The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-07-18
ENJOY OUTING
Held Big Summer Meeting at Bur-
lin9ton, and then Inspected the
Bio Dam at keokuk, Iowa.

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BIG Dam at keokuk, Iowa.
The twenty-sixth convention of
the Southern Iowa Editorial Asso-
citation was keld at Burlington,
Iowa, last Thursday and Fri
day, and it was the largest
attended and best meeting in the his
tory of the association, there being
about one hundred editors and their
wives in attendance. Two meetings
of the association are held each year,
and this being the summer meeting
it was in the nature of an outing
trip.
The convention rushed through
with the business of the session on
Thursday afternoon, there being a
number of good papers read and the
discussions which followed them
were of great benefit to the members
of the craft, as they were upon prac-
teal subjects.
The association was warmly well
coined to Burlington by Ed E. Egan,
secretary of the Burlington Com
mercial Exchange, who told some
thing about Burlington and it's early
history. He was responded to by
President Horace Barnes, of the Al
bia Republican, who paid a fine trib-
ute to the enterprise of the citizens
of Burlington and the good work
which is being done by the Burling-
ton Commercial Exchange.
G. L. Caswell, of the Denison Bull
letin had a fine paper on paid Up
o,,I~ uyht tah hn fn1 n
being called to account by the postal
officials at Washington for failing to
strictly comply with the ruling that
no weekly paper was to extend credit
to a subscriber over year, and
how he was finally compelled to con-
form strictly to the ruling. There
was considerable discussion On the
subject and it was the opinion OF a
majority of the editors present that
the cash in advance plan, as already
adopted by the Leon papers was the
only solution of this vexed problem.
One of the pleasing features of the
meeting was a short address by that
pioneer of Iowa newspaper work, j.
L. Waite, of the Burlington Hawk
Eye, who has been connected with
that paper for more than forty years.
How to Meet the Advanced Cost
in Job Work." was good presenta-
ton of this subject by G. w. Shock
ley. of the Oskaloosa Globe, and it
developed that Notwithstanding the
constantly increasing cost that many
printers had as yet failed to increase
their prices, and were in consequence
losing money.
c. w. Belville, of the Knoxville
Express, who has one of the model
newspaper plants in Iowa, told OF
number of time saving devices used
in his office, and the editors received
many good ideas from his talk on
this subject.
Fake advertising was the subject
of considerable discussion, the mat
ter having been discussed at previous
meetings, and at the last meeting
held at Clarinda, a committee was
appointed to draft resolutions on the
subject, the resolutions being read
by R. G. Weisell, of the Corning
Free Press, chairman of the COM
mittee. The resolutions adopted
were as follows:
Resolved, That it be the sense of
the Southern Iowa Editorial associa-
tion, at it's meeting at Burlington,
July II and 12, 1912, that the men,
bers thereof are opposed and con-
denim the free advertising graft that
is now, and for several years has
been solicited and expected of the
publishers of the country papers,
said free advertising coming from
state schools for which the people
of Iowa pay taxes for the mainte-
nance and support, irrigation con-
crosses, dry land farming associa-
tions, expositions, fairs, commercial
clubs, for the purpose of exploiting
any gatherings for financial gain,
the town or city where
such gatherings is to take place, and
various other sources.
II
Resolved, That letters by former
residents about their new country in
which they have cast their lot, very
often dictated and in the interest of
some real estate boomer, and not a
matter of news relative to the writer
and his family, together with rea-
sOnable summary of his new home,
told in newsy manner, is graft ad-
and operates against a
Greater Iowa."
Resolved, That any advertising for
charitable or other organi-
cations, given for the benefit of fin
ancial gain, should be charged for
as other advertising; that the news
paper publishers contribute to these
institutions and that their advertis-
ing space is their merchandise and
should be paid for the same as other
is paid for by the same
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Resolved, That non-transferable
Or other admission tickets will not
be considered in payment for any
but issued only for after
to which said ticket admits.
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Resolved, That no advertising of
any nature be inserted in any part
of any newspaper of members of this
for less than the mini
mum rates 1non contract made nav