Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-26

Washington, D. c.. president Of the
organization, rendered "our affection
ate sympathy and cur loyal support
to the man who by virtue OF his great
Office is our spokesman to the world
and who speaks for our right and our
honor as God gives him to see our
rights and our honor"
Mr.. Moves audience included news
paper publishers and editors from all
parts of the country. Nicholas Murray
Butler. president of Columbia Univer-
sity. made the principal address at the
meeting.
Mr.. Noyes' Toast
Mr.. Moves in his toast to President
Wilson said:
On similar occasions in past years
have dwelt on the heterogeneous
character of the membership Of The
Associated Press mainly for the pur-
pose of emphasizing the fact that va
ried as are our opinions on one sub
iect we all agree that each and every
one is a loyal American.
The nine hundred who compose our
membership exercise their inalienable
right of holding an opinion on every
conceivable subject including the rela-
lions of this government with foreign
powers and this right they hold and
exercise in common with the rest of
the hundred million Americans.
This broadly, does no great harm.
because however unwise they are in
dividually held, no one else is COM
mitted by its expression.
Our form Of government provides that
the duty and obligation Of voicing the
opinion of this nation in its intercourse
with foreign nations rests with and is
imposed upon our chief magistrate.
when he speaks for us in the course
of that intercourse he speaks for all OF US
1T is a very great, indeed very terri
BILE responsibility, for a man to bear at
any time.
To-day, with world drenched in blood,
writing in anguish for those already
dead or MANNED. the responsibility is i'm
measurably great. immeasurably terrible
$50 in this hour of uncertainty as to
what the immediate future may bring to
us we tender our affectionate sympathy
and our loyal support to the man who by
virtue of his great Office is our spokes-
man to the world and who speaks for our
see our rights and our honor.
at is our custom at these annual gath
erings to Crink but one toast
II offer it today with full heart.
Il give you the health of our President.
Woodrow Wilson,"
Resolutions Of Regret
Resolutions were adopted at the meet
ing today expressing regret because of
the deaths of three former directors
Colonel William r, Nelson, publisher Of
the Kansas City (Mo.) Star; Charles w.
Knapp, treasurer of the New York Times,
and Herman Ridder, publisher of the
New York Staats-Zeitung.
The first of these memorials declared
+i1at .N O attest our sense OF
the service Colonel Nelson rendered to
his profession, to the city and state In
which he lived and TO the whole coun-
try during his long and successful ca
reer as an editor and publisher"
The memorial declared further that
we know that he made a newspaper
that was big enough to make and
shape the development of the commu-
nifty for which it was published, that
it was the exemplar of the best and
highest standards Of journalism, and
we know as we'll that this newspaper
was III every characteristic feature
merely material en- bodiment of the
man who was its owner and director"
The resolution euloeizing Mr.. Knapp
alluded to his sterling integrity, su-
perior intelligence, judicial tempera
ment and high purpose, in every phase
of the responsibility attached to his
" ork in connection with The Associat-
ed Press. 1t was declared that hts long
and faithful activity in the develop
ment and maintenance of an impartial
and accurate method for the collection
and distribution Of information de-
serves the gratitude Of every citizen
of the country.
Mr.. Ridder was alluded to as "one
Of the most efficient and jealous par
Elephants in the work of esta blishing'
the Associated Press and 1t was de-
clared that during his long continuous
service as a director He brought to
the duties of the office great earnest
ness in meeting his obligations. con-
trlbuting mo small measure" to the
success Of the organization and thus
rendering to the country an important
public service. while his geniai quail
ties made his conf-eres his personal
friends"
Victor F. Lawson, publisher Of the
Chicago Daily News. addressed the
meeting upon the death of Mr.. Knapp,
whom he described as conservative in
Judgment and opinion but open to the
light of new thought and action" pos
sessing always" the courage Of his
convictions
The American press" Mr.. Lawson
declared. must ever remain his debt
or for the years of faithful service
which he devoted to the organization
and establishment of The Associated
Press The history of the AS
ISOLATED Press is in no small part a
history of Charles w. Knapp
The annual banquet Of American
Newspaper Publishers Association
will be held tomorrow night.
Many kinds of machinery used in the
making of newspaper are shown in
the hotel where the meetings are held.
Efficiency is the keynote of the ex-
hihif