The Yale expositor., 1912-01-25
GREATEST MEETING
IN THIRTY YEARS
Press Of Michigan are Royalty En-
tertained by tho Detroit Board
of Commerce.

The winter meeting of the Eastern
Michigan Press Club, held on Friday
OF last week, was unique in the annals
of editors organizations.
IL was the first time that all of the
newspaper men of Michigan had been
invited to meet in any important city
Tor more than quarter OF a century :
the first time that the Eastern Michigan
Press Club and the Michigan Press AS
sociation had held their annual meet.
lngs simultaneously and the first time
that a program Of benefit to the news
paper publisher and to the state Mt large
had been arranged.
The Detroit Board of Commerce in.
ylted the newspaper men Of the state
to visit Detroit as the guests of the
Board of Commerce. The Eastern Mich.
igan Press Club and the Michigan Press
Association accepted and sot the dates
Of their annual meetings to correspond
with the entertainment in Detroit The
board Of Commerce invited the editors
who visited Detroit to the number of
several hundred to attend a MONDAY
luncheon given in honor Of Governor
Woodrow Wilson of New JERSEY, on
thursday, and TO a banquet for all of
the newspaper men on the evening of
the same day. After the banquet Gov.
ernor Osborn, Joe Mitchell Chapel,
publisher of the National Magazine,
Governor ilson and Arthur II. Van.
denburg of Grand Rapids spoke Oh 20.
litical and similar subjects. Frank [.
Cobb, former Grand Rapids and Detroit
newspaper man and now chief editorial
writer on the New York World, gave
rllliant and thoroughly interesting
talk about the late Joseph Pulitzer, his
ideals and ideas on newspaper work.
On Friday the Eastern Michigan
Press Club held its annual meeting in
the Griswold House, where the conven.
tion hall, furnished by the courtesy of
Fred Postal proprietor of the hotel, and
an honorary member of the Eastern
Michigan Press Club, was filled to over
flowing by the newspaper editors dur
ing program of great value TO news.
paper men.
At noon the Board of Commerce
took the entire party, numbering several
hundred TO the Belle Isle casino, where
a fine lunch was served. Here Presi-
dent Milton McRae OF the Board of
Commerce, Secretary Lucuis Wilson,
Assistant Secretaries William B. Wre-
ford, Don NanN inkle and Harry Ger
hauser were publicly thanked 10y the
editors for their many courtesies. AT.
ter the luncheon, ID. w. Grandon, pub.
Usher of the IIillsdale Daily, read a
paper upon "The Business Office
which was full of valuable suggestions
for the newspaper editors. The meet
ing then adjourned to the parlors of
the Griswold House, and papers and
speeches by Harry M. Nimmo, editor
Detroit Saturday Night; James w.
Helme, Deputy State Dairy and Food
Commissioner; George w. Welch, pub
Usher of the Fruit Belt, and Harry +.
Straight, representative from Branch
county, were heard,
Mr.. Nimmo urged the advisability of
enlarging the Daily Journal of the
House and Senate of Michigan i'm or.
der that the public might be kept in
closer touch through the newspapers
with the operations of their representa-.
tives in Lansing. A resolution was
adopted by the Association endorsing
the idea.
Mr.. Welch read an able paper on
"Fruit Growing as Factor in the De.
velopment of Michigan"
Mr.. Helme contributed to the sym.
postum paper on "The Dairy as
Factor in the Development of Michi.
gam"
Representative Straight delivered a
very forceful speech on the desirabiity
Of uniform text book law for the
state, pointing out that the same books