Arizona republican., 1913-05-12
President D. B. Heard En- tcrtains Force of Ari- zona's Biggest Daily at First "Tcam Play" Gath cring Yesterday.
MANY SUCH AR F
 PLANS FOR FUTURE
All Departments c ath CT and Enjoy Most Pleasant Occasion. PIcdging Fur ther and Greater Loyalty to the Paper.

to the Paper.
 The first get together dinner of the Republican force given by Prcsi dent Dwight E. Heard, occurred yes terday shortly afternoon in the din ing room of the Ford Hotel, and is the finest event of it's kind held on the Republican, and Is in addition but the forerunner of a series of like enjoyable occasions that nave been planned by MT. Heard, for the men who are working for him and with him in keeping the Arizona Republican the foremost daily paper iii the entire state. The occasion was not altogether one of eating, al- though plenty of attention Was given to the magnificent spread until every thing had been tasted. sampled. and then eaten entirely except the hand some clusters of home grown sweet peas. gift from the garden Of Mrs. Heard. picked and arranged in effective masses by her own hand.
 The program started out with one of Mr. Heard's usual straight from the shoulder speeches. on the promo ton of the spirit of hearty accord and pull together" among the men He said this was the real purpose of tie meeting. He told the Republican force that he was not able to speak probably as long as he might for the fact that several had approached him privately and informed him that theAz--aAnuId- need fortY-fiVc minutes in order to get rid of the burning thoughts each had in mind.
 He first called upon J. W. Spear,the editor of the Republican. who was accorded hearty reception. Mir. Spears topic. because of his excellent rose garden and love for flowers, was sweet peas and carnations Mr. Spear was however difficult, and said that since he does not know a sweet pea from d carnation. his taste going to roses and violets. he would not take any more time, Mir, Heard. however explained that the Little James story on the back Of the souv- enir menu was MT. Spears contribu- ton to the feast of the reason
 Team play" was the keynote of all the speeches. At least all that were serious enough to strike that note. Team play in the legislature" was the subject of the talk by Ira II. $. Huggett, czar of the city department and expert on matters political. When he had done MT Huggett had showed conclusively that the legislatures are not always the places to % to study team play. but that the greatest team play that is done there is that of the reporters in the press gallery in help ing each other cover the difficult beat, as for the Arizona legislature, it is q legislature
 
 come. Tebben. known as A IT., or Tony. foreman of the composing room called the first halt He said he was no orator. was bashfuI. came there to listen. not to speak and be- fore he ended, discovered in some confusion that he had made q speech. Tebben was to have talked about home runs. seeing as he is a baseball player of no mean attain ments.
 Joe Levy. local ad man was on the ticket as candidate for something or other on the ad. platform. He passed his chance to Messrs. Stauffer and Cate, who rose nobly to the oc- easion as will be later chroniclcd. Bleacher tales by Lyle Abbott fizzled out and ended in the simple but stag sering statement. T much prefer the anonynimity of the news columns, which shields me from all self con sciousness.' This created diver sion and the unfortunate sport writer escaped to his seat
 Charles Stauffer. business manager came to the surface and got rid of a really fine effort. First he read an experts opinion on what a paper should be and then he went on to prove that if the Republican is not absolutely everything it should be it is fast acquiring what little it lacks. The immense field of the paper as the only morning publication in the city was dilated upon to good effect.
 Maitland Davies, dramatic shark, as those he rOasts call him was given his choice of q song or a speech. He chose a speech and actually made it Speaking as one who came to this country entirely new and with out acquaintances, and to whom the hand of friendship was extended by all he met, he perorated on the good fellowship of this fine land and es- pecially that displayed by his fellow newspaper workers.
 Jacques Neyvattc. the aviatOr-re- porter told about his work in that field. said the government has ar