The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-05
Good Fellowship Is Feature
Of Smoker for Newspaper Men
Joseph NJ Dixon Principal Speaker Pleasant Evening
Meeting Held in Country Club.

Through haze Of cigar smoke the
visiting newspaper men OF the
state and their entertainers shook
hands at the reception at the Country
club last night. Party issues were
forgotten amid the rolickins strains
of Jazz orchestra: the popular song
hits rendered by a 1antages actress
drowned the memories of the compost
tors cries for copy" and the clever
stories and card tricks of n magician
eclipsed for the time the worries Of
the make ur.'
Good fellowship, good cigars, tai
ented, entertainers and high spirits
joined forces to make the affair sue
cess, and not one dull moment from
the time the lead Of handclasps at
2 O'clock until 80" was flashed shortly
after midnight.
The, active hosts of the evening
were 4. l.. Stone. president of the
| chamber of commerce and dean of the
school Of journalism at the state Unit
versity. and y. ID. Richards. secretary
| of the Nchamhcr of commerce.
Newspapers in Politics.
The principal speaker at the recep-
! ton was ex-senator JOSEPH NJ. Dixon,
| former editor ana owner of the Daily
| Missouiian. and his principal theme
| of discussion was in regard to politi-
| cal partisanship by newspapers.
The newspaper that is going TO
| make the greatest success is the one
that Is not bound down by cut and
dried party issues" declared the for
mer senator-edi,or The most i'm
pressive work is being done by the
independent newspapers"
"The old fine conception of the
press was that 1t was essential to be
hard. and fast political organ, and
the editors allowed themselves to SEE
good in. no ono who opposed them II
| politics. The standard of newspaper
| ethics at that time demanded such :
stand.
The power OF the press is greatly
increased il the editors convince thu
readers that the sheet is not a retri
fled political organ"
i His Sub" Days.
In telling of his first entrance Int,
the ncws game. Mr.. Dixon told of tn
early. trials and lack of system tina
fampered Tho Muscular when h
first took 1t over Il years ago. AM
how he. upon taking the cditorshir
!, solved the problems and systematize
the tobhing department through tn
heir. of a Representatives OF the Unite
Typography association.
II wasn't a graduate journalist who
:, 7 entered the game" said the speake
II started in life as a lawyer. an
lrifted into newspaper work. just a
! eight -tenths Of the rest of Your jour
= nalists did" he added. Now, wit
the aid of the journalism schools {
- the country, 1t is possible for a youn
manto avert the many difficulties en-
= countered by the self-made new
to stand upon.
TT ID to a. l.. Stone. who Is no
:, dean Of the journalism school at II
:, university. that owe my first II
- structions in edjtorship."
During his recital OF the early da,
- on The Muscular. the speaker to
Of the fight he waged and won for Il
standardizing of prices among jobbiI
printers: he told Of the days VIII
each printer was cutting the othel
,e throat" by low bidding on pric,
hc After he had convinced the printe
xt Of the necessity for standardiz
ps prices. said AIR. Dixon, the fricti
l. ceased.
This harmonious condition last