The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-26
Wahpeton Selected For An.
nual Winter Session by
the Association
\. B. BLACK Of Grand FORKS
REELECTED As PRESIDENT
Organization Convened In Fargo This
M0sning-In Annual Address Mr..
Black Pointed Out New Advances in
the Publishing World.

Fargo. N. D., Jan. 26.-The North
Dakota Editorial association opened
Its annual miu-winter meeting in Far
go To-Day with an attendance OF about
100 members from practically every
section OF the state. The meeting
continues till saturday afternoon.
This afternoon the election of Off.
OF the Times Publishing CON-
pany Of Grand Forks. being reelected
president
The other officers elected follow:
First Vice President-P. r, Trub-
shaw. Cooperstown.
Second Vice President-G. G. Col
cord. Minot.
Third Vice President-Edgar Rich.
ter, Larimore.
Treasurer-tfarr NJ. Case, McVillo.
Executive committee: NJ. l.. Ayers,
Dickinson; Grant Hagar, Grafton. and
w. II Francis. Velva.
MinOt was successful in captuine
the summer meeting Of the associa-
ton and Wahpeton secured the next
winter meeting.
AT this mornings session the editors
we're welcomed to the city by Mayor
Lowell. Frank Wilson Of Bathgate re-
spending for the association. Then
followed the address of President ".
b. Black. while the report of the ad-
yertsing commission was also made.
This commission urges the establish
ment of uniform methods of handling
advertising. c. A. Wales was the
chairman Of this committee which has
been engaged in the work since the
meeting in Devils Lake last summer.
This afternoons program of papers
includes II. c. Plumlsy of Fargo. z. NJ.
Crary of Edmore and w. E. Holbein
of Lansford.
Address by the President.
President Black gave his annual
address before the association this
morning. dealing with number Of
questions which are Of paramount
Importance to the publishers of the
state at this time.
has been created in the publishing
world. pointing out the fact that hith.
erto dark and Improbable corners in
the business have been illuminated,
and the prospects for commercial
SUCCESS are brighter than ever before.
In bringing this condition about he
stated that no one man or set Of men
was entitled to credit. but he attri-
buted 1t to he general awakening Of
he members Of the craft In every To-
cally.
do not think that l am about to
launch into lengthy eulogy of the
so-called cost SYSTEM for while am
convinced that cost system of some
kind is absolutely necessary to pro-
duce the full satisfaction that comes
with commercial success. yet do not
believe that 1t is the greatest factor
In producing that newspaper inde.
pendence. editorially and commercial
ly. toward which we are striving"
said Mr.. Black. THE awakening OF
the individual newspaper conscience
that convinces the editor that his
readers are entitled to the very best
that is in hi1n--will command a re-
turn of pecuniary appreciation that
will be of infinitely greater value than
the mere knowledge Of the exact cost
of certain piece of work that may
have been poorly or indifferently ex.
ecuted.
The material cost of newspaper
production is not the only cost to be
reckoned with in arriving at a COM
merctal standing. There Is the cost