The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1904-06-16

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measures. Briefly, the history of
this movement is that during the
legislative session of 1902, while Mr..
Harry McCarty was president of this
Association, an advertising law was
passed which has proven more prac-
tical in its service to the public and
benefit to the press than any other
measure thus far enacted. But it
was incomplete and there were nu-
merous other laws on the statute
books that were unknown, or mop
erat1ve, or questionable in their
meaning and application. 1t was
necessary that these be compiled and
classified, and this arduous labor
fell upon our devoted and talented
Lew B. Brown, who completed his
work and presented it in pamphlet
form, "A Manual of Legal Advertis-
Ing in Kentucky" to each member
of the Association at Lexington one
year later, in 1903. After my cleo
ton as president, at Lexington, Sc
lected Mr.. Brown as one of your
Executive Committeeman, and his
labors did not cease. On the con-
trary, besides meeting his every OBJ
legation in general committee work
he became the head of the noted
committee, Brown, Smith & Jones'"
whose admirable work eliminated
in Chairman Browns report to the
"mid-winter meeting" which was
unanimously endorsed and praised
by that business session. At that
meeting the Association decided to
go before the legislature and ask for
the passage of bill that would har-
monize and render equitable and
uniform the scattered and inefficient
measures then and now on the stat
ute books. 1t was determined that
a legislative committee be appointed
to push the proposed bill to its pass
age and was empowered to select
this committee. In doing this kept
in mind my promise registered at
Lexington, to give you the best pos
sIble committees to do your work,
and named the following workers on
the legislative committee: E. A.
Gullion, Chairman, New Castle;
Desha Breckenridge, Lexington;
Harry Sommers, Elizabethtown; w.
H. Jones, Glasgow; Sam j. Roberts,
Lexington; e. q. Smith, Carrollton
J. w. Hedden, Mt. Sterling; Tim
Needham, Williamstown; Urey
Woodson, Paducah. This commit
tee did diligent and forceful work
and were able, with assistance of
friends iii and out of the General
Assembly, to prevent adverse legis-
lation, but could go no step further.
The chairman of this committee
will, however, make you full report
at this meeting.
You will hear also from another
important committee, the foreign
advertising committee" composed
of w. Q. Adams, d. b. Wallace and
Dan M. Bowman, whose report is
due at this meeting.
Another committee, appointed
upon authority delegated to me by
the ''mId-winter" meeting, was the
appropriation committee" The
purpose of this committee was to as
sist the Kentucky Exhibit Associa-
ton in its effort to secure from the
legislature the appropriation neces-
sary to complete the work, begun by
the Kentucky Exhibit Association
and aided largely and literally by
the Kentucky press, of giving Ken
lucky worthy and deserved repre-
sentation at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition. On this committee /
appointed Vice-P President Louis
Landram, Executive Committeeman
Il. g. Underwood, H. A. Sommers
and w. G. Barrickman. These geu-
tlemen cooperated heartily with the
Kentucky Exhibit Association and
had the endorsement of almost the
entire Kentucky press. The appro-
priatiOn was secured and Kentucky
took rank among the foremost states
of the Union in the race for preemi-
nence in affairs social, commercial,
industrial.
Under authority from the Execu-
tive Committee 1 named the follow
ing delegates to the Nineteenth An
nual Convention of the National Ed
itorial Association, held at st. Louis
May 1913: Louis Landram, Lew b.
Brown. H, A, Sommers, Harry Nc
Carly, w. q. Adams, R. w. Brown,
L. w. Gaines, T. G, Underwood, w.
H. Jones, M! f. Comfy. Chas. M |
who was executive COM
for Kentucky, headed |
the party and also had the pleas
ure of going as delegate. The 9TH
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