The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-12
THE VALLEY PRESS LEAGUE AND
ITS PLANS.

The Sacramento Valley Press League
has just concluded its second session,
which was held this week at Marysville.
The league is new institution and 9
good one. It is as yet in the formative
stage. It is just shaking out the folds OF
q new garment and girding up its loins
for real work. Its fitness to live will
therefore be determined by its capacity
for work and its cohesive qualities, now
that 1t has outlined it's plans in the rough,
and will from this time forward proceed
to fashion them and apply to them the
force necessary to giving them momen-
tum.
In brief. some of these plans are: Sys-
tematic advertising of the Sacramento
Valley abroad through the medium OF
the home press, instead of expenditure OF
money upon special pamphlets and inn
migration literature Of the conventional
order. The law authorizes each county
to expend s., 900 year in advertising the
league contends. and with all the argu-
ment on its side, that the Super visors
should use this money, not in paying the
local press for its work, but in means
for securing at the East wide distribu-
ton Of the local paper from time to time.
This means simply the cost OF paper and
postage and addressing. The matter ex-
pository of the valley claims the press
men must themselves contribute, to-
gether with the cost of gathering data,
preparing it and presenting it in proper
form.
This would seem to bet certainly is
q fsir.division of burdens, and assuredly
calls upon the country newspaper to do
all that in common justice should be ex-
pected of ii. 1t is estimated that in one
year over !, 600, 600 copies of sixty or sew
enty country newspapers of regular, not
special, issues can thus be distributed
discrestly throughout the East and wher-
ever they will do the most good.
The league proposes also to try a
wholly new experiment by providing
free temporary homes for the intending
desirable settler, say for three months,
while the man is locating. This plan
will enable the home-seeker who has
some means to bring on his family when
he comes out, and comfortably house
them while be ia viewing the land. He
will save expense of return thereby; he
will have the counsel of his family, and
he win feel that he is not wasting his store
while searching for location.
There are details of the plan that are
very interesting and forcible, but to the
intelligent these will suggest themselves.
We believe the scheme to be feasible, and
that it should at once be provided for
against the coming of the spring. But if
there is 20 be done nothing more than re-
solve that this idea is good one, 1t were
better that the league had not taken it up.
The means TO be raised to make the
scheme effective will not be large, and
the people who ought to furnish the
small amount Of money needed can
certainly be shown that it is for them a
superior investment.
Another plan OF the league is to enter
upon the education Of public sentiment
to bring it to the level of promoting an
uual conventions of the Supervisors of
the several counties. Such Conversations
il will be readily perceived can be made
of great good service to all the people. If
fl is iudicious and desirable that edu-
Gators, physicians. fruit-growers, Super
intendents of Education and other public
and private instrumentalities should meet
once year and exchange views and ex-
periences, how much good may not be
achieved for economic and wise govern
,nent by these Supervisor conventions.
which ought to be- compulsory under the
law lust as are the annual gatherings of
the Superintendents of Schools.
The league provided for memoriaiizing
congress upon the subject of river i'm
ovament. and the promotion of better
navigation in the chief streams OF the