The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-02
esident Marshall Delivers
a Notable Address.
ANY WISE SUGGESTIONS
IelI Meares, Esquire, Makes the Address Of
Welcome---Addressss by Mesxs. Which
ard and Biyins.--Dr. Theodore
Kingsbury Present.
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Wilmington. N. c., July 1.-Presideni
F. Marshall. of Gastonia, called to or
the s1st annual convention of the
rth Carolina Press Association in the
embly room of the Seashore Hotel at
ightsville Beach at II o'clock this morn
:. The attendance is not so large as
ual, but the editors, their wives daugh-
S and friends appear to be enjoying the
iourn at the beach very much. The vel
me address this morning in behalf of the
lamber of Commerce, upon the invita-
IN of which the convention is held here
is year, was made by Iredell Meares.
so.
A patriotic and very cordial response
as made by r. F. Beasley, of the Mon
Ie Journal The devotional exercises
ere by Rev. p. r. Law. of the Robson
n.
The address of President w F. Mar
aaIl, editor of the GastOnia Gazette. Was
ne of the best in the history of the Press
ssoeiation. 1t was delivered well and
was written with true literary skill. 1t is
full Of sound sense and wisdom, valuable
and interesting. not only to members of
the editorial profession. but also to men
of all callings. From his speech the fol-
lowing extracts are taken:
Statement of the fact that this is the
Associations thirty first annual session
bears with it a reflection or two. In the
process of the suns which measure .he
light mems. eyes behold, thirty-one years
is weH nigh question Of human life.
Men unborn when this Association was
organized are now part and parcel of our
newspaper forces. Many, indeed nearly
all, of the early members Of this body have
now gone to their reward While the mind
Is thus turned backward. it sweeps out in
more distant retrospect, and trooping into
the field of vision come the names of Sea-
ton and Gales, and Hall and Saunders and
Turner, and Evans and Shotwell, and
Cameront and others who bore the heat
and burden of the day when the days We're
longer and the heat was greater, and the
burdens were heavier than they are today
While present conditions may be happier
the honoI's they bring can not be greater
than IN these former days. Creecy and
Kingsburyl, par noble fratrum, still sur
WE'VE -Fepoice to ccclare-as a benedic-
tion and Inspiration to their younger
brethren, the only heat of the day now
upon theIb being the worth of affection
by which their brethren and their people
regard thkm, and their burden, the hon
ors and tne goodness with which their
years havf been crowned Long may they
be spared jim the cause they have so earn
estly honQred to break and spill lovingly
upon it the very precious ointment which
they have gathered in the days of their
pilgrimage. There is no history of the
lives and labors of North Carolina's great
editors OF the past. Theirs was an endur-
ing work. We are now .reaping in glad
ness wheTe they sowed in TOLL
He discussed journalism in two aspects.
1. Our Material Interests; 2. Tone ard
Character. Under the first head he said:
OUR MATERIAL INTERESTS.
Have our material interests advanced
as we had hoped? Let's take survey and
see. The newspapers of North Carolina
receive for subscriptions in one year
$319,352 for advertising $3.50, ,566-a total
of $d10,418. In ten years there has been
an increase of $4,000 in subscriptions and
$4,000 in advertising. But the same re-
port shows S5 newspapers publications
launched in ten years. II we allow these
81 600 each for subscriptions and 5000 for
advertising, which is about the average
this growth in receipts is accounted for
With an exception here and there the news
paper business in North Carolina does not