The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-15
PUBLISHERS FAVOR
 RECIPROCITY BILL Will Meet Next .a at Knox
 vile, Tenn. BROWN IS PRESIDENT Southern Commercial Congress Is In- dorsed - Convention Adjourns
 After Banquet at Louis
 vile Country Club
BROWN IS PRESIDENT

Louisville, June 14-A banquet at the Louisville Country club as the guests oi the Louisville Times and the Louisville
 courier-Journal, followed the adjourn ment of the convention of the Southern Newspaper Publishers association. after the election of officers. the selection of Knoxville, Tenn. as the next meeting place. and the adoption of two important resolutions Following the resolutions in dorsing the Canadian reciprocity treaty, the following resolution was unanimous ly adopted:
 We indorse the general purpose of the Southern Commercial congress to bring to our people the right understanding or southern resources and the prospects for developments and enrichment which they hold. We applaud the broad patriotism of the congress embodied in it's slogan for a greater nation through a greater south.
 we recommend to all publishers of the south the material advertising of publish ing from time to time the progress and facts of the whole south as news. We commend the purpose of the congress to prepare such matter as part of it's genera promotion work in the south. We favor raising by popular subscription, at the ap propriate time this year the general ad, istered by the executive committee of the Southern Commercial congress and by the following committee of the Southern Newspaper Publishers association: Frank P. Glass. Montgomery, ". B. Johnson, Knoxville, and w. M. Clemons, Mem phis."
 Members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers association, in session here today, adopted resolutions urging senators from the southern states to vote for ..ie reciprocity measure now before the Sem ate The resolutions follow:
 I've urge upon the senators from the southern states to vote for the Canadian reciprocity bill now before the Senate. We request this, first, because we be- lieve that the reciprocity measure will prove beneficial to all the people Of the Tinted States. We also urge the south ern senators to support the measure on account of the provisions in the bill re- garding print paper and wood pulp, not because we are asking special legisla- tion for our benefit, but because we be- lieye these measures to be fair to the manufacturers of print paper in this country as well as to the newspapers. for the reasons, so clearly elucidated by the President in his Chicago speech.
 '.The exactions to which the newspaper publishing industry of the country has been subjected are so manifest that one of the foremost republican opponents Of the reciprocity measure, who submitted a minority re. to the Senate yester- day opposing the bill, conceding that the publishers have been subjected to extor- ton and have been forced to conduct their business under conditions which are intolerable. This senator, as a mem- Der of the finance committee, had heard all of the evidence submitted to that committee and his conclusion is added evidence of the justice of this portion of the reciprocity bill.
 Knoxville, Tenn, was chosen as the next place of meeting. The following of ficers were unanimously elected to serve during the ensuing years:
 R. W. Brown, president. the Louis- vile Times; Victor H. Hanson, vice pres ident, the Birmingham News; George w. Brunson, Jr., secretary and treasurer, the Greenville, $. C., News. Executive committee: w. o. Clemmens, Memphis News-Scimitar; Frederick I. Thompson, the Mobile Register; Curtis B. Johnson, the Knoxville Sentinel; Alfred F. San ford, the Knoxville Journal and Tribune; F w. R. Hinman. the Jacksonville Times Union; Robert H. Jones, the Asheville Citizen and the three officers.
 Managing Director Dave of the South ern Commercial congress addressed the Publishers, association today in relation of the papers of the south to the de- velopment of their region. He showed in an hours address that the south, by reason of it's resources could come to commercial leadership in the nation, but to accomplish this there must come into existence a union of all the constructive forces of the region in order to carry on worldwide publicity.
 The Publishers association indorsed the plans of the congress, recommended a union of all newspapers for the pur- pose of making the broad facts of the south known. and appointed a. commit- tee to cooperate with the Southern Con- mercial congress.