that passed the last 8 < Jimt9 but was lost In the House General Managers Perry S Heath of The Tribune and WUUarn Igloheart of the Heiald w ere prcHent and each ipado felloltous nd hapry romarks Mr Heath epcuking from an oxtondcd and valuable experience In showing the great good that a State prcBH ufifioala ton can acconipHah and calling aLlan lion lo IhQ faLt that even papprs of limited dilation are often more ot a power than Journals of greater picten hlonp and of larger circulation Mr Igleheari expressed pleasure at being present and both gentlemen assured the Press association of the sympathy and coopsraUon of their respective papers pa-pers President Felt afterward expressed ex-pressed great pleasure at the kindly attitude at-titude of the Salt Lake morning papers toward the association and expressed his belief that the Dcscrct News would also be found extending the same kindly kind-ly and sympathetic hand EpiT2rt MBRIDES PAPJBR Editor W H McBride of the Provo Democrat read an able and carefully prepared papqr on Why Should All Newspaper Men of Utah Belong lo the Utah Press socFton Mr Mc Brjde treated the theme from a social educational and flnanojal standpoint and said In part In all human enterprise en-terprise there are things common to all and as soon as those interested In any enterprise realize Iho fact and unite In common effort for a cornnvon end the more quickly and effeclually will the beat results be accompllPhcd This is true in railroading farming mining In the professions nf law and medicine and why not In newspaper work 7 Edl < OIH alie tjiq molders of thought In the world and the giving out oC that thought lo all hunianlly then have they not a great responslblllly resting upon thoni OuHJit they not to band together to-gether in sucha way as lp build themselves them-selves up to tie highest possible standard stand-ard of Intelligence and mpral rectitude Ought they not to band together and so combine their efforts that they maybe may-be protected from lime cqnnlng and unscrupulous un-scrupulous tactics of outrIde business concerns Our association has not yet developed very muah strength but let those who are Jn Ihe ranks put their shoulder to the wheel and push the association as-sociation to such point of Influence and power that every editor and publisher In the State will dcsr lp get Info the cjrclcUNJTJDD UNJTJDD EFFORT PPQUIRED One two or three persops cannot accomplish It It requires the united effort ef-fort of all Then our association with each other ao a social affair Ifl well worth the time spent for It brings us eloper together and WQ appreciate the better qualities of each exchange views become a teacher unto each other and becoming possessed pf knowledge of the whole in turn glvo that knowledge to Iho people Moreover the Press as association sociation Is necessarily education and the dlscuBslons in our meetings broaden broad-en our views and banish conceited Ideas From a financial point of view the Press association Is almost Indispensable Indis-pensable The buolncFH end of a newspaper news-paper Is like that of the wasp the thing that counts We should all get together to-gether lo compare qptes so that If we cannot succeed Ri pno way we can resort re-sort to another and then there are general gen-eral rules which al should adopt as far as local condition will admit We should work together for protection against patent medicIne companies and other foreign advertlors and there ahonld be a universal rule an to complimentary com-plimentary space There Is culling and slashing going on in ovcry direction bccaimc we have no imdqrslandlng with each other The paper was very well S received THE POWER OF THE PRESS The Power of the Press was time theme of a paper read by James Dunn of the Tooelo Transcript In his prologue pro-logue he bald that the newspaper that may be swimming with the popular current today may bo thrown high und dry tomorrow on the rocky shores of public wrath It linn Veen asserted that the newspaper Is LImo niolder of public opinion and In some casts that may he so but said he L have had to come lp L the conclusion that U Is public opinion that generally frames the ppllcy of the leading newspapers of the day and the closer they have lropl In louch with public opinion the more successful success-ful were hey I afe newspapers We read tic papery more than any other olass of men but If thevlowH of these papers do not accord with our nollona how quick we arc lo how our readers the ubqurr position the other writer has taken Ant so It IB vlth other reader read-er They read the papers for the news and prefer their own views lo qdllorlnl conclusions And why not The newspaper news-paper readers are iho most Intelligent In the community Tim fad IB some newspaper writers put on too many aims endeavoring to make their read era take thorn Cor veteran when Ihoy are but recruits The dissemination of knowledge gfvos lie press Il power but tho power comes In In the way or manner of teaching truth op fact After I Af-ter reviewing the whole question I have come to the conclusion that the great power of the press IB in Its educational machinery and In that I mean its gen oral work of giving Informailon lo the people and ii IB the duly and the mlH slop of this nKsocIalon lo educate the popple at this Slatq and as we become stronger Ihoy will he nure to become better and IhuH he vork of the Utah Press association will be magnified PRESIDENT PELT PLEASED In closing time afternoons proceedings President Felt congratulated the 3530 elation on Its improved financial stand lag and the fact that the Western Press nesoclatlon proposed to publish full reports of the Utah associations meetings The chair called attention to the proposllon fpr time aasoolallon after Its annual mcellng In January lo make a pilgrimage lo the Pacific coast and n committee was appointed to ar range for the next meeting in January and lo prepare for the wwlcrn trip |