The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-14
HE LIKES
The OLD DAYS
Press Association President
Tells of Editors.
MONTANA IN THE LEAD
Newspapers Of This State Ahead of the
East - History of Old Pioneer
Times Should Be Preserved.
SCduualu.

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itecentiy George Anderson, editor
u me Livingston Post, was in the
Guy from ms home III Park county.
Mr.. Anderson is one OF the oldest edi-
TORS in the state and his years OF az
tive WORK in the editorial harness
number about as many as those OF
any member OF the newspaper guild
or the northwest. He is the present
mead OF the Montana Press associa-
ton, having been elected to that pu-
sltion at the last meeting of the or
ganlzation at Livingston. Mr.. Alder
son is among the men who publish
ed papers under difficulties that be-
set the frontier printer in the old days
and there are few who have felt more
delight in the progress of the neWspa-
per business than this venerable gen
JUS OF the Yellowstone valley. The
editorial skill of the man who has
plotted the Livingston Post is no more
famous, however, than the wit and
humor of the venerable president If
the Press association and the rare
personal qualities t.,at make him a
welcome caller in every newspaper
sanctum in the state.
THE newspapers of Montana are
away ahead of those of any state in
the union" said the Press association
president. 81 took a trip east last
December and, Of course, was inter-
ested in the weekly and daily papers
OF the state through which | passed.
heard OF scores of abandoned news
paper plants and noted instances
where the struggling efforts of the
editors were hardly able to keep their
journalistic ventures af1oat. Now. if
| am not mistaken, there is only one
newspaper plant in Montana that is
not in use, and it is held at a high
figure and will soon be put in OBJ
GRAFTON. The dealers in printing out.
hts tell me that the most costly goods
they sell are bought by western peo-
pie Nothing is too good"
What is the Press association go.
ing to do this year,"
I'VE will take trip to Kalispell
when the association meets again in
annual session. Maybe we will swing
around the circle and visit Spokane
while we are on the trip. 1t will
be a good sightseeing jaunt for the
boys who have worked all the year,
for the northwestern part of Montana
is well worth seeing.
1T appears to me-" continued the
veteran editor, that there should be
some measure taken to preserve in
permanent form the history of news
paper-making in Montana. There is a
story full of the subtle poetry of the
frontier in the annals of the newspa-
pers of this state and few more years
will diminish the chances of it's ever
being written. Montana is bound to pc
great state and every organization
whose history runs back to the forma-
ton OF the state should be interested
IN preserving the data that is valuable
to future generations. There will
be few better reflections of the con.
dltlons OF the early frontier DAYS than
the accounts ofthe newspapers that
We're published here when the terri
tory was first placed on the map.
When man gets old he begins to
live over again the years he spent
when his first attempts at building
home began. To the old members
OF the newspaper business there is an
lndescribable charm about early Mon
tana days. 1t will be the same way
with the state when it becomes more
mature; the old frontier stories will
then be the most precious annals of
the state. 1t IS proper that all these
treasures should be gathered up.
"A great many people are amazed
at the excellence of Montana newspa-
pers. 1t reminds me of a story of
an English tourist who was looking at
Niagara Falls. He turned to an
Irish hickman, who had driven him
to the place, and he said. Now, me
man, isn't that wonderful thing,
don't you know?' What's that we're
after thinkin wonderful, said the jehu
Why that immense body of water
fallin over the bloomin' cliff, We know.
Isn't it wonderful that it should be
doin that, We know?' BE jabers,'
said the hackman, I don't see how it
can help fallin' over. If it were fall
lin up instead of down there might
be something wontherful about it,
Now that's what l think of Montana
newspapers. They can't help being
great papers"
Amid the laughter occasioned by
the venerable editors inimitable rem
dition of this story he skipped spryly
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