The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14
EDITOR ELECTOFFICERS
AND TALK ABOUT FAIR
Speeches Made Leaders Purchase Exposition
prise-Members Will tart Buffalo This Afternoon-En
tertained by Manufacturers Association on
49,. River E xcursiOn


Yesterdays session of the Missouri Press
Association was devoted to unfinished BUSH
ness, the election of officers and listening
to the addresses OF President Francis and
members of the Press and Publicity Com
mittee of the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton Committee
Inc nrst number on the programme was
the reading of a poem, Eighteen Hundred
and Ihree-Nineteen Hundred and Three"
py the author, Clarence NJ. Zeigler Of the
Bunceton Tribune. H. ]. Groves of the
Kansas City Times was to have read
paper on metropolitan and County News
papers, but he did not attend the meeting.
Dudley A. Reid of the Gallatin Democrat
was on the programme for a paper on ''The
Ideal Newspaper" but he also was absent,
and the paper forwarded by him was filed
TO go into the records of the meeting. Nu-
merous letters were read, among them one
from President Jesse of the Missouri Uni
! versity. who regretted his inability to be
present, and another from Mark Bennett Of
the Bureau of Publicity of the Pan-Ameri.
can Exposition, extending the courtesies OF
that enterprise to the members.
resolution was adopted authorizing the
president to appoint at this meeting a Com.
mlttee on Credentials whose duty It will
be to weed out of the association all but
active newspaper workers. President-Elect
Caruthers appointed the following commit
tee: w. r. Painter. Carrollton; X. w. Nc
Mullen, Hillsboro; H. E. Robertson. Mary
! Vile This committee is to report at the
winter meeting of the association.
proposition tc go to the Pacific Coast
on the next excursion of the associatton-in
19Os-was agreed to- As mark of appre-
citation of the able services of the retiring
president. Yves l.. Robertson, the members
quietly rais:d fund wheEewith to purchase
Sented to him after the meeting.
New Officers Are Elected.
The election Of officers resulted as follows:
President, e. p. Caruthers, kennett; first
vice president, Howard Ellis. New Florence;
second vice president, T. 7. Wilson, Tarkio;
! third vice president. Tom L. Cannon st.
myra; corresponding secretary. K. NJ. White
Mexico; treasurer. William Thomas. St.
Louis.
been completed. President Francis of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company
was introduced. He said:
II desire to express, on behalf of the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition Company, and
also for the people of the city Of st. Louis
our very deep appreciat on of the assistance
movement by the press of the State Of Mis-
souri,. II the constitutional amendments
submitted to the people Of the State at the
adopted this Exposition would have been
abandoned. If it had not been for your as
sistance, SO ably and SO timely rendered,
those amendments would not have passed.
Therefore. We feel that We are under great
obligations to the press Of Missouri"
President Francis ADDED that the st. Louis
Worlds Fair is to be one OF processes
He explained the progress already made and
outlined in detail the plaus for carrying for
ward the great enterprise.
Speeches From Worlds Fair Workers
Chairman r. H. Stockton of the Press and
Publicity Committee followed President
Francis. He also asked the earnest cooper
alton Of the, Missouri Press Association.
how much Of an Exposition we have here,
| what shape It is in. II it is not known to the
world It will not do any good. There is a
| an enterprise of this kind and giving it push
and vim" Mr.. Stockton INTRODUCED Charles
| w. Knapp, who said:
IF the Press and Publicity Committee
does not serve you. II 1t does not send you
| news and what IS worthy Of your attention,
what has not been gent out, what has not
| it does that, l know you will be glad. not
| only because it will be to your interest, but
because you are Missourians, and ere in the
know that the Publicity Committee will
| have no cause to complain of the Missouri
press"
part: What the Committee on Press and
Publicity desires Is your hearty cordial CO.
operation In helping the Fair. which is go
Ing to be an International Fair and the
greatest the world has ever seen, because
we feel that that cooperation Of yours in
the interest Of the Fair is your own. What
| ever helps st. Louis, helps Missouri; what
| ever helps Missouri, helps you"
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Franks remarks
prayer was offered by the Reverend r. F.
Chew Of st. Louis. and the meeting then ad-
| journed.
Members VIII Go to Buffalo.
| A few Of the members departed for Buff
| falo yesterday, but the majority will start
from ST. Louis at 1905 p. m. to-day. A list
of the ladies' who attended the meeting.
/ nearly all of whom will go to-day to Buff
| falo. follows:
Mrs. A. A. I,esueur of Kansas City. MIS-.