The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-20
Largest of the Newspaper Organizations of the
 Country.
 THE EDITORS END SESSION Henry Watterson Delivers an
 Address to the Dele
 gates. ~The EditoriaI Page" is the Theme of the Editor of The Leuisyiile ! Courier-yeurnaI--Ma Screws t Long at the Head of TAs .... Montgomery Advertiser.
THE EDITORS END SESSION


 st. Louis. Mo. May 1s.-The National Editorial Association concluded its session today after the election of of ficers. Major W. W. Screws, Editor in chief of The Montgomery Advertiser, was unanimously chosen President. At the morning session Colonel Hem xy Watterson, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal spoke on The Editori- al Page" Homer Davenport. of Or ange, N. J., delivered an address on "The Cartoonist and the Press which he illustrated with many humorous , cartoons. recess was then taken until o'clock, when the convention took up routine business for final ac- tion and the election of officers. Pre- vious to the election of officers a reso- lution was adopted appropriating $1oo to the fund for monument over the grave of Bill Nye. s4 The following oficers were elected: President, Major W. w. Screws. of Ala bama; First Vice President, W, W. Folsom, of Arkansas; Second Vice Pres ident, W. J. Kline, New York: Third Vice President, H. B. Warner, of North Carolina; Corresponding Secretary, w. A Ashbrook. of Ohio; Recording Sec retary,. J. w.. Gochrun. of Indiana: Treasurer, J. Irving, Steel, ,Pennsyivan- ia After the delegates had presented the names of their respective execu- tive committeeman for the ensuing year, the convention adjourned to meet next year at Guthrie. Oklahoma
 Many Nevyspapers Represented
 The National Editorial Association of the United EtataaA As the largest pody oF sslewspaper men in this country and per 1aaps represents more newspapers eAnd newspaper men than any similar organ ization in the world. f.fsf' ~,. = ThA maRnitude Of the Association will be realized when 1t Is said that there are, estimated to be 26.o00 daily, weekly and monthly publications fin the United States. .,-- . Z. ..-e .-....., The object of the Association is "the advancement of the material interests ana extension of the social relations Of inc editors of the United States. The yneYnbersllip of the Association consists of deleRates from all State and Terri torial Press Associations of this country and from District Press Clubs or twen- ty-five members or more throngnout tne country. Editors of great newspapers. great yoetronolitan magazines, and of weekday newspapers in every section of the coun- trv are represented in the membership of the Association. Consequently the As aociation has tho widest influence per haps of any other organization of news paper men. ''
 
 Mator William Wallace Screws, Fresi- dent of The Advertiser Company, and Editor-in-Chief of The Advertiser, has fSer associated with this paper con 1inuousiy since the close of the war pe' tween the States. Major Screws was horn February 25. 1889, in Barbour Coun' ~ Alabama. He was educated at tn' sosooI in the village of Glennville, ther Parhour. now Russell County, where h' .nent his life until he was 19 years o age. e,.- ..r,, +o Montgomery to become student II the law office of Watts, Judge & Jack eon. and in the summer of 1853 ne wal sIr,,tted to the bar. He entered upol tNa nractice of his profession with Iai ,tospects of success, and was doinl : xooderately well when the war brok crt and during the next four years h' 1as q soldier in the Confederate army fIa went with the first troops to Pensa cola. Fla. and participated with then in the capture of the navy yard an forts, except Fort Pickens. Afterward he was connected with Hiliiard's Le aJor The infantry battalion of tn Legion was thrown into the 59th an eoth regiments. In the former he wa Nirat lieutenant of Company D and wa ,vitb his command in Virginia at tn Appomattox surrender
 Returning to Montgomery with tn expectation of re-entering the practic of law, Major Screws was gwen pc sJtion on the editorial staff of The Ad 1srtiser. He has been constantly as sociated with the paper since, bein nart of the time sole owner.
 Tn 1S7S and again in 1850 Majc ro-aws was elected Secretary of Stai oS Alabama. He declined to serN longer on the completion of his secon term. although he coulo nave easii secured the nomination without oppC set,o,, Mator Screws has also serve
 postnoaster at Montgomery.
 Ire u,as one of the organizers of tf A,ahar,s Press Association and h' snryed as President of that organiz; ton. .,,o NJ, tIonal Educational Assoclatioh Ia Ia vear Major Screws was elected FIT Vice President.
 stIII a Hard Worker.
 Aro,or Screws is in vigorous DOC .rd mental health. He still laoo daiIv and necessarily on ms eoltoil work with which one-halr or ms II has been identified. He Is sincere
 bis convictions, strong in ms attAc ment and stands by his 1riehus unu any and all circumstances. ~ ,.
 Az Prasident of the Association, M for Screws succeeds P. V. Collins ed tor and publisher of The Northweste ARriculturist of Minneapolis Minn' t leading agricultural journal of | Northwest The President may ser but one term
 The speech of Colonel WattersC which was greatly appreciated Dy delegates, follows:
 Every profession may be said to ha It's mice and its men; inevitably mo mice than men There is the housing politician with confusion of the little and the big
 public affairs. a great man. as Jeners said of Burr. in small things, 9 small m