Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-07-14
.H|ST0RYOF THEPRESS
Mastery Address by Mr..
Joseph Bryan.
VIRGINIA EDITORS MEET
Annual Session Closes nc the Cha mberlin
Hotel. Officers Chosen for The
Ensunss Year. Interesting
..." Papers Read.


sinia Press Association was called to
order at IL O'Clock yesterday morning
by President D. S. Lewis at the Cham
berlin Hotel
After the transaction OF routine bus
mess memorial to the late w. S.
White, former president of the asso-
citation, was read by MIR. A. F. Rowe.
enSrossed and u copy sent 20 Mrs.
White. The memorial will also be
printed by every paper represented i'll
the association. u
The morning session adjourned at
1890 Z. NJ.
Immediately after the afternoon SEES
sion was called to order at $50 z. NJ,
Mr. Joseph Bryan, editor Of the Rich
mond Times. was introduced. He
made an address to the association
which is considered one of the finest
tributes to the press ever delivered in
this country. He reviewed the history
of Virginia journalism from it's very
inception to the present time. and
challenged the world to produce a
higher standard in the art preventative
His address is as follows:
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the.
Virginia Press Association:
count it one of the special honors Of
my life that by your flattering prefer
ence l am invited to occupy 4 portion
of your time today.
The organization which brings us to-
gether at least once Il year should BIZ
cherished and perpetuated. Men who
are dealing with each other at distance
and never feel the electrical effect of
elbow touch or the notifying influence
of the eye which through the dews of
Kindness beams" are very apt to form
judgments of each other which woult:
be much modified, il not entirely re-
moved, by personal contact.
One of the most beneticient influences
in amalgamating our people into one
is given to the formation of associ;l-
tons such as this. In no respect is
truth the loser by this custom. No
body knows it all. not even the omrlis-
cient editor. AS the great Talleyrand
has said Everybody is wiser than any
one man." We may each Of US there
fore hope to reap Il benefit from these
reunions, which in turn we will convey
to those who draw their Inspirations Of
wisdom from our glowing columns.
In casting about for a subject with
which to occupy your attention for a
brief space have tfought2that nothing
would be more fitting than the subject
OF neWspap ers. It?is possible that how
ever expert an Individual may be in
the practical conduct of a newspapers
he may never have troubled himself to
investigate their origin and Develop
ment and their present condition as
one of the features of modern 'civiliZa-
ton.
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s,;yan in 17s5 Nv mat literary ,utocrat
Dr samuel Tohnson If tbe demand for
news in his dnv might certainly as far
as concerns ,host. nf MS who iss,,e a
m,rn;nr and evening edition h. an.
nliad -. tho nrasant tima He said
..Innrnals arc d,i!v n,,itin,ied w;,bout
increase of snowledre ,rbe news of
the morning naner is fold in the eyeu-
jnr and .be rratiyes of the evening
arr all given in the morning These
,enetitions indeed waste time but they
do NOT shorten il The most eager pur-
suer of news is tired before he has
completed his PAPER. and many a man
who enters the coffee house in his
night gown and Slippers is called away
to his shop or dinner before he has con-
sidered the state of Europe.'.
This was before the dav Of the Lon
don Times, which, with one or two ex-
ceptions. is now the Oldest newspaper
published. This paper began it's publi-
cation nearly thirty years after John
son wrote, and was published for near
ly thirty years more before it's circula-