The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-02
Seventh Annual Good Fellow
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 The annual family dinner of The Advertiser. in which the papers iarss force of employees pay tribute to Major | w. W. scfews, Editor in Chief. and Mf Frank P. dlass, the General Man. ager of The Advertiser. vas held yes terday. and 10 the men and women | who pafticipated--ths men and wcneri who make The Advertiser--it was this annual occasion, d 1t has been for the past ssven years, the most enjoyable day of the year. The Advertiser Day yesterday had . special significance an added joy in that yesterday the paper entered Into .he eightieth year of its existence. and In the lsst year the management had erected new building and installed new mach inery, all Of which represents an expenditure of $50 .0ot.
 At these dinners the employees are hosts and Major Screws and Mir. Glass ars guests of honor.
 The dinner was held at John Yeng,s. Tn this banquet hall there assembled some seventy odd of The Advertiser est to many readers of the paper to know that within The Advertiser building there are between eighty-fise and ninety persons, business office eni- pioyet. editorial writers, reporters, ma chine operators, makeup men, tele- graph operators, writers ana rnaehir- ists. It may interest them to know that without exception this labor is skilled and trained, and that each man en6aged fn It receives a salary high above the average. such as goes to skilled labor. and men of trained
 A Uniaue Occasion.
 The occasion is unique and peculiar. There Is no other paper Of the country. on which the employees once q year as- sert themselves as hosts and have with them as hon0red guests the owners. and the head ef the paper. The custom, which is maintained and which Is held in such high esteem Is now seven years old and each year It has grown in enthusiasm and in pleasure. It is doubtful if in the entire country there Is such an esprit du corps as that | which charaeterizes The Advertiser and its force and certainly in no other ofifce does 1t find such an expression. The Advertisers annual dinner Is really notable avent in the journal. istic news of the South, and during the dinner yesterday Night Editor Bruce Kennedy read telegrains of good wishes and good will from leading newspaper men of the South.
 The Baby Advertiser, the family ra- | per of the employees, made its seventh annual appearance during the dinner, and appreciation by the members of the force. It was more than up to the usual standard. If was greatly enc 1 larged. and the office jokes were duly | appreciated. It ,lwas especially illus. tfated with cartoons and already there is great demand for the little paper of twelve pages. which is not permitted to get into general circulation It Is probably the most unique paper pulp 1 lished.
 l what the Day Means. And while there ls laughter ana fun on The Advertisers great annual cele- bration. there was also a certain seri- ousnsss that goes with the sincere ex- pression of appreciation and afteetior. In these words. The Baby Advertiser sought to express the indescribabie atmosphere of sympathy. loyalty, ap- preciation and affection which charac- terizes The Advertiser office: The Advertiser has an esprit du | corps, that Is perhaps known in no other newspaper ofiice of the entire 1 country. Brains could not build that up and money could not buy 1t. It comes of sympathy. of understanding and of consideration. And of such .s the atmosphere in The Advertiser of- flee made. It is as natural for loy- alty and faithfulness to blossom into vice under Major Screws and Mir. Glass as 1t is for the hillside to STOW | green and bloom under the kindly rays of the spring sun. Loyalty and l faith fitness are not paid as a right. | but with Mir. Glass and Major Screws they go as spontaneous expressions of appreciation, for remembered kind ness.
 the waste of time. Ifhas been a good year for us; 1t has been 3 good year | for The Advertiser, for that we can judge; we hope, in our appreciation and In afRection, that it has been 8 good year for them, May the coming year bring to them the measure Of good that shall equal that deserts. If this should be done. they will lack no good or perfect gift.
 So say we all.
 A genuine ovation was given Major Screws, who has for nearly fifty years been the editor of the paper and who has given. as one speaker said, The Advertiser the splendid character which has made 1t notable" It was | some minutes before he could proceed, l So enthusiastic were the men about the long tables and so determined were they that they should in some way ex- press the affection of the entire office for him. There was pathos in the brief speech of Major Screws in which he said that every man who was con nected with The Advertiser when he became associated with it in 1865 was now dead. And there was pathoB, too, in hls expression of the regret that he has always felt that the files of The Advertiser from the date of Its found ing in 1881 to 1885 were lost or car rled away during the occupation of Montgomery by the Federal troops. | Those parts of Major Srewss address in which he paid his tribute to the wonderful energy and splendid busi- ness ability of Mir. Glass during the twenty three and a half>years in which he had been with the paper were hear tily cheered.
 The men and women on the paper honored. too. in enthusiasm. the ailu- sions to Major J. D. Barron. the vet eran associate editor, who is now the oldest empioyc of The Advertiser, for his connection with the paper begun thirty-three years~ago
 Major ScreVVB's Speech.
 In responding to Postmaster Finni- game happy introduction Major Screws