Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-02
DNTY EDITORS
POWER In STATE
land Press Association Is
An Unusually Active
Organization.
OUCH WITH THE PEOPLE
TENDERS Always Ready To
DfeD Politicians And Others
sainst The Common Veal.
nv JOHN 4. RAINE

0y JUN r.. MAINE
New Era. Towson, and President OF the
n Maryland Press Association.i
~ day the readers OF The Balti-
News hear OF he activities Of
Merchants and Manufacturers
atlon, the Advertising Club. the
n Club. the City Club and the
other organizations which help
led Maryland's industrial prog
nt one little association which is
J heard of but which is con-
LIZ hcwing at the barrier which
1.-THE state back and which Is
|Iy and theoretically boosting
&.sources Of the State and the
&live localities of it's members is
nryland Press Association.
.NgepIacc Town Meetings.
Z editorial and news columns OF
4aI weekly newspapers through
5o State are to the community
& what the town meetings used
IN the old days. In the county
YES the rural citizens meet men
and discuss matters relating 10
common welfare. The country
lis made the presiding officer of
liant local gatherings. He is GUS
and protector Of local inter-
3he Interpreter OF Statewide.
Nj and International events. He
school teacher for grown-ups,
hn who uses his eyes. his ears,
.Dwledgc, his powers of observa-
br the benefit OF the people OF
Iinty, whom he knows and who
him.
said that II would be impossible
ID this Government going--im-
De-. at least. TO keep representa-
BID democratic government alive
, country--were IL not for the
.nds of weekly newspaper edit
ALTERED throughout the land,
one OF them a watcher and an
Ter. a vigilant policeman in poll
BID public affairs.
lIiior Is The Watchman.
fevcr two railroads cross in the
states and there is a town or
there Is, fortunately, a local
EDITOR watches the railroads. He
De- the affairs OF his township,
4 state and nation. He talks
4 TO his fellow-citizens concern
.c affairs which interest them
'bst.
metropolitan dailles with circu-
& running into the thousands
IS peculiar power of their own.
9TH all their readers there Is
il personal touch characteristic
Il weekly newspaper. The local
X speaks to his readers as one
.spcaks to another. His readers
1him by sight. They know his
& They know either the hard
B q Is making for their interests
81 know how hide-bound lie is to
an interests. A word from their
dltor means more to the coun-
4iks than many columns read
3ome anonymous and unknown
n In the big city,"
IAN writing fearlessly In some
ssman's or some Senator's
Down can do more TO keep that
official straight than all the
|tolitan newspapers put together.
ress Association Formed.
Is knowing OF the power OF the
newspapers that gave Col.
IA s. Powell, then editor of the
IN City Times. the idea to or
an association for the mutual
& and welfare of the weekly
.tpers OF Maryland, and on jan
ID. 1910. a number of the county
gathered together in Balti-
and formally organized the
Ind Press Association.
J that time the Maryland Press
alton has been quietly at work.
made no attempts to add new
rs TO its ranks. as ell papers In
Ind are affiliated with its or
Aion. Its meetings are held
a year, generally in Ocean City,
an plans are made. committees
tea and the work for the fol-