Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-05
Council Bluffs
EDITORS MEET FOR
AN ANNUAL SESSION
Newspaper Men from Western Iowa
Dine with Commercial Club and
Listen to Shop Talk,
ELECTION OF THE OFFICERS

The Western Iowa Editorial association
held its annual meeting here yesterday
II was business meeting. and shop
talk" was the general order Owing TO
the fact that few OF the editors arrived
on the early morning trains the whole
business OF the session was disposed OF
during the afternoon.
A number OF the editors, however.
gathered at the Auditorium during the
forenoon and held chatty conferences I'm
a rather informal manner. II was al
most noon before President Hanton of
the Griswold American got into the hall
and called the meeting to order The
only official business done was the APP
pointment Of the usual committees and
the formal acceptance of the invitation
OF the Commercial club to become its
guests for the noon luncheon at the
Grand hotel.
Secretary Mitchell of the club and MEM
bers OF the executive committee met the
editors at the hotel and escorted them
to the dining ROOM w. z. Mcconnell,
chairman Of the publicity committee OF
the Commercial club. spoke few well
coming words and introduced Robert b.
Wallace, who explained to the editors
what q Council Bluffs welcome really
is. ne denied that he wanted to offer
any apologies for not being able to ex-
tend courtesies that were available prior
to January l. He reminded them that
they were TO be the guests Of the Omaha
Commercial club during the evening ana
warned them that all good people in
On'-Na go to bed now at o'clock.
Not to Forget Iowa.
President i.anton made a real hit in
witty response, the crux of which was
that no matter what kind of Inequalities
were shown them in Omaha. the Iowa
editors would not forget that they lived,
loved and labored in Iowa, and would
be arrnored by the con iction that they
would always be glad to get back to
Iowa. He even intimated that this In
tense love of Iowa might make some Of
them reluctant to pass the pearly gates
of paradise and would certainly keep
them at home until long after the period
of ripe" old age had been reached
Paul s. Junkin Of the Creston Adver-
tiser, and former president of the state
association, spoke briefly.
The Need of County Organization
was the eitle OF a paper presented by E. p
Harrison Of the Oakland Acorn that led
10 general discussion OF community In
terests
H. w. Howe Of Sidney led in the dis
cussion OF 1.-THE Back Page" taking the
View that too many editors are prone to
crowd all OF the best stuff in their papers
into the back pages. He pointed out
that this had a general depression effect
and deteriorated the value of q large
portion of the paper.
A. s. Borglum of the Dariow Adver-
ffoinn a. eel -
Trade Advertising Proposition" HI.
views brought out lively discussion and
Interchange of ideas. -
Another paper that brought out a lo
of discussion was MY Relation to NJ,
Subscribers" by Joe Pugh Of the Stanton
Call.
Election of Officers.
At the close OF the session the election
of officers for the year resulted in tht
choice Of E. p. Harrison OF the Oakland
Acorn as president, L. c. Hatch OF the
Dow City Informer, vice president; O. G
Sheaffer OF the Randolph Enterprise, sec
rotary and treasurer 1t was decided Il
hold the summer meeting at Missouri
Valley, the date to be fixed by the Of
ficers.
Not all of the editors were able to &C
cept the invitation from the Omaha Com
mercial club.
Among the editors who registered a
. the Grand hotel were;
F.. A. Davis. Glenwood Tribune
II. Cline. Blencoe Herald.
David Brown. Harlan Republican.
9. O. sheaffer, wife and son. Randolph
L. q Hatch, Dow city Intormer.
F, II. Kelly and wife, Mondamin Enter
prise
r. V. Lucas, Shenandoah World.
G. w. Bays and wife, Woodbine Twiner
g. A. Whipple, job and ad representa-
q. f. Morley, Treynor Record.
w. T. Budd, Anita Tribune.
@. l.. Caswell. Denison Bulletin.
Paul S. Junkin, Creston Advertiser.
". p. Harrison ard wife. Oakland Acorn
F. W. Hanton. Griswold American.
II. ]. Hoogenakker. Audubon Republi
can.
Frank Hail, Red Oak Sun.
II takes but a minute of time to saw
dollars when you read The Bee Want A
columns.