The Forrest City times., 1910-06-03
ARKANSAS EDITORS CLOSE
 INTERESTING CONVENTION
B. E. BRADFORD HEADS THE
 PRESS ASSOCIATION.
morriIton Entertained the Editors Royaliy-Visit Fayetteville and
 Other Cities.

Press ASS0eldllOn elected officers
 Thursday and brought the conven
 tion to an end directly thereafter.
 R. E. Bradford. editor of the Lo- noke Democrat, was elected presl
 dent of the association, while J. H.
 Livingston, editor of the Courier Democrat of Russellyille, was elected
 first vice president; J. H. Hand. ed
 itor ef he Yellville Echo, was elect
 ed second vice president; John P.
 Stafford. editor of the Springdale
 News, was elected third vice presf- dent Hon Earle W. Hodges, Demo cratic nominee for secretary of state. was reelected corresponding secre- tary by exclamation. T. l.. Pound of the Danylle Democrat was elected recording secretary, and Powell $. Garden of the Malvern Meteor was elected financial secretary
 J. R. Newman Of the Harrison Times was elected historian, and Dan Hogan was elected poet
 The banquet Wednesday night. at which Congressman C. c. Reid was Postmaster, was the principal fea- ture of the convention. At that time 1t Was suggested that Morrilton fur nish the next governor of Arkansas in the person of the toastmaster.
 The address of Walter Williams dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia. Mo. was one of the best speeches of the convention and a rising vote of thanks was tendered him for his words on The Equipment Of the Country Editor.
 President Baird's Address.
 Retiring President s. B. Baird de liyered a splendid address on The Power and Duty of the Press and among other things said:
 The responsibilities resting upon the editorial directors of this grand power touch every phase of human activity on which the arm of progress leans, and you will pardon me for dlgressing just here to single out a coming event now headed this way. and which has been mentioned in the published program for this meet ing. I refer to the reunion of ex- Confederates now headed this way. and which brings to Arkansas an op- portunity that will probably never come again in the history of our commonwealth To our capital city has been accorded the privilege of entertaining next spring the grand est army of home defenders the world has ever known. It is the province Of the newspapers of Arkansas 10 lend helping hand to this laudable undertaking. There is no question but what the good citizens of Little Rock will measure up to the full strength of their ability in meeting the demands of this important trust But they have a large job on their hands, and every county in the state should be theirs to command in the performance of this labor of love and loyalty to the most hallowed and sacred memories of our beloved Southland.
 Whatever criticisms may have been passed upon us by the outside world, along other lines of conduct. from the day that the pioneer stran- ger set first foot on her soil up to this good hour, Arkansas has ever stood pre-eminent among the states or the Union as the originator and dispenser of that open-hearted South hnsnitalitxr traI tape attachments. To sustain this reputation in the fullest sense of its original definition should be the heAest aim of every loyal son of Arkansas on this suspicious occasion small bit of red tape that touched off the 'sulphurcus vocabulary used oIly for war purposes. of battle scared veteran at the Mobile reun- loa may be cited as warning against the danger of it's use. He very properly declined the offer of meal ticket when informed tbere was none for the wife who accom- panied him. I mention this In no sense as a criticism of the Mobile
 os uo SltiiPis "A sight, an inadvertence that might creep into the best laid plans of the %lsest men, with so many other im- portant details to claim their atten- tloh. Arkansas must not forget the Wives of the soldiers. I speak from personal observation as one who hVed in close heart-toueh with all me tragic scenes of that trying period In our country history when l say 10 you. without mental reservation that the brave boys who faced the cannon's thunderous roar on the Heid of battle knew naught of pain and suffering compared to the fiery furnace of consuming anxiety and suspense that licked with Stygian flames of cruel torture the bleeding aeartstrings of the noble wives and mothers whose undving love and sef-sacrificing devotion to duty in this stressful time served as the principal inspiration of that gigantic struggle"