Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-07-29
PEN pusHpRs SUMMER SESSION.

PEN pusHERs SUMMER SESSION.
We copy the following excellent arti
Gle from The Dakota Republican, Dan
forth & Sloan, publishers, Vermillion.
1t had been some seven years since
the writer had allowed himself to wander
away from home at the time Of the
South Dakota Press Association, and
during all this time We had not COM
mingled with our newspaper brethren
of the State at their annual or semi.
annual sessions. 1t was therefore one
Of the greatest treats that could be
dished up to us when we were permitted
to journey over to Sioux Falls last week
aud greet old-timers once more, and be-
come acquainted with those who during
the past seven years have become iden-
tilted with the newspaper workers of the
State. While there was present at the
meeting splendid representation Of the
old guard who for the past decade have
been the life and sinew of the Association,
we found number of new faces among
the membership and found that new
blood had been infused into the Associ-
alton life.
They can say what they please of the
newspaper fraternity, and they can leg
islate against them all that they please,
but we say it without fear of successful
contradiction that there Is no body Of
men in the State whose influence is
more widely felt and whose work for
the State covers wider area. 1t was
therefore no more than might be ex-
pected when this session of the S. d. P.
A. resolved itself into an indignation
meeting over the way that the Repre-.
sentatives of the State used them during
the session of the Legislature at Pierre
last winter. If ever any body of men
and women had reason to feel aggrieved,
then 1t was entirely within the province
OF the newspaper men to raise kick
over the treatment they had received,
aul to resent it in terms that would
leave no doubt in the minds of the poll
ticians that it was time that they recog-
nized that the newspaper men had some
rights that were bound to be respected,
and that, if they were not, some of those
selfsame politicians would find them
selves in a position that would be at
least st-uncom Portable if not entirely dis
astrous.
1t was genuine relief to attend a
meeting that was free from the conven-
tionalities of the formal programs of
papers and discussions, and listen to
the informal arguments on matters in
which the whole people of the State are
interested, and in which the editors of
the State spoke.their mind freely and
without any reserve. Some Of the poll
ticians who were on the ground tried in
vain to extract some ray of comfort from
the proceedings, but departed for home
without even being able to extract a
smile from a single one of the editors
present. 1t must have been exceedingly
humilating for them to try and ingrat-
late themselves into the good graces of
the pen pushers, after the record they
made at Pierre last winter when every
act was antagonistic to the newspaper
men.
But, aside from taking various whacks
at the politicians, the newspaper men
enjoyed themselves supremely at the
meeting. They were delightfully."- en-
tertained by the Sioux Falls people who
have way of making outsiders feel at
home that is positively charming. n
That Sioux Falls is growing there is no
doubt, and that the growth is one that
is substantial and will endure is a ques-
ton that is unbeatable as the evidence
on every hand is incontrovertabe.
Referring once more to things per-
sonal, we wish to remark that the pleas |
ure Of our visit to the Association meet |
ing last week was greatly enhanced by '
the meeting of those members with
whom we have rubbed shoulders in the
past and who have always been promi
nent in the workings of the Association.
Then there was the venera-
BILE Col. Arthur Linn, who, although he
was physically feeble, could not resist |
the temptation to come out and meet |
with the boys, and very emphatically |