Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-08-14
LOOKS BAD.
Wisconsin Valley Association Ought
to Square Itself with the Editors.

The following is taken from the
Rhinelander Herald, and it certainly
needs an answer. 1t reflects upon the
manager of the Wausau Record of this
city and Secretary of the Wisconsin
Valley Advancement Association. 1t
does not seem possible that the adj
vancement association did not authorize
the invitation given to the editors of
Wisconsin to come up the valley and
camp on the banks of one of its beauti-
full lakes. The officers of that associa-
ton certainly knew that the invitation
had been extended and to make the
plea, at this late date, that they didn't
authorize it, and therefore would not
pay the bills, is pretty thin.
Mr. Rose, let us hear from you.
The article from the Rhinelander
Herald is as follows:
The Wisconsin Valley Advancement
Association is placed in a peculiar posi-
ton. The corporation was organized
for the'purpose of booming and securing
free advertising for the valley from
Grand Rapids to Eagle River. While
the reputation of the valley was never
higher, there is danger of the associa-
ton receiving some advertising of an
unpleasant nature. Mr.. Lester A. Rose
of Wausau was elected secretary ii the
association at a salary, his duties oeing
practically to collect and secure free
publication of facts about the valley.
When the State Press Association
had their annual meeting at Green
Bay in February last, Mr.. Rose was
present and invited the Press Associa-
tion to take their summer trip through
the Wisconsin River Valley and camp
out at some point in the northern woods
as the guests of The Wisconsin Valley
Advancement Association. The invi-
tation was most cordial and drew a
glowing picture Of the pleasures of the
camp life which they were to enjoy as
| the guests of the Valley Advancement
Association. When the Press Associa-
ton reached the camping place there
were some glaring discue pancies be-
tween the actuality and the descrip-
| tion contained in the invitation, and
| there was little grumbling. Mr.. Rose
at supper on that first night 10 camp,
made the campers speech in which
! he told them that the things with
which they found fault would be RENE
died; that they WERE TIE GUESTS OF
THE WISCONSIN VALLEY ADVANCE
MENT ASSOCIATION end that Associa-
ton did not do things by halves but
would see that everything was pro-
vided at once, TO make them comforta-
BILE.
J The campers we're very much sur.
lprised to learn, when they came to
break camp, that all of the things
which had been furnished, as they had
been informed, by tie Advancement
Association for their entertainment
had been furnished at the expense 81
the Press Association and were charged
to them. They were in the position in
which a man would be who had been
Invited to spend a week with a friend
and was told at the end Of the week
that his bill for board was ten dollars.
Now, so far as the Valley Advance.
ment Association is concerned, the
Herald is informed by Mr.. w. K.
Brown, one Of the directors Of the as
ISOLATION. that the facts are. that this
Invitation was given TO the Press Asso-
citation without the knowledge or con-
sent Of the Advancement Association.
THAT after such invitation had been
/ given and accepted, the secretary re-
ported il to directors meeting OF the
association That the directors refused
TO ratify it and. said they would have
IuOshing 80 do with il, but did not notify
the Press Association Of that fact.
THAT the Valley Advancement Associa-
ton had never had anything to do with
the excursion.
The Advancement Association made
a great mistake in failing 70 notify the
Press Association at once that the 10.
vitatiOn was without authority and
would not be carried out by them. II
was ii failure, such as in a bushes.
transaction. would make them liable OF
the contract made by the secretary and
in this transaction it certainly impose:
a moral liability on them TO square
themselves in some way with the Pres:
|, Association. The Advancement Asso-
, citation should make at once such ex'
cuse as il can for having placed tbs
Press Association ia All unpleasant pc
sition and It's officers in the most EN- t5sr
assing position that can be imagined
There is another phase to this adver