The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-30
STATE EDITORS ARE GUESTS AT BANQUET AT NEWSPAPER CLUB Entertained by The Age Herald-ClOsing Feature
 of Days Session
 MANY COMPLIMENTS
 PAID BIRMINGHAM Hugh W. Roberts Acts as Postmaster and Introduces Speakers-Visitors Much Impressed WithClubrooms.
 Committees Are Appointed

The closing feature of days session of the Alabama Press association was the banquet rendered the association by The AgeHera.d at the Birmingham News paper club last evening. Wit and humor, combined with just the right proportion of serious thought, tempered the evening. Many of the editors of the Alabama week. ly newspaper had not before seen the interior of the newspaper club and all were loud in their praises of it.
 The editors still were talking of the tour of the city given them by the Cham Der Of Commerce when they sat down at the banquet board and during the course of the speeches of the evening many tributes were paid to Birmingham as a city of beautiful homes, as city of varied industries, as a good place to visit to live in and to meet the most hospitable people in all the south.
 E. W. Barrett. editor of The Age Her aid. was the first speaker, introducing Hugh W. Roberts, who acted as toast master.
 Stanley Tells of Club
 Mir. Barrett asked c. NJ. Stanley, presi- dent of the Birmingham Newspaper club, to tell something of the history of the clubs organization. Mr. Stanley told how the club was organized, pointing out In the course of his remarks that it was under the direct control of the active members, who are composed of those members of the club who are actively engaged in newspaper work. He told how it was organized by every news paper man in Birmingham getting back of it and working for it's successful com pletiap. and said that if was a very com spicuous and striking example of what competitors in business could do with the right spirit of cooperation actuating their every move. He said that the club was in very flourishing condition and pre- sented figures to bear out his statement.
 MT. Barrett in the course of his re- marks struck a keynote in the minds of the editors. when he called to their at tention that the running of a newspaper Was matter that could be done success fully only when it was done on a busi- ness basis. He told them that they should fix their advertising rates at a certain figure and not under any circumstances restuce them for any advertiser
 He commented the Alabama Press as- sociation for it's project, discussed at the afternoon session, of engaging an expert advertising man, or agency, to handle. the advertising for all the weekly news papers that are members of the associa-
 
 rate.' said MT. Barrett. and should mean the securing of more business. You can get higher rates for space than cents. as I understand some papers ac- cepted during the recent political cam paign. Your space is worth % cents an inch, and with the right sort of spirit you can convince the advertiser as much. The advertiser will not necessarily spend more money. He will merely cut down his space. This will mean that you will get just as much money from him. with out giving him as much space as former ly, which means less composition bills and less expense of production.
 Mir. Barrett also recommended to the editors that they secure the services of capable man to write advertising. if they could not do it in an acceptable man. ner themselves. He said that writing an advertisement was an art; that it took certain amount of talent to do it prop erly.
 Mir. Barrett introduced MT Roberts. asking him to take the toastmasters S chair, and was vigorously applauded
 MT. Roberts received an ovation. Cries of Hugh Roberts and speech were to be heard down the length of the table when he arose. and he responded in his characteristic. style. He expressed his great pleasure at having the honor to preside over a meeting of the Alabama Press association and then introduced Maj. Ben F. Noble of Montgomery, who delivered an invitation to the Alabama editors to visit Montgomery next year.
 Hildreth Appoints Committees
 The newly elected president, c. J Hil- dreth of New Decatur. was next called on by Mir Roberts, and appointed an ex- ecutive committee and A legislative com mittee as follows: Executive, E. w. Bar rett, chairman: w. H. H. Judson, Ed Dotv, J. A. Rountree, frank Stanley R. L. ONeal, NJ. D. Wiggins, with C. J Hildreth and J. R. Rosson as members ex ,officio. The legislative committee was made up as follows: l.. H. Nunnellee, chairman; C. W. Hare. G. Ernest Jones, l H. D. Doster, J. T. Bealle. c. G. Fennell and Tom Garner. The appointments were roundly applauded. MT. Hildreth an- nounced that he was no speaker in the | first place and that ii- the second place he had nothing to say, and, therefore, l would retire in favor of any whom the 1 toastmaster might select More applause followed. Paschal G. Shook, president of the | Chamber of Commerce, next was called | upon and expressed lis great pleasure | on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce | for the part his organization had had | in the entertainment sf the Alabama l Press association. He told of the beau- | -~f---