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Show Salt Lake Chosen For Meeting Place At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the National Editorial association as-sociation held at Chicago on the 13th of last month. Salt -Lake City was chosen as the place where the 1922 meeting will be held. Twenty-seven j cities were contending for the meeting meet-ing of the nation's writers, and several sev-eral of the cities had personal representatives rep-resentatives at the meeting. Widespread Wide-spread publicity secured by the state j of Florida in connection with the 1921 meeting has indicated that the editors constitute by far the most important im-portant gathering that any city can entertain, as the convention city is given a vast amount of publicity after aft-er the meeting as well as before. While Salt Lake City has been chosen as the meeting place of the association for 1922, it may be possible pos-sible that a portion of the session I will be held at Missoula, Mont. Salt Lake City's invitation contemplated ten days, and this may be cut one day. However, the meeting at the state metropolis will prove one of the biggest and best features for the state and more publicity will come from it than any national meeting ever held here. Among the features outlined for the meeting will be side trips to Provo, Ogden and other important centers in the state and among other features outlined are: First session at the state capitol and address by the governor, with opportunity to become acquainted with the products of the state; banquet in the evening; second day's session at Hotel Utah, with luncheon and dinner furnished by the commercial interests; third day's sessions at Hotel Newhouse; fourth day, organ recital at the Mormon Mor-mon tabernacle, followed by a seventy-mile automobile ride around Salt Lake; sixth day, visit Brigham City and its wonderful copper mine; dinner din-ner by Commercial club; seventh day at Pine Crest hotel as guests of the i Mormon church, with address by President Grant; banquet in the evening eve-ning as guests of the church; special religious services; eighth day at Ogden, Og-den, also ninth day. Of the hundred weekly papers published pub-lished in the stale practically all are members of the. National Editorial association and the event scheduled for 1922 promises to be one of the largest attended and one of the most beneficial to tile state ever held in the west. |