The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-02
Annual Dinner Given to Managers
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@The Baby' Wakes It's Fifth Appear ancc With News of the Year--Cashs Ter Mccemss Preside. as Toast
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The fifth annual family reunion of The Advertiser force which each year is the occasion of a dinner in honor of MaJcr w w. Screws and Mir Frank F. Glass was held yesterday afternoon at Yung's.
 The dinner, which is the tribute of the affectionate regard of the men who make The Advertiser to the men who lead them in the work makes the first Of each January the day of all days in the year to The Advertiser force.
 At the dinner. editor. general mana ger. heads of departments, reporters. linotype operators, stenographers and clerks, all employees meet in fellowship and comradeship arou- :. the table. The men who lead the large company in their daily labors are the guests of hon. or and to them the tribute of the day is paid, but they are none the less on this day part of the human machin- cry which makes The Advertiser. They are considered. as they would prefer to be considered, leaders by reason of ex- perience and ability not by right of proprietorship or by power of dollars. and fellow employees with the men around the table. tho men whose interests are their interests and whom they lead by example in indus try and faithfulnss in the work of mak- ing a great newspaper.
 Men who have wondered at the suc- cess of The Advertiser, would know the true explanation of that success, if they could be present on such al occasion and note the fellowship. the sympathet- ic understanding that exists between the proprietors and the men who la bor with them for The Advertiser. In the annual reunions the relation of pro- prietor and employe is lost in the fel- iowship of sympathetic understanding of laborers in a common cause.
 At the dinner. as has been the custom. copies of the Baby Advertiser were dis tributed. The Baby, small replica of The Daily Advertiser, Is printed by. and for the employees of The Advertis- CT and is not for general circulation. The leading editorial in the little paper carries the significance of the occasion when it says of the Baby Advertiser and fYthe occasion:
 Tt &eflects an esprit de corps that has been brought about by the kindly sympathy and friendly feeling of the officers of The Advertiser Company for their subordinates Their generosity and encouragement have made family ot workers loyal to the newspaper, to it's owners and to each other.
 .If one person in the world reads in this newspaper that Maj7r Screws and MT. Glass are loved and respected by the hundred men and women who are employed by The Advertiser then it's mission will have been accomplished.
 This is day for rejoicing; day for the glad hand. Major Screws is in good health and he is happy. Mir. Glass is serene and comfortable. Business has been good and labor has been frightened
 Many years of happiness to both of them. They deserve the best in life
 The Baby Advertiser, by the way was voted to be the best and wittiest of the series.
 No less than eighty-seven of the Montgomery employees of The Adver- tiser sat down to the fine dinner which John Yung had provided for the happy occasion. Several of the employees. however, for one reason or another, found it impossible to attend, but the company completely filled the large upstairs dining room of the restaurant. Cashier George H. McCombs presided. The presiding officer heretofore has been selected from among the writers on The Advertiser force, but this time the business office furnished the pre- siding officer and it was unanimously agreed among the diners that the busi- ness office had altogether the better of 1t when 1t came to 8 comparison of toastmasters. There will be no office jealousies over the matter, however. for the writing force Is quite agreed with the down stairs people that Mir. McCombs was the best toastmaster that has yet presided at any of these annual dinners.
 There was no artifciality or formal ity about the dinner It was family gathering and everybody understood it. Early in the afternoon the formal pres entation of the prize for the best story in The Baby Advertiser was decided The judges awarded the prize to Staff Correspondent Will T. Sheehan. The presentation speech of the prize offered by Editor Woodruff of The Baby Ad- vertiser was made by c. Stevens Part ridge. For the prize story he handed the staff correspondent a lemon, while the crowd applauded.
 When Frank G. Burrows, who has received recent promotion to a desk position, rose to respond to we Edi-