Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-12
THE PRESS CLUB
OF ! lie Efjgs Literary Elg.
ck's J 81 Thursdays Session.
EsS ] BY c. B Bullaisb, Augusta.
Psem BY L I. PendstOn, Belfast.
Annual Meeting Closes. IT Being Voted a
Grand Sueeess.

business session OF the Msise Press Asso
eissica's 2fsh Annual meeting opened vii
resident Picksrd ia the chsr The Or.
Illness was discussion on the next snu I
Al excursion. After the subject had bee
~eil tslked Gp !g was dsc,dsd TO 20 to tn
issngeley Lake. II vas then voted tbs
the eIcursioa party consist exclusively 0
members & + ,he Maine Prsss Association
No subst utss her members cot In goo,
stand 1z vii os accepted.
The COZ IN ttee eu neurology mex. md
heir tspaTt- DIR. Lslhxm read obitu.rie
& Hon HAnninsl Hamlin and f. C. Alien
Joseph " W0oG resd sn obituary of B. A
Burr, late of Bangor, sni Brown Thursto
.esd an Obituary Of the late Irz Berry.
These committees have been announce
BY The chair:
Adveftisip2-George s. Rowe,l, C. B
Haskell, Ray Th 'mpson.
Jab Pr ing-Btorn Thurston, Charlie
f Nash, + u. Rich.
summer Excufsl1n-M. N. Rich, G.
Roweii, +. Ii. Dexter.
NJ William B. Laphsm, Georg
Z BIackett, s. L. Miller.
The tfeasursf's report made by DR.. Lap
hsm, showed an excellent state Of tn
tiIaf ces, with s562.6 cash on hand, again
s204 81 at the close Of the last year. Tn
accepts FROM fees and dues last year wer,
sI32.
Votes OF thanks were rendered the Main
C-Birai, the Preble House, the City Coun
n. and to Col. Adams for courtesies ex
tended.
!h~ excursion comm ittee was chosen
60 listing If DR.. W. b. Lsphsm, f. Z
McCiesry and M. N. Rich.
The following new Bames were propose,
'or Df mbership CHARLES Thornton Libby
poI,l. nd Herald; Charles W. Pickard
Portland Transcript; Thomas d. Sale, Odr
Fello~s Register; Charles F. Whittier
Porlspd Transcript; Charles E. Kendrick
BooihbAy Register.
Al the afternoon ession the literary ex
areises took place in the city council room
letors very good audience, considering
the weather. The essay. by Mr.. C. B
BurieiRh Of the KEsNEBEc JOURNAL, Au
susta, is here given IN full:
The Editor and the Public.
Mr. President, Ladies' and Gentlemen
Lam bare today as an alternate, not as
substitute. Il is ihs misfortune Of th'
Msine Paess AssOcisiion, that the gentle
man who vas originally selected for essay
est AID who, from an extended and highly
successful publishing experience, is st
peculiarly qualified to entertain and instruc
as, as been prevented, by business engage
ments, from being with US DP3n ihil
occasion.
Fer mt to undertake to tell such an audi
ence as this, anything ne~ in lines of ne We
p,per work. would be both an impossibi,
aad = presumpiu)us tack. 1t would bt
forcing Gsmsiiel To sit 8 pupil al the fee
1i youth. There are, however, somt
thoughts touching ,he relations between tht
editor and the public which, though by nc
neArs pew, are rever without interest
S5me 1T them We may we'll consider today
II seems to be pretty well conceded
,mong the mt embers of the profession a
he present time, that Judgment is tbs
3-fius OF journalism. the manifestation
~ 1t il largely in the perspective which the
-ditor slves to his paper. IL he be true
,urusiist he will be in sympathetic touch
slh his constituents. He will know theil
likes Every matter tnst comes to his desk
.ili be considered from the standpoint OF
that i, be.t for that constituency, and
from that view. its relative prominence IT
the paper will be determined. In short, h.
vii strive to make u paper that will please
his patrons.
The public, to any editor means the pat
rops of his paper, when, therefore, he is
serving their interests he 10 serving, in SC
ar SO he is sbia. the interests of the com
mutity. An ditors influence. however. is
always greater than his subscription list
His readers enforce bis gospel, and vastly
increase the circle Of its ffsctive work.
rhs th,rg hat always boshers al litor. ia
not 40 much wbst TO put in his paper, as
shat 10 keep out Of it, He has 50 much
spscs available for residing matter and this
ypc! business, as veil as edi .orisl consider
.ions, demand should be filled with the
matter that shall be Of the greatest interest
TO the greatest number Of his readers. just
shat thas matter is, the editor is more COM
petent to decide than anyone else can pos
siuly be.
Where is there q man in control of q
newspaper who does not often-times have
With he duty oftsking care boh Of their own
al sirs and nis, and who, if gwen full swing
.ou speedily divert the space paid for b,
h. u ~ 10 The publication Of matters Of
interest only to the few. There is prot
ably rot an editor in Msiue in the shadow
If whose sSnetum do not lurk parties ready
and anxious to relieve him Of his editorial
responsibilities. 1'he assurance Of such
parties 10 always colossal; never sublime
Edi .ors are proverbisliy long sufering
they have the power to take
these would-se dicta,ors by Iile ears
but with rare charity, be it said
they usually rsffsin. However mild
hammered the average Maine editor may be
he mss a large element Of slubborness in his
make ID, He insists and persists in wear
ing his own collar and doing his own work
in his own way. His course Of action fire.
quentiy csases the great would-bes much
turmoil of scui; bat they are powerless IL
change it, When ihsy have money invested
IN Newspaper plant. they can run things
connected with it; but the genuine down
East editor, Rensly c,nducss his own busi-
ness according 70 his own ideas. lis .
nsbit of bis. and confess that l admire
hin for it.
The number CT people who lsbor under
the deiusion that nature really designed
them for q newspaper csreer is exceedingly
large. Charles Dudley Warner declares
tnst while, ,transe TO reiste, there are scat
tered up and down this broad land u,ssy
eeopls unsbIe TO psy for paper be has
never yet found anyone unsble to edit one.
Though many are called in newspaper