The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-02
THE ADVERTISER STAFF HONORS
 MAJOR SCREWS AND llR GLASS.


 on laughter and banished formality. Now and then a telegram. would be read, which would De directed at some supposed weakness Of members Of the force. The speeches were in the main bright and ,laugh-producing. The crowd Is evidently improving in after dinner oratory. In no sense di3 the evening drag CT become monotonous.
 In calling the diners tc order Toast master McCombs explained the signif- canoe of the occasion to some of these who might have become members of the family since the last dinner. He alluded briefly to the affecticnate es- tecm in which Major Screws, e1ltor of The Advertiser and Mir. Glass, General Manager of the paper, were held and said that the dinner was an expression of the regard of the workers of The Advertiser.
 A few minutes after, in asking Major Screws to respond to the toast. "The Editorial Chair" Mir. McComhs again spoke of the affection tho employees felt for tho editor of the paper, whom he said, had been loyal to his friends, loyal to his people, loyal tc his State and loyal to his city" The Editor of The Advertiser was received with burst of enthusiastic applause.
 I about the long tables. Major Screws said, "You are the men who make The Advertiser. Without you the part it plays In the life of Alabama to which allusion has been made could not be possible"
 Major Screws spoke of his long con- nection with The Advertiser. which has now lasted forty-twc years. This con- necticn, was. however, in an editorial capacity For four years previous to the year of 1885, when he assumed an editorial connection with the paper, he had been correspondent from the battle front for The Advertiser.
 Tn an effort to be loyal to my peo- pie and to the right" said Ma;or Screws, T was iurinS the war, order ed under arrest by General Bragg. A superciIious member of his staff brought him a paper containing an article had written, but in a garbled form. But my arrest aroused a storm of Indignation among the papers of the South, and l was released. learned early to seek the right and f0 dare maintain It..
 After serving in the field as corres- pondent, I returned to Montgomery. and was asked to take charge of the re- organization of The Advertiser. It he'd been burned and destroyed by the Fed eral soldiers because 1t had been so intensely for the South. For three months the Federal authorities had for- bidden its publication. I assisted In the re-organizatiun of The Advertiser. since then maintained my connection with the paper"
 Major Screws spoke feelingly of the spirit that animated the employees of The Advertiser; of their loyalty and their attitude towards the men in charge of The Advertiser.
 Tt is a beautiful day out" he said, in closing, "a beautiful day Tor the first of the year. I hope that this day or beauty is a harbinger for all of you gathered here of prosperity, of happi- ness and of health."
 In his introduction of MT. Glass who was called upon ito respond to the toast, .grhe Newspaper Business, MT. McCombs paid tribute not noly An the signal business ability of MT. Gtass. but to the esteem and affection in which he Is held by the men with whom he labors daily side by side.
 There is no day of the year said MT. Glass like this day which touches our hearts with the evidence of your affection and consideration. Mr. Me- Combs spoke truly when he alluded to The Advertiser as our paper, It IS our paper, your paper and my paper. Your ability, your brains, your loyal tv. have contributed 10 the success or The Advertiser. Without them It's suc- cess would have been impossible.
 No one man makes paper. He mak give 1t character, but he can not make it. It takes brains In the news department, in the advertising depart ment, In the circulation department, in the composing room, in the mailing room and in every department of tho paper. There are in our country papers with larger circulations that The Ad- vertiser, but in the whole country there is no paper with better or finer esprit du cSrps han that or The Advertiser"
 MT Glass spoke of the different valuable contributions to the success of The Advertiser that han been made by the heads of different departments. He spoke particularly of the work Of the circulation department. which, under F. s. Noble, had in the last year, added more subscribers to The Advertiser than had been added dur ing any previous year, In the samo way he complimente6 the energy and the ability of Advertising Manager ". H. Hanson. who had issued new rate card based on the increase of circulation and of the results that had been secured. In the same manner he paid tribute to the valuable and in- telligent work of City cditor A. B. Kennedy, News Editor L. F. Wocd- ruff, Superintendent W. W. Waldo of the mechanical departments and oth- CTS of the leaders in The Advertiser work.
 The diners enthusiastically cheered the statement of MT. Glass that the last year had been the best year In the history of The Advertiser. , Mir. McCombs presented Advertising Manager Hanson as one of the best known advertising managers in the country; a man to whom all his com petitors paid tribute and of whom. 1t was said: If he can't get contract out of a man, the man is a dead one and crepe ought to be put on the door,"
 Mir. Hanson was warmly received. He spoke wittiIy of the advertising business and told several good stories of experiences that had come his way during his work as an advertising manager. Mir. Hanson spoke of the excellence of other departments of The Advertiser that had enabled him to make such a success of his depart ment.
 Other tOasts responded 10 were as 
 'The Death of The Weekly Adve.- tiser," W. W. Waldo.
 'The Circulation Department" E. s. NobIe