The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-06-21
PRESS CLUB VISITED MACkAY.
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PRESS CLUB VISITED MACKAY
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Witt, editor of the Rupert-Pionee
Record wanted to confer with hi
home people again before asking thu
press people to come there in Octob
er of this year. Soldier and Alb
ion want the meeting but they ar.
waiting for the completion of rail
roads. Blackfoot is always ready fol
guests, and laid before them wha,
the politician would call a ten
tative" invitation.
The following officers were elect
ed: President, Byrd Trego of Black.
foot, Vice-presidents, J. F. Melvin
and ]. e. Edgerton Of Gooding and
Soldier; Secretary, J. w. Jones Of
Rigby; Treasurer, Joe H. Dewitt OF
Rupert.
The Mackay trip was considered
one of the best that has yet been
taken, and those attending were pro-
nounced in their expressions of sat
isfaction with it. A more detailed
account of it, together with some ex-
PLANTATION of the purpose of the club
in making these long trips, will be
found elsewhere in this issue.
The town of Mackay, named after
the honorable Clarence Mackay, pro-
jector of the Mackay cable that un-
derlies the greatest of all the oceans,
was laid out in 1901. It was pri-
marily mining town, but is also a
distributing point for a great part
Of central Idaho, with varying indus
tries, chiefly mining, stockraising and
agriculture.
It's people have always been of the
plucky kind that believed in luck
and push and printers ink. They
have generally had good newspaper
that kept diligently letting the world
know of the resources of the locality,
and the Dillingham; Brothers, pub
fishers of the Mackay Miner, have
long been wanting to have the fra
ternity of pencil-pushers from East
ern Idaho to visit the place and be
shown, and last Sunday and Monday
such visit was made.
The Eastern Idaho Press Club is
peculiar in that it works out plan
Of amusement and recreation and
education for its members. For six
years it has been meeting three times
year in various parts of the dozen
counties of the Eastern part of the
state, always trying to meet in the
place where study of local condit-
ions would be the most interesting.
The locality visited, through its lead
ing citizens, plans to show them the
most possible of their locality during
their brief stay, and they combine
fun and study with sightseeing.
They 60 back home better informed
for their work, and they do much of
the work for which commercial clubs
and booster clubs" are formed, in
forming their readers Of many inter-
esting features of the new state
whose interests they seek to advance.
The men and women of the club
take the view that it is part of
their avocation to be better informed
than most people concerning their
state. and that to be broad and graci-
GUS and liberal in their ideas re-
4uires that they should get out and
see much and know for them
selves the. problems confronting the
rank and file of their readers. They
know that local editors who stay too
close to the desk, get into ruts and
fall behind in the larger movements
OF the age, and thereby forfeit power
and usefulness as we'll as sacrifice in |
health and capacity to do. The daily |
round Of work in the small news
paper office is very exacting, and it /
breaks into the service for them to
be away for part of the week and the
public is learning that temporary
sacrifice is more than repaid later in
the character of the general work ac-
A thoughtful review of the work
Of the press in Idaho, interwines with
so many other lines of work that It
Is difficult to know what to leave out,
but because the writer loves the work
and has an abiding faith in its use
fnlness and beneficence, he ventures
10 insert few paragraphs to more
fully inform people of the high pur-