The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-04-23
YE EDITORS GATHER
ABOUT BANQUET
BOARD
SIX HUNDRED WRITER'S AND PUB
LIsHERs ATTEND AssoclAT-
ED PRESS FEAST.

New York, April 22.-Six hundred
editors and publishers from all parts
of the country tonight attended the
joint dinner of the Associated Press
and the American Newspaper Publish
ers' association at the Waldorf As
toria. Count Johann Heinrich Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador.
and Joseph H. Choate were guests Of
honor and delivered speeches appre-
ciative of the work of the press. 9th
er speakers We're Major John G.
Hemphill of the Charleston News and
Courier; Rev, Robert Burdett of Los
Angeles. and former Senator r. M.
Patterson of Colorado.
After the dinner Frank B. Noyes,
president Of the Associated Press, pre-
sented Major Hemphill as POSTMASTER.
A toast was drunk to the president OF
the United States.
Mr.. Hemphill spoke of the organiza-
tions whose members joined at the fes-
tive board as the greatest and most
powerful newspaper associations in
the world. Here are the publishers
who make the money and the editors
who spend it, minglng upon appar-
emily friendly terms, while the COM
mon people pass by on the outside ut
terly oblivious of our real Importance
in the great American economic"
Explaining the absence of Speaker
Cannon, Major Hemphill said the
speaker could not be present on ac-
count Of pressure of business.
1t will do no harm, however" said
the toastmaster, ito say behind his
back what would have been said to
his face; that he was never right in
his life; that he made a bad start. He
was born in North Carolina, the home
of that Ecklenburg myth, which Pres
ident Taft Is to celebrate next month,
am sorry to say. But as if that were
not sufficient handicap he immigrated
before he had reached the years Of
discretion which, by the way, he has
not yet attained
Mr.. Choate evoked applause by TAX
ing the manager of the Associated
Press to task for neglecting to have
correspondent in the wilds of Africa
to inform an anxious world Of the re-
suit Of that first hunt, when the
great lions quail before him"
Adopting a more serious tone, he re-
viewed the changes that he himself
had witnessed in the method Of gath
ering and transmitting news and paid
a glowing tribute to the Associated
Press.
To-day he said, "the very school,
boy before he goes to school in the
morning has taken a voyage around
the world and knows what has been
going on in the last "a hours in all
the countries. That is what the AS
sociated Press mas done and is doing
every day in enlightening and educat-
ing the American people It has been
one Of the great factors of education.
of civilization and of peace and, what
is more, it has brought the corners of
the globe together. 1t has created an
international sympathy in which we
stand closely and warmly related to
all the nations Of the earth"
John H. Fahey of the Boston Trav-
eler was given a loving cup in token
of his work as chairman of the spe-
cial committee of the Associated Press
Herman Ridder Of the New York
Stats -Zeitung, was given handsome
silver center piece in recognition on
the part of the American Newspaper
Publishers association of his labors
for free wood pulp and print paper
Rev Robert Burdett of Los Ange-
les delivered a characteristic humorous
speech detailing his experience as an
editor of the Generation.
Former Senator Paterson of Colorado
talked on Woman Suffrage"