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Show MANY EDITORS START TO INSPECT PANAMA CANAL By Leased "Wire to The Tribune. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 12. One hundred hun-dred and forty members of lhe National Editorial association left for Panama lodav to inspect I ho canal. Belpre leaving the- convention elected tho following fol-lowing officers: .T, H. Baumgarl.ncr, editor or tho Pasadena, Pas-adena, Calif., J)ailv Star, presidont; R. E. Dowel!, owner of Advocate. Artesian, S. I)., first vice-president; William T Prcscotl, re-elected corresponding soc-rctarv, soc-rctarv, and B. B. Jforbcri., "poot-Iaure- ate." , , , A protest againsl tho government lolling lol-ling exclusive contracts for printing ol stamp'"! envelopes and return post cards to a singlo firm was mado by the resolution committee. It was slated iu this resolution that this "species ol paternalism" robs tho regular iiewspa: per publishers aud printers of much ot their legitimato business. |