The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-29
PRESS CLUBS WORK TO
AID PEACE MOVEMENT
international League Conyen-
tion Adopts Belva Lock
woods Views.

DENVER, Aug. 2S.-The sixteenth
annual convention of the international
League of Press clubs opened here to-
Pittsburg, Pa, presided and delivered
an appropriate response to several ad-
dresses of welcome made by city and
state officials and Edward Yeating,
president of the Denver Press club.
President Roosevelt, who is an honor
ary member of the Denver Press club,
sent the following reply to an invita-
tion to attend the convention:
"To the Denver Press club:
"L am sorry il was impossible for
me to attend the convention OF news
paper men ia Denver, but while | am
not with you in person. l am with you
in spirit and wish you all the Joys that
can come to such gathering.
Sincerely yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
''The White House, August 2stb,
1906 -
The following clubs were admitted
TO membership in the league by vote of
the conventions
Writers club of Denver; Jamestown
Press club, Norfolk, Va; Woman 8
Press club, st. Joseph, Mo-; Studio
club, Omaha. Nebr.; Pixies Peak Press
Press association, Austin, Texas; Ohio
Woman 8 Press association, Cleveland,
Ohio; Cripple Creek District Press club,
Cripple Creek, Colo,
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, Of Washing
ton. d. c., was elected an envoy from
the league TO attend the coming peace
congress at Milan, Italy, The conven-
tion adopted the following resolution,
offered by Mrs Lockwood:
Whereas, the increase of militarism
in the countries Of the old world, al
ways a menace in times of peace, is be-
coming burden to the common people
there, more than in our own country,
who must always bear the expense Of
n war, both as to money and to life;
"Thercfore, be IL resolved by this
international League of Press clubs,
that we send our congra tulations TO the
Fifteenth Universal Congress of Peace
at Milan. and will aid them by our in
huence and our pens TO secure q re
duction of armaments and the adoption
of nm approved arbitration treaty that
will accommodate itself to the needs OF
all nations.
Birmingham Gets Convention.
1t was nearly o clock when the af.
ternoon session was called to order,
After a spirited discussion Birmingham,
Ala, was selected as the meeting place
Of the league next year.
James r. holland Of Denver intro.
duced the following resolution, which
was referred to the committee on reso-
lutions:
Whereas, there arc stage produc-
oh Ic
is portrayed as silly, assinine person
age, without brains, and rs this pres
cntatlon has decided tendency to
cheaper the craft in the eyes Of tho
general public, be it,
50 Resolved, that the International
League of Press Clubs, in convention
assembled, agrees as an association and
stage productions in which the news.
paper writer is caricaturcd, and be il
| further
Resolved, that the International
| League of Press Clubs IN convention as
! scmblcd. requests writers of magazine
stories and others in genera to portray
newspaper reporters as intellectual
prosperous women and men Of real life
| rather than the perniclous class Of past
fiction. whose only aim in life has been
! made TO appear TO be the lodging of
creditors or the procurement of one
meal a day
The business session will he com
/ pleted tomorrow and the elections will
take place on the crest of the continent
on the Moffat road
President keenan, is seeking re-elec
ton, and Edward Keating, president OF
! the Denver Press club, Is his most nc
/ tive competitor.
! Tonight n literary and musical sym
postum was given to the delegates and
their friends at the Broadway thcater
Late tonight the Denver Press club en-
tertaiped the visitors with IL stag party
in the rooms Of the local club,