Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-25
Newspaper Men Of Virginia
Gather in Staunton
Today
PRESIDENTS SPEECH
This Years Assembling Will, it is Be.
lieyed, Eclipse Any Heretofore
Witnessed :: ~:

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staunton, Va, July 25-With big
public meeting in the Beverley Iheat'
re this morning at II o'clock, the an
nual convention of the Virginia Press
Association came to order for its
first session, Albert Shultz, presl-
dent Of the Business League OF staun'
ton, presiding.
invocation was pronounced by the
Rev. "A. M. Fraser, D. D., and Hon.
II. H Wayt, mayor of Staunton, made
the address of welcome to the EDITORS
in which he said: ne turned over the
fcvs of the city to them and pro-
missed them the best time OF their
lives. The response was made ny
Robert S. Barrett, of this city, press,,
dent of the association, who delivered
the speech as set forth below.
A telegram received from Mr.. Bar
rett states that the opening OF the
convention was very successful ana
that it was prepared to have one OF
the best conventions in the history
of the association. Governor Henry
G.. Stuart, who was scheduled to make
an address this morning, wired nat
he was unable to be present at the
last moment, and Lieut-Govemor D.
Taylor Ellyson, spoke in his absense
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This afternoon at two a b'ssi-
ress session was held in the BALI
room of the Virginia Hotel, and at
four o'clock the Blue Ridge Light
and Power Company was the host to
the members of the association on
street car ride and trip through
the company's plant. At five o'clock
at Gypsy Hill Park, luncheon was
given to- the publishers by the Vir-
ginia Hotel, during; (WHICH large
pand furnished concert music.
AT eight o'clock tonight the big
meeting of the day will take place,
when public! entertainment is slated
at the Beverley Theatre, at which
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan
iels, Hon. John Barrett, director Of
Ehe Pan American Bureau, Mrs.
Kate Waller Barrett, Mrs; Kate Lang
lev Bosher, LieutenantsG Goyernors J.
Taylor Ellyson, Attorney General
John Garland Pollard, and Westmore-
land Davis, presidential elector,.. are
scheduled to speak. y
The editors will remain in session
until Thursday night, L.
Following was the address deli
vered this morning by President +
S. Barrett:
staunton, Va, July 25-Since the
last meeting of the Virginia Press
Association a year: ago there has
been little of domestic nature to
arouse the interest of the members
of the Association Conditions within
the borders of the Old Dominion have
been tranquil and our, people, have
enjoyed a portion of the prosperity
which has swept. the country from
ocean to, ocean: With the prohibition
question definitely settled, the taxa
tion methods adjusted for the time
being, and with year hee from pol.
Gcal contests of any import the pro.
blems at home have not been such as
to worry the Virginia editor; He has
had the time to consider the question:
of world wide import which at times
have threatened the peace of his
country as well as those great pro
blems of international: nature who's,
settlement mean much to America
And in the solutions of those problems
the editor, not alone as the moulde
of public opinion in his community
but as the connecting link betwee
the great public and the men at tn
head of affairs OF state, has had I
bear his share of the burden impose
by these foreign relations. But w
of Virginia, have felt sure that the
settlement would be along the lin
of the best interest of our nation az
people as long as they were entrus
ed to at noble nativce of this ci
Woodrow Wilson, president OF t
United States. =!
But as the war has brought gre